#needlebar

Long time readers of this blog will know the agony and the ecstasy that knitting machines have been in my life. I am more than comfortable and capable with pretty much any brand or model of machine now, but somehow, I just don’t want to make anything on one anymore.

I picked up this Brother KH260 for a great price a while back, and spent some time cleaning it up. You can see the Qtips and paper towels in the background. The GooGone was not used on the bed, but on the case, which was covered in the stickiest sticky tape I have ever encountered!

The needle bar was toast, so I cleaned out all of the dead foam, and renewed the whole thing. So in the end, bewteen removing a lot of fluff, cleaning it all up, and making the new needle bar, I felt invested in this machine!

So I set her up on an Ikea table leg - these work so well, and are so much easier to move than a folding table - and made a wrist warmer.

And that was enough for me. I think I enjoy cleaning and maintaining machines, as well as teaching others to use them, more than I enjoy the experience of knitting with them!