Punchcards and Stitch Patterns - Replay Live Archive

. . We've got some confetti because. I'm so excited to be here.. . Welcome, welcome to the April Knit Club. from Knit It Now.. . We're here today to talk about. patterning, stitch patterning.. . So no matter what machine you have,. whether it's a manual machine or. . a fancy-dancy electronic machine or. a punch card machine,. . stitch patterns, knowing,. understanding stitch patterning goes. . a really long way. in improving your knitting.. . I'm always surprised when knitters are. confused by punch cards. . or stitch patterns.. . I'm not sure exactly what they think is. going to happen when you have. . something that looks like this.. . It's got holes in it,. and they just sometimes think. . that something magical is going to happen. by sticking this into their machine or. . using a stitch pattern,. and they're just confused and in the dark.. . These things can be really. mysterious sometimes.. . So let's clean up some of that mystery.. . Let's do away with some of that mystery. and talk about stitch patterns. . for all machine knitters today.. . If you have any questions,. please let me know in the chat.. . If I happen to miss your question,. contact me afterwards.. . Sue@knititnow or use the Contact Us. button at the bottom. . of every page of our website.. . I'm happy to answer questions, help,. commiserate, whatever.. . I'd love to talk to you. about machine knitting.. . It's what I do.. That's my favorite thing.. . Again, if you're new, let me know.. . Kathy says, I consider myself. a relatively intelligent person.. . I see that you made it very clear the live. event was going to happen at one Eastern.. . Yeah, after about half a dozen people. emailed me and said,. . When's it going to start?. Where are you?. . And I was eating my breakfast.. . Good morning, Sherry.. . All righty, so stitch patterns.. . Stitch patterns, punch cards.. How do they work?. . What do stitch patterns do?. . If you think about a knitting machine,. you've got needles, they work. . and they knit stockinette.. . They come in and out, they knit,. stockinette, just like you would expect.. . If you want to do something a little bit. different, you have to tell the machine. . that you want to do something. a little bit different.. . Stitch patterns control how. the needles are positioned.. . When needles are positioned,. let's go to the next screen here, sorry.. . Whenever you do any paterning,. whether it's automatic patterning or manual. . patterning, the needles travel through. channels underneath the carriage.. . And if you've not looked at the underside. of a carriage, there are channels there,. . and the different levers and buttons. of your carriage direct the butts of the. . needles through a different channel.. . That different channel controls whether. the stitch knits or slips or tucks or. . picks up another color, say for fairisle.. . So. no matter how you're telling the machine. . that you want to pattern,. what's happening underneath is. . that the butts of the needles are. traveling through a different channel.. . Again, the channels then are controlled. by the stitch patterns,. . by the settings of your machine.. . In this example, it is an LK.. . You can see the channel. very, very clearly.. . And if you see those little white wings. on either side there, those are. . the little side levers of this machine.. . And if those side levers are engaged,. you can see that the butts of the needles. . will travel through the different channel.. . And that's what causes stitch pattern.. Whether you're.... . Like here, you're pulling the needles out. by hand or you're letting the machine pull. . the needles for you, select the needles,. organize the needles.. . However, those needles are getting. organized, they're going. . through a different channel.. . And then again, depending on the settings. of your carriage, you're going. . to get a different stitch pattern.. . All right, I got ahead. of myself a little bit.. . So that controls slip, tuck, and fairisle.. . Again, you can be used as a card,. or you can use electronics, or you can. . use a manual needle pusher or something.. . Some way to choose needles.. . Now, for manual machines,. a lot of folks are... It's really interesting. . because a lot of folks want to knit. . obviously, on LK,. you want to knit stitch patterns.. . So you need to use your needle pusher or. count needles to figure out what stitches. . need to go into a position so. that the carriage picks them up and forms. . the stitch pattern that you want.. . So this is on a manual machine.. . So anytime I'm talking about punch cards. or electronics, the same thing. . holds true for the manual machine.. . It's just that you're the one. that's choosing those needles.. . To choose those needles is interesting,. and I always recommend. . that you use a cheat sheet.. . And we have some printable. cheat sheets here.. . You can find them at knititnow.. Com/cheat.. . Print those out.. . They are sized specifically. for your machine.. . We have ones for the Taitexma mid-gauge,. and we've got cheat sheets. . for the LK, for the . . But recently somebody said,. . Well, I want to use my card.. . I have this card in my hand.. . I want to use my card for my LK.. . So it's like, Gosh, she just went through. my brain like, yeah,. . she's got to take a highlighter,. take a cheat sheet,. . and highlight in all the little boxes.. . Well, that doesn't make a whole lot sense.. . So I got to thinking about it,. and what did I do with them?. . Here they are.. . I went into DesignaKnit.. . Now, you could do this with your printer. as well, but I changed the percentage.. . I blew up the design in DesignaKnit.. . So for example, I've got a stitch. pattern here in DesignaKnit.. . We printed it %,. it would look like this.. . It would be a punch card size.. . But if you If you print that. stitch pattern in DesignaKnit at %,. . you get six millimeters divisions. between each one of these little dots.. . You would just fold this along your stitch. along the line,. . the row that you're knitting on,. and then you could choose. . your needles based on that.. . Just line it right up.. . They're going to line up.. . So I've also discovered. that if you knit at .... . Sorry, it was for a it's. a millimeter machine.. . So if you blow your image up to a size so. that you don't have to copy it to a cheat. . sheet, you just have your. cheat sheet right here.. . So if you get a punch card that you see. that you've got a copy. . of it online, in, right?. . Take that and play. with it with your printer.. . Blow it up to % or to a percentage. until you can get that card. . lined up to your needles so that you. can more easily select your needles.. . Now, another way of selecting. needles on this.... . And this is how you would select them.. . You just line that line up.. . I was waving my hands, but here's a photo.. . That's a little bit better, isn't it?. . Another way of selecting needles for. the LK machines is the needle Beetle.. . This is a separate little device that you. can purchase,. . and it's an, I believe it's eight-stitch. repeat,. . so that you manually You manually choose. your eight stitches according. . to your punch card, right?. . You manually choose them,. and then you run the needle Beetle across.. . It memorizes that needle arrangement,. and it will then repeat the needle. . arrangement across the needle bed.. . So manual knitters,. don't give up on stitch pattern.. . You can stitch pattern,. and it doesn't have to be painful.. . Use some cheat sheets,. figure out some ways to cheat around. . not having an automatic pattern device.. . When I say automatic pattern device,. I just mean a punch card or electronics.. . Does that make sense. for the LK knitters?. . Well, welcome, welcome, welcome.. . We've got lots of folks here.. . Thank you so much for joining us.. . Okay, so that's manual knitters.. . So I wanted to get that out. of the way first thing.. . Anything we talk about as far as punch. cards are concerned it really does. . apply to you as well.. . I'll come back to that.. . So when it's time to knit in pattern. on your machine, no matter what machine. . you have, you need to tell the machine. that you want to knit in pattern.. . On the Brother machines,. it's with the KC button.. . Okay, .. . I want to knit in pattern.. . I flip the button, and now it's ready.. It's ready.. . But as Is it going to do anything?. . No, there's a couple more steps.. . So on your Silver Reed machines,. you've got some buttons and levers. . that you need to set in order to tell the. machine that you want to knit in pattern.. . So you're saying,. Stop knitting, stockinette.. . Open up those channels for me.. . I want to knit in pattern.. . The second thing that you need to tell. the machine is,. . Which stitch pattern do you want?. . So you've got a cam lever, generally.. . The CAM lever will tell the machine, I. want fairisle, I want tuck, I want slip.. . So the second step is to first tell it you. want to knit in pattern, and then you. . tell it what pattern you want to knit.. . And then the third step is saying,. Hey, machine, I want a specific design.. . I want this design.. I want this.. . I want this.. . You have to give it instruction.. . And these cards and the stitch patterns. are nothing but hole/. . no hole, on/off, black/white.. . Machines are really very, very. binary, just they're on or off.. . So if there's a hole, the needle. is going to be in one position.. . If there is no hole, like in this area,. the needles will be. . in a different position.. . Again, depending on how you set your cam,. which stitch pattern you're using,. . what's going to happen.. . Does that make sense?. Let me know if that makes sense.. . Karen. says there's something called a telematic. . that's similar to the needle beetle.. . I think the needle beetle was also copied. from something that maybe. . Brother had at one time.. I'm not sure.. . Sharon says, How do you figure out. printing to get seven millimeters?. . Sharon, contact me offline. and I'll do the math for you.. . I'll just try it in DesignaKnit.. . All I did was kept trying it.. . I tried it %,. I tried it %, printed it.. . Nope, %, no, printed it.. . And I just kept trying, trying, trying,. trying, trying,. . so you got to .. . But remind me, I'll be. happy to do that for you.. . Pauline says, It's dinner time soon.. . Thank you for joining me late in the day.. . Okay, so this makes sense for now.. . Stitch patterns are just on, off, yes,. no, pull a needle, don't pull a needle.. . That's all they are.. There's nothing mysterious about them.. . However, what the mystery comes in is. which one is which, which card is which.. . So in this slide, it was just basically. the third step is Here are. . the instructions, whether the instructions. are a punch card or they're electronics or. . you're manually, you're telling. the machine, Here's what I want you to do.. . Here's what needles I want to go through. the channels underneath. . and create a stitch pattern.. .. so something to think about is stitch. patterns are always, always,. . always centered in the middle of the. knitting machine, especially punch cards.. . So in this example, we've got the gray. box here would be your knitting machine.. . You're at left one, zero, right one.. . That card is going to be centered. in the middle of the machine.. . It's something that we often. forget or get confused.. . So with punch cards,. you need to remember that.. . Now, electronic machines,. you can control that.. . But.... . So for example, if I was knitting this. sweater,. . you'd see that my stitch pattern would be. centered in the middle of my cardigan or. . my sweater, whatever,. the front of my sweater,. . and then it would be repeated across. the row all the way across both ways.. . Something to keep in mind because if. you're knitting, let's say, a cardigan,. . here's my cardigan.. . If I centered my knitting on the machine,. so left , right ,. . the card is going to be in the middle. and my design is going to be. . in the very middle of my cardigan.. . So let's just say the card was. this Penguin that I've got here.. . So I would have a Penguin right. in the center of my cardigan if I. . positioned my cardigan. in the middle of the needle bed.. . Now, I'm talking punch. I have two cards here.. . If I want my Penguin, I don't know. . why I can't think of that word.. . If I want that Penguin,. maybe on the center of the cardigan,. . so half of him is on one side and half. of him is on the other,. . I would have to position my knitting. in relation to the punch card.. . So the punch card would sit still. in the middle, but I would. . cast on left of zero or right of zero.. . Does that make sense?. I hope that makes sense.. . This is punch cards.. . You're a little bit limited there.. . With an electronic machine, however,. you can generally have an electronic. . machine and you tell it where zero is.. . You have the electronic machine. position where you want your design.. . So it makes it a little bit easier.. Cheat sheet.. . Okay, thank you, Marjorie.. We'll get that fixed.. . Or Matt, if you can. just add that, fix that.. . I screwed it up.. . You make the seven millimeter. increases available to everybody.. . I have a Brother 8,. which is seven millimeters.. . Chris, absolutely.. . You guys, just both of you, whatever,. just nag me in an email,. . and I'll definitely let you know. what it is because it was.... . See if I can get it right this time.. . % for 6 millimeter. and % for millimeter.. . So I can play with that. for you and let you know.. . Thanks, Matt.. . All righty, so let's talk about.... .. Let's talk about stitch variations.. . Something else you can do with a punch. card is, let's say on the left. . here is my original stitch pattern.. . It's just we're going to tuck or slip or. whatever for two stitches. . every other stitch for two rows.. . On a punch card,. you can often do double high.. . So you just a little lever that you flip.. . So you're going to be doing whatever this. is, whether it's tuck or slip or fairisle,. . for four rows instead of two.. . You can get some really interesting. effects that way by using double high,. . and you don't have to punch another card.. . So you can just take your one by one card. and make it look like this original. . without punching a second card.. . Something to keep in mind.. . On electronic machines,. you can also do double wide.. . So this would be the same stitch pattern,. but instead of just one stitch or every. . other one stitch,. it's going to make it two stitches. . and skip two, two stitches and skip two.. . So double wide.. . Again, very interesting things that you. can do without redoing a stitch pattern. . by just changing the variations.. . You can do double wide and double high,. and it would look more like this.. . There are other stitch variations. that you can do with electronic machines.. . You can reverse images,. you can turn them upside down.. . I think on some machines,. you can actually turn them like . degrees or degrees,. so it goes this way instead of this way.. . Stitch variation,. something else to explore with stitch. . patterns that you can make some really. interesting, especially for really simple. . stitch patterns like the one. that I'm showing there.. . You can do some really interesting things. with them depending. . on what machine you have.. . So you've got a whole stack of cards.. . All right.. . So I've got this whole. stack of cards here.. . Or you're looking in a magazine or one. of the old Stitch World books,. . and you're seeing all these. beautiful stitch patterns.. . How do you know which is which, and how. do you know what you can do with them?. . Well, it's hard,. and it's mostly experience.. . I'm going to give you some hints as. to which patterns. . work best with which technique.. . But some of it is just. learning and experience,. . and some of it's just plain common sense.. . So Let's take a look.. . So the double wide was. slightly wrong displayed here.. . All right, let's go back to it.. . So if we started with every other stitch. for two rows,. . we're doing two stitches for two rows. and skipping two stitches.. . Is that not right, Karen?. . I don't like to lie.. . All right, and knititnow.. . Com/cheat sheets with an S, works too.. . All right, so Karen,. let me know if I'm telling a fib here,. . and the other thing is to try it.. . Just try the different things.. . Pick up some black and white yarn,. knit in fairisle,. . do a very simple stitch pattern.. . Just maybe your one-by-one card, which is,. I think we all pretty much. . know what a one-by-one card is.. . You've got a hole, no hole, no hole, hole.. . And then it's the reverse.. . If I have one here, whatever.. And try it.. . Try double wide, try double high,. try some of the different variations,. . especially if you have. an electronic machine.. . It can be really fun.. . All right, I'm probably just. saying it backwards, guys.. . So how do we identify which card. works with which technique?. . Look at this card right here.. . It's mostly black.. . So what's that telling me?. . It's telling me is that the white. stitches, the white holes or the white.... . Not holes, not holes,. the white sections that are not punched.. . I think I have it right here.. Let me get this card.. . You can see that the white sections. that are not punched. . are going to either tuck. or they're going to slip,. . or something's going to happen different. with those four stitches right here.. . Because this is mostly black,. I would immediately identify. . this as a tuck stitch.. . Slip stitch as well.. . Could you use this for fairisle?. . Absolutely.. . It'd be interesting.. . So you'd have just little short little. columns of a different color.. . That one would be pretty as well.. . So mostly black or mostly holes,. . tuck and slip, sometimes fairisle.. . So here's another one that's pretty, and. you're going to see lots of pretty cards.. . So what could you do with this one?. . It looks like of a flower.. . I guess I got that backwards there.. . So what could you do with this one?. . It's got lots and lots and lots of holes.. . However, it's also got white spaces all. next to each other.. . I wanted to say the word congruent,. and I'm not sure if that's. . the right word or not.. . But in these sections,. you've got white spaces.. . In the previous tuck one, there were white. spaces, single column of white spaces.. . You didn't have two white. spaces next to each other.. . You can't tuck two stitches. next to each other.. . So this definitely would not be a tuck. card because you've got lots of white. . here that are next to each other.. . You could use this for fairisle.. . Your floats would be as. long as these white spaces.. . It's not too bad.. . One, two, three, four,. a four-stitch float, that's not too bad.. . You could use this for thread lace.. . You could use it for slip.. . So your slip strands, your slip. . floats, would be this many stitches wide.. . That's either three or four stitches wide.. . So you could use this one for slip.. . You could also use this one for weaving.. . You could also probably use it. for the garter carriage if you do that.. . So you've got. purl stitches and knit stitches.. . So you'd have a really pretty. design with the garter carriage.. . So next, I got some cards from someone,. and she had them marked. . ribber punch cards.. . And I just scratched my head and scratched. my head because you can't do. . stitch patterning on the ribber.. . That terminology just. didn't make sense to me.. . But what she was referring to was double. bed jacard, which is using your. . ribber and patterning on the main bed.. . So you've got stitch pattern. going on the main bed.. . You use a card, you use a stitch pattern. on the main bed, but you've got needles. . and work on the ribber. for double bed jacard.. . And you can usually tell double bed jacard. because there's a lot of white. . space between the rows.. . And I put this color behind here so. you could really see the shape of this.. . If your card isn't marked ribber or DBJ or. something,. . you can pretty much. examine this and notice that it's. . every other row something's happening.. . And that's the way multi-color. slip stitch works, every other row.. . So identifying double bed jacquard,. they're going to look something like that.. . Which brings me to a point, I give you. permission to write on your punch cards.. . The first time I saw this,. I was a little horrified.. . The little Catholic school. girl in me, we never wrote in books.. . Oh my gosh, They never wrote in books.. . You never dog-eared books.. . You had to treat books like gold.. . It's the way I was raised.. You don't write on things.. . But I give you permission to go ahead. and write on your punch card,. . write along the side or write anywhere. on your punch card what. . it is you've discovered.. . If you like this card and you've used it. and you used it for a specific technique,. . go ahead and write on the card.. . You have my permission.. . The nuns won't come and hit you with. a ruler because you wrote on the card.. . So this was genius.. . The first time I saw it, it's like, oh,. my gosh, this says My Favorite Tuck.. . I love this.. . This says Fair Isle for Vest in Mary Lynn,. something, whatever.. . Must have been the yarn that she used.. . So write on your cards.. . So if you find one that you like. no matter what, and you found used it best. . in tuck, then mark right on it. that you used it best in tuck.. . So the last punch card I want to point. out to you is a lace punch card.. . You can often tell these lace punch cards,. again, because there's a lot of white. . space,. which would be the needles that you're. . transferring for lace are the holes,. the white space is where you're knitting. . or moving your carriage,. your lace carriage.. . You also can tell lace cards, generally,. they'll have some indicators on the side. . as to when to move your carriage or not I. think that's just a brother thing,. . but forgive me if I misspoke there.. . But lace cards.. . So you might find a half a dozen lace. cards in a pack that you come up with.. . Or if you're looking in a magazine,. you'll see a diagram that looks. . something like that for a lace card.. . Now, could you use it for something else?. . Well, I suppose,. looking at the one that's on the screen,. . I suppose you could knit that in fairisle.. . It has some really, really long floats,. and you've got some rows in there. . that don't have any color at all.. . So that doesn't seem to make. a whole lot of sense to me.. . But being able to identify the cards. and the stitch patterns by the techniques.. . This came up because a knitter was asking. . about how to organize her punch cards. . and how to keep them secure and protected.. . And she wanted to put all the tucks. together and all the slips together. . and all the fairisles together.. . And we had to remind her that a lot. of cards you can use for a. . number of different things.. . So segmenting them and organizing them. that way probably wasn't practical.. . We were trying to come up with another. way, another place that she could store. . the cards because they aren't all eight. and a half by eleven, so your normal. . office supply things don't really work.. . So if anybody has a clever way. of storing punch cards, just let us know.. . The question was asked in our. forum in our community.. . So just go to knititnow.. . Com/community and let us know if you've. got a clever way of storing punch. . cards that you can protect them.. . They don't get all crunched and destroyed.. . Some of the cards, commercial cards,. have right or left on the card number.. . I don't know R and L.. . I'm sorry, but think about it.. You could.... . Well, we've got A and B and C and D.. . Actually, this one has A and B and C D.. . So I'm sure that in the instructions. of when they used this card,. . they told you to insert it with A down.. . B would be reverse, obviously.. . C would be upside down.. . We talked about that . or degrees or whatever.. . So with punch cards,. you could do variations by turning. . the cards upside down or right or left.. . Pauline says, I have a box designed. for punch card storage, but I don't. . know if you can still purchase them.. . Pauline, if you could let us know. the dimensions, that would be helpful,. . and maybe we could go to the container. store and find something close to that.. . L for Lace and R for ribber.. . Thank you, Marjorie.. . Marie-jo, what have you done?. . Ruth, done it with handâ?¦. . done what with hand manipulation. in the KC button.. . Lace on a Brother .. . Yes.. . Think about manually pulling needles.. . If you're using a Brother machine,. it will pre-select needles for you.. . So if you use a. If you use a lace punch card,. . you run your carriage across,. it's going to pre-select needles.. . You could then take those needles. and transfer them and make your lace.. . It's really clever.. . That would be for brother only.. Yeah.. . Marjorie says, Most of my standard punch. . cards fit nicely in legal size files.. . Okay, we can let the knitter know.. . She was looking for some safe. way of protecting punch cards.. . All right, I did want to go back to this. because we're talking about stitch. . patterns, and I want to tell you. about something that's coming up here.. . If you're a DesignaKnit user, we're. doing a workshop in a couple of weeks.. . It's going to be a hands-on three-hour. workshop, three hours or. . whatever it takes, live.. . We're going to be talking about. Graphics Studio, sorry,. . Stitch Designer and Graphic Studio.. . A lot of times we will find something. in a magazine and find a stitch pattern,. . and it's printed out, right?. . That's what Graphic Studio. is really good at.. . We could take this. that maybe somebody gave you Excuse me,. . that somebody gave you or you found. in a magazine, you found a stitch pattern,. . you take it into Graphic Studio. and convert it into a DesignaKnit. . stitch pattern format.. . So even if you're using a punch card,. you could then take that pattern,. . stitch pattern, and use it. with a punch card or electronics.. . Graphic Studio is. another mysterious thing.. . It can work sometimes,. and other times it's just. . Frustrating as all get out, you're. tearing your hair out with Graphic Studio.. . So this workshop is going to.... . Excuse me, again.. . The workshop is going to prevent some. of that tearing the hair out stuff and. . work through learning how to use. Graphic Studio to convert some of these. . wonderful patterns that we find. in the old Stitch World books.. . Trying to find one,. I guess I don't have one here,. . but some of the old pattern books.. . And some of the old pattern books. have the pages have deteriorated. . and the colors muted now.. . Take them into Graphic Studio and they're. muddy and you can't do anything with them.. . So we want to explore. that in this workshop.. . We'll start with a very clean. scan from something, right?. . A very clean.... I think we were doing a snowflake.. . We take the snowflake, we scan it,. we take it into Graphic Studio.. . Boom, boom, boom.. . You've got a DesignaKnit. stitch pattern.. . The second one is muddy and messed up. and dirty, and the image itself is all. . crooked and more typical of what you get. when you look at stitch patterns,. . either from things that you find. online or that you scan yourself.. . So the second one is dirtier, harder.. . We're going to explore more. of the features of Graphic Studio.. . And then the third part of the workshop. will be taking those motifs and using them. . with original pattern drafting or. just with garment pieces, right?. . So you're going to take that Snowflake,. you're going to put it down the sleeve.. . You're going to take that Snowflake. and you're going to stick one. . right on the chest of a sweater.. . You're going to take that Snowflake and do. a hem or a border at the bottom. . of a sweater and position that motif.. . So we're going to create the motif,. put it into stitch designer format,. . and then use it with some garment pieces.. . So again, that is in a couple of weeks.. . That is Saturday, April .. . We will be starting at AM Pacific,. just an hour earlier than this.. . And this is how the whole time thing got. messed up this morning is. . because of this workshop.. . And again, it'll be three hours.. . Workshop, we'll be demoing live.. . Then you can go off by yourself,. try it with your DesignaKnit, your. . version of DesignaKnit on your computer.. . There's a walkthrough. and a recorded video.. . So if you can't do it just from the first. live or your previous experience,. . there will be a walkthrough. so you won't be lost.. . Then we can come back, talk about it,. see if you had any problems,. . and then move on to the next section.. . So we're I'm going to try and do. that for three hours and. . not just talk about or watch videos.. I want you to do it.. . I want you to create these. stitch patterns from a nice clean scan. . and one that's not so nice,. and then use the stitch pattern.. . Those three things are things that folks. have really, really been asking a lot. . about, and hopefully you'll. join us in that workshop.. . Pauline says, The Punch Card box is . and a quarter inches wide or . centimeters, centimeters. high or seven inches high.. . That's pretty deep, centimeters. or three and a quarter inches deep.. . She cut cardboard to fit inside. the box to compartmentalize them.. . So I'm assuming. that they're stored this way.. . Yes, Pauline?. . They're not laying flat,. they're stored this way.. . And then you put. dividers in between so you can. . compartmentalize the ones that you use and. the ones are the ones or lace or whatever.. . Thank you for doing that.. . So, Marie-Jo, I'd love to see the results. of your lace experiment on your .. . That'd be lace on a bulky machine. by using the fact that Brother. . machines preselect the needles.. . So it's going to tell you.. . And you could even do that for,. let's say, cables, right?. . You could program punch card with cables. so that it pulls out the needles. . that you need to cross for your cables.. . Think about that one.. That would work.. . So there's no counting.. . One, two, three, four, five, pull, pull,. pull, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pull, pull, pull.. . The machine will pull them for you.. . Can you use DesignaKnit. with any knitting machine?. . Absolutely, yes.. . The only thing you can't do is obviously. download stitch patterns. . to a manual machine.. . But you can create garment shapes and. . follow the knitting with the interactive. . knitting, like a knit leader,. a charting device.. . It's an electronic charting device.. . You can create stitch patterns,. and you can create punch cards,. . and you can create stitch. charts, like the ones I've been waving. . here in front of you, the charts.. . So I created this in DesignaKnit,. and I can use it on the LK or my. . Titexma or , even though. they're just manual machines.. . So yes, you can use. DesignaKnit with any machine.. . Double-bed jacquard,. you need specific cards.. . Some tuck cards look superb. with full needle rib.. . Tuck with full needle rib,. absolutely beautiful.. . Yes.. . So again, when I first asked, how do you. know what to What do we do with these?. . A lot of it is. you just have to think about it a little. . bit, what's happening. with this card, right?. . So this particular card looks. like there's a lot of black here.. . This card could be used for fairisle.. . This card could be used for.... . Could not be used for tuck. because there's two stitches.. . These white sections here are two stitches. side by side, but you could slip this.. . It'd be beautiful diamond. shapes in slip stitch.. . So part of determining which cards you can. use is just experience,. . thinking it through, and ask if you've. got one and you don't know, or try it.. . All you can do is just try it.. . The workshop will be recorded,. and absolutely, and it will be. . available for a limited time.. . Then the material in the workshop will be. going into the graphics Studio. . course at LearnDesignaKnit.. . So did I have a link there?. . Yeah, it's LearnDesignaKnit or learnDAK/kickstart.. . So all the material is there and ready.. . We'll be doing the live in Two weeks?. . Two weeks, I believe it is.. . All righty.. . We got anything else going on?. . What else have we got going on here?. . Here at Knit It Now, we've been. doing some things with patterns.. . We've got some new paths coming up.. . You might find some. different things showing up when. . you go to work with your patterns.. . Let me see if I can get it to happen here.. . You can see that.. Let me. . You'll notice that when I went to patterns. . to find a pattern, there's a new little. button here that's called a Guide.. . If I play the guide, it's going to give me. some help as to what's. . going on on the page.. . So let me see.. . See, we need help with finding a pattern.. . We can just click, click,. click and read what it says.. . Select the category, go next.. . It's telling you how to use this page.. . So you're going to see more. and more of these little guides.. . We've got them on a few places now,. and patterns is one place. . where you'll see those guides.. . If you don't want to see. the guide, just close it.. . It's fine.. That's fine.. . And it's not going to come back.. . It's not going to bug you unless you hit. the little button and ask you for help.. . So for those that find sometimes you get. a little lost at Knit it Now,. . what we're trying to do is add some guides. and add some walkthroughs, so it makes. . a little bit easier to find what you need.. . Cheryl said she found her box. for her punch cards at Target.. . She can go get her. boxes and post the size.. . That's great.. Thank you.. . Thank you, thank you, thank you.. . Kathleen says, I have magic cams. for my standard gage machine.. . I've forgotten what the magic cams do.. . Is that positioning a stitch pattern on.... . I'm sorry, I've forgotten. what magic cams do.. . Let me see if I can go to We go to learn.. . I'm going to close this.. . Go to >learn, >glossary.. . >Magic Cams.. . Used along with the point cams and edge. pins, the magic cams control the needle. . selection when knitting isolated motifs.. . So I guess you can position your. isolated motifs using magic cams.. . So all I did was go to learn to Glossary. my magic glossary, and I can remember what. . magic cams were because I had forgotten.. . Does anybody know if a Singer Chunky. machine has magic cams?. . I'm assuming that these are a standard. gauge thing, but don't quote me.. . I couldn't even remember what they were.. . Okay, so that's all we have. new here at Knit It Now.. . We've got the guides coming up.. . We'll get our time zone business taken. care of, and we've got this. . new workshop coming up.. . Also, if you haven't joined. our community, please do.. . We've had lots of activity. in the community and folks meeting. . each other from around the world.. . The idea here, you don't have to be. a member to use our community, knititnow/community.. . It's brand new.. . We I really like the way it's laid out.. . It's much easier to follow. than our older one.. . It's also easier to find things.. . It's got a great search bar at the cross. the top that searches everything that you. . can find topics. that people have talked about.. . You can also direct message people.. . So if you don't want to publish something. publicly, you can direct message anybody.. . You can direct message me if you'd like,. and we can talk privately. . without doing email.. . Just do it through within the community.. . And there's some new features. in the community as well that we. . may be releasing to help.. . We just want to build community.. . We don't want you to feel like you're all. alone and being the only. . machine knitter out there.. . As I said earlier, I always cringe when I. have to tell people,. . I teach people how to use knitting. machines, and they don't know what it is.. . So I keep a picture of one. and say, This is a knitting machine.. . This is what it is.. . I don't want you to feel. badly about being alone.. . Pinky says, Chunky, bulky punch cards,. is it a twelve hole.. . So punch cards do also come.. . We've got the twelve. . repeat and a repeat.. . What I've been waving here are repeats.. . There are also twelve repeat cards.. . I also recently discovered that the twelve. repeat cards are not interchangeable. . between the Toyota machine. and the Silver Reads.. . The cards are very different,. so be aware of that.. . If you're looking for repeat. punch cards,. . you find out whether they're. for a Silver Reads machine or if. . it's Singer Studio, or if they're for. Toyota, because they are very different.. . Singer is a hole.. . So I came across this interesting thing.. . I'll take the last couple of minutes here. to show you a little. . device that I came across.. . This is called a PS, and it was. for the Singer and machine.. . And what this is, is a punch card reader.. . You stick the punch card in,. just like you would any punch card device.. . And then.... . I lost it.. There it is.. . Then you insert this needle pusher.. . Basically, all this is,. is a needle pusher.. . You insert it in, select the needles,. and the pushers then. . can be used to pull needles just like you. would any other needle pusher. . that you use on your machine.. . So these position them. according to the punch card.. . The punch card travels around just. like any other punch card machine.. . It's a really cool little tool.. . I wish there was something like this. for the other machines that we use.. . And this is very,. very specific to that Singer Silver. . Studio, whatever, and .. . I'll be doing a video on this.. . If you're interested,. it'll also be available for sale at some. . point because I don't have that machine.. . So if it's something that you're. interested in, just let me know.. . I do have that machine.. . It says, If you want to have fun,. put a hole into your standard . stitch machine and see what happens.. . Absolutely.. . You can get some really. interesting things.. . Punch card dimensions are brand-specific.. . Brothers holes, Pfaff and Passap.. . I lost it.. . Has So. the standard for Brother and Silver Singer. . is , and those are interchangeable.. . The only difference is you have. to remember that the card. . goes down inside the device.. . And so row one on a Brother machine.. . Row one on a Brother machine would be. different than row one on a Silver Singers. . or what other machines are there?. I don't know.. . I'm drawing a blank.. . Go to knititnow/punchcards, I believe.. . I'll make sure there's. an S on the end of it.. . No S on the end of it.. . Let me go there and show you.. . There's a whole classroom on punch cards,. which is something I should. . have mentioned earlier.. . So if you are interested more in this. topic,. . there's a lot of information about using. punch cards and where they fit. . into the machines and the differences. between the machines.. . There's a whole section on that,. on which machine goes where.. . Yeah, row five for singer machines,. . row 7 for brother, and I forget.. I've got it here somewhere.. . It's here in the video.. . Anyways, just remember that the punch card. has to go down, so you may see row 1 up. . top, but that's not the row that's going. to be being read by the fingers inside. . the machine because it's. going down inside the machine.. . So be aware of that.. . And there's a whole video on that and. the differences between the machines.. . Cheryl said that she. found a stir light at.... . Was it Walmart?. . I don't remember where. you said you found it.. . And she gave the dimensions. there in the chat.. . And I've lost the chat.. . All righty, so what else have. we got going on here, guys?. . Anything else?. . I think I've covered everything. I wanted to cover for today.. . So until next time, let's see if I can. get back to the chat and see if I don't.... . I don't want to ignore anybody.. . And if I didn't see your comment, please. just remind me and nag me, sue@knititnow.. . Let's see what I have here.. . Have you heard about using a cricket. machine to cut punch cards?. . Absolutely.. . And it is very intriguing.. . We had a conversation about that, I think,. in the community, and I believe. . there is also a video about it.. . You can also Google it.. . There's folks that have spent a lot. of time working with the cricket. . machines to cut there.. . And so instead of punching each and every. hole, the cricket machine cuts. . the holes for you a lot faster.. . I just don't need yet another hobby, but. If that's what you're interested, I. . don't need any more machines in my house.. . It's Knititnow/punchcard or punchcards.. . Matt, is it with an S or not?. . Go to the Classrooms,. go to Learn and then classrooms,. . and look for punch cards,. and you'll find this whole subject there.. . We also have done previous. lives on punch cards.. . You might be interested in that.. . For members, you can see the replays.. . If you go the live area, Knititnow/live, you can see the replays. and just search for punch card.. . So we did some a little bit. different topics about punch cards.. . So if you're interested,. check that out as well.. . All right, Pauline needs. to get to her dinner.. . Sorry from keeping you for your dinner.. . Go eat it while it's still warm, Pauline.. . So thank you again,. everybody, for joining us.. . Thank you for your support of Knit It Now.. . As always, I'm here if you need help, if. I can answer any questions or do anything.. . I love talking machine. knitting, so let me know.. . Sue @ Knit It Now.. . Until next time.. Happy knitting, everyone.. . Bye now..