Feeling like a real rookie machine knitter!

I did not have a good knitting day!  Dropped a stitch after casting on, knitting 10 rows then doing all the transfers for a picot hem. I knitted another 10 rows and was about to hook up the bottom to form the hem when I noticed the dropped stitch!  I couldn't pick it up with the latch tool.  It had to be done from the machine side of the knitting and I just couldn't co-ordinate it.

I took it all off, and started again.. This time one of the stitches didn't cast on properly. I did the ewrap cast on and when I knitted the first row it didn't knit one of the stitches properly.  It seemed to be around the same place as the dropped stitch so I checked the needle that didn't knit properly.  I found the latch on the needle was getting stuck when it was flicked back so I decided to change it.

Couldn't remember how to!  Then I remembered I had to take the sponge bar out to change it. The sponge bar seemed OK but I swapped it out for a new one just to be on the safe side.

Then I oiled the machine.

At this point I decided to quit and I will go back to it another day, probably Monday. Weekends are usually busy.  In the meantime I am going to read up on the manuals just as a refresher.

I guess it is one of the pitfalls of not being able to get on my machines on a more regular basis. One forgets! or at least this one does.