If you have a machine that selects needles to the forward position, you may use a punchcard, mylar sheet, or program to select needles for indicating cable placements. On the single bed, the selected needles act as the signal to actually create the cable crosses. When working on the double bed, the needle selection on the … Continue reading Machine knit cables: using patterning as a guide to transfers
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