#Fabricademy bootcamp 2025
May 19→25

Don't miss this year's bootcamp in Brussels to encounter international fellows in the field of #textile, #engineering and #biology.

I am co-organizing it through the #fablab @GreenFabric and the #fabricademy team (@fabtextiles ).

A great opportunity to test Fabricademy themes and way of working through intense hands-on workshops. It will cover #biomaterials with #mycelium #fungi, #modulardesign, #machineknitting with the #kniterate machine, using the #opensourcehardware machines that we built, #etextile with thermochromic inks.

Don't miss also the #MakerFaire on the following week-end (May 26-27) with the Fabricademy exhibition of final projects and a workshop on #softrobotics.

More info on https://bootcamp2025.textile-academy.org.

Boosts are more than welcome!

This morning, #typedesign students from erg came to @greenfabric to experiment type and #knitting.
Lots of glitches on the #kniterate machine because I was not focused enough preparing the files.
I'm also curious to see their hand-embroidered letters on the white knit.

Thanks @Ludi for bringing the nice group!

To be continued in 2 weeks...

@knitting
#machineknitting
#typeknitting

The #kniterate machine in action @greenfabric .

Yesterday evening, artist Anna Reutinger organised a knitting jam session at @greenfabric to knit scarves. The sales of these scarves will help Palestinian children.

6 persons, 3 hacked domestic machines, 1 #kniterate, 6 scarves, a lot of sweat and laugh!

No need for basic fit

If you are in #brussels and you'd like one, let us know!

WIP #machineknitting a pattern from reaction-diffusion system simulation

Knit print: custom knit fabric photographed and layered under a digital drawing #art #drawing #digitalart #portrait #draw #portraitart #procreate #Chicagoartist #portraitartist #portraitcommissions #artist #sktchy #museumbysktchy #knitting #knittingmachine #machineknitting #FiberArtist

strip-p-ed out

A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?

First success with double-bed jacquard #knitting
Using a vintage brother electroknit machine and knittington

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ).

#genuary2025 - Day 13:

Triangles and nothing else.

#machineknitting + rule 129

Why not, maybe I'll just put the poll here too :) I'm planning my second hybrid sock-knitting project, where I'll make the colourwork legs on the machine and then enjoy the mindless mile of stockinette down the heels and feet (okay, it's really only about 1/8 mile). I've done this once before and really liked the result:
https://sunny.garden/@emery/113034317590877467

I found the diamonds pattern on a picture of a sock somewhere and charted it up, then started playing with the pixels and came up with several variations. And while I do have a favourite, I like them all and am curious to see which YOU like best!

For some reason Mastodon doesn't allow both image attachments and polls on the same post, so I'll put the actual poll in a reply.

The blanket has been c-drama tested and cat approved. It's heavy and unwieldy, but it's like curling up under a gigantic warm cloud, so I don't mind. Wool ftw!

Finally finished my blanket! Roughly 1.5*2m, knitted on an Addi knitting mill while watching old Mythbusters episodes. Could it look better? Probably, but it's still a humungous blanket I can wrap myself into like a burrito - and since it's a converted sunk cost fallacy project I call this a double win!

Sweater's done, fiddly bits and all. Woohoo!

Two days to knit the four pieces on the machine, one day to seam, one day to weave in all the ends, and two days to fuss with handknitting this neckline. I know it *can* be done on the machine, and I plan to experiment with it when I'm not in such a hurry to finish the project.

I’ve been wearing my new purple sweater like it’s a hug. We had cool weather so I got to wear it at Thanksgiving, and I could hear in my mind the exclamation that Grandma would have made at seeing it – “Ohhhh, PURple!”

What I tried for this sweater, and what I'd do differently next time: https://www.knittingpirate.com/2024/12/03/in-which-the-pirate-wears-purple/

P.S. I've already started a pair of chonky cabled socks with the leftover yarn.

Today, instead of working, I got started on a new sweater. It's a machine-knit project, so it's going to go fast - if it goes well, that is. Otherwise it will just go badly, fast.

I knit one of the sleeves first, but when I held it up to a previous sweater it seemed like it was a little long. Did I measure the gauge swatch correctly? I re-measured... four times. And then I threw the sleeve in the washer (on delicate) and dryer (on medium), because I'm using superwash sock yarn for this sweater (muahaha).

When it came out of the wash, the stitches had fluffed up nicely and the sleeve was a much better length... so I knit the second sleeve and then the back. I will try to get the front done tomorrow, and then I can do the seaming over the weekend.

I don't have any pictures of the sweater pieces yet, but I did try to get a quick video of the knitting machine. The carriage movement isn't entirely smooth here, because I'm trying to hold the camera still while I knit. It's usually a little less jerky than this, but you can see that it does take some effort to move it.

I will not buy a mid-gauge knitting machine, I will not buy a mid-gauge knitting machine, I will not--

Swatching for a hat on the standard gauge machine: https://www.knittingpirate.com/2024/10/19/in-which-the-pirate-stashbusts/

Found an original instruction video for how to work with a punchcard knitting machine... this is fascinating both for the mechanical aspects of the machine and for the production of the video.

They are working on a KnitKing KK93, which is the same machine as a Brother KH891. I have a KH890 - the only difference is that the 891 has a built-in "knitleader" (a patterning device that uses mylar sheets). The punchcard functionality is exactly the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgTjQjXQwbA

The Mint Chocolate Chip Sweater is finished! Now I just have to wait 'til it's cool enough to wear a sweater...

I didn't end up doing that chain stitch neckband treatment. But I'm pretty happy with the result of what I did instead.

Details on the blog: https://www.knittingpirate.com/2024/10/06/in-which-the-pirate-takes-pictures-8/