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Reforming stitches

Having a garter bar to easily turn your work back and forth helps to give you a textured feel to your garment by changing the knit stitches to purl. But this only works well if you want to change a whole row of knitted stitches. Also if your machine does not have the garter carriage, it doesn't mean you can't get the effect that a garter carriage can give!

Plan out your design on graph paper. If you wish to use alternate squares to knit as purl, you can easily divide your width evenly and then reform every other square. To reform a purl stitch to a knit stitch, use your  latch tool to remove the stitch and float. Then place the stitch behind the latch and the float into the hook. Pull the float through the stitch and re-hang on your needle bed.

Another way of reforming your stitches is to twist them. It can be time consuming, but it can add a lot of interest to a section of your garment without much effort! Decide on how many stitches you wish to twist and in which kind of pattern you wish them to be placed. If you are twisting two stitches together, you can use your double eyelet transfer tool to take them off the needles and either give them a halfway twist or a full twist. If it is a halfway twist, you will need another eyelet transfer tool to transfer them to, so that they can be placed back onto the needle bed. If you wish to give them a full twist, then continue turning until you can transfer them back onto the needle bed. If you are only twisting a single stitch, it is easier to use the bodkin.

11/16/03