The Answer Lady Innovative Ideas for Machine Knitters To contact the answer lady, use this new anti-spam e-mail address. Rewrite this address in the standard e-mail format with no spaces anywhere and the usual symbols for and and dot: kathryn d answerlady at hotmail dot com PATTERNS ARE INSTANT DOWNLOADS As soon as you pay through paypal, you'll receive instructions concerning your instant downloads. Follow them and your patterns will be in your hands in moments. This has allowed me to lower prices and add more photos to the patterns! But no system is perfect. If you have trouble or concerns, please contact me with the details of your purchase so your problem can be solved. Machine Knitting Terms Defined This is a new feature that can be very helpful to new knitters. Click the link and find the pencil on the page it takes you to. If you have a term you'd like to see defined, e-mail me and I'll do my best. This website is full of FREE patterns along with many for sale. The 2 newest freebies are suitable for all knitters and sewers. Whether you knit by hand, on a frame, sock machine, sweater machine or other knitting machine or you just sew, you'll find something here that you can use. The index of patterns and articles is below at left. Click the links to get to those you wish to see in detail. In a shameless attempt to get you to view the patterns for sale, links to the free items will take you first to a page of priced patterns. The freebie may be on this page but if the free pattern is more elaborate, the first page will contain a link to the free pattern file.    NEW! tools and knitting machine needles We're adding new tools all the time so keep checking this page. NEW! HEART HEALTHY RECIPES. See what Jack is cooking click the link above, then scroll down the page it takes you to and look for the heart click here to see the Answer Lady's Herb Book ***NEW BOOK***"KNITTING AND SEW ON" Passap fairisle design for 6 herbs: sage, mint, parsley, dill, rosemary. Use your own pattern or the jacket pattern from News and Views. Download the deco design here. $4 You will be sent a download link. Pictured above are a few of the items available. See the complete listing and links in the index below at left. BOND KNITTERS CAN USE THOSE PATTERNS THAT ARE MARKED WITH ASTERISKS IN THE INDEX BELOW. HAND KNITTERS CAN KNIT THE PATTERNS MARKED WITH # IN THIS INDEX. INDEX The listings below are functional links. The Answer Lady's Machine Knitting Notebook BABY MITT PATTERN--FREE Bath Basics*# Bare Minimum Bikini Bulky Pouch Purse* Casting on with the Answer Lady FREE instructions and $1 videos Center pull yarn balls FREE article City Suede Smarty* Considering a knitting machine? Crazy for Cables Cut and Sew Carpet Slippers#* DISH CLOTH PATTERN---FREE Fabulous Felted Booties for All Knitters*# Felted Bags and Hats of all kinds FABULOUS FELTED COIN PURSE---FREE Fabulous Felted Footwear Fabulous Felted Mittens for all knitters*# Fabulous Felted Toys* for bulkies Fabulous Felted Vests & Jackets* Fast Fun patterns-*-a whole page of simple patterns that make great gifts Five Fast Felt projects Furry Pillows for all machines FRAME KNITTING PATTERNS--2 OF THEM ARE FREE FUZZY LOGIC--FREE ARTICLE ABOUT KNITTING WITH FURRY YARNS GO FISH!* An intarsia sweater for mid-gauge (Bond knitters must match gauge and reform stitches to create rib) Inner Beauty Bag* Kangaroo Covers*# KNITTING AND SEW ON KNITTING WEIGHTS--MAKE YOUR OWN--FREE Lap of Luxury Mittens*# Little Red Riding Hood*# MAKE YOUR OWN CAST ON COMB-FREE ARTICLE MAKING THE MOST OF MICROFIBER: FREE ARTICLE Short Sleeved Mock Cardigan* in Lion Brand Microspun yarn MicroTamm Twinset with options NEEDLES FOR KNITTING MACHINES One Piece Afghan with Cabled Edge*--a bargain pattern for extended Bonds only The Perfect Poncho*# Plenty of Purses-FREE PATTERN POCKET SCARF PATTERN--FREE string bags for all* Think Mink!* TOOLS Totally Tubular patterns for circular sock machines THE ULTIMATE Ultimate Sweater machine: instructions for making a sturdy super-Bond unisex wrap robe The Wrap-up on Ribbon...FREE ARTICLE YARN The Answer Lady is Kathryn Doubrley. I write about the things that I love most and do best. If you are a machine knitter, gardener, herb enthusiast or seamstress, we may already be acquainted. Perhaps we have met at seminars. You may have read my articles. This website will be a place where we can keep in touch and a marketplace for pubications hot off The Answer Lady Press. I am available for demonstrations at knitting and gardening events by arrangement. Shown Below: Bare Minimum Bikini, Fabulous Felted Footwear NEW! COTTON/LYCRA RUN-ALONG for great fitting socks, hems with memory and sleek sweaters. Click "yarn" in the index on the left. pictured below from top to bottom: Basic Bag for frame knitters, String Bags for All NEW! CRAZY FOR CABLES made without crossing a single stitch What's new in News and Views machine knitting magazine? click here to find out Some of my patterns appear in News and Views Magazine along with many other wonderful things for machine kntiters. The link will take you the the News and Views page. Along the bottom of that page, you can select an issue and see what is offered in it. Need Yarn? The Answer Lady enjoys Yeoman yarns from the new US dealer http://lovelisa.us    I knit on all kinds of machines and encourage you to do the same if you can. From plain to fancy, old to new, fine gauge to bulky ALL knitting machines offer wonderful creative opportunities. I just can't buy the idea that any of them are worthless, though I have to acknowledge that they DO have their quirks. Still, don't we all? For more knitting inspiration, you might want to check out the magazines I enjoy. These links will take you to their home pages. NEWS AND VIEWS Knit 'N Style Magazine Another great source of good ideas and patterns is Maggie Andrews Even though she lives and works in England, click on her name to visit her site. US knitters can get the patterns surprisingly fast by mail.