Friday 7 October 2016

Mosaic Floatless Fair-Isle (20 and 40 stitch) Kathleen Kinder


Mosaic Floatless Fair-Isle (20 and 40 stitch)

Kathleen Kinder

1987
96 pages

No index or contents page but here is the gist of what you will find:

Machine knitting
Definitions of Maze and Mosaic knitting
 Common features
A slip stitch problem
Slip stitches, a pattern feature
Note on Use of double-bed colour changer (Japanese)
Maze and Mosaic pattern cards
Pattern elements in Mosiac design
Rules for Mosaic design
Key to understanding and designing the image charts
The translation from image to working chart
Designing maizes and mosaics
How to change colour
Single motifs and mosaic panels
Notes on 8 stitch patterns
Mosaics and the punchcard chunky machines
Garment patterns and mosaics
The Duomatics and Japanese electronics

Also 2 pages of blank graph templates for diy patterns
Many graphs and their knitted sample, e.g: