The inspiration: part of a magazine photo A slightly different approach than in the last post. The tale begins with a hand-knit graph: expanded to include alternate rows the “graph” paper version If a punch card is to be used, all colored squares represent punched holes. I used my 910, Studio mylar for my … Continue reading Ladder lace
The patterning resulting from creating and manipulating ladders with needles out of work can create interesting openwork fabrics. I like to use punchcards or mylars for “automatic” patterning in selecting needles, with carriage set to plain knit, to help keep track of where to introduce transfers when possible. Microsoft Excel or Mac Numbers remain my … Continue reading Ladders and Lace
The beginning of this thread explores how lace may be interpreted from hand knitting patterns and charts, and when hand techniques might be used to make the transfers and create the fabrics on the knitting machine. Going from charts to punchcards will be addressed in later posts. In hand knitting (unless knitting circular), because the … Continue reading Hand to machine, symbols 5: lace
In the chart below pattern repeats take into account the punchcard limitation of 24 stitch maximum repeat. In the sections separated by the color stripe, the bottom shows a purl side symbol chart for slip stitch, the center the purl side symbol chart for brioche/ tuck stitch, the top the repeat punched out for use … Continue reading Symbols to punchcard 1
The chart below represents the working repeat for a twin leaf that incorporates ribs in fabric. Golden color represents needles in work on ribber or Passap back bed, the numbers in the center of the graph the number of needles moved away from the center column, toward the wider rib on each side of the … Continue reading Back to leaf lace, add rib, and take it to the Passap
Symbols in knitting have evolved considerably through the years since the day when all instructions were longhand and it was abbreviations used that would need de-coding. This is true of cables as well. I came across a magazine graph that led me to explore its conversions from hand to machine. In the BW original graph … Continue reading Using punchcards to track small cables in pattern (1)
This post was originally written intended for punchcard machines only, with the passage of time electronic pattern tracking, samples and associated repeats were shared. Links to some later posts including cable manipulation and patterning 2023/05/30/a-return-to-plaiting-and-double-bed-hand-transfers/ 2021/03/11/slip-stitch-patterns-with-hand-transferred-stitches-double-bed/ 2021/02/01/slip-stitch-patterns-with-hand-transferred-stitches/ 2021/05/09/double-bed-embossed-patterns/ 2012/01/19/using-punchcards-to-track-small-cables-in-pattern-1/ 2011: Cables seem to be in vogue once again in myriad permutations. They pose some interesting … Continue reading Using punchcards to track cables and twists in pattern 2
There are several brand KMs still around and in use, but most are no longer being manufactured. Questions often come up on using 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 a visual … Continue reading So many machines…lace punchcard knitting
This post was written originally in 2011, in one of my lace “phases”, with test swatches knit on a 910 using a mylar sheet or on my 892E Andare Brother punchcard machine. Early on many of the posts were used to record what I had made, sometimes providing the repeats, but not usually step by … Continue reading Doilies: Lace meets hold and goes round
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