Fantasy fair isle is the term often used to refer to dbj fabrics created using tuck settings on either or both beds. Typically in the required color separation used each design row in the repeat is expanded into 4 rows, with the same selection occurring for each color pair of consecutive rows. A tuck/plain combination … Continue reading More shapes on ribber fabrics with tuck patterning, fantasy fair isle
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
A recent share in the Facebook machine knitting group led to this blog post by its author <https://www.knittingmachinemuseum.com/single-post/Knitmaster-580-Electronic> The inspiration fabric led to ideas for recreating it on a punchcard machine, and my own trip down that rabbit hole led me to think about the relationship between tuck stitch designs and thread lace ones. Not … Continue reading Tuck stitch meets thread lace repeats and vice versa
2011: There are several brand KMs still around and in use, most are no longer being manufactured. Questions often come up on how to use one KM brand pattern card on another. Card readers inside the machine are below eye level, so exterior number/other markings on cards or mylars reflect that, providing the knitter with … Continue reading Revisiting use of lace patterns Studio vs Brother machines
This post originally did not offer repeats for the design, they are presented here in a 2024 review of content. Thread lace has also been called punch lace over the years. The “lace holes” are formed by knitting a fine thread with a significantly thicker yarn as the “second color”. When the fine yarn knits … Continue reading Thread Lace on Brother KM
My latest shawls use a flower motif on mesh base, evocative in part of filet crochet. This is a detail shot of border and motifs in one the finished shawl measures 20X80, is knit in a rayon/nylon blend with a metallic very fine filament twisted into the yarn this is a space dyed version using … Continue reading Back in the saddle