Kathleen Kinder - Handtooling for the Chunky Knitting Machine Volume 2 L-Z

Handtooling for the Chunky Knitting Machine Volume 2 L-Z

Kathleen Kinder

1987

Contents

L

Lace, Lapp knitting, laundering chunky knits, leaves or petals, loop edge trim, loop knitting.

M

Magic formula, maintenance, making up, Maori patterns, mock rib welts, mohair, mosaic floatless Fair Isle, moss stitch, motif knitting.

N

Netherlands knitting, Nihon Vogue, non-working position needle patterns, nylon cord, the O symbol, overseas magazines.

P

Paisley patterns, part, partial knitting, patch knitting pattern conversion, personalised knitwear, picot, plating, pockets, polygon knitting, pompons, pull through embroidery technique, punchcards.

Q

Qualifications, quilting.

R

Raglans, ribbing attachments, ruching.

S

Scallops, Scandinavian knitting, Swedish knitting, sectional knitting, Shetland knitting, short row knitting, sideways knitting, single bed smocking, slip stitch, Spanish knitting, stitch and row ration, stripes, Swiss darning.

T

Tartan and plaid, tassels, tension swatches, thick and thin knitting, thread lace, toile, traditional knitting, triangular knitting, tubular, tuck stitch, Turkish knitting, Tyrolean knitting.

U&V 

Upper working position, upside down knitting. V necks, vertical slits.

W

Waste yarn, weave, woven braid, woven cord, woven rib, Wistaria stitch, wrapping needles, wrap trims.

Y&Z

Yarns, yokes, zig-zag patterns.

Pattern Collection

That's her Contents format not mine. She does supply page numbers for each letter though.

There are black and white photographs, hand drawn charts, technical drawings and punchcard designs scattered throughout the 111 A4 pages.
Rare and expensive to buy. May be interesting for aficionados but I would go to  Susan Guagliumi or John Allen before this for hand tooling on any machine.

Kathleen Kinder - Handtooling for Chunking Knitting Machines Vol 1 A-K

Handtooling for the Chunky Knitting machine Volume 1 A - K

Kathleen Kinder

1987

Contents

A

Abbreviations, accessories, applique, applying decoration,  A Position,  Aran effects, Argyll,  automatic  patterning.

B

Balkans knitting, Baltic knitting, Bavarian knitting, beads, bells, bias knitting, blister knitting, bobbles books, B position, braids.

C

Cables, calculator, casting off, casting on, C&S American knitting, chunky knitting machines, cords,
Cowichan knitting, C position, crochet.

D

Dales knitting, dealing with loose ends, decoration, design and pattern, D position.

E

Edgings, embossed knitting, embroidery, encircled, cross-stitches, Entrelacs, E position.

F

Fabric weight, Fair Isle, Faroese knitting, figure of 8 graft, flare knitting, frame knitted, fringe.

G

Garter bar, garter carriage, garter stitches, graft knitting, graph paper.

H

Handframed, handknitting, handling tools, hems, history of handtooling, holding position, holes (buttonholes).

I

Icelandic knitting, insertions, Intarsia.

J & K

Japanese embroidery techniques, joining techniques. Kashmiri knitting, knitted leaves and flowers.

The pattern collection.

That's her Contents page format not mine. She does supply page numbers for each letter though.

There are black and white photographs, hand drawn charts, technical drawings and punchcard designs scattered throughout the 96 A4 pages, soft cover.

Machine and Hand Knitting Pattern Design Kathleen Kinder

Machine and Hand Knitting Pattern Design

Kathleen Kinder

BT Batsford Ltd publishing
1990

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.    A common system
2.    Communication: oral to written
3.    The pattern diagram
4.    The Japanese pattern format
5.    The emergence of symbols
6.    Exploring and mixing stitch patterns
7.    Colour, design and the dropped shoulder line
8.    The fitted sleeve shape and garment design
9.    Circular yokes and variations on a theme
10.    Bias knitting
Additional references
Books of techniques
Useful addresses
index

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:

 

The Machine Knitter’s Book of the Ribber Volume 1 Kathleen Kinder

 The Machine Knitter’s Book of the Ribber Volume 1
Patterns Tools and Techniques
Kathleen Kinder
1984

Contents

Introduction
Setting up the ribber for beginners
Beginners welt and neckband
Mechanical adjustments to the ribber
The ribber and its garment fabric
Japanese ribbers – common features
Japanese ribbers – distinctive features
Japanese-English glossary
Brother pattern symbols
The multi-size pattern
Fitted sleeve tops – measurements for 21 sizes
Unisex raglan in 18 sizes
Skirt shapes for the ribber
Tension swatches for ribbed fabric
Making-up ribbed fabric
The debt to the Passap and the old double bed machines

Garment features
1 Hand tooled effects
2 smocking
3 Covered buttons, spangles and cords
4 Pockets
5 Welts and loose cast-on rows
6 collars, neckbands and edgings
7 Jacket and slipover bands
8 Buttonholes
Abbreviations and knitting notes

Pattern Group 1 – plain ribs and garment features
Ladies raglan dolman jacket with shawl collar
Ladies cardigan with plain rib or release stitch collar
Ladies cable collared sweater
Cables for a cricket sweater
Baby’s ribber leggings
Child's skinny rib sweater
Ladies plated skinny rib summer top
Ladies broad rib chunky sweater
Ladies ribbed circular yoked top
Ladies lacy transfer rib top
Ladies sidewinder rib top (sleeveless with neckline choice)
Ladies sidewinder rib sweater (sleeves with neckline choice)
Man’s jacket in racked rib
Man’s sleeveless sweater waistcoat in racked rib

Pleats and Ribs
Rib and roll skirt in 3 ply wool
Mini-roll pleated skirt in Hobby
Semi-box pleated skirt in fine wool and boucle
Shadow knife pleated skirt in wool
Pleat and rib collection
Index

Techniques in Machine Knitting Kathleen Kinder

Techniques in Machine Knitting

Kathleen Kinder

1983, 1989 paperback

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1  Stockings
   Single bed socks
   Pattern: Lady’s embroidered Fair Isle knee socks
Chapter 2  Hats
   The ski hat pattern
   The rib tuck pattern
Chapter 3 Gloves and Mittens
   Lady’s gloves
   Mittens
Chapter 4 Jerseys and guernseys
    Unisex jersey
Chapter 5 Tuck – a stitch for a king
    Childs pleated tuck jacket
Chapter 6 the raglan and the perfect finish
    Round-neck fringed raglan sweater
    Two-panel sideways knitted skirt
Chapter 7 Lace – the height of the knitter’s art
    Cap-sleeved lace blouse
Chapter 8 Ethnic and colour knitting
    Sleeveless Fair Isle waistcoat
Chapter 9 Fibre art
    Autumn fire
    Multicoloured sweater
Chapter 10 Yarns and charting device
    Textured overtop

Appendices
Abbreviations
Distributors
Resources
Further reading
Brand names of knitting machines
Index


144 pages

Black and white photographs throughout. Four pages of colour samples.

Art of Motif Knitting and 24 Stitch Design Kathleen Kinder

Art of Motif Knitting and 24 Stitch Design

Kathleen Kinder

1988

With over 90 original patterns for standard punchcard and electronic knitting machines

The Art of Motif Knitting
    What is it
    Using other designers’ patterns
    Source material for motif knitting
    Some categories
Note on copyright
What makes a successful motif?
How do I convert a picture?
Tip for tracing
Graph paper type
After the outline, what next?
Points to note in design
Filling out a small motif
Stippling technique with card 1
Note on blank punchcards
Using punchcard roll
Dealing with long floats
Floats on sideways knitted patterns
Note on Mosaic Floatless Fair Isle
Note on tension swatch
Motifs for children
Single motif and motif panel
Single motif and the diagonal image
Motifs for patch pockets
Scatter motifs
Single motifs translated to overall patterns
Designing overall motifs on the diagonal
Motifs with a circular movement

COLOUR
Preparing to use colour
Changing colours
Dead or alive colour knitting
Techniques
Other ideas
Storing small amounts of yarn
Note on double jacquard
Using the colour changer
Using 3 or 4 colours in a row
Multi-colour knitting on the slip setting
Counter-changing two colours
Swiss darning
The colour argument
The colour wheel
Knitting in beads
Applique and embroidery
Handpulled motifs and letters
The pictorial effect using motifs and methods in combination
Garment design for motif knitting
Other garment shapes
Mixing patterns from different sources
Motifs for sideways knitting
Note on sleeves in sideways knitted garments

96 pages
Many photo’s of samples and punchcard patterns, all except one page in black and white.