... And so I end my countdown back through the 1980s.
I found this publication in a junk shop. It was one of a bundle of booklets containing patterns for the Passap Duomatic 80 knitting machine. I find these old machine knitting patterns to be rather sad relics. Whereas any skilled knitter can follow an old hand knitting pattern to create their own vintage garment, these patterns are useless unless you can somehow scrounge up the appropriate equipment.
And it seems that even forty years ago some people had problems knitting with their shiny new knitting machine. The people at Passap introduced this book of patterns by trying to address this head on:
"...Some people seem to find the change from handknitting patterns to our machine knitting patterns difficult... we have therefore tried to insert all the required stitch and row numbers in the text as well."
Never mind. If nothing else, the booklets are filled with amazing photographs like this one. Isn't this a perfect example of early eighties fashion?
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