Making ladders and lace holes by transferring stitches using the single eyed tranfer tool

Video instruction is at the bottom of the page.

Abbreviations:

Needle right back in the bed = non working position (NWP)

Needle hooks level with the gate pegs = working position (WP)

1. Put the eye of the tool over the hook of the needle you wish to transfer to another needle.
2. Pull the needle right out, keeping the tool level with the bed of the machine. The stitch will slide down the needle opening the latch as it goes.
3. Push the tool away from you, keeping the tool level with the bed, so that the needle slides back into NWP. The stitch will slide onto the shank of the tool.
4. Without changing the position of the tool, bring your hand downwards, swivelling the tool on the edge of the bed so it points upwards.
5. Keeping the tool in this position, take the tool OUTSIDE the gate pegs so that the stitch does not catch on them and slip the eye of the tool over the adjacent needle hook.
6. Lift your hand swivelling the tool on the hook, so that the tool points down at an angle, and slip the stitch off the tool onto the new needle’s hook.
7. If the stitch has remained between the hook and the latch, push the needle back into WP.

If the stitch has slipped past the latch, pull the needle fully out towards you otherwise the stitch will drop. 

To make a ladder, push the empty needle to NWP. 

To make a lace hole, return the needle to WP.

 

To return a ladder to knitting, bring the empty needle to WP. To return multiple needle ladders back to knitting, bring needles back to WP one at a time, knitting at least one row before bringing the next one forward.

To knit a series of vertical ladders, transfer alternate needles.

To knit a large ladder, start by making one ladder and then transfer the edge needles outwards at both sides, knit one or more  rows between each double transfer.

  A series of ladders create a see-through pattern.

Wide multiple needle ladder.

            

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