1. GKS User Guide
  2. How to Proceed
  3. Specify the Knitting Mode
  4. How to Assign Line Attributes
  5. How to Fill the Neckline

How to Fill the Neckline

You can specify for a neckline that within the shape edges will be knitted.

  • Only one yarn carrier will be necessary in the area of the neckline
  • Advantages in productivity by less carriage movements

How to Specify the Behavior of the Shape Line

  • The dimensioned shape is opened in the Dimensioning View .
  • Existing lines for the neck opening
  1. Open the context menu for the right shape line of the neck opening.
  1. Select the Line Properties.
  1. Switch to the Behavior of All Sizes tab.
  1. Activate the Fill Neckline check box.
  1. The hatching appears in the dimensioning view for the selected shape line and the mirrored shape line.
  1. Go to the binding-off line of the neck opening by the Back navigation button.
  1. Activate the Fill Neckline check box.
  • The option is activated for both lines on the right and their counterparts.

    The area between both shape edges gets to an area within shape.
    You can fill this area with special knitting modes with the pattern.

Using the Result in a M1plus Pattern

  1. Import the front of the GKS shape file into M1plus.
  1. Fill in floats into the intermediate area, if desired.
  1. Cut-out shape and expand pattern.
  1. Complete and knit the pattern.
  1. Cut-out the neckline from the fabric along the white markings.