The Brother Knitting Techniques book has a series of illustrations on how to manage a mock rib in various configurations on pages 7-15. The manual is now available for free download online and is an excellent reference. This technique requires a waste yarn start, followed by a row of ravel-cord. The resulting knit creates ladders or stitches that … Continue reading A look at single bed mock rib
I have recently been thinking about collars and edgings again, this time adding crochet detailing to help cut the edge curl and add interest. In a previous post, I showed an edging done in drop stitch (double bed lace). Here to simplify things, I decided to work with ladder spaces to create the fabric. If … Continue reading MK ladders, and a bit of crochet
I touched on knitting with 2 carriages in some previous posts: 2011/03/30/knitting-with-2-carriages/ 2011/03/29/lace-meets-hold-and-goes-round/ 2015/03/31/combining-tuck-stitches-with-lace-2-automating-them/ If 2 carriages are in use for patterning extension rails are a must. For this discussion we are excluding the lace carriage as the #2, the intent is to use 2 knit carriages with each set to desired cam functions. As one carriage is put … Continue reading Knitting in pattern with 2 carriages, Brother punchcard KMs 1
My previous posts on using gimp to generate charts and images suitable for knitting: 1, 2, 3, 4. I am working in Mac OS 10.10 now, so there may be some variations in results from earlier OS or for Windows versions users. the edited repeat from the previous post It is possible to knit this design in DBJ with the … Continue reading Working with generated mazes: GIMP charting 2
I have recently become involved in a year-long project at UMass Lowell and will share details as they develop. Most of my blog posts are written for those who already have a basic knowledge of techniques. Since I may soon be involved in teaching basics to non-knitters on Brother models, I am in the process … Continue reading Brother KMs: punchcards and their use
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