Garter Carriage Buttonholes
shared by Carol LeBlanc gleblanc@uslink.net
This is what I have done many times for horizontal button holes in GC work.
I hand knit for years before I got may machines and GC and I just did what many hand knitting patterns did and adopted it machine knitting. The secretis to "wrap" the 1st band stitch on each side of the buttonhole.YOU START YOUR FIRST ROW OF THE BUTTON HOLE WHEN YOUR GC IS ON THAT SIDE.
Let the machine knit the number of stitches before the start of the buttonhole, STOP the GC, now pull down the yarn so there isn't any tension on yarn
and lay the yarn behind the row counter knobs and then knit the number of stitches needed for the button hole. Stop the GC and pull the yarn above the cone and reestablish the tension drag from the wire. Finish the row.Next you go back to the lose knit stitches that make your button hole. I'm going to use the following to explain 5 band sts - 4 hole sts - 4 band st -
rest of garment.
X X X X X = = = = X X X X GARMENT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Take your latch tool into 6 and pick up 5 on a transfer tool and then take the latch tool and wrap that stitch around 5, rehang 5 on its proper needle.
Latch off 6,7,8,9, 10. Now you have 4 stitches off and stitch 10 on the latch hook, rehang 10 back on its needle.
Let the machine knit the entire next row and stop and remove GC from the bed to out side of the turn magnets. Now you will ravel out the first 9 stitches. Take your latch tool and go into the stictch in the row below on needle 10 and using the yarn pull out a stitch using the latch tool and then latch tool chain over the 4 empty needles, hang the loop from the latch tool on needle 5 stitch by picking up 5 and pulling thru the loop on the latch tool and then hang that back on 5. What you have done is to prevent the loop stretching out the band. Then using the double ended latch tool knit the 5 stitches in the correct pattern.
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Eliminating the distorted birdseye in DBJ
In answer to the problem when doing Double Bed Jacquard of the birdseye border not looking like birdseye you expected on the afghan,
but looking more like wavy lines when using the LILI buttons:
I was once told that due to the birds eye on the back and then on the front that you should never use it that way. The suggestion was to leave the
birds eye on the back using the lili buttons and on the front to do the
following:
OXOX
OXOX
OXOX
OXOX
So instead of the birdseye that you were making on the front border use this pattern that is double length.
2 stitches high instead of only 1 stitch. This eliminates the problem.
The other option is to make it a solid color border more like a picture frame. I prefer this method and I use the darker color for the frame.
Usually I am using white or off white with a color contrast. By using the
darker color for the border it doesn't show the dirt as much and can go longer between washings.
Carol LeBlanc in MN
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