all day and all of the night

 working many many samples until i got the stuff right. maybe it's my faulty knowledge, maybe it's that extra line of instruction missing but i wasn't getting it.

no one told me, no book nor instruction said that there have to be 2 extra rows knitted to get the right needle selection, the one that holds the second color in order to have 2 verticals framing the square. ¯\ ( ツ) /¯   the joys of self studying. 

        

those two extra passes however make the square a rectangle. シ  (_ _)シ

need to work at it to get  the right aspect ratio.

not working either.duplicated the holding thread,but the squares shrank. still more work to be done.

neki desu 

 

always tanizaki

 a visual recount of the book .

grab it if you can.

have a good weekend

neki desu 

 

color me ms.samples

more honeycomb samples this time in wool.the bottom rows were 2 color tuck which resulted in nothing much. sometimes using two colors alter the results dramatically. i think that as cotton is less stretchy than wool it holds the honeycomb shape better.

top and bottom mesh lace.

a take off from a video in youtube.

this is for an electronic using DAK to make the pattern. i  personally find im2track much easier to convert to graphic knitting patterns,but this time i wanted to use the 890 which is a punch card machineie. non electronic.

studying the pattern closely i whatiffed using the instructions on the lace carriage and knitting plain with the knit carriage .the results were similar.

note to self: i need to do something with knitting samples because they are growing.

neki desu