A pattern of 24 stitches can be isolated or repeated all across the garment, but 24 stitches is the maximum pattern width. Simply put, no. It genuinely depends on what the knitter wants to accomplish. It really depends on whether the knitter will want to expand beyond the punchcard limitations. Electronic machines can be programmed with wider patterns, and can be interfaced with software that allows a paint program to design patterns on a computer and then downloaded to the knitting machine.
Machines come as a single bed items with manuals and tools.
Ribbers and Garter Carriages are optional. If you are a hand knitter, you understand that in knitting, the yarn is pulled through the stitch from back to front. When purling, the needle is inserted from behind and the yarn is pulled through from front to back. A Garter Carriage is an optional, electrically propelled carriage that drives itself across the needlebed, knitting, purling, or doing a combination of those stitches, entirely by itself. If you like the look of seed stitch, moss stitch, garter stitch, etc.- then this gadget may be for you.