Flat Knitting

Intarsia Carrier Stroke & Overlap Waste Optimizer

Overlap is not waste you can design out — it is what holds the colours together. It is waste you have to cost, and it scales with the number of blocks, not the panel size.

Panel Design
cm
no.
no.
Carrier Overlap
cm
tex

Carrier Overtravel

— %

Travel beyond the panel width, per course

Stroke & Yarn

Average Block Width
— cm
Carrier Stroke per Block
— cm
Total Carrier Travel
— cm/course
Yarn in Overlaps
— g/panel
Total Yarn Traversed
— g/panel

Blocks are treated as equal width. Where one block dominates the panel the overtravel figure is conservative — the many narrow blocks are the ones paying the overlap penalty.

Intarsia Carrier Stroke & Overlap Waste Optimizer — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.