PurlbedCables and lace › Transfer lace
Fine lace (L-carriage F setting)
Small, semi-open "holes" that look like enlarged stitches rather than true eyelets, since no needle is emptied. A subtle textured openwork. On lace carriages with a lace selecting/changer lever, the F position moves a stitch to the neighbour while the original needle still holds it, so a stretched…
- Single bed
- Needle selection
Machine types that can knit it
Demo swatch
Drawn for: Single bed, punch cardApproximate preview worked out from the bed chart, not a photo.Fine lace makes enlarged stitches rather than open holes; the preview draws them as holes.
The full card
- What it looks like
- Small, semi-open "holes" that look like enlarged stitches rather than true eyelets, since no needle is emptied. A subtle textured openwork.
- How it behaves
- Close to stockinette in width; soft.
- How it works
- On lace carriages with a lace selecting/changer lever, the F position moves a stitch to the neighbour while the original needle still holds it, so a stretched loop forms instead of a hole.
- Machines
- KH-830 L carriage (N/F lever, service manual), KH-881, KH-891. KH-821: not described, likely not possible. [inference]
- Charting
- As transfer lace, marked "F".
- Limits and common problems
- Needs a machine-specific lever.
- Combines with
- transfer lace on the same card (switching N/F).
Written in our own words from machine manuals, knitting references and swatching. Knit a test swatch before a whole piece.