In hand knitting complex cable crossings are often worked on the same, knit side of the fabric, making them a bit easier to visualize and track. Knit and purl combinations in surfaces on either side abound. In machine knitting, one is always facing the purl side. When attempting to duplicate a hand-knit pattern and the … Continue reading Machine knitting cables: single bed, 1
Some previous blog posts on topic 2013/01/03/chain-cable-hk-experiment/ 2013/02/07/hand-to-machine-symbols-4-cables/ 2014/07/07/a-bit-of-cables-and-lace-charting-hk-to-mk/ 2012/01/28/a-few-to-try/ Updating to Yosemite has provided some interesting issues for me. The first was Safari pretty much becoming unusable. It took a Mac expert and a chunk of his time to resolve the issue. There are still hiccups in other apps. I thought I would revisit … Continue reading Knit charting in Mac Yosemite; visualizing knit cables
Ruched or manual pull-up effects can be created by rehanging stitches at regular intervals in a straight, diagonal, or random arrangement on plain knitting or patterned fabric. The pattern below could be considered a “fern pretender”, but is considerably quicker to knit. Again, for any textured fabric a yarn with “memory” is recommended for texture … Continue reading Ruching 1: fern “pretender” and more
One double-bed example, the Brother 900 E DB changer for use on both standard and bulky The Studio/singer YC6 may be used either on the single or double bed simply by repositioning one piece. It includes a 4 color tension unit, a special sinker plate, and a set of cards that are for use only for … Continue reading Some notes on machine knitting color changers
I recently brought my knitleader out of mothballs after a long period of no use, tend to use the magic formula for most of my simple charting oh the math! Magic formula online generators When using the knit leader you do not have to match the given tension or gauge for a published pattern. See Intro … Continue reading Using the Brother knitleader: some tips
A free manual for the program may be obtained via Apple, with extended documentation. I thought I would share some of my notes in trying to work with it in creating knit charts. They are not intended as complete tutorials, but simply perhaps as a place to start for those owning the program. Having some … Continue reading Charting knits using Mac Numbers program 1
A lot has been written on the use of excel in knit charting, I don’t believe there is anything “out there” on doing the same with Numbers. After my latest OS upgrade, I thought I would revisit playing with the updated program. This is not a tutorial as such, just a sharing of some results … Continue reading Charting knits using Mac Numbers: color separations 1
I welcome being contacted re any problem links generators that require color changing every 2 rows using a color changer (or 2 carriages) mazes on gridded output, easily adaptable to knit http://www.ludiculus.com/maker/mazes.html more mazes http://www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator/ maze pattern http://www.unikatissima.de/e/?page_id=2062 blog closed cellular automaton http://www.unikatissima.de/e/?page_id=2148 blog closed Some unikatissima blog content may be found here, but generators fail as they … Continue reading Online Pattern generators, hacks, free KM manuals, and more
“Automating ” normally labor-intensive hand techniques cannot truly duplicate them. Below is one effort to produce an “entrelac-like” fabric using the slip stitch setting. The biggest advantage of this is the knitting speed as opposed to creating the individual cells using holding and picking up stitches. Some drawbacks: slip stitch floats on the reverse make … Continue reading An entrelac pretender
Below are some ideas for creating long loops on the machine using only a single bed. The essential difference between stitches and loops as mentioned before is that long stitches must be individually knit through the previous row, loops sit on the purl side surface. Yarn weight, loop concentration, number of looped stitches, and their … Continue reading Long loops: a bit on method