CSM Books and Blogs
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This page is designed to be a page for things to make that have written instructions/pictures
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Just because this is an AWESOME video here’s the Tour of Belknap Mill which reviews how socks were once made.
*The Hand-Cranked Knitter and Sock Machine: A Social History and Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Home Knitters of American Invention / Richard M Candee | Available to buy on angoravalley.com | Can also be ordered by contacting the author at 6 Scituate Road, York, ME, 03909-5724, or send PayPal payment to Email: rcandee@maine.rr.com | Price quoted on cskms.org website: $93.00USD for print copy (price includes shipping within USA). | Video - Good Karma Farm event where Mr Candee discusses history |
*Just Socks Cables & Lace; Hats and More for the CSM; Unique Fancy Sock Patterns for the CSM; Socks & More for the CSM / Jenny Deters | Website | Email: detersj@sbcglobal.net
*Knock Your Socks Off of Your Circular Sock Machine / Christine Smith | Ravelry | Online | Email: cdewchris@aol.com
The New Zealand Auto Knitter: Fundamentals of CSM on the NZAK / Lucy Best | Online |
Sock Knitting Machine 101 / Donna Peters | Online |
Non-CSM specific useful books
*The Knitting Brigades of World War I: Volunteers for Victory in America and Abroad | Holly Korda | Amazon.ca |
CSM Blogs and Sites
Circular Sock Machine School - In person in a home in the United Kingdom
Heddi Craft Designs / The Craft Studio
Old Tyme Stocking (offline but archived) | Website Museum
Pam’s Knitting and Spinning Blog
Phun With Phiber | Website |
Cheri’s KnitPickin “Sock Machine Central” | Website |
Socks the old way - Blog post by DanPro
SockTV |Direct link |Jamie Mayfield & Ron Duff - USA | Live FREE video broadcasts often occur some Friday’s at 7am Vancouver, BC Canada time. (Not every Friday). Recorded videos available for online viewing after the fact for a USD$10/month subscription. Jamie Mayfield is the hostess and Ron Duff is the video coordinator. | Live Broadcasr link | *Also viewable on TWITCH | Google Sheet record of episodes |
Spinning Lizzy - Blog post about alternatives to cones when using the Royal Cone winder
TricoFolk (French)
Quarterly Paid Newsletters
Sock Machine Knitting / Bonnie Smola - USA | Website | Email: bsmola@neitel.net | Previously known as Yellow River Station (Offline but Archived) | Email: bsmola@neitel.net (family Jim sometimes helps out smolajim@gmail.com) | Link to retrieve newsletters with prior emailed passwords | Many digital files for sale including the 500+ pages of “25 years of patterns” that some unrelated persons have shared on Facebook that they purchase this from the seller then took the files to a printing service - something like 24bookprint.com
Previously offered a Quarterly downloadable Newsletter.
Downloadable and available on CD: “25 years of Patterns” USD$23, “10 Varieties of Heels” USD$20. “How to work CSM Entrelac” CD$20.
DVD’s that can be purchased
Unrelated to CSMs
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