Greetings reader, and welcome to the start of the Knitting with Knitout series! Knitout is a machine-independent file format for representing low-level knitting machine instructions. You can find the specifications page here. As a fresh new PhD student looking to do research with the knitting machine (specifically on solving the transfer planning problem: a post about that coming soon to a textiles lab blog near you!), I've been spending the past two months learning how to knit on the machine...
