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Suggestions for finding a machine knitting instructor (any local instructors)
Basically, how do you find instructors locally for anything. Internet does not work. Not local enough.
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October 10, 2022 - 4:17 pm
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This is wayyyyy off topic. Decades ago it was so easy to find things local, we had the Pennysaver. Need a babysitter? Use the Pennysaver. Want to offer babysitting services? Use the Pennysaver. I looked forward to the Pennysaver. The internet does not work for this.

I am trying to find a local machine knitter who can give me in person lessons. Videos are not working. Craigs list does not work for this. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I don't even know for sure of any machine knitters around me. There aren't any craft places where people get together. I find out after someone is moving and the machines are up for sale. I know there are some around here, I just don't know who they are. 

There is a machine knitters club about an hour south, more like 90 minutes. I contacted them, but I never heard back. I belong to 2 forums and they keep giving me the name of that group. I don't think they exist any more. 

Any suggestions as to other methods I can use since the Pennysaver has been replaced by the vast wasteland called the Internet? I am going bald pulling out my hair😂. Thanks

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Other than contacting Yarn shops & places that actually sell knitting machines, think you are stuck. 

I detest facebook - but we have a neighborhood facebook page and something else that's similar. 

I actually found a bunch of potential places to contact (from the Yellow Pages!) when I typed in a search for "Knitting Clubs" in my specific area! 

Someone always knows someone... who knows someone - just keep asking. 

...you'd be surprised at the helpful people/resources I've learned about from conversations with people who deliver my mail & packages! 

Maybe start by contacting places in the nearest large cites - someone will usually know of others in the outskirts. 

Don't overlook the possibility that people who raise sheep to sell wool may know of machine knitters in the area - or know of hand-knitters & even spinners who, in turn, may know of machine knitters. 

I have found none of this kind of local search is a waste of time - you make new friends with similar interests. 😊

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The shop that sold yarn is mainly a quilt shop. They dropped yarns blur 10 years ago. 

I won't do Facebook, either. Like you, I detest it.

You get the Yellow Pages? We don't. 

I wish I new people in the city near us. We don't get out much. I was hoping the art museum would be of help, Nope. I thought for sure...

Oh, wait, you may have led me to an idea! I am not saying. I do NOT want to jinx it!

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!

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I don't get the Yellow Pages. 

Just for the heck of it, I did a general online search for "Knitting Clubs near [name of my township]" - and what popped up was the Yellow Pages listings! 

This is promising for near you - at least an email might get you answers.  Silver Needles Machine Knitting Club

Or ask here: https://www.machineknit.community/

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Silver Needles one I have contacted a few times with not response. They are about 90 minutes south of us. Someone else in a machine knitting forum mentioned them. That was all anyone came up with for my area. I might try contacting their contact person again, it has been about 7 months since my last try.

The other one linked I looked at before. I was interested until I saw it was $25 a month. 

I have another 2 other places I am going to check that I thought of as I was reading your reply, long shots, but I will see. 

I belong to a website that has a ton of videos, classes, etc that I have access too,  ut I really need hands i  lessons with immediate feedback. The videos and courses have been extremely helpful, very well done, but I really need the hands on help. I have wasted so much yarn. You can only undo and rewind so often. 

How I miss my Pennysaver. Oh, I just thought of something. I need to talk to my brother-in-law. He manages/directs a rural museum. I don't know how many people they get in to see it, but maybe he can ask around. See, you got me thinking outside the box. Exactly what I needed.

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Can you get your hands on an issue of Machine Knitting Monthly - might be sources to contact? 

Knitty Gritty Yarns just re-opened after moving - I'm sure they are hand-knitters, but are close enough to possibly know of someone, who knows of someone...

You can also inquire here to see if anyone knows of classes in your area - or someone who can help you.  This school is in NYC: https://www.newschool.edu/pars.....ng-studio/

Wish I could help more - after hand-knitting & crocheting most of my life, I bought a knitting machine back in the 90's, supposedly able to do ribbing & never used it.  Had planned to use it for main parts of some sweaters - wanted to use a bunch of beautiful silk yarns I loved, but everyone told me they didn't want to hand wash or dry clean anything! 

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LOL I have looked at issues of Machine Knitting Monthly. I have asked on the two forums I go to. 

I am going to check out the closest larger city's classified and see if there is a section where I could post that I am looking for a machine knitter in our area that is looking for a knitting buddy, or actually get paid for lessons. The local paper has doesn't even print locally. They closed their print shop in the city. It gets printed in a city 3 hours away and then trucked here by morning for delivering, and has gone way up in price. 

When my son passed in March, I wanted to have his obit listed in our local paper for the friends and relatives here. They were going to charge just under $500! That is $5 0 0, not $50. I can't imagine what they would want for a classified looking for a machine knitter. So, I am skilling them. It was printed in the closest larger city free, as well as my son's local paper. 

I have high hopes for the larger city. Most people around here get that paper. I can use an email address for contacting that I was going to delete because I no longer use it.

Thanks, Emily. 

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