Ran across a few swatches made with a SilverReed 280 punch card knitting machine while doing a little tidy up in the sewing room. These are not swatches for taking a gauge measurement for garment making, but rather just swatches to check out various pattern cards used in the pattern reader. Most of them are for patterns that I manually punched myself, so doubly important to make sure that I did them correctly!
And these next two are from cards that came with the machine, or with the lace carriage (which is purchased separately). Not worried about these being punched incorrectly, but I like to see how the pattern looks in actual wool.
Most of the self-punched cards were done from old manuals downloaded from the Pattern Library at Knitting Machines etc. There are card templates at other sites too, most noticeably a Russian machine knitting site, but I haven't tried them -- just a bit leery of Russian sites these days. There are also a few internet vendors with pattern cards, but availability is somewhat sketchy as these are mostly old stock -- as always, Mr. Google is your friend.
Now, maybe I need to actually put one of them to use in a garment, hmmm?
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