OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- The first time our paths crossed, Mike Bronkema was sporting an Olive Township Fire Rescue T-shirt and knitting a pink sock on a hand-crank antique circular sock knitting machine. We ...
In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...
Textile artisan Cody Edgar, 28, of Lowhill, Washington County, draws an audience of fascinated crafters when he demonstrates his auto knitting machine. Edgar uses the auto knitter to make some of the ...
Over the next two days, Cape Girardeau will be the warm little center of the sock-knitting universe. Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Co. makes hand-crank sock knitting machines and is hosting its ...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - For the ninth year, the Erlbacher Knitting Machine Company’s Open House & Crank In is taking place. Hundreds of people from around North America and even Japan used looms ...