When your knitting hits the floor roll it up and secure with long knitting needles woven in and out of the roll of fabric or secure with large hair clips from the dollar store.

At a loss for what to do about edging your finished items?  How about fringe knitted on the machine?  Here you will find many different options for putting a perfect finish on anything!!

UPDATED LINKS:

TRY THIS ONE: http://charmknits.com/fringe.htm

CROCHET LIKE TRIM: http://www.charmknits.com/crochet-like-trims.htm

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How to change a broken needle: 

pull out the needles under the bar that sits above the offending needle (best to mark it with a piece of tape just incase they go flying).  Then using the needles like a fulcrum push up on the ends of the needles very slowly and carefully, you will see the bar start to move a little, it's best to push up a little on each end of the bar until you get the whole thing to pop up.  Be careful, the whole thing can pop up quickly and needles fly all over (that's why you mark the offending one, easier to find!).

Then you just replace the needle and pop the bar back down into position. 

Just go slowly and easily and you'll be fine. 

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Changing from keyplates to hand knitting needles is easy, check it out...

http://www.cara4webshopping.com/p-75-keyplate-and-yarn-gauge-chart.aspx

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The Basics of knitting on the Bond/ISM/USM: 

BVC – Bond Video Club has three CS’s of Bond owners on this list that graciously offered to video tape themselves making things and explaining techniques.  It’s a Club Video thing so please do not sell these – only give them away to other knitters or return them to the club so they can be distributed to others. 

Download videos here:  http://knitfits.theotherbell.com/bond-video-club.htm  

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Collected Wisdom from the Bond Knitting Machine List

http://personal.southern.edu/~williams/machinek.html <<BROKEN LINK>>

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Seam As You Go

http://www.heidisknittingroom.com/Seam-as-you-go.htm

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Invisible, Blind or mattress stitch:

About.com  http://knitting.about.com/od/finishingtouches/ss/mattress_stitch.htm

Sweaterscapes:  

http://www.sweaterscapes.com/inv-seam.htm

Kitchner stitch: 

Best tip is to knit a few rows of waste yarn on each end to be grafted, then try to duplicate the look of knitting by starting on the st closest to the needle (yarn tail) following the path of the other sts - it's easy when you see how the waste yarn goes in and out of the sts. 

"Kitchener Stitch is called after Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, British military hero of Boer War and WW 1. He associated himself with a Red Cross plan to dragoon US womanhood into knitting 'comforts' for the men in the trenches, and contributed his own sock design, which included a squarish 'grawfted' toe. Hence the Kitchener Sock; hence Kitchener Stitch. Truth is indeed stranger than imagination . ."   http://www.software4knitting.com/

Kitchener while piece is still on the machine:

http://www.magiccables.com/tip2.html

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Converting patterns to your gauge:

Jim's  Knitcomp calculator download instructions can be found at:

http://www.cara4webshopping.com/freebies_for_fun/knitcomp.htm

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No Brainer Garterbar:

http://members.aol.com/knitnotes2/home/Workshop/GarterBar/GBOne.html  <<BROKEN LINK>>

I just made one of these for my 9mm Studio 155 and it works just fine, not as smooth but sure helps shorten the time it takes to transfer all those sts when you are doubling up across a row when knitting the crown of hats.

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Cast on comb directions from original post by Jennifer:

"Hi!  Yes, I made a 'cast on comb' for my bond using a threaded 1/4-inch rod, a package of 100 nuts, and two packages of LARGE plastic-coated paperclips.  It works, it's not exactly aerodynamic, or aesthetically pleasing, but it works! 

Here are the instructions: 

After posting the link to pictures of these cast-on combs, I received several requests for a repeat of the instructions on how to make them.  So, here, in one message, are both the link (removed link - doesn't work any more) to pictures AND the instructions for assembly.

HTH. 

Instructions: 

We bought 1/4" threaded rod, which comes in 36" lengths at our local hardware store.  DH cut it into workable lengths, and we filed the ends smooth.  Then we threaded 5/16" (there was some discussion on which fits, just try and find nuts that will fit the 1/4 inch rod) nuts onto the rod (I have a handicapped sister, who actually thought this part of the job was fun!).  We snipped and squeezed jumbo paperclips so they had a hook on both ends, and placed these between the 5/16" nuts.  Voila!  The paperclip hooks are exactly 8mm apart, and it hangs easily onto the knitting!  As a bonus, this hardware is heavy enough by itself that no additional weight is necessary.  It would be easy, though, to suspend extra weights where required. 

No gluing!  No measuring! (Actually I finally glued all the clips to the rod cause they would come off all the time and then the nuts would get lose and I'd have to screw them back in tight again) 

Jennifer

Rockwood, Ontario"

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Software that will chart a sweater pattern to your specifications and give you directions in Bond language!

KNITWARE

http://www.greatknitdesigns.com/

Easily chart your own patterns and print out with machine knitting directions, a 5 star program!

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Beginning Afghan pattern and the site of the Bond Friendship Afghan Project:   

http://bondclub.homestead.com/friendshipafghans.html

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socks  socks  socks 

http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/socks/marksbirkysocks.htm

http://www.stephthornton.co.uk/knitting/bond/list/socks.htm

http://www.dimitysdrygoods.com/ Surprise Sock for medium and fine gauge, also the penny sock pattern is here

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