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 ...

How could her parents have possibly known? "Lana means wool in German," says Lana M. Wenzel of Thomas Township, huddled over an odd piece of human-powered machinery with nail-like protrusions ...

Jacquie Grant has been collecting circular sock machines for about 30 years. She owns about 200 and a factory that makes them. "It's just the technology that interests me," Grant said.

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A circular sock machine works by using latch-hook needles to form the stitches, and you do a surprising amount of manual manipulation of the needles in order to make the toes, heels, and hems of the ...

RACINE — Forty-five people from seven states gathered last week at First United Methodist Church to knit as part of the first Antique Circular Sock Machine Conference in Southeast Wisconsin.

So, sometime after I got a circular sock knitting machine, @Coppercloud got in touch with me with an interesting question. I very obviously said, “YES.” And a few months and a lot of PMs later, ...

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