A Facebook member recently shared this photo, followed by a “wish I could make it” comment, it is from the Passap #60 pattern book. I began a spreadsheet on my blog intending to update it over time that may be useful when traveling between Brother and Passap The style in the photo is that of … Continue reading Translating Passap model book pattern/use on Brother 1
One is limited to imagination, skill, and patience when working short-rowed fabrics. The techniques may be used in borders, on isolated areas, symmetrically or not, and the yarn, in turn, may be able to be pressed, stiffened, felted (which minimizes any slits), or otherwise processed to achieve desired effects. The scale of the shapes affects … Continue reading A return to short row shapings: bumps and slits
I have previously posted on a series of fabrics related to this swatch, including suggestions for possibly automating some of their variations. The earliest blog post includes some of the histories for this fabric, is repeated here. In the 80s there used to be a yearly machine knitting seminar in my area that was fairly … Continue reading “Wisteria” meets hems
Over the years a variety of fabrics have been named dragon scales or crocodile stitch. Here dragon scales have referred to shapes created using a lace technique and resulting in a pattern such as this that was followed by hand knit samples and an investigation into possibly creating a ribber fabric with auto shaping resulting in … Continue reading More dragon scales and chevrons in ribbed, racked (4) fabrics
A cumulative collection of links to pleat-related blog posts Single bed Origami folds inspired pleats 1 Shadow pleats with added FI patterning Shadow pleats knitting Revisiting pleats on the knitting machine: single bed Pleats created with lace transfers Ruching 2: more working with stitch groups Ruching 1: fern “pretender” and more Pleats: automating “pleating”, single … Continue reading Revisiting pleats on the knitting machine: single bed
There are a number of ribber fabrics that are produced by altering the settings on the ribber’s carriage to slip for an even number of rows in both directions. This requires manually changing the ribber setting from slip to knit and back for the length of the piece. In electronic machines, where the pattern advances … Continue reading Ribber fabrics produced with 2 knit carriages selecting needles
The question has often been asked as to why knit with 2 carriages. For me, it became a personal favorite for knitting fabrics requiring color changes every even number of rows. I tend to push the limit with materials and found the Brother single bed color changer to be quirky. When using 2 KCs there is … Continue reading Revisiting knitting with 2 carriages single bed, 910 vs Ayab so far
4/23/18: inspiration source is from a Russian pin, bottom left #198 The first swatch, produced with manual selection, and varying the number of rows between racking to establish yarn tolerance There are single rows of knitting on both beds, so the option of using 2 knit carriages is out of the running. My test swatch … Continue reading Combining knit carriage needle selection with racking
My “spider web” shawl has been a popular production for sale item for me for a very long time. From time to time the line was joined by chenille and felted ones with variations in shape wool rayon felted wool chenille Most of my chenille inventory traveled with me to my new residence. The yarn … Continue reading A shawl tale 2
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