Machine: SK280
T: 7
CO: 146 st
536 rows

I cut the two pattern parts as separate punchcards using Brenda Bells Punchcard Generator and my Silhouette Cameo 4, taking printable plastic paper as material.

I added information on the punchcards, numbering the different patterns. After knitting the swatch I decided to group patterns together to larger units, as I saw that every larger pattern is framed by two similar smaller patterns. I decided to knit the two framing smaller patterns always with the same colours. I like the overall effect and also there is one third less decisions to make which colours to use next…

As a machine knit project it is considerably quicker than handknitting the same pattern, but: it is still Slow Knitting…There are many colour decisions to make, it takes quite much concentration, is rather meditative: at each pattern change the old threads have to be cut and both new colours have to be threaded into the mast and carriage. The old and new thread ends are woven in at the respective sides, a technique I learned in a Fair-Isle workshop with the fabulous Marie Bruhat at the Machine Knit Community - thank God I don’t have to sew them in at the end…

I am using my mountains of sock yarn remnants from a blanket project I will add to Ravelry some time.
To be able to use them without hassle on the machine I made little cones from toilet paper rolls and gummed (water activated) paper tape: I needed so many cones that I ran out of my plastic ones. And I must say I am really in love with them, they are so cute.
I shaped them over plastic cones, so I could even put them on an empty plastic cone for knitting if ever they were to light (up to now I did not have any problems, used up a few to the end, nothing tangling or jumping).

I plan to join the edges with my linker and then graft the ends together.