Man Knits a Movie on a Scarf

This may be one of the strangest uses of knitting I’ve ever encountered.

Greg Climer, a fashion designer and member of the faculty at Parsons New School of Design has developed a method to turn film into knitting and back again, and is working on a short film knit in scarf form that can be played using the scarf as a film reel.

The pieces are knit in a New Jersey knitting factory (Climer himself doesn’t knit), with each stitch on the knitting bed counting as a pixel in the finished “frame.” The project uses four colors, and the 19-second test project he developed took a year to make and is about the length of a city block.

He’s now writing a long piece, which he said will be a thank you to the people who bullied him in art class in middle school, because they are part of the reason he has ended up where he is.

He says he doesn’t know how long (literally) the finished piece will be, but it sure is a good place to take a nap.

[Photo via Fast Company.]

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It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends.

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat.

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away.

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches.

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try.

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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