After a 5 year or so hiatus we have started up our Passap meetings here in Raleigh, NC. We have had 2 monthly meetings so far and another is scheduled for tomorrow.
At the first 2 we had 2 ladies come to be by my e6000 in my basement for a "blind leading the blind" class. Both were skilled brother machine knitters.
We are hoping to have 4 knitters and me for tomorrow's meeting. We play "stump the expert" and pretend that I am the expert. In other words I say, "What do you want to see done on the Passap?" They tell me and I try to do it.
The first meeting we talked and demonstrated cast ons and cast offs. And we assigned homework to try to copy the sample of various stitches in the DM80 book.....that pattern that made a mitt. Both ladies did it!! (Whoops, I forgot to try it.)
The second meeting we tried programming the console and following the directions. We used a pattern I had found on https://cckittenknits.wordpress.com but I forget what month she published it. It was a pattern for a dishcloth and she also included how to do a Broken Toe cast on.
We were each to go home and try to do the dishcloth on our own. One lady phoned me for help yesterday, which reminded me I needed to try it myself.
I have just finished doing the dishcloth. Teena and I both used acrylic yarn, as we were not confident enough to try knitting with cotton, which has much less stretch or forgiveness
I got it finished, but need to hide a few yarn ends. Here are photos of the front and the back of my dishcloth!
