This post will be a growing companion to Pinterest inspirations vs implementation, tuck and lace combos 1, addressing designing repeats for automation of such designs on electronic machines. .
Lace transfers made in the same direction will lead to the knit biasing in that direction.
Reversing the direction of the transfers at intervals will balance some of that bias.
In the post on A return to lace with automated patterning, adding color striping, the LC transfers were charted moving diagonally as well,
achieving this result.
In this inspiration source, the transfers are made in rectangular blocks.
Assigning symbols and BW fill to cells in turn,
expanding the repeat following arrow markings pointing to the LC selections and transfers in the correct directions.
The single repeat, 20X42. ![]()
In the bottom design rows 1-13, the LC makes 2 passes followed by 2 rows knit, in the top 14-41 rows, 4 LC passes are followed by 2 rows knit.
The test knit on 51 stitches. ![]()
The side knit borders are 2 and 3 stitches, respectively. Next to the 2-stitch one, the eyelets are slightly compressed, appearing smaller than those next to the 3-stitch border.
There are charts worked out for fully automated tuck and lace combinations using both the LC and the KC to tuck.
Many are published in the Brother punchcard volume #5, but
they are not usable as provided in electronic machines.
The punch card machines repeat selection when the patterning carriage is retrieved for use from the opposite side.
The final charts in the DIY electronic versions will appear quite different, and although they may still be in repeat widths suitable for punch card machines, they are not interchangeable.
Electronic models advance the design for a row with each pass of carriages set for pattern knitting.
An idea using similar, alternating loop and lace diagonal shapes.
In terms of fabric qualities, tuck stitch is short and wide, and lace tends more to long and wide.
Casting on and binding off may need to be adjusted so as to be looser in final projects.
Jumping right to use of black and white pixels, following the arrows to track movements of both carriages to achieve the 24X36 final repeat.
Two all knit rows occur after completing tuck segment segments, avoiding LC attempts at transfers containing tuck loops far beyond LC tolerance, capable of producing interesting LC carriage jams: 

The swatch was tested on 50 stitches.
My seemingly endless supply of white yarn has reached its end, hence the color change and restart. As usual, the tuck texture is more evident on the purl side.
