Comment from Catherine
Time: November 23, 2007, 10:05 pm

The bunny looks like a Jemima to me.
I agree about knitting machines…not as much fun as knitting by hand.

Comment from Heather
Time: November 23, 2007, 10:12 pm

Ahh, you got a knitting machine. I have a Brother too, sitting in the box unused for 15 years. I did have quite a little flurry of activity with it though when I got it. My ultimate assessment was the action was more like weaving than knitting and the look a little too even. But I am thinking of digging it out again because I have spun a lot of fingering weight yarn and I don’t want to take as long to knit it up as I took to spin it.

Comment from jane
Time: November 23, 2007, 10:17 pm

How about Percival for the rabbit?

And I have a knitting question for you. I’m a fairly new knitter. I’m knitting a vest with ribbing around the bottom. After knitting about 2 inches of the ribbing on the front, I noticed that half the … columns … on my needle had fewer stitches than did the other half. I mean that part of what I had knit had, say, 11 rows and part of it had 9 rows. I figured I must have started knitting onto the wrong needle after picking the piece back up mid-row, but I couldn’t figure out how to do this on purpose (to correct the problem) without making a hole in the knitting. I finally fixed it by accident, and now I’m wondering what exactly happened! And how I’d fix it if it happens again. Any ideas?

I really enjoy your blog and seeing your knitting. It’s inspiring.

Comment from Alice from france
Time: November 23, 2007, 10:54 pm

Knitting maching must be cool to knit large, simple outfit, but for the rest, anything is better that to do by hand!
Well, i saw all the comments on your last post and i though: “well, i will not add one more, she had enough to read now”.

But, i saw your lovely rabbit and said: “Prosper”, i need to explain that all the tiny cute animals i saw i call them Prosper, my dog used to be called like that, then a snail, my favorite lamb from the school’s farm now, well i don’t know but i love to give that name…i might be just silly…

I liked the idea of the “Bunn of Y” but you’re still the boss Ysolda! Good luck to choose!
Wait, why not “Opal”?

Comment from Wanett
Time: November 24, 2007, 1:10 am

Okay so more names. Amari, Nia, Malcolm, Jordan, Carrie, Imani, Xavier and Jayda. I also like Sade, Naomi, Martin, Felix, Felicity and Sam (as in short for Samantha or Samuel). Oh and Turquoise, I love color names. =)

Comment from olivia
Time: November 24, 2007, 4:33 am

For a name for the bunny what about Mr.Huggle Bunny

Comment from Amber
Time: November 24, 2007, 6:21 am

I’m sure with all these suggestions, you’ll end up coming up with a name on your own. But here’s mine anyhow…Matilda. Good luck!

Comment from Alison
Time: November 24, 2007, 2:25 pm

have you checked the sponge bar? and do you want me to come and have a go at it with you? my brother is the chunky, but it can’t be that different.
i’ve probably got a spare book you can borrow as well. oh indeed i do, i bought the brother book of the knitter, but later bought it on cd as well with the book of the ribber.
happy to play… er I mean help!

Comment from AmyH
Time: November 24, 2007, 2:51 pm

For a boy, I thought of Franklin. For a girl, I’d suggest Minnie. It’s a very cute bunny.

Comment from Veruca
Time: November 24, 2007, 4:28 pm

How about Marie, Fleur, Maia, Cleo or Genevieve?

Comment from chloe
Time: November 24, 2007, 5:01 pm

for the rabbit, “elza”

Comment from Erin
Time: November 24, 2007, 5:32 pm

Marguerite or Gertrude? Something slightly fussy/endearing and like an old lady seems right!

Comment from Anna
Time: November 24, 2007, 5:42 pm

I saw your first picture and my first thought was, “oh dear.” Good luck with that machine!
For the bunny, Prudence, Hon. Rosie (for Honorable), Mariel, or Martin, Basil, and Luke.

Comment from Marnie
Time: November 24, 2007, 7:21 pm

I have an LK-150 and I don’t care for the way cast ons and bind offs look on it. I generally work a few extra rows at the start and end, rip them out and use it to bind off both ends by hand. I just prefer the results.

The only cast on I would do on the machine is the tubular ribbed cast on outlined in the manual for my machine. However, it involves latching up every other column of stitches, to get the purl ribs, so it’s not exactly efficient, but it is lovely. :)

Comment from Samantha
Time: November 24, 2007, 7:48 pm

Personally, I believe that the rabbit is a girl and she strikes me as someone with a name beginning with A. The most important part of a name is the meaning though. Some of my favorites are: Agatha (virtuous, good), Adena (noble, delicate), Anita (gracious, merciful), or Arista (best).

However, if you would like an androgynous name better, I like Artemis.

Comment from Gudrun
Time: November 24, 2007, 9:03 pm

Well I’m not sure if someone already suggested this as I’m not plowing through all those comments…but Elsie came to mind.

Comment from Juno
Time: November 24, 2007, 10:03 pm

Iphigenia. She has a tragic past, I feel.

Comment from Lisa C.
Time: November 25, 2007, 12:37 am

Good luck with the knitting machine. I have a 9yo Brother that has never even left it’s box. Every time I consider giving it a try I find myself too daunted to go for it. As for the bunny name, I was thinking Lyra or Alyssa.

Comment from circé
Time: November 25, 2007, 9:19 am

The rabbit’s name is Anton for me

Comment from isabelle
Time: November 25, 2007, 9:55 am

i think the rabbits name is ninny! rabbit is called ‘kanin’ in swedish, and then i thought about ‘ninis’, and in a more english style it have to be ninny! or ninnie, maybe …
it’s so much fun to read all the name sugestions, i think i have to knit a little army with stuffed animals and give them nice names :)

Comment from Sophia
Time: November 25, 2007, 12:40 pm

Clover?

Comment from lulu
Time: November 25, 2007, 9:03 pm

i think colin. or if she’s a girl, calliope.

Comment from HeatherC
Time: November 26, 2007, 1:52 am

I really can’t decide if your bunny is a boy or a girl, I guess a girl since I can think of more girl names than boy names: Opal, Iris or Isa (pronounced Eee-sa). Basil if it is boy.

Comment from Jenny
Time: November 26, 2007, 8:44 am

Hi Ysolda.

How about Hazel ?

Hazel is the main character in the book (and film) Watership Down - which is probably a wee bit before your time but marked my childhood.
Hazel the character was actually a boy but I think if people kintted their own Hazel they could think of it as a boy or a girl couldn’t they?

Anyway. I enjoy reading your blog so thanks for working so hard to keep it up.

Comment from Felix
Time: November 26, 2007, 8:48 am

I think the rabbit is called Miffle.

I think Miffle is a tomboy-ish girl.

:-)

Comment from Jenny
Time: November 26, 2007, 11:13 am

Like so many others, I seem to have your rabbit on the brain. I have been thinking about rabbits in litterature and they seem to be few and far between. I just remembered Hester from the His Dark Materials series (Lee Scoresby’s daemon but was she a hare?). Hester is a good name I think. Also Hestia, who is the Goddess of the Hearth. Another good name. I will now think about something else!

Comment from Heather
Time: November 26, 2007, 1:02 pm

Ohh, I like Hester! My suggestion was going to be Miranda, if no one’s beaten me to it.

Comment from Róisín
Time: November 27, 2007, 5:21 am

I quite like Humphrey. Although it does give me the urge to find a rabbit to put a top hat on…

Comment from sarah
Time: November 28, 2007, 8:42 am

Hi ysolda if you need any help with your knitting machine let me know i’ve got four… too many i know. Once your get started it’s fanytasticaly easy to create new stitches and you can make a garment in about a day, including designing on them. I did a degree in knitwear at leicester and we hardly did any hand knitting at all it was all done on the machine

Comment from the lazy knitter
Time: March 14, 2008, 10:04 am

Hey, did you ever figure out how to use your knitting machine? I just got a brother 940/compuknit iv knitking and can’t figure out how to cast on… have been looking online for some clues, but not luck… the instructions on the booklet are pretty confusing… well, I am super ADD too… :-(

the lazy knitter
http://easyknittingpatterns.blogspot.com

Comment from Tracy
Time: July 1, 2008, 2:06 pm

Cast on using a cord, or cast on bar, or ‘e’ wrap. Easiest is cast on bar first, using waste yarn a contrast yarn used to cast on then disgard. Knit one row at tension around 6 for 4 ply. Hook cast on bar, metal over yarn between sinker hooks (the metal spkiey rail at front) and pull down firmly. Then knit slowly arcross all needles. Do this for about ten rows. Now if this isn’t working the needle sponge bar may be worn, the sponge can lose its bounce and you will just keep dropping stitiches and its extremely frustrating. I have taught kntting for 15 years but its very difficult to explain hre, try looking a ‘you tube’ for some fantastic beginners videos, to get you started.