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IN PROGRESS I rarely hand-knit, but still browse patterns that seem challenging and visually interesting to me, i.e., brioche designs, fox paws, and lately, my eye was caught by this again, a piece by Kieran Foley, his great shawl of China, leading to my…

To mesh or not to mesh 10: more large eyelet variations provides a review of information in some of my previous posts, and links to information to achieve the combinations shared by others.

Most tuck patterning is based on designs with lots of black pixels serving as background for white pixels in bars that are generally a single cell in width, and on Japanese machines, no more than 4 rows in height, followed by black cells above them to knit

The concept for this post began in 2022, and as so often happens, I got distracted by some other rabbit hole and came across its draft while looking for another previous post.

One of the many differences between automated machine-knit transfer lace and hand-knit lace is that the alternate direction of transfers in machine-knit lace occurs after the first is completed and followed by knit rows separating the eyelets, so there is…

Ways to modify electronic and punch card published transfer lace designs looked at some ways to achieve lace designs on Brother models with single knit rows between transfer segments, which influences the number of total knit and lace carriage passes, cha…

IN PROGRESS Revisiting “wisteria” 3D shapes and their possible automation, reviewed a collection of blog posts, including repeat options that formed open, highly textured knits, with ladders, eyelets, and sometimes added patterning.

Tuck lace knits require specific needle arrangements to form properly.

Recently, in the Machine Knitting Facebook Group, a post by Jeannette/eKnitter describing her method with an associated YouTube video on Transforming a Brother Stitch World Lace Pattern sent me down a new-to-me, what-happens-if-rabbit hole.

Whatever the goal in DIY, when automating designs, black pixels or punched holes are selected and knit, while white pixels or unpunched holes are not selected, and used to produce textured, color-patterned knits, or serve as guides to added actions when c…