Early Brother punchcard volumes showed symbol charts alongside punchcard repeats. The translations at times were not the best. Here is some of the advice offered for woven lace patterns: This was one of the first such punchcard volumes published by Brother after the pushbutton earlier models were replaced by ones with card readers It has … Continue reading Lace meets weaving on Brother Machines 2
Recently I have begun to look at lace edgings in a slightly different manner than in the past. I am looking back at my post from 2018, written while using the older version of Ayab software and working on a 910, and another including an edging written this month. Of late, most of my proof of … Continue reading Lace edgings on Brother machines- automated with slip stitch 2
Several methods for creating fringes including some that may apply to this fabric as well were explored in the collection of fringes 1 post Hairpin lace, familiar to many crocheters, is based on a central column with side loops that can be produced in strips, in turn, joined together in different configurations to compose open … Continue reading Machine knit fringes 2/ pretend hairpin lace
August 2020: I wrote this post (unaltered) in March 2018. I returned to the topic of automated lace edgings on Brother machines in July 2020. As often happens after some distance, details may be freshly observed or seen in a different light, and approaches may then in turn vary. Some of these edgings have been … Continue reading Lace edgings on Brother machines- automated with slip stitch
A number of variables need to be considered when adapting punchcard patterns for use on electronic knitting machines. These images pertain to Brother use, but the principles are shared between KM brands. I will add more information as time goes on. Online free downloads for magazines, manuals, etc. may be found at http://knittsings.com/knitting-machine-manuals/ http://toyotaknitting.blogspot.com/ machineknittingetc.com … Continue reading Punch cards to electronics: book symbols and samples
A recent Pinterest post got me searching out some of the fabrics in this group. In hand knitting, floats creating the butterflies/ bowknots are usually apparent on the knit side. For two such patterns please see http://www.knittingstitchpatterns.com/2014/11/butterfly-bowknots.html http://www.knittingstitchpatterns.com/2015/04/butterfly.html https://handlife.ru/vazanie/obemnyy-uzor.html caught my attention. Here we have a combination of knit and purl stitches, with floats formed on the … Continue reading Bowknot/ Butterfly stitch on the machine
I was written an email asking about the possibility of creating bubbles in hand knitting, this is my attempt, may serve as a starting point for DIY. Below a small sample serves as an illustration of my first attempt. It was knit in acrylic, steamed to the point of death, but shows the type of … Continue reading “Camino” bubbles, hand knit
Another Ravelry thread recently looked at knitting this pattern, from an old Knittax pattern book I found this in a different manual, with a similar structure, and “English” directions Translation of symbols used in Knittax patterns On the purl side, this creates structures that emulate crocheted shells. My first attempts at trying to knit anything like this were in … Continue reading “Crochet” meets machine knitting techniques: working with short rows 1
A detail of half fisherman machine knit “dragon scales” MK ribber version of stitch its related posts : https://alessandrina.com/2016/01/09/ribber-pitch-a-bit-on-racking-chevrons-horizontal-herringbone/ https://alessandrina.com/2016/01/13/racking-2-vertical-chevrons-herringbone/ https://alessandrina.com/2016/02/02/vertical-racking-3-automating-half-fisherman-in-pattern-2/ My last experiments led to a search for a possible hand knit “scale” version. Similar shapes may be achieved through holding, but here the effect is created through the use of increases and decreases. The test … Continue reading Hand knit “dragon scales”
I work primarily on a Mac, Maverick OS. Intwined software has had some issues operating in Mac consistently in the latest OS versions. The chart to text can be a really nice feature. The repeat, drawn here with symbols in the built in stitch library, shows errors in row 2 and 4 of the accompanying text. On a … Continue reading Zig Zag ladder lace 2: hand knit