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How To E-Wrap Cast On And Knit A Simple Stockinette Swatch

Let’s do a simple e-wrap cast on and knit a square of stockinette.

Your machine should be set up, threaded, and ready to start.

With carriage at the right, bring out the number of needles you need for the swatch.
machine knitting e wrap cast on needles in hold position

Hold the yarn between the first two needles on the left.
machine knitting e wrap cast on place yarn between needles

Holding the end of the yarn with the left hand, use your right hand to wrap the yarn counter-clockwise around the first needle on the left. Your wraps will lie behind the latches.
machine knitting e wrap cast on wrap yarn counter-clockwise between needles

While still holding the end of the yarn with the left hand, bring the yarn under the second needle in from the left, and wrap it counter-clockwise around the second needle.
machine knitting e wrap cast on wrap yarn counter-clockwise under second needle

Continue until you reach the last needle in work on the side by the carriage. Return the yarn inside the carriage gate and close the gate lever.
machine knitting e wrap cast on wrap yarn counter-clockwise between under needles

machine knitting e wrap cast on wrap yarn counter-clockwise on all needles to end

Check that the carriage is set to knit back needles in the forward position. On a Brother machine, the lever will be in the N position instead of H. Check that all carriage front panel buttons are NOT pushed in and make sure that the yarn is in its slot and the gate is closed.
machine knitting brother 260 n position machine knitting brother 260 put yarn in carriage gate closed

Set the row counter to zero and hang the cast on comb to help weigh down the sproingy new e-wraps.
machine knitting brother 260 yarn row counter machine knitting brother 260 hang cast on comb weights yarn

Carefully knit across to the left. This first row will be snug and stubborn to knit if the tension is set too tight. Continue moving the carriage back and forth to finish your first square of stockinette. On a Japanese flat bed machine, the purl side always faces you.
machine knitting brother 260 yarn knitted swatch with e wrap cast on

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4 comments

1 Elly { 06.05.08 at 3:27 pm }

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know how fabulous this tutorial was for me. I’ve recently bought myself an old Empisal KH-680. Having had no previous machine knitting experience, I’ve been studiously working my way through the old instruction book - simply to begin to understand the terminology!

All I want to be able to do at the moment is to be able to re-create the hand knitted ribbed collars I make for my husband instead of a scarf for work. Any suggestions for really basic tutorials?

thanks again for all the effort you’ve put it. HUGELY appreciated.

cheers, Elly - Melbourne Australia

2 kathryn { 06.05.08 at 4:54 pm }

Thank you and I’m glad the post was helpful.

I am not familiar with the Empisal brand. If it is a flat bed machine with no ribber, the only way to make ribbing is to make stockinette fabric and then drop alternate columns of purl stitches and re-latch them up as knit stitches. You can also make mock rib where you skip needles in work in between working needles to simulate ribbing.

If you have a ribber, the possibilities are numerous and the knitting will go very fast.

3 Elly { 06.27.08 at 2:37 pm }

Hi Kathryn,

yes i have a ribber attachment, thats far down the list of things to learn!

I’ll just continue to plod along.. tho there is a craft fair in melbourne next month and there is going to be a knitting machine stall, so I’m hoping to pick brains there!

thanks again, Elly

4 Elaine Schumann (4 comments.) { 08.10.08 at 12:12 pm }

Hi, Wow! I thought I was going to have this DM80 machine in my small front room just to collect dust. Your tutorial on “Setting up the Stand”, “installing the racking handle and how to maintance the machine have been most helpful.You were most certainly a “godsend” as Passap knitters even here in our small town in Arizona are few and far between. The pictures were excellent. They have relieved a lot of frustration, and now I look forward to knitting again. I will look forward to connecting and using the Deco.
Thanks so much

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