Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to “print” digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby’s face.

http://andrewsalomone.com

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/09/machine_knitting_a_cosby_sweat.html

music by i am jen

Here’s an introduction to a fun knitting technique that’s often considered “too advanced” for hobby knitters: cables. http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/10/craft_video_knitting_cables.html

When I posted about the amazing yarn I customized at Yarnia in Portland, OR, I got a lot of questions about plying yarn. At Yarnia the yarn is wound together from many “singles,” or individual strands of yarn to make up one unit, but the strands remain individual, making it a little more difficult to work with than plied yarn. I asked one of my professors, fibers artist Jerry Bleem, if he could teach my class how to ply yarn, or twist the singles together into a single strand, and in this video he does just that. Plied yarn is also much easier to work with on a knitting machine than non-plied yarn because there’s less of a chance of one of the individual fibers catching where it’s not supposed to. If you have a crafty question, send it on over to me at becky@craftzine.com for use in a future installment of Ask CRAFT!
For more info go to: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/03/ask_craft_plying_yarn.html