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B I G.

And now I’m laying in my bed in the other room with my back to the door and I feel like it’s right next to me.

The knitting machine is so big I feel like I’m being watched. It knows my insecurities. It has 179 more needles in its body than I do (A 179-0 loss on my part) and is so dense the feet bend when it’s on its legs. It’s also double-bedded (again a 2-1 loss on my part.)

This thing has been in a church basement probably since it was made, being *1977*. It is dusty and smells like old age.

I probably brought some cursed unholy contraption into my house. It didn’t need to ask permission. It now is fully allowed to murder me in my sleep. I feel like if I used the electric motor drive module, it would knit a blanket with a pentagram on it while I’m not looking.

It reminds me of that magical loom in SVTFOE that knits the tapestries in the Grandma Room.

Either it “takes care” of me, or I learn what the dial with “N” and “X” on it does.

Passap Creative Slip and Tuck

My friend Jacqui and I were discussing the Passap Knitting Machine and what it can do. She told me that there was an article in KnitWords Magazine #1, 1997 Summer on knitting two motifs side by side and one motif was slip stitch and one motif was tuck. The article is written by Katherine Geiger and she sounds just like me. She was so excited figuring this out and seeing what this Passap 6000 can…

Passap Machine, Changing from Rib to Full Double Bed-Eliminating the “holes”

In a book I have called The Knitting Machine Textbook:Using the Passap E6000 by Marika Simon I came across an article and decided to read it.  Imagine that.  I have seen a lot of people asking how to eliminate the holes after knitting rib and going into full needle rib. Well, in this book there are three ways to do it and you use the console. What? Now you have my attention. Sample one is knitted…

Passap Lapghan using 3 color techniques

  Ha, ha, fooled you again. Here is my knitted strip of techniques for a three color design. It is shorter and took 918rows of knitting. I used 60 stitches and I knit 102 rows of each. I knitted techniques 195 to 200. Then the last three are 204,205 and 206. I also had to learn how to download a 3 color pattern that is in the console. I realized I had never done this. These are the ones with the…

I learned several things doing this. My arm is killing me. Hahahaha, just kidding. First, I love this machine. Lol  Second, it took me longer to do than an afghan since you have to reprogram every technique and set the pushers on the back bed in or out of the rail. You can see the widest one and it is technique 186 which is the fantasy fairisle. What surprises me is that you don’t see , or I should say, I don’t see many afghans made using the last four techniques 188-191. You have to change the back lock every two rows on a couple of them but it is not confusing. The console tells you when to change. Techniques 188 to 191 are closer in width to the fantasy fairisle . Also notice that the technique 181 has a solid back. I also knitted technique 185 for the first time which is the long stitch or summer fairisle and I like it. It is amazing how one pattern can look so different in every one of the techniques. This also gives you an idea of distortion using different techniques.

Also, I have two little cutters on my other knitting machine carriages for cutting the yarn . They are great and I don’t have to pick up a pair of scissors. I bought these years ago for a dollar and have not found them since. A couple of weeks ago I went to a sewing expo in Cleveland and I found this( I should say my friend found it) . It was $7.95 and I have it mounted on top of my passap lock. It is not as nice as my cheapie but it sure does the trick for cutting my yarn. :) It has a self stick backing.