User:Aksellr/Knitting

General Ideas

• I love to knit.
• How do I mix XPUB practices with manual crafting?
• Knitting is basically bitmap or binary code.
• How to make that work together?

I already knew I wanted to work on something more manual and crafty coming here, especially on some more forgotten craft, invisible labour, etc..

Since I started knitting semi-recently, I thought that it would make sense for me to find a way to connect XPUB and knitting, because first, why not? and second, because it will keep me motivated in both sectors. Now, the difficulty lies in finding a way to have a more curated and unique approach of the topic(s), since knitting isn't exactly a recent invention, and nor are knitting machine and punch cards programming.

Punch Cards and Intarsia

Data punch cards as knitting charts, for coding messages. Using the Star SG-10 fonts charts as intarsia knitting charts? → File:Star-SG-10.pdf

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That's what I med out of it! I had to make the grid 10x18 instead of 5x9 to acomodate for the half pins of the Star SG-10 matrix printer!

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Idea for making 5x9 grid knitting chart:

make a clickable grid + a screenshot button

Code inspirations:

grid: app.js ??→https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/clickable-grid-forked-pm9lxq

screenshot: https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

Knitting Chart Semi-Generator:

exp-1 : https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~aksellr/knitting/knit-exp-1/test-1.htmlneed to use a grid of 10x18 instead of 5x9

**I need to check what Eleni did for one of the 3DS dungeon room!!**

Fonts?

I'm still at core a graphic designer who loves fonts, pixel fonts, grid fonts, any fun fonts. I went back to the old sketchbooks and found those, and I think I can definitely knit those!

I also sketched those during class at some point, and it got me into making a new vectorised inktrap font, so maybe this is also usable:

This is not knittable in that state, but pixel drawing brought me to wanting to go back to font designing, so I thought it was worth mentioning at some point during that presentation.

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Using Old Sketchbooks and Pixel Art:

Technical issues with intarsia, but we're getting somewhere I guess.

I recently started working on some pixel art/drawing again, either using pen and paper and tiny notebooks, but also using Aseprite. I used one of my old sketch to practice intarsia on a vest I was knitting, and though not perfect, the result is actually pretty fun!

References:

Vera Van de Seyp https://veravandeseyp.com/

Stephanie Vilayphiou https://monoskop.org/St%C3%A9phanie_Vilayphiou

Patterns

Keeping my patterns here. Most of them are not free, but free to use for XPUB since I put them here I guess.

Oversized Knited Flat sweater (ENG) → Knitted Flat Sweater

Measurements are kind of off, the length of the front and back panels is super super long, so it gives a very weird fit

Oversize Raglan Sweater (FR) → Raglan Sweater n°9 by My Favorite Things Knitwear

Favorite Raglan Pattern so far, the fit is great. I could've gone down a needle size, bit it makes it extra cosy

Oversize V-Neck Vest (ENG) → V-neck vest/slippover n°2 by My Favorite Things Knitwear

In progress → A lot of panelling, so be prepare to knit flat a lot! I added a little bit of antarsia at the bottom/back of the vest

Notes

In relation to ascii? Bitmapping?