Archive for the ‘Just for fun’ Category

Flying books

Monday, March 5th, 2012

The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. No Kindles.

We need one of these for MKing!

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Webs is a yarn supplier familiar to most knitters, the transition was from them providing roomfuls of yarn on cones to a considerable increase in HK supplies, and a drop in the former. Recently more coned yarn is being added. This video addresses some Sh*t that (hand)knitters say. Ditto re: About.com’s conducting a poll on HK reader’s choice.

Growing your own clothes

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Another TED talk.

Leaving it to chance

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Pattern generators: lace, cables, more including squares etc.

“Portrait sweater knits”

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

For a while now the video and directions on hacking a brother 930 knitting machine has been available online. One use for the patterning option is knitting bill cosby wearing a bill cosby sweater as seen here.

Some fiber/ other links

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

Ernesto Eto woven nests at Faena Arts Center. Architectural art by Do Ho Su photographs here. More of knit playground. More on knitting nancies: small and medium , and giant size, with its associated video. Knitting needles meet water droplets in outer space. Jenine Shereos works in human hair.

OT: muppets perform queen

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

adding this “just for fun”, yarn was probably sacrificed at some point in the making of this video.

Felt critters galore

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

at feltmistress, includes her my “year in 90 seconds” video.

A lego cord maker

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

An inventive approach to automating i_cord knitting.

A new use for waste yarn

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

This photo was actually taken last April. Part of my studio is in my unfinished attic, explaining the foil ceiling and boxes. It oh so truly helps to look UP from your knitting once in a while! I had just begun my lace experiments, things had been going so well in terms of avoiding dropped stitches I was mesmerized by the needle bed and my intact fabric…