OK, this isn't hand knitting, but it is really cool!
Innovation knits images on fabric
stuff - April 26 2006
Good old Kiwi ingenuity has struck again - this time in Te Poi, just out of Matamata, where Macbeth Knitwear has fiddled about with computers and machinery and come up with a way to knit images into fabric.
"It's No. 8 wire stuff. I had to go through six different processes to get the computers to talk to each other," Kathy Newey said.
Mrs Newey and her husband Denis run the knitwear factory shop and say while they do not think their process is unique, it is unusual – possibly the only one in New Zealand to offer this.
Basically the process, which they have dubbed photoknit, takes digital images and knits them into merino wool blankets – ranging from cot size to single-bed size – using greyscale colours. [more]
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