thanks for your comments. There is quite a difference between machine
> knit and hand knit - including the final product but again thats just a
> matter of opinion. I have machine knitted both at college and and home
> and the tutors in college all considered machine knit as another branch
> of handmade but NOT hand knit (guess thats why its called machine knit)
> so my verbage was worng! I should emphasize hand knitted rather than > hand made! >
> Good catch!
>
Oh, I agree that there is quite a diff in handknit versus machine knit, but as BOTH, myself, I just wanted to reiterate that there's plenty of hand manipulation in machine knitting, thereby saying that machine knitting is
*still* "hand-made".... Noreen