Bed charts, needle notation and punch cards for your technical book.
New bed chart
A semi-industrial V-bed used in colleges, with two equal steel beds, a hand-pushed carriage and separate cams for each bed, available from about 2.5 to 14 gauge. Ribs are set out in half pitch and the back bed racks in full-needle steps. There is no hold position and no per-needle selection, so short rows are not practical and patterns must be made with transfers, whole-bed tuck or slip, or high/low-butt needles. On a Dubied, 'holding' means tuck, not short-row hold.Examples: Dubied hand flats (including high/low-butt models); Universal hand flats; Older Stoll hand-driven V-beds.
How to draw for this machine
- Do not use hold cells; the app should block them or suggest moving loops to the other bed.
- In each pass, every working needle on a bed does the same thing (knit, tuck or miss), unless the high/low-butt split is marked.
- Any per-needle pattern must be rewritten as transfers or reduced to stripes.
- Draw ribs in half pitch and show racking as explicit full-needle steps.
- Use cross-bed transfers freely for pleats, travelling ribs and purl effects.
New punch card
24 stitches wide, for single-bed punch-card machines. Draw the card, preview it across 200 needles, and print a 1:1 punching template.
Standard chart
A printable grid at your gauge. Colour it in any drawing app or on paper (cyan front bed, violet both beds, white back bed), then export or photograph it and it comes back as an editable bed chart. Step-by-step guide included.
Get the chart and guidePlan from an image beta
Box areas of a sketch or photo, tag them, and get four ways to knit each one, easiest to hardest. Options are not yet verified by knitting.
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