I love machine knitting and use many machines. Most of my patterns will work for any machine that's in the right gauge range. I use plain English with hardly any abbreviations  and terms that make sense for all brands of machine. Most books have associated videos to teach the necessary to accomplish the patterns. 

Jack has formal mechanical training on almost everything except knitting machines. When Kathryn began machine knitting, it was rare in our area and mechanical training was exclusive to dealers. So Jack applied mechanical principles, metallurgy, chemical use and other skills learned from his formal training to work on Kathryn 's machines. He did this for about 25 years before going public as Ask Jack.

We collaborate on educational videos to help knitters. 

You may e-mail us but we don't provide a "contact us " button because that resulted in oceans of spam. If you have questions about a book bought from theanswerlady, use the email address that came with your receipt of purchase. Other questions and discussion about knitting and mechanical issues are now addressed by emailing kdoubrley at  yahoo dot com. Jack is retired but when there is time, we work on getting answers composed. Often, a question gives us a good idea for a video. Be aware that we cannot devote all of our time to email and we want to make each answer well thought out so it can't also be instantaneous. We'll do the best we can. Be careful about the spelling in the yahoo address. Most people relocate the "e" in our last name and so of course the message fails. Return the address to normal format of course. It's stretched out here to avoid spambots.