Machine knitting immersion

When I was little, my siblings and I played around with my Oma's knitting machine. We didn't really know how to use it, and things would just unravel once we took our "work" off the needles. Well, there was no casting on or off, so what could we have expected?  At thanksgiving I asked my mother if I could borrow it, and she said that if I could figure out how to use it and make something with it, my Oma would be very happy, in heaven that someone made something with it. 

I started out looking at the pictures in the manual, as it is completely in Dutch, and I do not know what it says. I tried to find something in YouTube, but the model is so old that the search for information was just resulted in a bunch of dead-ends.  I figured out how to cast in and adjust the tension, and to knit rectangles. I tested a bunch of different yarn and made a cowl. I knit a rectangle, and seamed the side. It took 20minutes of knitting to create the rectangle and an hour more to seam it and make an edging by hand.

So, all right. I can make rectangles. What else can I make?

I found a pattern for a triangular scarf, with eyelets. It is not specifically for my model of knitting machine but I managed to figure it out. I am on row 39, and while the simple increase rows are quick, there is some fiddling in order to do the eyelets on every 10th row. Still, quicker than to knit it by hand. Don't get me wrong, I am not giving up hand knitting, I just think of how fast I can whip up a hat, or cowl and maybe someday, a sweater!!!

We shall see, but anyway, here is the knitting so far (with mistakes) on the wrong side of the scarf. 

When I finish this piece, I'll be sure to think of Oma.