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I've made several of these dishcloths on my manual KX350 midgauge machine with a bit of Maysville 8/4 cotton rug warp. (See my post of January 2014) But I made them by manually changing yarn colors and it got to be quite tedious and not real easy on my arms. A gal on Ravelry made the same dishcloth pattern using 2 carriages, one for each color. Now, just why didn't I think of that? I made a couple up today and was quite happy that I could get them done in about half the time as I did by manually changing yarns as with the others. This is a great alternative to not having a color changer, providing you have 2 carriages for your machine. I'm happy and well on the way to a few more Christmas stocking stuffers.
Here's how I did it:
1) CO 46 sts with waste yarn and ravel cord,
2) T5, with main color, e-wrap and K1R to left,
3) Beg with the 1st needle, pull out to hold position every other needle,
4) Both carriages on hold, K1R to right with main color,
5) Beg with the 2nd needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
6) Use the carriage on the left to hold the contrasting color and K2R, with carriage ending on the left hand side,
7) Beg with 1st needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
8) K2R with the main color in the carriage on the right,
9) Beg with 2nd needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
10) K2R with the contrast color in carriage on the left.
1) CO 46 sts with waste yarn and ravel cord, 2) T5, with main color, e-wrap and K1R to left,
3) Beg with the 1st needle, pull out to hold position every other needle,
4) Both carriages on hold, K1R to right with main color,
5) Beg with the 2nd needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
6) Use the carriage on the left to hold the contrasting color and K2R, with carriage ending on the left hand side,
7) Beg with 1st needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
8) K2R with the main color in the carriage on the right,
9) Beg with 2nd needle, pull out to hold position every other needle and the others back to lower working position,
10) K2R with the contrast color in carriage on the left.
11) Knit in this pattern til RC170, take carriage off hold, K across to the left and back stitch BO.
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I'm not that familiar with the KX350. When you say to move every other needle to non working position, is that the same as lower working position? On my machines you can't really move needles that have stitches to non working position.
ReplyDeleteOopsie. Yes, I meant to lower working position. Will change it right now. Thanks for catching that and letting me know.
DeleteHi, I like this one. But I cannot understand what K1R og K2R means. Please...
ReplyDelete'K1R' means Knit 1 Row and 'K2R' means Knit 2 Rows. Please ask if there's anything else I can help with. I do hope you try these.
DeleteThis is fabulous!! I have the Brother 390 Convertible, but have always used the 400 carriage. I was posting on one of the machine knitting face book groups and one person showed your link. I really really need to get my 390 carriage fixed so I can use it and the 400 carriage at the same time. Excellent tutorial and great pictures. THANK YOU!!
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