#data knit

[mostly-functional]

Data would probably be great at knitting and crocheting. His hands can work faster than humans, the yarn tension and size of the stitches would always be uniform and he could make up or edit patterns super easily because it’s just math

[hotcinnamonsunset]

yeah I have an applied mathematics degree. what am I applying you ask?? applying the fibonacci sequence and sine waves in this sweater knitting pattern. obviously.

[tiberius-kirks]

hello everyone I present to you the fruits of my half-drunken labors:

[mathysphere]

Pattern sorting website should be up after work tonight! Everything seems to be working okay, just gotta clean up the dataset a little more and get everything public

[mokutone]

thank you to northstarfan for the kofi tip!!! here's a drawing of hugh from star trek picard! 😄

[knithacker]

Rickie van Berkum's Handknitted Data Visualizations Combine Science and a Lifetime of Fiber Art: 👉 https://buff.ly/3Lemus3

[yourfavoritewerewolf]

part of me wants to frog the chaos cardigan panel i have done so far and use the yarn in a granny stripe crochet sweater using a free pattern instead? like crochet is calling to me rn and it goes so much faster than knitting....

this vote will be legally binding lmao give me guidance

[numbers-have-feelings-too]

Knitting for the quietly enraged

Yarn-based data visualisation – which is very much a thing, if you didn’t already know – often seems to come with an undercurrent of rage attached to it.

One of the first examples I remember was a woman in Germany, who knitted a colour-coded scarf that recorded every time train delays ruined her commute.

Not too long after came a scarf from a city councillor knitting her way through meetings in Montreal. She changed colours based on the gender of the person speaking: green for women and red for men. The scarf was, inevitably, mostly red.

These both feel allied with the slightly bigger phenomenon of the ‘temperature scarf’. Lots of people have done these, and they’re the ones you’re most likely to have seen. Artist and author Josie George knitted one in 2020, recording the weather every single day for a year.

Of course, the weather rarely behaves as it should these days. After recording a week of unseasonably hot May weather, she tweeted:

“For me, a month of deep grief and deeper resolve, side by side, as I looked unflinchingly at the world's damage. I read and spoke words of hope and change as I knit. I continued. I committed. I began again.”

Knitting is steady, continuous, and pattern-driven. It’s perfect for making a record of things as they happen.

And that’s how it goes with a lot of things we get angry about. They happen once - a train is late, a man drones on, the temperature lurches into something alarming - but it’s just one little thing. Not enough to justify rage.

And then they keep happening, and happening again. React to any one instance and you look irrational. But keep a record, quietly, politely, and calmly, and maybe you get to feel like you’re building the evidence base for a revolution.

Or not. Whether or not you get to make your point, whether or not other people listen, just the act of recording might feel important. You get to process the things that you have to put up with, without ignoring the part of yourself that’s insisting it isn’t right.

[ofsunhillow]

vlc media player save me

[twpsyn-who]

Honestly? At this point I'm replaying 'Zombie Exodus : Safe Haven' just to hear Jaime's opinion on my love life. So far he has called me out on my unhealthy relationship with Tommy, gave the blessings and offered to be our couple therapist while dating Woody and gave the ok for Brody. Oh, and he's very unimpressed and unsurprised by my relationship with Reilly (in the situation where we 'work' together) but doesn't judge our decision.

Lopez, honey, you're next.

[cosmicrhetoric]

shes been whacking the spacebar every time data is on screen. like calls to like ig.......🐱

[hotcinnamonsunset]

just curious, how do you find time to knit so much? i feel like i’ve been working on this scarf for years at this point and i want to get faster

it’s definitely a more recent thing (like, since covid began basically) that I’ve knit so much. prior to 2020, I spent most of my time in college knitting the same blanket for years so I’m very familiar with the feeling of projects that seem to drag on to infinity…😅

mostly though, I probably knit at least an hour every night watching tv series or movies. I’m really bad at doing just one thing and sitting still and knitting is always my go-to multitasking hobby. that and I find projects that I get super excited about wearing so I have intrinsic motivation to finish and show it off.

[smoothhermessage]

crochet tip: name your stitches

I count as I go: one of eight. two of eight. for each, I think of a fun way to say it, an idea, a memory. Three reminds me of a time loop star trek ep in which Data writes himself a message, the number 3 repeated as many times as possible, to connect with a single thought his future self would have.

It doesn't matter what the thought is, but connect it to your stitch count. now I can put it down and remember what stitch I was on. plus the finished product will absorb all these thoughts and become alive

[typheus]

my phone is such a piece of garbage i wish i still had my broken phone cause at least that one worked

[autistickaitovocaloid]

I might not remember all the fancy shortcuts from when I was in highschool but I really like excel :]