Learning the Passap E 6000 for Beginners

The Passap knitting machine is one of the most sought after knitting machines in the world because of its ability to create knit techniques. The word is 40,000 different types of knit fabrics can be created on the Passap knitting machine. That should be enough to keep anyone busy for a moment or two.

Having that much choice is wonderful, however the how to get from here to there is fairly extensive. Many people purchase their Passap knitting machine and before even looking through the manuals start pushing buttons and playing.

The tuition for learning the Passap e6000 for beginners can be very high because the damage that can be done by this type of approach is costly to repair if it can be repaired at all.

On the other hand the simple steps for the Passap are really easy to do if you just have the sequence right from the beginning. Resisting the urge to just start playing and button pushing is what is hard to do. In many areas of our lives that is the approach that we have often taken. Why read the directions? Many times they were written in a language that we did not understand and our impatience to just get going prevented us from slowing down long enough to figure the directions out. This is a very wrong move for a Passap knitting machine.

Yesterday, I wanted to cook something in my new microwave and the directions were to do part of the process at full power and the rest of the process at the middle power setting. It was so easy to find the instruction book and look up how to get to the middle power setting, do the steps and get the project underway. (I was hungry)

I wondered afterwords if I had just started pushing buttons if I would have ever gotten to the cooking part of the process. Some things are more intuitive that others. In the case of the microwave and the Passap the steps are not what you might think to do and hence you can spend a great deal of time pushing buttons with no positive outcome. My dinner would have taken way longer to get ready and I would have been really hungry if I had not opened the manual and looked up and then input the correct steps in order. Not what I thought they should be but what the computer on the microwave had to have in order to work.

Then lets mention button hitting. That is when you are in the console trying to do the programming and keep hitting buttons to try to get back to a screen on the console that looks familiar and stop the electronic buzzing the console does when you have made an error. That is one irritating sound.

Instead of turning the console off and back on, there is a better solution to stopping that sound and one that is highly recommended instead of the reflex action to turn the console off. You even have 3 choices of things you can do instead.

Any one of these three choices is much better for you and for the knitting machine-it is just catching ourselves quickly enough to make a different choice. Depending on how long you have been knitting on your Passap, you may have some serious re-training to do to overcome this issue.

It is important for you to begin to work towards this though as the Passap machines are no longer being made and if you keep your unhealthy reactions up, you may damage your machine beyond repair. I don’t know about you, but I just could not handle not having my Passap machines to work on when I want to knit.

Make a decision to learn your Passap knitting machine, how it works and the steps to take when the computer dialogue is taking you to an error screen and the electronic buzzing so when you get there in the future you can correct the data input you missed which caused this to happen. It is just the click of a button in the wrong sequence that creates the error and a click of a button to correct it.

Learn the right buttons to hit when you encounter this situation and don’t just start pushing or hitting buttons randomly to try to get the buzz to stop. It is really easy if you just know the steps and which order to put them into when you are talking about the programming part of the knitting project.

Make sure that the tuition you are paying for learning your Passap knitting machine is taking you to the right steps and not in the wrong direction.


Insider Secrets To Learning The Passap Knitting Machine

As a knitwear designer and fiber artist, I often hear, “I LOVE how you used colors and/or textures in that scarf or shawl or wrap or sweater, but could never do it myself.” Well, today I are going to share with you some insider tips and skills so that you really CAN do it yourself.

This information offers the “Why” as well as the “How”.

The Passap E 6000 knits precisely what you tell it to, perfectly with the unique dialog computer which communicates with you. What is important is that you learn to speak Passap so you can communicate with the console. Since it is very precise, there is a learning curve to get comfortable with the programming of the console so you get the exact result you want.

The electronics on the knitting console asks you a series of simple questions. They are not in the usual sequence that we are used to and do not answer why or how so patience on your part is needed.

When you understand the step by step format of the console and the questions it asks, it will get easier to learn the programming so you avoid the error messages and accomplish the pattern and technique input into the computer.

The computer shows the choices and you decide if you want to accept them.

There is no point in wishing that the manual was written more clearly. We have to work with what we have and get used to the flow the way the console is set up and the questions that are asked. Once you have achieved the knowledge of the sequence, your knitting on the Passap will be much easier.

The learning curve is a bit steep, but certainly doable so I want to encourage you to stay with it until you get to the breakthrough moments and gain the confidence to know you can tackle this marvelous machine.

I will be taking you through a simple set of steps so you understand what the Passap language is, how you learn it and in what order you need to put the steps.

Not much different than spelling a word. If you put the letters in the wrong order you have an error and a misspelled word. If you input the data into the Passap console in the wrong order you have an error.

The only difference is that the console talks back and that sound is very annoying.

Then comes this set of questions:

  • what did I miss or do wrong?
  • where can I find help?
  • who knows the answer to my question?
  • am I going to understand what they are telling me in writing?

I’d invite you to come back as these questions are answered for you. The goal is to help you enjoy this amazing piece of equipment and see beautiful knitted projects that are finished.