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Grounded Flight

2024, decolorant screenprint on quilted cotton

“Summers Passing” pattern by @8pxl

took me nearly 9 months and 28,200 stitches but here it is!

Maria Szakats

ginkgo leaf wall hanging quilt commission 🌿

cotton fabrics with hand carved block prints, quilted and sewn with the free motion foot on my machine

bird carpet

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

𝙰 𝚜𝚎𝚊-𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚔 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎.