Elongation / double length

Machine types that can knit it

• Single bed, punch card
• Single bed, electronic
• Single bed (punch card) + ribber
• Single bed (electronic) + ribber
• Double bed with pushers (Passap type)

The full card

What it looks like

The motif appears twice as tall. Every card row is knitted twice, so the pattern looks smoother vertically and compensates for squashed Fair Isle proportions.

How it behaves

As the base stitch.

How it works

On machines with an intermittent card-feed position, the card advances on one direction of travel only (KH-891: card rotates only when the K carriage moves right to left). The same selection is used for two rows.

Machines

Built in: KH-830 (intermittent feeding lever in service manual), KH-836 ("expand pattern two times"), KH-891, KH-260 (long-triangle lever position), some SR models. KH-821: no. [inference, high] Workaround [inference]: toggle the card lock lever by hand, locked for one pass and rotating for the next, or punch each row twice on the card.

Parameters

×2 only. Tuck/slip stacks double in height, so the vertical limits halve (e.g. ≤ 2 card rows of stacked tuck). 1. Carriage on the right. 2. Before each left-to-right pass, set the lock lever to ● (the same row is reselected). 3. Before each right-to-left pass, set it to rotate. 4. Or simply punch a doubled card.

Card design rules

If punching a doubled card, the card length doubles; check the 24-wide repeat still loops properly.

Charting

Draw the design rows once and mark "×2 rows". On the card, each design row appears as 2 identical rows.

Limits and common problems

Forgetting a toggle shifts the pattern by one row. Doubling tuck rows breaks the 4-row limit.

Combines with

Fair Isle (aspect correction), mosaic, tuck (carefully).

Related techniques

• Two-colour Fair Isle
• Multi-colour Fair Isle by feeder changes
• Single motif
• Float control (latching, hooking up, bird's-eye dots)
• Double-bed jacquard (needs ribber)
• DBJ with bird's-eye backing