Yesterday Charlie taught a few of us how to create loopy or tassels on a knit machine. if you use mohair type yarn you can recreate a really good imitation fur, but I decided to have a go at something similar to the Etro waistcoats I posted about the other week.
Basically you start a few rows of a plain knit. Then to create a tassel you just cut a length of yarn about a metre long and fold it until you have a bunch of yarn about 5-6 inches in length. push a needle out towards you, fold the bunch in half onto it and push it all the way back through the loop of the knit, then repeat this for every other needle until you finish a row.
You don't have to use yarn for your tassels, you can use strips of fabric too. You can see that I have combined strips of fabric from the scrap box in the sample below.
I also had a go at using some punch cards to create bi-coloured pattern knits. It works like magic!
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