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In knit-weaving, the weaving yarn passes either over or under a needle, depending on the pattern of holes on a punch card, the markings on an electronic card or your manual placement of the yarn. Whenever the weaving yarn shifts from lying over a needle to under the next, it is caught by a stitch at that point and is bound to the purl side of the fabric. Bring out the needles you wish to lay your secondary yarn over into the hold position. Lay your yarn or fabric over these needles and with your weaving brushes on, knit across. Some machines have special settings for knit-weaving, so check your manual. If designs are planned for isolated accents, you can weave with as many different yarns as you want in each row and also apply technique to multicolored inlay designs. Very often, designs that would be suitable for intarsia or tapestry are appropriate for knit-weaving. While intarsia must produce its own structure as it creates a design, a woven inlay is supported by a background fabric. Hence isolated knit-weaving is faster to knit and easier to control. To weave vertically once you’ve begun knitting, lay a strand of the secondary yarn across the hook of a needle. Knit two rows, then draw the secondary yarn upward and lay it into the same needle in which it was placed before. The yarn can be laid over the needle hook, or first under then over like an e-wrap, which creates a twill-like, diagonal texture. Another way to add interest to an area of your
garment is to knit-weave with a contrasting color on the knit side. To get the
knit-woven effect to show on the knit side of your garment, you need to remove
the stitch where you want the contrasting color (CC) to show and place this CC
across the stitch, leaving it there. Replace your stitch onto the needle. It's
that simple! Plan out a design on graph paper and just insert your CC in front
of those stitches!
11/16/2003 |
