I’ve started a monumental journey - a Punch Card library! See my new PUNCH CARD page!
After watching Sally Butcher’s - Silver Reed Machine Knitting: How to use a LC2 Lace Carriage on YouTube where she introduced the “additional sets of Knit Master Cards” - Set 62, 63, 64, 65 - Imagine my happy surprise to see the manual’s themselves online for free (I would just need to punch the patterns in the electronic files themselves). Therefore I set about recreating the cards in these series. I finished Set 62 tonight.
I have non-punched blue (Brother) and red (singer) 57 row cards as well as two blank rolls of unlined punch card material. All of that is a thin but flexible plastic.
The aim on the print outs were to ensure ONLY one punch card pattern was displayed on one card - and in the case where the punch card took up two pages - I printed that punch card pattern so that two pages showed on one sheet. None of the printouts came out the exact dimensions of the actual punch card material so I knew I would have to make each one from the files.
I woke up this morning with the thought that I should make a video on the process I use - perhaps someone does something better? Perhaps my method helps someone else? I recorded footage today and will hopefully finalize it when I can (although I now have two video topics needing edit on my phone).
I’ve also found that the single hole punch that I have doesn’t like the plastic roll of punch card material so I’m pretty thankful for finding the “punching machine” shown in the first image.
VIDEO COMING - delayed for now with other priorities
I’ve taken to using the blue Brother blank punch cards (that I removed the numbers) as a photocopy template “Transfer Template” for charting the printed punch card patterns. I’ve been using a red Singer blank punch card as a guide to trim the end of the card and outline the beginning of a new card onto the completely blank roll of punch card material.