[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Parametric knitting

[Cathy Flesher]

Hi Tracy,

Interesting topic! Unfortunately, since I live near one of the Great Lakes my blanket would be mostly gray. I don’t particularly like gray days or gray blankets either. <smile>
However, the many topics one can choose to measure is very creative and I like that idea. I also am fascinated about your idea of using various stitch patterns and yarn types to give the project something us blind folks can appreciate. I would enjoy coming to the chat. Please don’t have it scheduled on the 22 of January. I am having eye surgery that day and will likely be in too much pain to attend.

Thanks for sharing your idea and your willingness to contribute to the group.



May God bless you.
 Cathy F

> On Jan 9, 2024, at 11:40 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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