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
A category search for machine knitting/mosaics and mazes design will lead to my blog posts on the topic. Among later posts, one method for color separations for this fabric using Gimp alone may be found in 2021/07/18/gimp-update-for-mac-2/. Previous posts on working with Mc Numbers include: knit charting using Numbers 2 which covers basics, keyboard shortcuts, and … Continue reading Mosaics and mazes charting meet Numbers, GIMP, and DBJ
Over the years I have avoided ribber fabrics that involve hand manipulation of stitches in addition to patterning. Runaway stitches are hard to see and repair. In these fabrics, transfers are made by hand with multiple transfer tools. As stitches are moved, the last of the stitches transferred on the purl side (in this illustration … Continue reading Lace transfers meet fisherman rib, 2 color ribbed brioche on Brother machines 2
A recent share in the Facebook machine knitting group led to this blog post by its author <https://www.knittingmachinemuseum.com/single-post/Knitmaster-580-Electronic> The inspiration fabric led to ideas for recreating it on a punchcard machine, and my own trip down that rabbit hole led me to think about the relationship between tuck stitch designs and thread lace ones. Not … Continue reading Tuck stitch meets thread lace repeats and vice versa
2011: There are several brand KMs still around and in use, most are no longer being manufactured. Questions often come up on how to use one KM brand pattern card on another. Card readers inside the machine are below eye level, so exterior number/other markings on cards or mylars reflect that, providing the knitter with … Continue reading Revisiting use of lace patterns Studio vs Brother machines
Lace on the machine can render beautiful fabrics that closely resemble hand knitting, but programming very long repeats is a challenge both in placing every hole in the correct square in a punchcard and in programming individual pixels on a mylar or as pixels for download correctly. I found the “leaf lace” repeat below shared … Continue reading A complex published transfer lace to electronic repeat for download/ GIMP editing
This is not intended as a full tutorial, it presumes there is some familiarity with concepts for charting knits or proportioned graph paper using spreadsheets. I am sharing some of my recent explorations using the latest version of Numbers version 5.01 in Mac High Sierra 10.13+ OS. To my knowledge, there are no other specific … Continue reading Charting knits using Mac Numbers: color separations 2
DIY proportioned charts may be created using spreadsheet programs. I began to use Excel for charting in 2009 and continued to in nearly all the colored charts in my color separations for knits posts up to my latest computer upgrade. I now no longer have access to Office and work primarily in native Mac OS … Continue reading Revisiting knit graph papers, charting, row tracking, and more
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
Each row of double jacquard consists of at least 2 rows of slip stitch patterning, one with ground yarn, the other with contrast. The rows knit per design row vary with the number of colors used in the design. Punchcard knitters are not excluded from producing such fabrics, but the color separation is done by … Continue reading Double jacquard using punchcard machines