#machine knit

[deezknits]

[rslashknitting]

are you seeing my split stripe vision??

I adapted the sand and sky tank pattern for my knitting machine. one panel left, cuffs/collar, then finishing. though I'm doing a bit of the finishing now, like sewing the panels together.

I love colorblocking and I love stripes and I love love love how this is turning out!

secrets time: so the three panels I made. I realized that it was kind of big ESPECIALLY the arms eye. I counted my row gauge wrong and accidentally made it basically a large size instead of a medium at that point. I Could've done like longer cuffs round the sleeves after unraveling the tank straps a bit. but that wasn't good enough for me

i did shorten the straps, she's gonna look more like a crewneck which im cool with. but instead of stopping there I sliced her up, took about 12 rows out, and grafted the 39 stitches back together, on each panel. I was so scared when I cut even with lifelines in but it was alright!

my first attempt made twisted stitches on the top row. i might go back to fix that but Honestly it's on the back and would be covered by my hair most of the time. just one twisted row. if it bothers me later I now have the confidence to go back and slice and dice and fix it! but for now I'm alright.

oops.

[little-light-bulb]

i am never gonna get this lucky with my yarn gradients matching this closely ever again

[gentle-stitches]

I'm getting the hang of my circular machine. Blue grey one for me, orange yellow for my partner, and the green orange from the scraps :) used lion brand mandala (DK weight) which I think works better on my machine than worsted weight and gives a more stretchy hat

[picturehealer]

Punch Card Lace Knitting - Increase and Decrease - Brother standard gaug...

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

[comfortabletextiles]

All right! Sick time

It's 18:19 let's see how long I take for one sock

[spacerobotstudio]

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[garaksapprentice]

The internet: You must never machine wash your knits. Never. Ever. They will be destroyed the moment they are touched by the caress of a machine's heated water supply. Hand wash only, or You Shall Be Sorry.

Me:

That photo contains ~13 pairs of 70/30 wool/nylon socks, a 100% wool shawl, an acrylic shawl, an acrylic kid's jumper, an acrylic beanie, a vest knit of "handwash only" wool, and a few other things I've forgotten.

This is one of the reasons to swatch, people. Knit a swatch. A big one. Even better, knit a hat out of the thing you want to use. Chuck it in the wash. See how it comes out. Make decisions from there.

I've knitted somewhere above 50 non-sock things in the decade or so since my first kid came along. I have machine washed them all. Only two - TWO - things have gotten eaten by the wash in that time. (a purple toddler dress and half a sock). And both of those were accidentally put through with the regular clothes wash.

Obligatory caveats: Probably don't do this if your machine doesn't have a gentle/delicate setting. I made sure mine came with a wool cycle when I had to buy a new one. It takes 38 minutes, spins at 800 RPM, and refuses to go hotter than 30ºC.

Also if you tend to use loosely spun yarns or very large gauges (both seem to be popular nowadays), or like to knit Extremely Delicate Lace, use caution. (My knitting preferences are basically the opposite of those things - I like things that last.)

[hotcinnamonsunset]

rabbit heart (raise it up) but make it fashion❣️🐇

[kirby-the-gorb]

[deezknits]

1x1 rib, jersey+pointelle, backed 1x1 rib swatch on dubied

[rslashknitting]

machine knit tank WIP! back half. not blocked or anything. if anyone has a good way to let me add a split in between the front and back half of this tank without the stockingette curling on me, please let me know, I will love you forever.

[canelacola]

I got a soviet knitting machine for free, so excited to try and figure it out. 1975 severyanka-1 in its original wooden case, almost my whole height, perfect condition but misses the manual. Did i say she was absolutely free? She was. I paid in my both arms function, i think i busted something dragging it home. So fucking heavy that thing is built to outlast your whole family i swear

[vshamru]

I’m not asking about “homemade” or “made with love” or any other description than specifically “handmade”.

For reference, here is a video of something being made on a knitting machine the way I am thinking about it.

To be clear I am not trying to devalue anyone’s hobby, regardless of which option wins! If you have fun and make cool things that’s awesome and I’m glad you’re doing it, and I think these are super cool and a great way to make fibercrafts more accessible and beginner friendly.

[picturehealer]

Hand manipulated Bubble Stitch on the LK150 knitting machine - texture k...