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Machine Knitters are often forgotten about so if you are feeling a little lonely in your hobby then check out these online machine knitting groups.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KMaholics/

This group originated in Belgium (March 2006) and started with a handful of French-speaking knitters.
It quickly grew into an international board with 157 members as of today (7 October 2006).
All our messages are in both French and English. Some members translate their own messages and, for the rest, I translate them myself.
All makes of knitting machines are represented. Any knitting level, from beginner to expert.
We share our experience and experiments, our problems and solutions, help each other and try to give as many hints and tips as we can.
The group is strictly moderated and every member and message has to be approved. This is because each message has to be translated but also to avoid nasties reaching our resources.
We have a database, links, photo albums and files at our members’ disposal.
Please visit, join and enjoy – Loulou


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knittingmachines/

KnittingMachines
A gathering place for knitting machine enthusiasts.
We share ideas and seek solutions to knitting problems.

Wisconsin Machine Knitting Guild
We are an online yahoo group based guild accepting members from Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. We have a free site and publish a free monthly newsletter packed with patterns, tips, and interesting articles.

Our purpose is to establish a network of local machine knitters, and machine knitting clubs to further the craft. We are not affiliated with any dealership or yarn distributor. We hope this will lead to sharing of ideas, activities and promotion of machine knitting locally; to attract new knitters to our craft, and give them local support to continue. Seminars, workshops and get-togethers are starting to happen in a small way. We have an annual face to face get together that grows in size each year.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WMKG/

 

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Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns for Your Pets

I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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