I've always thought of lace as "planned holes" as opposed to dropped stitches, which are "unplanned holes". As I am champing at the bit to knit something lacey, I thought I'd test knit the 20 lace patterns that come with the Silver machines - they are on the mylars and also come with Designaknit. Unlike in the Brother manuals, only two of the lace patterns are shown in the manual as examples on how to set them up.
A few of them are "fashion lace", ie the carriage is moved back and forth to transfer stitches, but the knitting doesn't get any longer. This is the same as the Brother method, where there's nowhere to put the yarn in the lace carriage. Fasion lace patterns are pretty, but time-consuming - you can often identify such patterns by the fact they have "travelling stitches". I had wondered how DAK would handle it - it was easy, a pink carriage means the transfer only lace setting (P), and a blue carriage means the transfer and knit lace setting (L).
And some cheerful crocuses from the village square. We all need a bit of cheering up lately!
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1 comment:
Some of these are in the MOD600/700 Pattern book. But only 10 cards with that set and only some of them are the same as shown in your larger set. Cards 1-5 are the same pattern and number. Your card 13 looks like it is Card L-7 in my set. Your card 17 looks like card L-9. Your card 19 is the otherside up version of my L-10 card. Which leave L-6 (all over mesh) and L-8 (tulip shaped flower)as the only ones not taken forward from the earlier punch cards. Thanks for doing this.
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