Lace Carriage Notes

I've made some notes for me for the lace carriage, with pictures.

Kitty, as always, is right on hand to help.

Dont move the needles beyond the needle bed.
Use ravel cord to hold stitches, (this works really well).
Take time to do it right.

Use the lace carriage to do the stocking stitch.
Yarn in the feeder, side levers forward and no punchard.

It knits at a looser stitch than the main carriage.

Inserted lace card

To tell the carriage where the pattern goes (starting from the back) :

bring the white lever next to the card forward.
Set the edge pins.
on the carriage flick the side levers forward, and the dial to transfer.

When ready to start, move both levers back and the centre dial down.

Increases and decreases are done on the opposite end so the carriage knows where it starts and it's new end position becomes it's new start for the next row.

Causes of jams are, the edgepins becomes dislodged sometimes, push it back. Also hold new ball under the feeder until it takes up.


When, say doing the second side, it's necessary to tell the carriage where to knit. LEAVE the near side edge pin in place, MOVE the farside pin to it's new position, move three levers into the "read" position: lever next to the card and side lever forward, dial to the left and yarn out. Move carriage past the new position for the left edgepin. Stop. move the first pin on the far right to it's new position, so now it knows where it's up to, thread up the machine and return all the setting to working position.

Make sure to pass BOTH edge pins AND the drums need to clear the punchcard assembly AND the row counter.