Topic: Stitch patterns

Easy open work stitch pattern that produces a light and airy fabric. Beautiful on both sides, it can be used for scarves, shawls or inserts.Employ the
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Easy open work stitch pattern that produces a light and airy fabric. Beautiful on both sides, it can be used for scarves, shawls or inserts.Using the
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Machine knitters have a wide range of pattern stitches available to add texture, dimension and color to their knitting. The basics are stockinette, tuck, slip,
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Multi-color, variegated or space dyed yarns. Whatever you call them these yarns can be challenging for those who are fussy about the colors pooling (or
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Open, lacy crochet-look sweaters are popular right now.Use your knitting machine to create your own breezy look! This tutorial covers faggotting stitch,
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This is a hand-manipulated, lacy, openwork technique that can be done on any knitting machine, with any yarn. No punchcards or programming. It's reversible,
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Worked on any machine, this openwork stitch pattern has many possibilities. Work large stitches by themselves or combine with other manual or automatic stitch
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This is a "basic" knitting stitch, with practically unlimited variations. It is also known as Coin Stitch, Bubbles, Bricks, Blocks.Here are tips for success
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Interesting, textured, openwork stitch pattern that can be worked on any knitting machine. It is worked with a bridging technique and short rows.You may
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When creating your own stitch patterns, it is critical to keep your gauge in mind. No matter what method you use, DAK, Pencil and Paper, Punchcards, your
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A beautiful variation of 1x1 ribbing that's easy to knit with no automatic patterning or hand manipulation.

For an interesting play on color, try one-row stripes! Use as an all-over pattern, or intersperse single rows of color here and there. This could also be used
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Knit 2 strands of yarn together and let the machine position them so you view one color on one side of the knitting and the 2nd color on the other side of the
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Modify a stitch pattern to be used when knitting over every-other-needle. Create the punchcard to mimic the original design, but only pattern over the needles
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Successfully combine stitch patterns in the same piece. Watch as we add a lace yoke to a sweater front and end up with the correct dimensions for the piece.
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Long strands across the back of our knitting can be problematic. Here are 10 ways to manage floats when working in color.

Thick, "squishy" fabric on the standard gauge machine. Use slip to build up ridges that add bulk to this stitch pattern.

Hand manipulated lacy waves. Beautiful for scarves, shawls or garments. Use as an insert for a special, lacy touch.

Intentionally drop stitches to create "lace" on a Brother 260 bulky machine. This technique uses an accessory called a D-Slider, but it could be worked on any
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Knit reversible fabric. Knit 2 strands together with one showing on the knit side and the other showing on the purl side. Use the plaiting yarn feeder on
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Multi-color slip creates interesting graphic designs on the knit side. It also allows for more than 2 colors per row. Unlike Fairisle, the yarns must be
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Just 3 steps to understanding Automatic Patterning, no matter what machine you use. Punchcard or electronic, it's important to UNDERSTAND how patterning works
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What needles need to be out of work when setting up for Tuck Lace?

Mimicking 2x1 ribbing, using tuck, Faux ribbing can be worked on any machine. It is not stretchy and the "ribbing" is on the Knit side only.The purl
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Use Short row Shaping (partial Knitting) to create an interesting graphic stitch pattern.Create an all-over design
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Continuing from the single repeat in this video, add alternating dots across the
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Combine knit and purl stitches for a textured fabric that can be worked on a manual or automatic patterning machine.

Take a deep dive into knitting this beautiful, open tuck lace stitch pattern. It covers manual and automatic patterning machines, plus Brother and
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Threading the carriage on a Silver Reed machine (SK840).

Easily knit zig zag panels using increases and decreases. Seam the pieces for scarves, shawls or
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Discover how to knit the beautiful Arrows Out cable on your knitting machine! In this step-by-step demonstration, I’ll walk you through everything you need to
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Combining blocks of color with cables is a great way to add interest to your designs. Use for sleeves, yokes, pillows, blankets ... get creative!

Cables are traditional favorites of knitters both hand and machine. 3 methods of creating a basic cable are covered. Which do you prefer? BONUS: Simple tip
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Sometimes machine knitters over complicate things ... get back to basics and practice the built-in capabilities of your machine. Painless, stranded knitting, 2
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When knitting in Fairisle, have you ever found long floats across the work from edge to edge? The culprit is the end needle selection. Learn what this is and
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One of the first surprises for most new machine knitters is the fact that the humble garter stitch is problematic on the knitting machine. Because our
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How to knit Bobbles on a knitting machine.Add fun texture to your knitting with bobbles. they can stand alone but are often combined with cables and
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Moss Stitch and Seed Stitch are popular in the hand knitting world. They are highly textured and reversible. But they require hand manipulation to work on the
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Borrowed from the hand knitting world, this textured, columnar stitch pattern with or without eyelets magically forms a scalloped edge. Use it in a single
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A graphic eyelet zig zag pattern that can be varied in unlimited ways. Manually working the transfers isn't too difficult, although your lace carriage would
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Based on a simple Zig-Zag Lace stitch pattern, this stitch pattern incorporates multiple
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Beautiful hand manipulated lace - 12 row repeat with only 2 manual stitch transfer rows per repeat.
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Linen stitch is a beautiful way to add texture to your knitting. For hand knitters, there are many variations on this ever-popular stitch pattern.
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Here's a beautiful lace that can be worked on any machine. A little hand manipulation does the trick for a loose, open fabric. If you don't have a
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RTR (Remove, Turn, Rehang) is a technique that reverses the knit and purl stitches on the machine. It can be used to create turning rows, or decorative garter
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Tuck with needles out of work (tuck lace) is a beautiful technique that can be worked on any knitting machine. Keeping needles out of work combined with tuck
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With non-patterning machines and any time you want to work a hand manipulated stitch pattern, there's usually a lot of counting of needles involved. Here are
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Get inspired to work a some hand manipulated stitches on your next project. Included are mini-cables, using cheat sheets and 2 methods for re-forming columns of
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In hand knitting, seed stitch is a popular way to add texture to your knitting. The combination of alternating knit and purl stitches creates a lovely
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Pintucks are a simple way to add dimension to your knitting. Multi-color pintucks, graduated pintucks, garter pintucks, eyelet pintucks. The possibilities are
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This honeycomb smocking stitch looks complicated, but it's really not difficult to do. Combine needles out of work, slip stitches and a little hand
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Using traveling stitches to frame eyelets can create a beautiful, decorative stitch pattern for your knitting.

Make it easier to select needles for hand manipulation with Knit it Now Cheat Sheets. Download a
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Having the intarsia feature built-in (no extra carriage needed) is such a time saver. Watch how it's done on a manual Taitexma TH160 Mid-Gauge machine.

Knit multiple colors in a row without an intarsia carriage. Combine hand manipulated stitches and the speed of the knitting machine to create beautiful
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For machines without an intarsia carriage, use the hold setting to knit more than 1 color across a row with minimal or no floats.
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Control those strands when knitting in intarsia. 2 quick (and inexpensive) ways to make your own yarn bobbins.

Brother Standard Gauge machines offered a separate lace carriage to automatically transfer stitches to create eyelets and lace patterns.Combined
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k2tog (knit 2 together) is commonly used to create sections of lace. Explore transferring multiple stitches in different directions to create k2tog. Both manual
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A beautiful lace technique is to transfer stitches so the transfers are worked a few stitches away from the eyelet they create. This technique combined with
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k2tog, ssk, psso, yo. How do these hand knitting terms translate to machine knitting? Whether you are hand manipulating lace on your machine or you are
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with a few stitch transfers create 2 beautiful, simple lace patterns.

Explore hand manipulating lace with the help of cheat
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Do you have trouble with dropped stitches when knitting lace? Here's an un-documented tip that may help.Also remember, lace needs weight for the
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Fine Lace is a technique that is available with the Brother standard gauge machines with a lace carriage. Fine Lace provides fabulous texture. It can
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Unusual stitch transfer sequences create this simple, but beautiful lace pattern. The secret is breaking the rules by having 2 eyelets side by side,
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Knit a lace hem and add a 2nd color "facing". Let the facing color peek through for an interesting designer touch

Inspired by a designer hand knitting garment by Anne Thompson, this technique creates one row, open slashes in the middle of a knitted piece. They resemble
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Manual punchcard stitch selector for Singer/Studio SK150 / 151 machines. This rare device uses 12 stitch punchcards to position a needle selector to incorporate
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Automatic patterning with punchcards can seem almost magical. Let's dispel some of the mystery, learn the basics and take steps to punchcard machine
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"I have a stack of cards and don't know what they are for". Learn how punchcards create stitch patterns and identify different cards and their uses

Can this punchcard be used with all stitch patterns? Examine a punchard and explore if it can be used for tuck, slip, fairisle, etc.

When knitting in slip stitch, make sure the end needles are not slipping.

Since this machine has only 1 cam setting for slip (part) to work I-cord or circular knitting means flipping the cam lever from Part to Plain with every pass of
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Add beautiful texture to your knitting with pattern stitches created by skipping (or slipping) over pattern needles. Punchcard and electronic machines
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Slip stitch is one of the basic techniques that can be worked on any machine. Hand manipulated or worked with automatic patterning, there are many, many uses
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Slip stitch is one of the basic techniques that can be worked on any machine. Hand manipulated or worked with automatic patterning, there are many, many uses
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Want open texture without stitch transfers or a lace carriage? Think Tuck Lace! Want a beautiful all-over texture on any machine? Think Tuck Lace!
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One challenge in knitting tuck lace is determining which needles should be out of work. Explore 5 ways to establish the needle setup for tuck lace.

Here's a Knit Weave pattern with a little something extra.

Follow along and try it on your machine.

If your knitting machine doesn't have weaving brushes, you can still work knitweave. You can achieve the same results by manually weaving the
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Weaving on the knitting machine can produce beautifully textured fabric. Here's a fun way to use small amounts of novelty or luxury yarns on your machine knit
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