new paths and ways

 i had to start from scratch documenting the hack to the e- knitting machine. along the way some surprising finds and possible new paths. once you go electronic you try to apply it to everything you touch, so to speak. 

thanks to my friend lynne brunning, who has opened my mind and pointed me towards new exciting directions, i am going to be working outside my comfort zone  exploring new things  and feel very excited about it.

i find similarities with the time i started weaving seriously. i wanted to do something with the patterning  vocabulary in weaving. started out by weaving some of the  patterns in davison using very bold colors. soon afterwards network drafting came about and i embraced that technology which freed me from the grid.then went wild stamping the warp and adding transferred images to the woven pattern in the warp.

now the call is for electronics and how i can incorporate them to knitted artwork.as i tend to the abstract i won't be knitting brainwaves. but images however abstract can be a starting point.

 have i mentioned before that i love geekery ?  ^_^

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have a wonderful halloween weekend






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sursum corda

i'm sure you saw it coming. waiting for this baby to arrive. it's a brother 940 electronic that will enable me to knit images.quoting alice again: the lure of transforming pixels into cloth!

decided to take the plunge because a number of people are hacking these machines giving it a new brain and with it a new life. there's going to be quite a lot of talk in that direction over here !

nevertheless i'm jumping with no security net underneath so let's see how it goes.

it's an ideal situation for when i  can no longer weave, as this will serve as a kind of dobby loom.

did you know that you can create thick so called  woven fabrics with a knitting machine? 

we weavers know that's  a wanna be  ;)

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