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@kaitlinms
Any knitting pattern is a beginner pattern if you’re willing enough to sit there and fucking suffer.
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
@we-are-threadmage
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a project, eh? . I think this winter I’m going to try to do as much stash busting as possible, starting with this hat. . I’ve been idly knitting it and just realized that I knit the body too long... oops! I’d rather this one not be slouchy, so I’m going to rip it back a bit. Oh well! . #knitting #wip
look i know this is a bit niche, but I would die for the human who wrote this pattern description. maybe you won’t feel the same if you haven’t spent hours and hours reading knitting pattern blurbs by the designer or the designers hype person.
OOF! OOF! how does FIFTEEN POINTS of DAMAGE TASTE?!
I wasn't liking how my shawl was turning out with the ombré yarn - the colours always changed where the lace pattern was and it broke everything up too much. So I turned it into a Tito hat! I'm on a bus to Guelph to visit my family, which is the perfect opportunity to finish (and start) some knitting. The yarn is Kim's Barn by @thebluebrickish. So pretty! #knitting
My sweater is "done", but now that it's dry and I've tried it on I notice that I've blocked it to be too long... oops! Let's give this another shot. #knitting #myfirstsweater
I'd say I'm about 95% done. 🙌 Things left to do include fixing the far-too-tight bind off on the body, weaving in all of the ends, and blocking. It's definitely bigger than I had hoped it would turn out, but it's bigger in a cozy way at least. I'm pretty excited that I'll be able to wear it soon. #knitting #myfirstsweater
I haven't felt like working on my sweater in a long time. Maybe because I'm eager for spring. I decided last night to give myself a due date of the end of April to get it finished, and then ended up finishing a sleeve. I'm in the home stretch now. 🙂 #knitting #myfirstsweater
My co-worker Greg won a plushie commission while we were raising funds for charity and he chose Geno from Super Mario RPG. As someone who only played twenty minutes of Mario RPG on an emulator in high school - I never really grew attached to the figure, but thought it would be an interesting challenge to take something like this on!
The figure was a bit difficult to plan out - I had to start with the head to gauge how big everything was going to be and worked with very little templates from there out. I think it ended up looking pretty good!
I was having trouble with large holes in the armpit when I was picking up stitches for the sleeve. I managed to fix it for the most part by picking up extra stitches in strategic spots and then knitting them together.
The armpit is still a little sloppy, but maybe it’ll block out, and maybe no one will look at my armpits. 😬
#knitting #myfirstsweater
“and maybe no one will look at my armpits.”
Literally my thoughts every day.
I was having trouble with large holes in the armpit when I was picking up stitches for the sleeve. I managed to fix it for the most part by picking up extra stitches in strategic spots and then knitting them together.
The armpit is still a little sloppy, but maybe it’ll block out, and maybe no one will look at my armpits. 😬
#knitting #myfirstsweater
IT LOOKS SO CUTE!!!!! Good job!! What’s the pattern?
Thank you! This is the Flax pattern by Tincan Knits. :)
I was having trouble with large holes in the armpit when I was picking up stitches for the sleeve. I managed to fix it for the most part by picking up extra stitches in strategic spots and then knitting them together. The armpit is still a little sloppy, but maybe it'll block out, and maybe no one will look at my armpits. 😬 #knitting #myfirstsweater
The yoke is finished and the sleeves are on waste yarn. Onto the body! #knitting #myfirstsweater
Just started on the second skein of yarn! I'm enjoying how quickly this is looking like a sweater. Sometimes it's hard to keep your motivation when the think you're knitting doesn't look like something until the very end. #knitting #myfirstsweater
I made a mistake in the collar and had to rip it back, but I've fixed it and I've carried on. I think the yoke is coming along nicely 😊 #knitting #myfirstsweater
The wind and rain are pounding on my bedroom window. I guess I'll knit in bed for a while. #knitting #myfirstsweater