These images provide partial views of garments shown in a recent Facebook MK group post, followed by the “how-to” question A quick analysis leads to a list of assumptions that both are double bed fabrics, with stitches subtracted or added to create moving shapes on a striped ground. A color changer will be in use, … Continue reading Ribber fabrics with stitch transfers between beds 1
Some of the previous blog posts containing applicable samples: Ribber fabrics with stitch transfers between beds 1Slip stitch patterns with hand transferred stitches, double bedBrother shadow lace, rib transfer carriage Combining knit carriage needle selection with racking Racked patterns 5: Passap/Brother 2 directions and samples from manuals including racking on tuck stitch and other … Continue reading Double bed embossed patterns
WORK IN PROGRESS BUTTONHOLES: also see SEAMING, JOINING, FINISHING Long vertical button holes/ slits in knit fabric 1: intarsia 10/22 More “buttonholes” and slits 10/22 Single bed slits aka horizontal “button holes” 11/16 “Buttonholes” and “make many – increase” “lace” 5/15 hand-knit CABLE STITCHES A return to plaiting and double bed hand transfers 5/23 Visualizing … Continue reading The start of a blog index
WORK IN PROGRESS The term brioche in knitting is often used loosely in any references to tuck stitches. Here the term refers to vertical designs specifically produced with hand techniques, moving groups of stitches on the top bed. Designs may be worked in single colors, or with more complicated planning, they may be executed in … Continue reading Geometric shapes on ribber fabrics formed with tuck stitches 4
This post was actually begun in 12/2020, but never published. A list of blog posts on lace knits may be found by searching for specific topics, or using the lists of related links provided in the “start of an index”. The term lace is often used in machine knitting publications referring to fabrics created with … Continue reading “Lace” patterning terms
Reviewing Brother carriages: I am drawn to published pattern books for different brand machines at different periods of time and enjoy the puzzle of converting their designs to machines I have ready access to. At this point in time most of my swatches are produced on a 930 using img2track to download files when needed while … Continue reading Cross brand pattern interpretations: Dubied to Brother
This content, on a topic I intended to expand on further, had been “tucked” away as a draft last March. Ripples in knits are created by knitting an unbalanced fabric, with one of the beds knitting more rows than the opposite bed. Depending on the design, the fabrics may share similarities with blistered stitches DBJ. … Continue reading Pintucks 2, ripples in knits using the ribber
Ribber manuals usually give instructions and diagrams for ribs, and in some early manuals, the way in which the needles should be set up so that side edges will match the when garment bands are seamed is not included. In later model manuals, instructions began to call “perfect selvages”. The position of the beds in … Continue reading More on standard and modified 1X1 and 2X2 ribs
Knit skirts have been present in runway and online publications again. Another Mary Dowse pattern has stirred up interest in a design knit in fair isle shadow pleats. Shadow pleats knitting began to present some of the techniques involved in creating this type of fabric fold. The permanence of the folds relies on blocking from careful … Continue reading Shadow pleats with added patterning
A collection of embossed patterns created by isolated groups of stitches being brought in and or out of work on the ribber 2021/05/09/double-bed-embossed-patterns/ 2021/02/25/brother-shadow-lace-rib-transfer-carriage/ 2021/03/11/slip-stitch-patterns-with-hand-transferred-stitches-double-bed/ 2020/08/13/ribber-fabrics-with-stitch-transfers-between-beds-1 2017/12/20/combining-kc-patterning-with-racking/ The inspiration fabric in the 2020 post and one of the resulting swatches The inspiration fabric recently found online, source not knownAnalyzing the structure: it appears the fabric … Continue reading Ribber fabrics with stitch transfers between beds 2