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...to the Machine Knitting 101 blog. Over the next few months, I'm going to post pictures of various MK techniques, so this will become an online reference guide for how things look!

There will be pictures of various cast-ons, cast-offs, cables etc. It should be an interesting resource!

Tuesday 31 August 2010

Double bed jacquard variations

I created a DBJ cheat sheet based on a handout I used to have, not sure who did it originally. I've added two of my own versions - reversible and vertical lined backing. These were all done on the SK840/SRP60N, so I cannot produce the reversible version, as Silver machines do not pre-select for the next row. There are some pictures of a previous experiment with reversible backing here and here.

Two-row backing

2row_front
Front

2row_back
Back

Two-row backing tends to elongate the pattern somewhat, so you might have to adjust your pattern to compensate.

One-row backing

1row_front
Front

1row_back
Back

Plain backing

plain_front
Front

plain_back
Back

Bird's eye backing

birdseye_front
Front

birdseye_back
Back

Vertical striped backing

vertical_front
Front - went a bit wrong and dropped some stitches

vertical_back
Back

7 comments:

lzbthmcmullen said...

The link for the DBJ cheat sheet is not working.

steel breeze said...

Sorry abut that, it was missing a "w". It should work now!

Unknown said...

Thank you, you're cheat sheet is brilliant, but I wonder if you could explain what you actually have to do - step by step, as I would love to learn this and my manual isn't at all clear.

Adriaan said...

Your cheat sheet has instructions specific to the SRP60N ribber, which has the extra part (driving cam and carriage button) that aren't on the SRP50 or SRP60, can you clarify what I need to do for plain backing on my listed ribbers?

steel breeze said...

Adriaan, you should be able to set your ribber set levers to 0 for two passes, that will produce a plain backing on your knitting. Sorry for delay, had to look it up!

Anonymous said...

@steel breeze, I would like to add a table that has similar content as your DBJ cheat sheet to the manual of the AYAB project. I took the content from another source but I now found your post to be the earliest post on the subject. Is it ok if I list this blog post as an additional source? DerAndere1

steel breeze said...

You're welcome to link to this post, certainly! :)