Anemone knitweave stitch pattern

It's important to note that the "knitweave" that I'm discussing in this post is the same technique that's referred to as "laying in the yarn" or "inlay" in the knitting industry and "weaving" in some popular machine knitting books. I am not referring to the knitting industry's "knitweave" fabrics. 

Here is a closer look at the knitweave stitch pattern from my last post Knitweave on a Japanese style machine.

This is the patterncard.


Depending on the weight of the "weaving" yarn, a stitch size just slightly larger than for plain jersey (stockinette) should be used. Follow the instructions for "weaving" or "knitweave" in your machine manual. The purl side is the public side of the fabric. Wherever there are blank squares (unselected needles) a float will be produced:  a tiny one-stitch float at the single unselected needles and long floats where there are 13 unselected needles. When the fabric is complete, simply take your scissors to the long floats and cut right down the center to create the fringe.

If you tug hard enough on the end of a piece of fringe, it is possible to remove it from your fabric. Since the fringe is woven in (passing in front of or behind the stitches), the backing fabric will not run or drop stitches. Using a weaving yarn that is substantially thicker than the yarn used for the jersey backing will prevent any accidental pulls.
And what happens if you don't cut the floats? 

This!