Very little has been written on this topic. The easiest method to produce the eyelet and fair isle combination is to create ladders in spaces between vertical FI motifs. The end needle selection is canceled. The swatches show the transitions in the development of the final design Susanna in her Machine Knitter’s Guide offers a … Continue reading Lace meets FI on Brother machines
Some DIY variations in combining both stitch types: Combining tuck stitches with lace 2 (automating them) 3/15 Combining tuck stitches with lace 1 3/15 Large diagonal eyelet lace, (a similar card and fabric, not tuck setting) 6/12 Large scale mesh, breaking rules 4/11 explains the use of punch card below Tuck stitch combination fabrics 5/19 … Continue reading Lace meets tuck on Brother Machines
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
This image sparked my search for a method to develop a DIY pattern for a similar lace It is taken from a video by Knitlabo, a wonderful resource for both Brother and Studio machine knitting. My first goal was to work with a recurring triangular motif in a brick repeat. The same repeat was also … Continue reading A lace quest
Several years ago, this punchcard was shared on Ravelry as one that was problematic in execution on an electronic model using Ayabthe supposed related swatch pictured in the publication At the time, I made a long, convoluted effort to produce the fabric. I am returning to the topic and comparing 2 cards in this post, the … Continue reading Lace meets weaving on Brother Machines 1
Lace patterns for drop stitch: cast on as preferred, transfer MB stitches to ribber, where all stitches will be knit on every row. The main bed will be knitting the stitches that will be dropped (lace carriage will not be used), cancel end needle selection, program your repeat, push in both part buttons. As the … Continue reading Unconventional uses for punchcards 3: lace in rib
This information follows that provided in lace edgings on Brother machines- automated with slip stitch 2 and lace meets hold and goes round More on holding techniques: back to that pie, Revisiting miters, spirals, going square, round, and more, and Holding/short rows: hand tech to chart to automating with slip stitch 1 These repeats are designed … Continue reading From automated lace edging pattern to doilies and ruffles
My recent blog post on adapting lace edgings from published sources containing studio punchcard patterns led me back to reviewing a blog post from 2013, Large eyelet lace, hand transferred (or not) that included a hand technique and an automated mesh pattern. Since then I have moved beyond mylar sheets on the 910 or using … Continue reading Revisiting large eyelet lace, hand transferred (or not)
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
Early versions of the Brother Lace Carriage (LC) for machines such as the 830 could not control end needle selection. If any needles were selected for transfer to an end needle not in use in the piece, the LC still will attempt to move that stitch, and if no needle hook is there to accept … Continue reading To mesh or not to mesh 7, lace knitting tips