Threadlace

Most machine knitters are familiar with the method of threadlace.
MC and L button pushed in on Brother machine

There is yarn in feeder A and a thin yarn or thread in feeder B. Selected needles knit only with the yarn in feeder B, the thread, and non selected needles are knitted with both, yarn and thread. As the thread is so thin the knitting looks like lace.

The yarn in feeder B was 2 strands of serger thread, yarn in feeder A Tamm Estilo. The top as an appearance of a lace top.

But there is more to threadlace.

The next example is a cardigan where thread and yarn are identical. The purl side is used as front side.

The next is only a small sample. Thread in feeder A and yarn in feeder B, again purl side as front. Every few rows the thread is picked up and rehung.

Lace top with skirt

I used a model from Machine Knitting Today, December 1994 and then modified to my liking.  I always draw the shape in Desingaknit, also the lace pattern.
The skirt is stockinette, darts on the waist. Bottom is started with  crochet cast on and then knitted to left. Again crochet cast on behind stitches and knitted to left, a total of 3 times.

Top has beads at the bottom front, back and sleeves.

Sideways knitted top

Sideways knitted top

I got the idea from here: https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/4149161/post364666433/
Translating software is not very good, but the pictures were enough to get the idea.
I used Tamm Perla. The bottom increases and decreases are done with a 20 prong transfer tool, shoulder slopes with 12 prong and neck edge with 6 prong.

Filet lace curtain panel

Filet lace curtain panel

This is the final result knitted on Brother KH940.

To achieve this I used a simple picture without many details.

The lace pattern in the background has 6 passes with the lace carriage and 4 with the knitting carriage. So in order to not distort the picture I stretched it by a factor of 1.5 in Photoshop. Any picture editing software works. Then opened up in Graphic Studio of DAK and transformed to a stitch pattern.

I then drew in the white areas the stitch pattern of the background. First I drew a small stitch pattern for the lace background, then inverted it because it seems I can draw only on the white non selected needle area. But as later for the finished pattern the animals need to be white, non selected, I again had to invert the whole pattern. Maybe there is an easier way, but this worked well.

final lace pattern

inverted lace pattern

and here is the final DAK stitch pattern.

144 st x 804 rows with lace carriage, 562 rows with knitting carriage. I started with a seam and ended with a seam to be able to hang it with a rod. Yarn was Bonita 100% mercerized cotton, finished size 22 x 37".

Here another set of curtains

Short rowing to achieve geometric shapes

Will do a demo tomorrow for my knitting club about short rowing geometric shapes, spirals and miters.

I got the idea from an article by Susanna Lewis in Machine Knitter's Source Jan/Feb and Mar/Apr 1998 called "Split Miters". She also describes the method in her book "A Machine Knitters Guide to Creating Fabrics"

You get a miter by casting on over a certain number of needles, then short rowing down to a few needles, then adding those needles again in the same intervals. For a spiral you would add all needles at once after the short rowing down.