Using two beds is the obvious means of creating a purl ground in combination with your cables, it will be addressed in later posts. If you are trying to cable more than 4 stitches on the main bed, using the ribber to provide extra yarn for the cross over may solve problems in accomplishing the … Continue reading Machine knitting cables: single bed, introducing the ribber
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 in includes a variety of calculators and methods for designing knit shapes When using the knit leader you do not have … 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