[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Parametric knitting

[hosbornejr at gmail.com]

Hi Tracy, I hope that there might be a recording of that chat. Yes, I would
like to hear more about this technique of knitting.
I have heard of these "Temperature Blankets."
That would be a good "Stash Buster."

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Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Parametric knitting

I heard an interesting lecture last night about parametric knitting.  It's a
design method that's supposed to appear more organic and random, and that
can be created without specific instructions. 

For instance, suppose you want to put an eyelet pattern into a fabric.  An
eyelet is a yarn-over and a knit-2-together.  You could decide that you want
the eyelets in a panel 30 stitches wide.  Then you throw dice to see how
many eyelets will be in the row you're going to knit, and you knit them in,
spaced however you want somewhere in your 30 stitches.  

Or, you could decide that an even number on a die (1 dice) will be a purl,
and an odd number will be a knit; throw the die and knit or purl the row as
the die indicates.  And, if you want, you could throw the die a second time
to tell how many rows of knit or purl to knit. 

I think I'll try making a scarf or two using these ideas.

 

This method can also be used to represent data.  The temperature blanket is
a popular project.  There are even kits to do it.  A certain color is
assigned to a temperature range.  Every day, you knit 1 row using the color
for that day's high temperature, and, at year's end, you have a blanket
showing what the weather was like for that year. 

I've been thinking about ways I might do this in a way more accessible to
me.  Maybe thicker, fuzzy yarn for when it's really cold, and maybe thin
yarn and more and more eyelets as it gets really hot.  It could be
interesting. 

 

He talked about other projects people have done to represent data.  A guy
knit in his baby's sleep habits for the child's first year, and at the end
he had a nice baby blanket.  A woman needed to keep track of her bowel
movements to help manage IBS, so she knit the data into a blanket!  

 

I would be happy to discuss this on a Monday night chat, if people are
interested, though what I know is pretty much what I just wrote.  We might
come up with some ideas together, though.

Tracy

 

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