I like making things: Yeah! I found a four colour yarn tension mast

Monday, August 6, 2012

Yeah! I found a four colour yarn tension mast

Yeah! I have been looking for one of these for months to go with the YC5 colour changer I bought.

I have been agonising all weekend because it is quite expensive. The item was 29.99 pounds and the shipping costs 21.00 pounds.making a total of 51 pounds and that seems an awful lot considering sometimes you can pick up a whole knitting machine for not much more. It equates to about $79 total at today's exchange rate.

But, I thought it through and this Monday morning decided to go ahead and buy it. My logic being that I really want it and need it for the YC5 to work properly and it is coming an awfully long way (from Scotland) so the shipping and handling really isn't that bad plus I might never stumble across one again. The other bonus was it was 'Buy it now'. I get too jittery when I am bidding for an item.

The seller on ebay is either very clever or a little over greedy. What she is doing is splitting up everything and selling them as individual items. She has a YC6 colour changer listed but now I have purchased the four colour tension mast will someone buy the YC6?

She also has an LC2 lace carriage listed at a reasonable price but it only includes the carriage and sinker plate. She is selling the lace cards separately and I couldn't see the weights listed, so is it a good buy?

Aside from the fact that I have spent my knitting budget for the month I have to be more prolific with my knitting to justify spending any more money. So, no lace carriage today.

But, today I am going to knit. I will start on a baby cardigan for my nephew and his girlfriend's baby girl who is expected in November. They live in Canada where it is cold in the winter and they will need cardigans.

When the tension mast arrives I will make them a baby blanket using rib in multi colours. I saw one Alex had done which I liked a lot. His was all one colour but he used different rib patterns to make an overall pattern.

A few chores to do then off I jolly well go to the knitting room!

Hope the ribber is on good form today, it was going OK the last time I used it but hey, that's not a guarantee, it's a finickity beastie!!!

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PhilAugust 7, 2012 at 4:00 AM
When I bought my YC6 it only came with a single yarn mast not the double head attachment that should come with it for the top. I ended up just using two single yarn masts in the back of the machine and managed just fine :-)
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maureenlthompsonAugust 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM
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I started this blog in 2011: Ever since my Mum taught me to knit at the age of about six or seven I have made things. Back then it was doll clothes. I was also inspired by Mrs Levitt an elderly lady who had a sewing room in a conservatory type room on the back of her house. I would sit and watch her in awe as she sewed.

When I was a child living in England the school system was such that you started at 5 years, did two years in Infant School, then four years in Primary School then five to seven years in Secondary School, depending on whether you chose to stay on after fifth form to get qualifications to go to University. I can't remember much of the Infant school other than making the standard square doily thingy from fabric that had holes in it so you could embroider patterns into it. A bit like the modern day cross stitch fabric but with bigger holes and spaces to make it easy for small hands to use. I also remember with great joy getting a toy sewing machine one Christmas which sewed only chain stitch but I did make doll clothes on it and that was before I started Primary school. I do have very vivid recollections of Primary school and having sewing and knitting lessons. In Primary school I knitted gloves and made a dress from scratch hand sewing it all.

Secondary school continued on with sewing by which time I had progressed to using full sized sewing machines and was making more intricate skirts and dresses. My parents bought me a proper sewing machine when I was thirteen. I used that same machine right up until I emigrated to Canada at age forty six years.

I have always had a fascination for sewing machines and knitting machines. I bought my first knitting machine at around age twenty one from an ad in a newspaper for twelve pounds. I had absolutely no idea what one was just that I wanted one. I trundled on the bus to the address in the advert and handed over my twelve pounds having absolutely no idea what I had really bought. Fortunately it came with a manual. It was an aged Knitmaster, very basic and I loved it. I wore it out. Next was a Brother push button one which I didn't keep because it was at a time in my life when things were difficult. Later on in my life, around forty, when things were better I bought a brand new Brother punchard machine with a ribber attachment. I loved it and made many things. Life took a different turn, I moved countries twice and along the way, regrettably I sold it.

Now, through the universe's blessing I now have another machine. It is a vintage one because they stopped making them early 90's but works perfectly and I love it. So I decided to make this blog to document my knitting progress and include sewing projects.

In 2013: we embarked on a new hobby, leather-work. My husband got started with it and it drew me in. It is something we can do together. We have a workshop so have plenty of room to work. We added another workbench for me to work on in 2013. We already had one but we were tripping over each other both trying to work at it. We only make things we want to make. It is strictly a hobby. We made some things for our good neighbours who help us out a lot. I am also working on Christmas presents. So this blog now incorporates the leather-work. Knitting and sewing will always be my first love though.

Fast forward to 2023 and now age almost 75 years. I have seven sewing machines, four knitting machines, several ribber attachments and a garter carriage for one of the machines. I am blessed beyond words, but I know that I have more than enough machines to keep me going in my lifetime so I don’t think I will be adding to my collection any time soon……….unless a nice embroidery machine manifests itself very cheaply.

I am a Brit living in the USA, sometimes I spell like a Brit and sometimes like an American. Sometimes I use slang and even make grammatical errors. I blog for the pleasure of it and to record my endeavours in the event that my memory fades, as I am sure it will with more age. I will be able to look back and remind myself of the things I have made along the way. So please forgive my mistakes when reading about my life making things here in the hinterlands and I hope you get as much enjoyment from my blog as I do from reading the blogs I follow.

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Monday, August 6, 2012

Yeah! I found a four colour yarn tension mast

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