Many of these swatches are part of my stash from my teaching days. They were usually not intended for finished pieces, merely to illustrate a range of possible results with the techniques, often produced during my demonstrations. The colors were chosen to stand apart in the shared yarn stash in the studio, intended only for … Continue reading Knit weaving 2: swatches, experiments
This post originally included samples worked using needles on the ribber as well, now in another in progress post: Slip stitch patterns with hand transferred stitches, double bed An earlier post with a range of single-color experiments: A hand-knit consult to machine knit slip stitch The inspiration source for the topic here was found on Pinterest Adapting … Continue reading Slip stitch patterns with hand transferred stitches, single bed
If using Ayab on an iMac with M1 chip see suggestions for running the program at the bottom of later post arahpaint-and-gimp-in-knit-design-3/ From Chris Burdge, a video tutorial on using HOP following program prompts and default color placement. The pattern used, available for download from the author, is quite different from my tests in that it … Continue reading Revisiting Ayab_multiple colors per row DBJ 2
As with the tuck stitch, the knit carriage ignores the needles that are not selected in the pattern. All holes in a punchcard, black squares, or black pixels in electronic programming knit. A great deal of dimensionality may be achieved since the tuck restriction of the maximum amount of yarn being held in the hooks … Continue reading Single bed tuck/ mostly slip stitch fabrics 3
Any tuck repeat may be used in the slip stitch setting. The results for “safe” repeats executed in slip stitch may not be very textural or dramatic. Though at times presented in color, the same patterns can be very effective in single colors as well. Prior to testing multicolor patterns, I like to start the … Continue reading Single bed tuck and slip stitch fabrics 2: adding color
My first attempt to use a 3 color automatic separation was with img2track. There are 2 oddities for me using the program. One is that the default selector setting is for a single motif, perhaps on the assumption that the main use would primarily be for large-scale, nonrepetitive images. The other is that even if … Continue reading DBJ: more than 2 colors per row 2
This technique can be used in many ways including to attach a front band to a sweater, body pieces of a garment such as when knitting a raglan sleeve from the top-down, flat pieces of knitting to make a tube ie in some socks, and for decorative joins adding a strip of knitting between 2 … Continue reading Machine knitting seam as you knit
July 2021: Gimp update for Mac 2 includes information on Brushes and patterns Colors exchange Colors threshold Grid options Symmetry Painting My last post, written prior to these updates, revisiting-gimp-in-knit-design I lean toward experimentation as a way of learning and finding what steps work for me. These notes are not intended as full tutorials, they simply … Continue reading GIMP update for Mac
Fringes are not a personal favorite of mine on machine-knit garments in their “simplest” forms. I can recall using them rarely. Here a cut Passap version was applied to a piece made in my student days, a ruana for which I no longer have the measurements. It was composed of wool DBJ, worked in 10 … Continue reading A collection of fringes 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