On to what I learned

1. Knitting tubular CX/LX for a bunch of rows and then switching over to N/GX for about twenty rows and then to GX/N creates openings in the tube for armholes or whatever. You can then go back to tubular and decrease to form a neck. Instant sleevless sweater.
2. There is a little box mounted on the left side of my console with a switch. It has a handwritten lable that says “Up Normal”. I spent about an hour trying to get my USB/Serial adaptor working and trying to download a pattern into the console. No luck. I finally figured out that the little switch has to be down for the pattern downloads to work. Tomorrow I am going to try and make a holiday afghan.

That’s it for today. Hopefully I’ll get the afghan mad and can post some pics.

I just finished setting it up and am starting to go through the tutorials. Hopefully I’ll have some pictures of the machine and swatches to show soon.

On page 7 on the manual it says, “Two on each bed: They must be always be placed on the edge needles in working position their latches closed.“. 

This makes a much nicer edge than having them beside the edge needles as I had been doing. One thing that may still have me confused is that the picture shows a needle on the *outside* of the Edge Spring with its latch closed also. This may indicate that the Edge Spring goes on the second needle from the inside but somehow I don’t think that’s right. I’ll knit a swatch and see what differance it makes.

First Knitted Hat

I found a Passap Duomatic 80 (Green) on Craigslist and finally decided that it was time to move up from the Bond USM. I was naturally a bit nervous since I knew nothing aout the machine and finding help on the Internet was not as easy as the Japenses models like Brother.  I got the machine from the original  owner who knitted a single sock and some swatches on it. It has the Deco attachment and card reader but no cards and, of course, no instructions for the machine. She did have “The Passap Handbook – Beginner Course” and that has been a bit helpful.

I tried making a sock from a video I found on Youtube but when it came time to transfer the stictches with the decker comb I realized I don’t have one. Another call to the previous owner and she thinks she has found it along with the Passap Form Computer. Hopefully I’ll pick that up and a few more goodies from her this weekend after she goes thru her closets.

On to the good stuff ….. I finally figured out how to set it up and thread the yarn and it knits GREAT. A 1000% better than the Bond plastic machine. So far I’ve made 1×1 ribbed swatches that unraveled because I didn’t know how to cast off.

And finally, on just the first day I managed to complete a ribbed hat. I’ll try and post some pictures later.

UPDATE: I did a bit more searching on Google and figured it out. I finished the first one but alas … a twist in the waistband. Now that I have the thing worked out I’ve started another one and hopefully will find the time to complete it and get some pictures posted.

Happy Hooking!