Welcome back to the knitting with knitout series! This post will cover one quick technique, but it'll open up a lot of possibilities. I hope you're ready!| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab
This post is an addition to the blog post: Knitting with Kniout Part Three: Making Our Transfers. As I was searching for stitch patterns online, I found that most of the tutorials for hand knitting involved a sequence of knit/purl operations for each row. The instructions confused me, and they may confuse those of you who also do not have experience with hand knitting. So hopefully, this blog post can clear up some of those confusions.| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab
Welcome back to the Knitting with Knitout series! For this second tutorial, we'll be making a swatch of 1x1 ribbing, a particularly stretchy fabric that's often used for cuffs and edges where some stretch is appreciated. To do this, we'll be learning about the two different kind of stitches in knitting and how we can form them on a knitting machine. Forward and onward, dear readers!| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab
Knit lace patterns often move segments of loops to the left or right -- this results in a decorative hole at one end of the moved loops and a stack of stitches at the other end. The order that the stitches appear in this stack influences the appearance of the finished lace. In hand-knitting terminology, this stacking order determines the lean of the decrease -- so one might have a left-leaning or right-leaning decrease.| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab
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...| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab
In setting up the textiles lab at Carnegie Mellon, I found myself wanting some sort of logo to represent the lab, e.g., for the organization's github icon. So I set out to design something that satisfied three properties:| Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab