For my next NI Knitting Guild meeting I have to do a small item on My Favourite.......punchcard. Well, I don't really have a favourite but I was advised to pick a punchcard and tuck it, slip it, fairisle etc to get different patterns. I have a Brother 940 Electronic so I choose Stitchworld Pattern No 234 which is a tuck and played with this. I cast on 70 sts and completed a sampler as follows:
- Tuck 2 complete patterns - Result - a nice tuck which would make a nice edging for the bottom of a garment
- Slip - Result - a light pattern on the fabric which was not appealing
- Fair Isle - Front of Fabric would again suit the bottom of a garment and the reverse side was interesting but due to the nature of the pattern left large floats
- Fair Isle again - but on the reverse side, I lifted the floats about every 4 rows and caught these onto a needle producing a more pleasing fabric
- Fair Isle again - but I reversed the colours
- Weaving - produced a nice fabric but again I had long floats which I cut and pressed going up as they seemed to want to sit like this. This is a technique Iris Bishop showed me at the Machine Knitting Guild. This gave like an American Indian blanket look.
I will now label this sampler and keep it for future use. This is a really good exercise to try with different punchcards.
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| Reverse Side of Sampler |
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| Front Side of Sampler |
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| Tuck Stitch |
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| Reverse of Fair Isle with pulled up floats |
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