At last, cast on, on the Knitmaste, for the Hap Yoke Cardi. Did the back yesterday, and the two fronts today. The row number is a bit odd, a mish-mash for two previous jumpers and mis-reading sleeve length for body length! I expect it will all fit together okay, they usually do when I trust my own patterns.
Have also scanned all the pages of the Harrison V-bed manual and made the discovery that the first entries in the handwritten notebook are 1890. This is quite a find - 138 years old, wow! The machine is now moving, but have not tried any yarn again yet. Plan now is to write up more about it, make a new "manual" of ring binder with scanned pages as the original is so fragile, and do comparisons with modern flatbed/double bed knitting. Will keep the machine here all winter then is can go to museum via Sock Machine Event at Kegworth in March
The original practice sock pattern given is for an e-wrap start, no welt, shapings along back seam, heel flap and gusset (bit of a surprise, that). Toes finished down to 6 or so stitches then latched off from one bed to the other, not k2tog fashion. May try this method out on the Knitmaster.
Have also scanned all the pages of the Harrison V-bed manual and made the discovery that the first entries in the handwritten notebook are 1890. This is quite a find - 138 years old, wow! The machine is now moving, but have not tried any yarn again yet. Plan now is to write up more about it, make a new "manual" of ring binder with scanned pages as the original is so fragile, and do comparisons with modern flatbed/double bed knitting. Will keep the machine here all winter then is can go to museum via Sock Machine Event at Kegworth in March
The original practice sock pattern given is for an e-wrap start, no welt, shapings along back seam, heel flap and gusset (bit of a surprise, that). Toes finished down to 6 or so stitches then latched off from one bed to the other, not k2tog fashion. May try this method out on the Knitmaster.
