Yarnya

I'm Tanya - A spoonie crafter from Essex, UK, filling her days with beautiful things. There's a whole world full of yarny goodness out there - remember to bring tea & cake.

[eegahisms]

in case your obsession with Campaign 2 isn’t visible enough, here’s a lockscreen featuring the Mighty Nein!

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[geyashvecova]

Art G.Shvecova (Design graphics - Purple stars_1412)

[ornerine]

The gang’s all here! I had the enormous honor of doing the character art for Critical Role’s second campaign; here are the Alpha portraits of the new party!

[eldritchscholar]

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.

[benegesserwitch]

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.

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[knitting-while-black]

This is the coolest and not something i would have thought of! Thank you for the little bit of joy this brought

[yarnya]

I've hurt my wrist - BOOOOOOOO - so down goes the crochet and up comes the wine. This had better heal quick 😕 . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarn #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #katgoldin #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleydk #britishwool #sloemittens

[yarnya]

Time to put some thumbs in this pair of #sloemittens 😊 . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #katgoldin #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleydk #britishwool

[yarnya]

Saturday night tea and knitting. Thankfully these #maizemitts are not irritating my wrist as much as the crochet was. Yay! 😄 . #knitstagram #knittersofinstagram #knitaddict #craftastherapy #yarn #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #tincanknits #tincanknitsmaize #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleyaran #britishwool

[yarnya]

I'm going to be cosy this winter! . Yarn - West Yorkshire Spinners Aire DK Pattern - Sloe Mittens by the #crochetproject . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #katgoldin #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleydk #britishwool #clevercrafters

[yarnya]

A close up of the stitch detail on these #sloemittens - so pretty! 😍 . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarn #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #katgoldin #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleydk #britishwool

[yarnya]

Curling up with a delicious cup of @bluebirdteaco #terrystea and my scrap blanket. I always said that I didn't like black tea but this came in my tea subscription and I LOVE IT! 🤗 . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarnlove #yarnaddict #scrappyblanket #scrapblanket #teatime #bluebirdteaco #brightenupnovember

[yarnya]

Trying out linked trebles for the first time in these #sloemittens and I love it 😄 . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarn #yarnlove #yarnaddict #thecrochetproject #katgoldin #westyorkshirespinners #airevalleydk #britishwool

[yarnya]

Way back on the 3rd October I pledged to complete at least two of the following for the #autumnwal17: 1 - #calebthemonster only needed some toenails but i needed to find some yarn first. 2 - The #spiceoflife jumper was the newest cast on of the lot. 3 - My #nurmilintushawl was cast on at Christmas and I had 1.5 sections to go. 4 - I had 2 more squares to complete for my #pinwheelscrapblanket. Now the cal has ended and I have finished three of these projects, with the fourth very near completion! I also managed to make flowers for one out of 5 of our wedding bouquets (no pics as they're a suprise). I am so happy 😁 Now to make a list for November.... . #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #amigurumi #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #yarnlove #yarnaddict #knitstagram #knittersofinstagram #knitaddict #laceknitting #knittingilove

[yarnya]

Today for #autumnwal17wipwed I'm going to be working concurrently on these two sleeves - almost there now! 😄 . Yarn - @stylecraftyarns #stylecraftspecialcotton #4ply Pattern - @simplycrochetmag issue 57, #sliceoflife re-imagined by #franmorgan . #autumnwal17 #crafts #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #sctreblemaker

[yarnya]

89 stitches into the ends of 40ish rows - a great excuse to use some pretty #stitchmarkers to divide the fabric so that I space them evenly. .j Makers are: @ohforhookssake, @thestitchinghour, @crafternoontreats . #crafts #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #sctreblemaker #stylecraftspecialcotton #stylecraft #slice of life #franmorgan #autumnwal17

[yarnya]

The front and back of my jumper are DONE! Yay 😃 . Yarn - @stylecraftyarns #stylecraftspecialcotton #4ply Pattern - @simplycrochetmag issue 57, #sliceoflife re-imagined by #franmorgan . #crafts #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #sctreblemaker #autumnwal17

[yarnya]

And finished object number two for #fofridayawal17! My #nurmilintushawl knit in a gorgeous dyed merino and silk blend from @thewoolkitchen 😍 . #autumnwal17 #heidialander #thewoolkitchen #crafts #knitting #yarn #yarnlove #yarnaddict #knitstagram #knittersofinstagram #knitaddict #laceknitting #knittingilove #craftastherapy

[yarnya]

The first of two finished objects for #fofridayawal17 - Yay! Here is Caleb, along with a few of my other cuties made with @toft_uk yarn, and larry the sloth that Mum knit for me 😄 . #autumnwal17 #crafts #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetlove #amigurumi #crochetgirlgang #crochetconcupiscence #craftastherapy #sctreblemaker #kerrylord #toft #edwardsmenagerie #edsanimals #edsimaginarium #edsflipbook #calebthemonster #gregorthetrex #bridgettheelephant