[afc]

I got into designing my own knitting patterns. I enjoy that I can customize everything — the yarn material, color (including marling, helix knitting, double knitting), yarn weight, needle size (e.g., resulting in "airy" vs "packed" textures), knit textures (e.g., stockinette, linen, miss, etc.), construction process (e.g., can I figure out a way to knit in the round vs flat?), cables, gradual increases/decreases, selvedge/cord, desired ease, etc..

I wrote software to generate patterns given configurations and keep track of which row I'm on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307089

I am sharing some of my patterns here: https://alejo.ch/2s0

I'm currently working on my second ruana.

[eru]

A few years ago I helped the wife write her own Haskell software to help her generate her knitting patterns in LaTeX. Fun times.

Should be much easier these days with all the AI help available.

[srean]

Please consider writing a blog about this. Would love to know more.

[eru]

Sorry, I don't have time. See https://www.mathemaknitter.com/ for her (sadly neglected) blog that also links to her ravelry account and patterns.

Mostly the conceptual evolution was:

Knitting patterns have a lot of numbers with mathematical relations between them. You could keep track of them by hand, but spreadsheets are already an improvement. Especially when you want to make edits to earlier parts of the pattern. Well, spreadsheets aren't too bad to write, but they are basically write-only software, impossible to audit. She'd already learned programming in Haskell before, so going from there to using Haskell for making the numbers work out was a small step, conceptually.

[afc]

She has a cool blog, I liked her articles!

How does she keep track of what row she's on, as she knits? I wonder if she'd be interested in specifying her patterns in a format my knitting software (visualization) could consume.

Anyhow, cool stuff!

[eru]

I have contact details in my profile. If you send me an email, I can put you in touch.

[srean]

Thanks a bunch.

[srean]

Wonderful. Knitting and weaving gets me nerd sniped. Not the act of actually doing them by hand but the geometric puzzle solving part.

These topics hit the HN first page quite often.