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February 17, 2008

From Sally — Sometimes I Think I Have No Imagination

Filed under: Uncategorized — surly @ 9:56 am

No, I don’t live over at youtube. I really don’t. I have friends who send me links that they think I’ll find of interest. This one involving “animated” pieces of knitting is simply amazing.

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  1. I’ve posted this one on my blog this morning, too. Truly amazing.

    Comment by Nancy — February 17, 2008 @ 11:30 am

  2. Whoa – that is unreal!
    I wondered upon viewing if there weren’t some kind of manipulation involved. Wondered if perhaps each piece weren’t knit entirely, but perhaps altered in digital imaging somehow. The last few clips, however, show numbers in the 700s written on the bottom. Maybe it’s real – and each piece was knit separately.
    It would be interesting to know how they did that.
    Thanks for sharing!

    Comment by Susan — February 18, 2008 @ 9:57 am

  3. From Susan — I think they used a large piece/pieces of white knitting and then drew the characters on with black ink, creating each frame separately, but by drawing them. If you look closely, the black “sts” don’t look like real sts.  Still, a ton of creativity and work!!

    Comment by lv2knit — February 18, 2008 @ 10:56 am

  4. No imagination?! You?! No way on earth. This is really amazing!

    Comment by Carol — February 18, 2008 @ 12:28 pm

  5. I was so intrigued by this video that I did a little Googling and found out that this is a video for the Quebec band Tricot Machine (http://www.grosseboite.com/grosseboite.php?section=groupe&langue=fr&id=2) using panels knit by the designer Lysanne Latulippe. She has her own label, Majolie (http://www.majolie.ca/). The piece is called Les peaux de lièvres. Beautiful!

    Comment by Trish — February 20, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

  6. That was very cool!

    Comment by Cath — February 20, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

  7. If they knitted the swatches and “painted” the black stitches on them later, they still knitted 700+ white swatches! Even if you had 100 friends to help you, that’s at least 7 *boring* white stockinette swatches per friend. It’s quite an amazing feat! Thanks for posting the link. It enjoyed it.

    (I hope the designer was paid well for her work…)

    Comment by Nancy — February 21, 2008 @ 8:15 am

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