midst of knitting a course of fabric with the row advance switch depressed the display steps upwardly from the row showing slowly at first and then more rapidly and cycles through the unit design rows on the card with the row descent switch depressed the display steps downwardly initially at a slow pace and then rapidly from the row showing and cycles through the unit design rows the operator selects the row he wishes to knit by releasing the row advance or row descent switch when the number of the row he wishes to knit appears he can then knit the selected row by moving the carriage across the bed of the machine after which the unit design rows will again be knit sequentially as the operator continues to move the carriage on the machine reversing its direction at each end of the fabric and the display will be updated accordingly to show the row being knit a momentary depression of switch 56 or 58 causes the display to immediately step up or down one design course row the operator can cause a particular row to be knit repeatedly any number of times and the number of the row to be displayed during this process this is accomplished by the operator moving the automatic and row repeat switch 54 into its r position and leaving it there until he has knit that row the desired number of times if vertical multiplication was perscribed the machine knits each unit design row two three or four times as was specified for the multiplication factor as the carriage 12 is moved back and forth across the bed 10 and the display is caused to show whether a.