Revisiting older posts often brings to mind new or slightly different ways of looking at and achieving the same tasks. Links to some related previous posts: DAK DBJ color separations, templates, and other software Revisiting Ayab_multiple colors per row DBJ 2 Revisiting Ayab_multiple colors per row DBJ 1 Img2track_multiple colors per row dbj, each color … Continue reading DBJ, more than 2 colors per row 4
Fringes, loops, and pile/carpet knits are populating Fall knitwear runways. Pile knitting is best executed on Studio knitting machines. Love the knit structure? find a Studio KM to borrow for the project. Fringes are essentially long loops, and share principles with knitweaving. Previous posts Pile knitting on Passap and Brother KMs 4 Pile_carpet stitch knitting … Continue reading A return to loopy knits
This sweater by Namesake, in the Fall 2024 collection, led to a FB query as to how to produce a cable version inspired by its color movement on home knitting machines. The discussion leads back to how to produce cables in 2 colors on home knitting machines best and accurately. One way to achieve color … Continue reading Cables meet fair isle
Some of the relevant previous posts and a few of the associated test swatches for quick comparisons: Large scale mesh, a punchcard repeat adapted for electronic 4/21 Tuck setting used in both directions, one of 3 variations Revisiting large eyelet lace, hand transferred (or not) 7/20 Large diagonal eyelet lace 6/12, electronic sample follows … Continue reading To mesh or not to mesh 10: more large eyelet variations
Charts are included for repeats suitable for punchcards, where the designs must repeat in height to a minimum of 36 rows. Some reminders: the BW pngs here are intended for import into a paint program or image processor where they can be magnified to suit, with a grid view for counting cells to consider the … Continue reading Seasonal knits inspired by published repeats 2_hearts
In previous posts, ie Numbers and GIMP: online punchcard patterns to electronics 2, I shared some ways of converting online images from varied published sources. This series was edited using primarily ArahPaint and some Gimp, both are available for free. DAK users have the ability to achieve similar results in that universe, producing stp proprietary … Continue reading Seasonal knits inspired by published repeats 1
A recent Instagram share led to my being asked how the ruffle attached to the piece as partially shown on the left was created. The images on the right illustrate 2 of the color-way explorations prior to committing to a final one, all knit in rayon chenille yarns. At that time a punchcard was … Continue reading A slip stitch patterned ruffle and more
Other posts exploring the scale topic began in 2015 with a swatch experiment based on an Armani sweater, followed by this group of shares, listed by creation date and beginning with the most recent More mesh dragon scales, some striped and some not Single bed scales made with stitch transfers More dragon scales and chevrons … Continue reading Revisiting 3D scales and shells, automated and not
I still surf Pinterest daily and often encounter published punchcard repeats that catch my eye. Many need some interpretation and editing for use in specific machine models. The first inspiration: is knit using 4 colors, alternating 2 rows of a base color, then rotating color changes for 4 rows for each of 3 contrasting ones. … Continue reading Swatches based on adapting random online published repeats
I was lucky enough to begin knitting at a time when seminars were international and abundant, Susanna Lewis was teaching at some of them and hosting 3-day hands-on workshops, and Passap in particular hosted yearly “Passap University” events for a few years in different parts of the country. As pointed out in a previous post, … Continue reading E 6000 info