Category: Meet Your BOND

Bring to class: 1) your BOND and its parts 2) a table to put it on 3) two claw weights 4) scissors 5) two contrasting light colors of worsted-weight yarn 6) gentleness with yourself. We all feel awkward when we first try something new. Keep practicing and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you and… Continue reading Meet Your BOND-Bring to Class

In 1988 I hired a professional video producer for $10,000+. He and his crew of three came to my knitting school and recorded three video classes for the BOND knitting machine. The videos were popular and distributed in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. before they went out of distribution in the mid- to late… Continue reading Meet Your BOND-Part 1: Inspiration

Here’s the second installment of the first BOND video program. It’s a vocabulary lesson and introduction to the parts of the machine. It’s likely that it’s a review for most of you, but that’s OK. I’m an old-school teacher (also something of an old schoolteacher 😉 ) and like to be thorough and sequential when… Continue reading Meet Your BOND-Part 2: Learn the Parts

In this video installment you finally get to cast on and knit!!! I also show you the simple way to rip out whole rows and a clever home-made latch opening tool that was brought to me by a student many years ago. I explain the kind of fabric the machine makes, stockinette, and tell you… Continue reading Meet your BOND-Part 3: Cast On and Knit

In this section of class I introduce you to the generally accepted sequence in knitting a sweater on the BOND, ISM. USM. You are actually creating a mini sweater back for one of Snow White’s seven dwarves in this exercise so that you begin to internalize the sequence. We get through the underarm bind-off stage.

Knitted Increases Practically invisible . . . perfectly lovely. The increase I teach here is adapted from my favorite hand-knit increase. Enjoy the elegance of this! And make me proud of you as your teacher  because of the lovely things you will create using this technique!

Short-Row Shaping And here, my dear students, is where the rubber meets the road! This is where your possession of a skill allows you to do better than the pattern suggests. Or maybe I’m totally wrong! Maybe every pattern nowadays gives you the highest, best practices for construction and finishing techniques. I’m not sure because… Continue reading Meet Your BOND-Part 7: Short-Row Shoulder Shaping

In this section you knit 10 rows and then use the latch tool to convert every 3rd stitch into a knit stitch facing you which is a purl on the right side.

Here’s the final part of this program. You’ll see that there’s a change in sound and picture quality about 5 minutes in. There’s a reason for this. The duplication house that has my 1-inch original masters transferred them to mini DV for me. The first program was 88 minutes long but they put it on… Continue reading Meet Your BOND-Part 9: Join Shoulder Seam