Sunday, 13 November 2016

Mary Weaver, Machine Knitting Technology & Patterns






Machine Knitting Technology & Patterns
Single bed knitting on single and double bed machines.
Mary Weaver
Weaverknits Ltd.
1979

Contents

The knitting carriage
Yarns for machine knitting
The tension swatch
Garment shaping
The holding position
Marker threads and waste knitting
Garment bands
Buttonholes
Raglan garment knitting
The raglan patterns in this book
Men’s raglan sweaters
Ladies’ raglan sweaters
Children’s raglan sweaters
Summer blouse or overblouse
Beginner’s batwing top
Ladies’ overtop with cape sleeves
Ladies’ zip up jacket knitted sideways
Ladies’  poncho jacket
Ladies’ poncho cape knitted sideways
Ladies’  poncho with hold position shaping
Socks for single bed machines
How the punchcards work
Punching your own cards
The pre-setting row for punchcard machines
The holding position for patterned knitting
How to re-set the pattern when a mistake has been made
Tuck stitch knitting
Tuck stitch top
Tuck lace knitting
Slip, skip or float stitch
Lace knitting
Overblouse with yoke and sleeves knitted sideways
Batwing top knitted sideways
Blouson top – all machines
Fair isle knitting (colour knitting)
Men’s raglan sweater with Fair Isle yoke
Men’s basic sweater – 4 ply yarn
Knitting repeating designs which is more than 24 stitches wide
Single motif knitting (one point pattern)
Knitting a motif design which is more than 24 stitches wide
Knitting on alternate needles with thick yarn
Weaving
Plating
Intarsia
Single bed yarn changers
3 colours-in-the-row Fair Isle
Ladies’  Vee neck pullover
Trimmings
Making up knitwear
Linking machines
Charting attachments and the drawn pattern shape
Single garment design


315 pages. Black and white illustrations, technical drawings, schematics and punchcard samples – some colour illustrations of fair isle punch card designs.