| On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:29:37 GMT, Marion Pearcey wrote:

Glad I'm not the only one who's resisted electronic! Heck, some of my
favorite projects didn't use any patterning at all, just shaping.

From 1967 until 1984 U had a Brother machine that didn't even have
punchcards. You pressed buttons and pushed a lever on every row and you
had to lay the contrast yarn across manually over an eight stitch
pattern repeat..

LOL, for a moment there, I wondered how you knew I'd had a machine like
that. But I got mine about 10 years later and traded up to a punchcard 860
in '84. It still works beautifully, unlike the 910 I bought later, which
turned out to be brain dead, and by then brain transplants were no longer
available. That's one argument for the purely mechanical machines; no
brain to die.

Then I entered a competition in a daily paper to win a Brother 910
electronic, the first electronic they made and to my amazement I won it.
We had a happy relationship until last year when the pattern reading
mechanism packed up and because of its age spare parts couldn't be
obtained. Although
I think fondly of my first little machine I must admit an electronic
does open up a different world. I had to replace my 910 with a 950i and
am quite happy with it.

Yes, that 950i sure looks like a nice machine. I also think fondly of my
old Genie 710 push-button machine. Sometimes I wish I'd kept it instead of
trading it in.

Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist
http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/
Balticon Art Program Coordinator http://www.balticon.org