Feed with Allowed Stepping

Feed

With the concept Feed is meant the positioning of a yarn carrier regarding the following knitting row of its own color field.
For this, there are many different options regarding the knitting technique.

Feed with Allowed Stepping: 1 needle

Examples for Feeding with different bindings and with allowed stepping 1 needle

 

Feeding with binding: Float - tuck - float and allowed stepping of 1 needle


1

Allowed stepping of 1 needle (default)

2

Binding for feeding with Tuck + Float

: Pay attention to the floating length!!!

Result:

The feeding with tuck is not visible on the fabric font.

: Through the input of allowed stepping, a float is knitted at this needle.

 

Feeding with binding: Stitch and allowed stepping of 1 needle


1

Allowed stepping of 1 needle

2

Binding for feeding Stitch

Result:

In the row of the feeding, an additional stitch row is knitted.

: At straight color field selvedges, there results an unattractive step through the 'allowed stepping' of one needle.

Numerical input under Allowed stepping

The number defines the quantity of needles at the color field selvedge, which is not knitted with the selected binding for feeding. At this position always results a float.

Feed with Allowed Stepping: None

Example for feeding with different bindings and with allowed stepping: 0 needles

 

Feeding with binding: Stitch and allowed stepping of 0 needle

2

Binding for feeding Stitch

:

Input at 'Allowed stepping': 0 (needle), i.e. the selected binding for feeding is entered over the entire color field step.

Result:

In the row of the feeding, an additional stitch row is knitted.

: At straight color field selvedges, there results a nice step through the 'allowed stepping' of 0 needle.