A new software system can translate a wide variety of 3D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that allow a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. “Knitting ...

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 ...

I wanted to set out some basic knitting instructions as a refresher so here it is. All knitting instructions use basically two stitches, the knit stitch and the purl stitch. Once you know these two ...

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 ...

Your grandma’s pastime could soon be a game changing trend in the apparel industry. That’s because researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Textile Lab have figured out how to translate 3D designs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PureWow Creator Kate understands that knitting is "the Olympic sport for grandmas everywhere," but she also acknowledges that it's ...