I recently purchased a Toyota KS901 knitting machine from the aging mother of a friend and coworker.

This dog pillow is my first completed project on my  ’new’ knitting machine. Even though I’ve been a handknitter for many years,  learning to produce knitted fabric on a machine was a steep learning curve for me!

The pillow is knit with Bernat’s Baby Jacquard yarn.  I’m not responsible for the beautiful, multicoloured patterns; they appear automatically in the yarn.

I am responsible for (finally) figuring out how to cast on, correct dropped stitches and get the carriage to  move smoothly, though.

The pillow stuffing is alpaca fiber ‘seconds’ which were not good enough for spinning but perfect for stuffing. My dogs love the animal smell buried within their pillow.

Once I got it going, the pieces knit up amazingly quickly. My mind is racing with ideas for future projects. A last minute baby blanket could be knit up in mere days!

Sweaters created on my machine are somewhere in my future…but not for awhile.  I need to master a few more basics first.

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