Passap SwissKnitter Selectomat User manual

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SELECTOMAT the optional extra for your NEW HOME Swissknitter
The SELECTOMAT makes pattern knitting much easier: all you have to do is arrange the irst
12 needles and the SELECTOMAT does the rest or you by repeating the needle setting
across the whole width o the needle bed.
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Knitting Guide
Contents:
npacking and Assembly 2
Threading up 8
Stocking Stitch 11
The Sweater 16
The Back 16
The Sleeve 21
The Front 23
So ar the chapters o the knitting guide correspond with the
contents o the teaching cassette.
The ollowing chapters will only be ound in the knitting guide
Shaping techniques 27
Casting on 27
Casting off/decreasing 29
Increasing 30
The Rest Position 32
The Buttonhole 34
The Hem 34
The Test Square 35
Patterning 36
Tuck Stitch 36
Slip Stitch 39
Fairisle 40
Fairisle in Tuck Stitch 41
Intarsia 42
Double Rows 44
Double Intarsia 45
Lock Settings 46
seful Hints 47
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Unpacking
Start by removing the teaching cassette (9) from the styrofoam block and listening to it. The cassette
explains how to unpack the machine and set it up, as well as how to knit your first test piece.
Remove all the parts from the two styrofoam
blocks and check that all the parts are there:
The right styrofoam block contains:
The Lock
The left styrofoam block contains:
1. Mast for yam tensioner
2. Tension arms
3. Row counter
4. Tube of oil
5. Two edge weights
6. Two clamps
7. Paraffin wax
8. Plastic bag with small accessories
9. Teaching cassette
10. Two feeding eyelet supports
11. Two feeding eyelets
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Unpacking
These are the small accessories:
2 ____________ I) 09.232.12
3 Latch needles
II09.802.03
Orange tool
€09.942.03
Yellow tool
09.941.02
Double ended bodkin
HJL UL
09.809.02
Pattern ruler
8O
___ 0 ___ 0 ___ 0 ___ 01
JDL
16.570.02
Pattern ruler 1 :2
16.571.02
Pattern ruler 1 : 3
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Assembly
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Li t the empty styro oam blocks and the body o the
machine out o the box.
Align the machine with the ront table edge in such a
way that the machine slightly slopes to the back.
At each end it the eeding eyelet supports underneath
the needle bed. The illustration shows the le t hal o
the needle bed as seen rom the back. Look at this
backview o the needle bed. You will see our screws
that it into round plastic pins. Insert the eeding eyelet
support between the second and the third screw, at
the same time depressing the small latch on the
eeding eyelet support. Make sure the support clicks
into place. t
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From the side insert the row counter into its
support-rail exactly as shown in the illustration.
I this has been done correctly, the row counter will not
touch the table when the machine is in its correct
position.
Now asten the needle bed to the table edge using the
two clamps.
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Assembly
Oil the needle bed well be ore you
place the lock on it. Use only the
enclosed Bellodoroil.
Drip oil onto the needle eet and the
ront and back guide rails
(see illustration).
The curved end o the mast is at the The tension arms are curved orward,
top and must point to the ront.
Fit the mast or the yarn tensioner
into the hole on the row counter. Fit the tension arms with the yarn tension dial to the top o the mast.
Be ore you place the lock onto the Slide the lock rom the right on to the Your instruction book contains a
needle bed, check that the ront dial needle bed, making sure that the diagram. Take it out and stick it on to
at the side o the lock is on position I. guides on the bottom o the lock it the ront hal o the lock.
exactly into the guide rails on the
needle bed.
Now turn the ront dial at the side o
the lock to position III.
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, Assembly
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needle head
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needle oot
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The Needle
The machine has 179 latch needles. Each needle has a
needle oot and a needle head that closes with a
movable latch. Holding the needle by its oot, it can be
moved back and orth.
I the needle should jam in Non Working Position *
while doing so, li t it up slightly by its oot.
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The Needle Positions
On each end o the needle bed you will ind one to our
stars. These stars indicate the our needle positions:
= Needles in Non Working Position, i.e. out o
work (NWP)
= Needles in Working Position (WP)
* * * = Needles in Advanced Working Position (AWP)
* * * * = Needles in Rest Position (RP)
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Assembly
Various parts o the machine
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Threading the yarn
For the ollowing test pieces you will need approximately 230 grms o yarn in the main colour and about 30 grms in a
second colour which will be called trimming colour.
Use a medium thick plain smooth yarn. (100 grm = approx. 340 m, 1 oz = 104 yards).
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It is very important or the yarn to
low reely and smoothly. It will only
do so i it has been wound into loose
balls or on to cones.
I you wind the yarn yoursel , let it run
over the enclosed piece o para in
wax.
Always begin with the end o yarn
coming rom the centre o the ball. Thread the yarn into one end o the
double ended bodkin which is the
needle with an eyelet on each end.
Look at the white plastic piece at the top o the mast o Now guide the bodkin rom back to ront through the
the yarn tension. From below, guide the double ended eyelet at the tip o the tension arm.
bodkin vertically up behind the silver coloured roll.
The roll will move slightly orward by itsel and make
room or the double ended bodkin.
Compare care ully with the illustration. The yarn must
be in the wire triangle.
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Threading the yarn
Pick up one o the eeding eyelets supplied. Guide the double ended bodkin rom the top through
the eeding eyelet.
Hold the end o the yarn tightly. Remove the yarn rom
the double ended bodkin and ix it in the yarn clamp at
the right back o the needle bed.
Insert the eeding eyelet into the eeding eyelet
support just behind the yarn clamp.
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Threading the yarn
Compare your machine with the illustration. Does everything look exactly the same?
Now thread the second colour o your yarn into the le t side o the yarn tensioner. Look again at the illustrations
27 to 32.
A ter threading ix the yarn in the yarn clamp on the le t at the back o the needle bed.

Stocking Stitch
Knitting in stocking stitch using di erent stitch
sizes
The irst test piece will teach you how to knit stocking stitch (jersey), and the e ect o the di erent stitch size settings.
Always begin with the lock at the right-hand edge o the needle bed.
Take the eeding eyelet out o the right-hand support
at the back o the bed. Guide it to the ront so that the
yarn moves under the right side plate.
Fit the eeding eyelet vertically rom above into its
holder in the lock, until it clicks into place.
Directly underneath the lock, push the yarn to the back
until it touches the needle bed.
You will eel clearly how the yarn glides completely
through the slit between the two black parts
underneath the eeding eyelet.
Look at the yarn tensioner. The yarn stretching
between the ront eyelet o the tension arm and the
yarn tension dial should be roughly horizontal. Pull the
yarn down behind the yarn tension until it is horizontal.
I the angle o the tension arm is too steep, you can
adjust it by turning the yarn tension dial to a higher
number.
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Stocking Stitch
The basic cast on
Pick up the orange pattern ruler. Push every alternate needle orward to Rest
Position ****.
Begin with needle 25 on the right o the centre,
continuing to needle 24 on the le t o the centre.
The ront dial is called the needle
return dial.
Turn it to Mil.
The back dial o the two dials on the
right-hand side o the lock is called
the pattern selector.
Turn it to A.
The large dial at the centre o the lock
is the stitch size.
Turn it to 5.
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Stocking Stitch
Move the lock slowly and care ully to the le t beyond Using the pattern ruler push all needles still in Non
needle 30 on the le t o the centre. Working Position * between needle 25 on the le t and
needle 24 on the right to Rest Position * * * *.
Note: Make sure that the yarn, which at present is in
every alternate needle head, lies underneath the
needles you are pushing into Rest Position****.
Move the lock rom le t to right.
Repeat the sequence in illustrations 36,37,41 and 42, remembering that the needles that irst were in Non Working
Position* are now already in Working Position**.
How to knit stocking stitch/jersey = B
Turn the pattern selector dial to B, the needle return dial to III.
Set the row counter at 000 (zero) by pushing the small
lever at the top o the row counter to the right.
Knit 6 rows on stitch size 5, i.e. push the lock 6 times
across the needles.
Continue to knit until the row counter reads 20.
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Stocking Stitch
Changing colour
Take the eeding eyelet with yarn out
o the lock by li ting it vertically out o
the holder. Pull the yarn down
between the lock and the knitting to
ree it rom the stripper.
Push the eeding eyelet rom the
ront into the right eeding eyelet
support on the lock.
Take the eeding eyelet with the
second colour out o its support at
the le t back and it it into the holder
on the lock. Push the yarn directly
underneath the lock to the back until
it slides through the slit in the
stripper.
Change colour. You can now it the eeding eyelet with the second colour into the le t eeding eyelet support on the
lock.
Set the stitch size at 7 and knit 20 rows.
Change the colour once more and knit 20 rows on stitch size 8.

Stocking Stitch
Releasing the knitting
rom the machine
Take the eeding eyelet with which you have been
knitting out o the lock and it it into the le t support on
the lock. Remove the edge weights rom the knitting.
Without a eeding eyelet, move the lock across the
needles in Working Position**. This will release your
knitting rom the machine.
The stitch size
Look care ully at your irst piece o knitting. You will
clearly see the di erence in the stitch ormation in the
places where you have used a di erent stitch size. The
setting o the stitch size is entirely up to you,
depending on whether you pre er your knitting to be
loose or tight.
Look again and you will also see that the higher the stitch number the wider the knitting.
Every time you work with a new yarn you have not used be ore it is advisable to make a test tension square to help you
decide what stitch size to choose.
The ollowing chart will give you some idea o yarns and their respective stitch sizes. Nevertheless, it is essential that
you always try out the stitch size or yoursel .
Sports wool 4-ply
Yarn length: approx. 300-340 m per 100 grm Stitch size 6-7
Medium sweater yarn 3-ply
Yarn length: approx. 400-450 m per 100 grm Stitch size 41£-51/2
2 strands o industrial yarn
Yarn length: approx. 800 m per 100 grm Stitch size 31/2-4
For thicker yarns, knit with alternate needles.
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The Sweater
The sweater
50 The sweater we are going to knit is intended or a child
about six to seven years old.
This will teach you the basic techniques you will need
later on when knitting a garment o your own.
The back
Start with the back. Section A:
The sweater has a double 2:1 rib welt, i. e. a ter you
have knitted the required number o rows, you will old
the welt like a hem which will make a double welt.
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The Sweater
Cast on or 2:1 ribPick up the black pattern ruler, i.e. the one where the teeth are closer
together. Its teeth will it behind every third needle.
Push every third needle to Rest Position****.
Begin with needle 49 at right o centre and continue to
needle 48 at le t o centre.
Fit the eeding eyelet with the trimming colour into the
lock; that is your second colour o which you have less
yarn.
Stitch size 5
Lock A llll
Knit one row
Beginning with needle 49 le t o centre push every
third needle to Rest Position****.
Knit one row.
Repeat the pushing orward o needles and the knitting o the irst and second needle group (Illustrations 54 and 55).
Knitting in stocking stitch = Lock B III
Knit 10 rows, hanging edge weights on the knitting a ter about 6 rows.
Change to the main colour, i.e. irst colour. Knit 34 rows or the welt.
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The Sweater
Turning up the mock rib
The loops o the irst row worked in main colour must now be placed on to the needles so that the rows knitted in
trimming colour, here called contrast yarn, may be removed.
Push the empty needles between
those needles in Working Position* *
also to Working Position.
Pick up the orange tool. The end with
the eyelet is called the decker
needle.
Look at the irst row knitted in main
colour: you will notice longer and
shorter loops.
Pick up the irst loop at right with the
decker needle, by pushing the
decker needle through the loop in an
upward movement as shown in the
illustration.
Turn the welt up as you would a hem.
Ensure that all the latches are open.
Place the loop on to the irst needle
in Working Position* *, i.e. with a
stitch on it.
Tilt the decker needle vertically
upward and backward. The loop will
now slide quite easily into the needle
head.
Continue thus, always placing a
longer loop on an empty needle and a
shorter loop on to one o the two
needles with a stitch on it.
Set the row counter at zero (000).
Lock Bill
Stitch size 6
Knit in stocking stitch (jersey) to armhole = 86 rows.
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