#Engineering-Knits #video on #3D-printing a circular sock machine (CSM) for automated #knitting. #fiber-arts #toread
on 02026-01-03#Engineering-Knits #video on #gardening your own flax #materials #toread
on 02026-01-03#video by the rather formidable #Engineering-Knits claiming that for US$8 at the thrift store you can find silk sweaters, cashmere sweaters, and wool sweaters to unravel for #fiber-arts. But for some reason the one she’s unraveling is 25% acrylic. Has the very important tip that moth-proofing is a must-do #1 priority; she prefers baking her sweaters in the oven at 75° for 40 minutes, but puts her plastic sweaters in the freezer for three days to kill the moth eggs. Repeats the tip about looking for chain-stitched seams holding together finished knit edges. Runs into alternating rows knit with two different yarns, so the sleeve (for example) becomes two equal-length balls of yarn, but two different yarns. She prefers washing her yarn after unraveling the garments rather than before. She demonstrates her motor-driven unraveling machine, her manual ball winder, and a machine she uses for plying the yarn up into a thicker gauge multi-ply yarn. #hoarding
on 02026-01-03