Punch card designer for knitting machines

How it works

1. Open Purlbed and choose New punch card.
2. Pick the technique (Fair Isle, tuck, slip or weaving) and draw the holes on the 24-stitch grid.
3. Check the preview of the repeat across 200 needles.
4. Print the 1:1 PDF at 100 % (the bar at the top must measure 100 mm) or download the Cricut cut file, then punch or cut the card.

What you get

• A card of any length, 24 stitches wide, saved in your browser.
• A preview of the pattern over 200 needles, so you see the repeat before punching.
• A 1:1 A4 PDF punching template and a Cricut SVG with the outline and holes in millimetres.
• A note per technique on what a hole means: contrast yarn for Fair Isle, a knitting needle for tuck and slip.

Which machines

For single-bed punch-card machines that read a 24-stitch card, such as Brother KH-820/821, KH-836, KH-860, KH-881, KH-891 and Silver Reed SK-280. A 24-stitch card does not fit 12-stitch bulky machines such as the Silver Reed SK-155. Machine types