Learning to Tuck on the Kniterate
I'm more than a year into my Kniterate journey at this point and most days I still don't understand why it does certain things. (Ojolly's classes are a big help, if you find yourself in possession of one of these machines.) I've been studying some knitting machine books and found some pretty easy tuck patterns, designed for people with single bed manual machines. A manual bed only requires that the needle be pushed out of work, but a Kniterate cannot knit and tuck on the same pass. Hence, this lovely work around: A blue stitch is a knit on the front bed, a yellow stitch is a knit on the back bed. To do this basic 4x4 tuck, I need to put the loops on the back bed and transfer them back. It's weird. But it works. I knit this sample in Tamm Kitty, a 2/14 acrylic yarn. My first sample, I used an 8 stitch on the front bed and a 6 stitch on the back bed. The stitch definition wasn't very good and there were lots of dropped tucks. Both the 4 and 2 stitc...