At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

We’ve seen our fair share of interesting knitting hacks here at Hackaday. There has been a lot of creative space explored while mashing computers into knitting machines and vice versa, but for the ...

It turns out a knitting machine can work a bit like a 3-D printer. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Textiles Lab have created an algorithm that translates 3-D shapes in computer models into ...

This pattern was very kindly sent to us by Shirley Cowling, accompanied by a sample knit in 2 strands of 2/30s acrylic which had a lovely soft feel to it. Try it out yourself and see... Simply follow ...