EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been corrected to reflect David Erlbacher had the first patent for the Gearhart sock knitting machine in more than 85 years. A family-run machine shop in south Cape ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — A family-run machine shop in south Cape Girardeau has been the unlikely center of a revival of the knitting machine industry. David "Pee Wee" Erlbacher has been a machinist for more ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - The Erlbacher Homecoming Crank-In brings people together from across the country, and they have one thing in common. They use Erlbacher knitting machines, which are made ...

Over the next two days, Cape Girardeau will be the warm little center of the sock-knitting universe. Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Co. makes hand-crank sock knitting machines and is hosting its ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - For the ninth year, the Erlbacher Knitting Machine Company’s Open House & Crank In is taking place. Hundreds of people from around North America and even Japan used looms ...

In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...