SQUEEEEEE!

I just won this Ebay auction for a Knitking 4500 1950's era knitting machine. It comes with ten lesson books and a suitcase thing to keep it in. I'm hoping I'll have better luck with this than I had with the stupid Ultimate Sweater Machine, which mostly just frustrated the crap outta me and made me invent new curse words to describe how disgusted I was with it's habit of dropping stitches and the carriage not sliding freely EVER.
The Knitking doesn't clamp to the table so I won't have to search for a special square-edged table to use it at, and it doesn't have one of those goofy hem thingies either. I plan to mostly use it to knit the boring, stockinette portions of stuff and to make some afghans and baby blankets and junk like that which take forever plus ten days to do by hand.