Passap Tuckerboard Tuck Stitch Reversible Baby Blanket Afghan Pattern

The opportunities to create reversible textured fabric with a Passap are endless. These samples use the FX lock setting, hand selected pushers, and no pattern card. When pushers are up in working position, the machine knits normally. When pushers are down in rest position, the machine knits fishermans rib. The finished fabric is beautifully patterned on both sides.

Step 1 - Bring Up Needles For Cast On

I wanted a symmetrical look to my samples, so I used 47 needles on the front bed and 46 needles on the back. This allows for 5 and a half horizontal pattern repeats plus one stitch on each front edge to insure the tucked stitches dont fall off.

As mentioned in step 1, I had 47 needles on the front bed and 46 on the back, which means both of my end needles were on the front, disregarding the Passap needle rule. Nothing bad happened to me. If you prefer to follow the Passap needle rule where the right most needle is on the back bed, cast on 46 stitches on both beds per the diagram. When finished, bring up an extra front bed needle on the right and place a purl bump on it before doing step 3. It also means the vertical scalloped edge is not staggered since both sides of the mini blanket will end with either a plain square (edge scallops in) or a fishermans tuck square (edge scallops out)

Step 2 - Tubular Cast On

The lavendar yarn, a cotton acrylic blend, was thicker than the green, a vintage thin baby fingerling wool. Both were unlabeled leftovers languishing in my stash. Depending on the thickness of your yarn, you may need to adjust the cast on tension settings. Here were mine: Lavender Cotton Blend Sample Lock on right Racking handle down Orange strippers Tension 1.5 N/N Knit one row Tension 3.75 CX/CX Knit two rows Tension 5.0 N/N Knit one row Green Fingerling Wool Sample Lock on right Racking handle down Orange strippers Tension 1.5 N/N Knit one row Tension 3.25 CX/CX Knit two rows Tension 4.5 N/N Knit one row

Step 3 - Bottom Border Rows

With cast on complete, knit 4 more rows in full needle rib (N/N setting all needles knit) ending with lock at the right. This ends the bottom border of the swatch. For the lavender swatch, I slowly increased the tension from 5, 5.25, 5.5, to 6.0 with each of these passes so at the end of the fourth N/N row I was at 6.0, my patterning tension. For the green sample, I kept it at 4.5 throughout.

Step 4 - Arrange Pattern Needles and Pushers

When bottom border is finished, rearrange needles and pushers per the following diagram.

RC000 Orange strippers Racking handle down Manually put down the left and right most pushers Knit 2 rows N/<- FX Release left arrow key Knit 8 rows N/FX Repeat these 10 rows Continue in pattern until RC110 Remember, manually lower the left and right most pusher at the beginning of the first <-FX row for each pattern repeat. ie before knitting row 1 of pattern, manually lower the left most and right most pusher on the front bed. Knit through row 10 of pattern. Before knitting row 11, repeat process, lowering the left most and right most pusher on the front bed. Continue doing this at the beginning of each 10 row pattern repeat.

Why? You want the edge stitches to always knit, never tuck. Since the front lock is on FX for the entire blanket, and the pushers change position once every 10 rows, you have to manually put these two pushers down or you will end up tucking the edge stitches and dropping them. It also gives a very neat edge that gently rolls to the back and mirrors the look of the back patterning. A win win and easy edge.

Step 5 - Top Border Rows

STOP! - Pull up purl bumps to fill in for full needle rib on the front bed. Lock on right N/N Knit 3 rows ending lock on left

Step 6 - Tubular Cast Off

STOP! - transfer front right stitch to back right needle so there are an even number of stitches on the front and back beds with the last stitch on the right on the back bed. Lavender Cotton Blend Sample Lock on left Tension 5.0 N/N Knit two rows Transfer right most front bed stitch to back bed Tension 3.75 CX/CX Knit two rows Do not cut main yarn Green Fingerling Wool Sample Lock on left Tension 4.5 N/N Knit two rows Transfer right most front bed stitch to back bed Tension 3.25 CX/CX Knit two rows Do not cut main yarn

Step 7 - Half Tubular Waste Knitting

Switch to waste yarn Lock BX->/BX-> Black strippers Racking handle up Arrange the needles and pushers per the diagram. On the front bed, the pushers are up in working position. On the back bed, the pushers are down in rest position. Knit at least 6 rounds and then remove.

Step 8 - Weave End Stitches

For a true tubular cast off, weave (kitchener) the front and back stitches together by pulling out a length of main yarn at least three times the width of the finished blanket and starting at the end where the main yarn tail is attached. When done, measure your swatch to determine how many stitches wide and how many rows long you will need for your baby blanket.

References
Passap Model Book pattern 7032 - baby rug with same pattern, but no border or extra edge stitches Passap Duomatic 80 Manual