Elephant in the corner

I've been lax in posting with a good excuse. I've ben tackling the knitters version of the elephant in the room better known as*The Knitting Machine*. Itsa rather pretty ooking Zippyplus that I got buck she of a rather nice man from freecycle who races Huskies and is off to scotland in a converted van. After a few false starts seeing as I havnt touched one of them since uni we seem to have got to an agreement. I don't use anything thicker then 3 ply and its doesn't chew it up and spit it out, cast off stitches in the middle of rows and jam in the middle of a row. I've got a top in a ghasty yellow yarn pretty much done as a test pieces of a pattern I thought up, just a basic top with a ruffled neck and arms.