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Knit and Math Combine for a Cool (Warm?) Kickstarter

July 2, 2015 by Sarah White

algorithm scarvesThe other day my husband sent me a link about this Kickstarter that’s happening right now in which a knitter/mathematician is knitting custom algorithm-based scarves, all worked in black and white, and designed in such a way that no two will be alike.

Called KnitYak even though the scarves will be merino, the project is the brainchild of Fabienne “fbz” Serriere, who is a hand knitter but will use some of the funds raised to buy a knitting machine to produce the final scarves (and swatches for those who don’t want to pony up $150 or more) and shawls.

The scarves will be made using elementary cellular automata algorithms, which use simple rules to determine what color a stitch will be, and each row is affected by the row above. I don’t completely understand the explanation, but I get that using these different algorithms, and starting the scarf off in different places in the pattern, will make a bunch of different looking scarves. It’s a cool idea would make a great gift for the math geek in your life.

[Photo via Kickstarter.]

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Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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