Geeky Knitting

Mar 09, 2007 07:42
I think I'm beginning to understand the geek attraction to all things textile. I have many friends who like to knit, crochet, and/or weave, and they seem to derive a similar pleasure from those activities as they do from things like coding, doing graphics work, playing with and/or building gadgets, etc. I believe it's because working with textiles provides the same sense of organization and systematicity, as well as incremental progress towards a goal. Knitting is definitely a hobby I need to add to my stack of Things I Do When Not Doing Other Things(TM).

To that end, I present to you basic knitting instructions for the complete noob, how to knit a binary scarf, and how to knit Space Invaders socks.

Now, to figure out if I can knit one, python two...
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