[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Parametric knitting

[Ericka]

Hey Kathy, good luck on your eye surgery from Chad and I. I’ve gotten infection myself that I am eagerly awaiting Friday to see the eye doctor for.


Ericka Nelson


> On Jan 9, 2024, at 6:20 PM, Cathy Flesher via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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