Knitting textures
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I've been experimenting to see the depth of texture I can create in the design app and then knit on the machine. Thought I'd post some of them here. The teal swatch is a combination of ribs and ripples.
The gold wool swatch below is a redesign for the Kniterate of the grey (10 gg) fabric below. It's the same as the cream swatch above. It was my quick workaround for the tuck-knit-same-bed-same-pass limitation. I used a half cardigan setup where tucks and knits would have been on the same bed.
This swatch below was supposed to be a triple hem. I think I'd need to increase the stitch size on a single row of each of the two ripples and steam well to get a sharp hem look. But I do like the fullness of the ripples.
Getting the roll distance right is usually my biggest challenge. Sometimes I hit the first time. Sometimes it takes several tries, but it's getting easier.
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Great stuff. Looking forward to seeing more. ( more, more, please, more :) )
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I love the look of that teal swatch.
Also, I know this an odd question but what is the paper binding you use along the tops? It seems like a convenient way to label things.
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mark Thanks. I will post more in the future. :)
Samantha Bianchi Thank you. The headers are cut up 14 in. x 17 in., 157 lb. vellum. I usually use plain 65 lb. cardstock, but I'm all out.
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Beautiful samples OJ! Very inspiring to see your creations with the Kniterate :)
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Katy Grieve Thank you!
Posting a couple of mesh fabric test swatches, prime examples of things I rarely did on my own domestic machines, because they can be tedious so tedious. So much more fun on the Kniterate! The swatches use basic 1x1 transfers. I'm hoping that plasmatopia will post some of her amazing lace swatches and scarves (with more interesting transfers) here.
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Absolutely beautiful and great to see that we can do such great knits with the Kniterate Machine. Can't wait till we can start sharing patterns when the software allows it.
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Robert Ingemarsson Thank you! And yes, a good variety can be knitted. :)
I've added the file and notes for the bottom swatch to Files from users.
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Hello! I dream of creating knitwear on the Kniterate, but given my lack of experience, I am holding out for some templates to get me started. But while I patiently await new developments with the software, I have been having fun with patterns and textures. Much of what I have done thus far has been adapted from what I've seen in books on hand knitting. At OJ's suggestion, I will post photos of some of the swatches I've made with the Kniterate.
In this post, I'll share a few variations on the theme of cardigan stitch, aka brioche stitch. The first photo is basic two-color cardigan in off white and gray.
The wavy pattern below involves a few transfers and racks, making use of the needles that were unused in the basic version above.
Next is front and back of a single color cardigan stitch swatch, experimenting with decreases of different types.
The one below is a two color swatch with the colors reversed for part of the sample, with front and back sides shown.
In the next one, the upper part of the sample uses only half the needles, as in the samples above, but in the lower part I made the ridges twice as dense by using every needle. The double density version was accomplished by racking the back bed 1/2 stitch, which allowed a tuck on the back bed between two knit stitches on adjacent needles on the front bed, or vice versa.
When I get a chance, I'll make a few more posts with other types of stitches, including some of the lace ones.
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plasmatopia I love hearing a llittle about the process and then seeing the knitted results! Thank you for posting. Looking forward to the next group, when you get the time. :)
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Here are a few lace examples, again selected mostly from books for hand knitters. Generally the knitting is done on the front bed, and the pattern is made by selectively transferring stitches to the back bed and then racking before transferring back to the front.
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plasmatopia Absolutely beautiful - your doing an amazing job in bringing those into the machine. Would be great (if you wanted) to share those into the google drive
How long do they take you to bring into the software, and are you hitting problems with the software .
Are you using the machine bind-off for the switches?
Gerard Rubio its great to see plasmatopia bringing these patterns into the software - Are there plans to be able to share such designs as templates in the new version of the software as having a community which can make and share patterns will be amazing. If not, will we be able to export and then import patterns?
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plasmatopia Such gorgeous stitches! Beautiful work!
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plasmatopia I would love it so much if you would be willing to share your command.kc file for the cardigan stitch in the Google share drive!
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I love the rolls in the triple hem OJ! But how on earth did you do it? I've been trying to come up with a solution in the app but I'm stumped as to what happens to the extra rows on the front bed if you have stitches on both beds and only knit the front for several rows to create the roll. I can only envisage a pile-up on the front bed or all the stitches on the back bed breaking!
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Cadenzaclothes Knit 4 rows on the FB, then 1 row on the BB. Roll distance for each FB row is one quarter the "normal" roll distance for the BB row. I repeated a couple more times before closing up the roll. A nice stretchy 100% wool is helpful.
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Inspired by plasmatopia, I knitted my first multiple transfer lace. The stitch is Overlapping Waves from the hand knitting book Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns, originally published as Punti Della Maglia, edited by Ellen Liberles. I should have considered how many lines of instructions would be devoted to transfers and started with a longer panel size! Next time!
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Thanks OJ - I will give it a try!
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Cadenzaclothes After each complete ripple you may want to transfer all stitches to the FB to knit "spacers" for a few rows before beginning the next ripple. I'll post a screenshot in my folder on the group drive later today.
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Inlay is possible! My backing yarn is 2 stitch sizes larger than for plain jersey. The inlay yarn is tiny at stitch size 2/2, but it never actually knits.
I set up with a row of the backing yarn. The sequence begins with a pass of the inlay yarn tucking on the same bed that knits the backing, while using the opposite bed of needles to temporarily hold loops of the inlay yarn. The next row of backing yarn is knitted to lock in the inlay yarn. The last carriage pass in the sequence drops the temporary loops from the needles on the opposite bed creating the weaving effect.
I would love to see this with elastic inlay every few rows.
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These samples are amazing!! Thanks so much, OJ and plasmatopia for inspiring me and showing me what is possible with Kniterate!
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LeBrie Rich :) <3
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This texture (pattern 60 from Knitting Lace by Susanna E. Lewis) is my first time introducing ribs into the lace. They added even more texture with this springy wool. Pictured is the swatch draped over my forearm. It's not a sleeve.)
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I've found plating to be an amazingly easy way to add extra interest to a relatively basic stitch pattern. In the picture the heavier peach yarn is in the main hole on the feeder and the yellow is in the plating slit. I ended up making a sweater with this stitch pattern and used the mostly yellow side (technical back) as the public side.
I think plasmatopia is using plating for the beautiful and much more complex bright green with dark blue(?) on the reverse scarf higher up in this thread.
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Beautiful :) love the things people are coming up with - now we just need some shaping tools and some patterning templates 3)
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I did do a couple of small plated piece, but it is not posted above. I'll post it here - the black goes through the "regular" feeder opening and the red goes through the plating hole. Plating seems truly magical to me - I never imagined the colors would organize themselves to this degree.
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Also, I think the close up below is the green one that OJ mentioned. It is actually a two color brioche rather than plating. I got the pattern from one of Nancy Marchant's books. The green and gray yarns were on different feeders (the two photos are the two sides of the same sample) - green was knitted on the front bed (tucks in back) and the gray was knitted on the back bed. Brioche skips some needles on both beds, so I was able to use those empty needles to hold the stitches being transferred in order to make the wavy design.
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Robert Ingemarsson Thank you! And yes to tools and templates!
plasmatopia Ah, yes. Definitely inspiration for my future Kniterate knitting!
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Gerard Rubio can you remove the spam posts please - How are we managing to get these posts - I thought this was members only?
Thanks
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Thanks Robert for the quick note - post removed. This forum is open to the public. The backer's only forum is in our older platform here.
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:):) THanks Gerard Rubio will let you know if we get any more spam so it can be removed :)
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