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Sometimes a pattern is hard to read at a glance when you are in the middle of juggling five needles while knitting in the round.

So I color code it.

This will be for a pair of socks.

The pattern comes from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible. If you haven't heard of it before you should definitely check it out. Super dense, it uses about 130 different stitches and hundreds of patterns. This pattern is one of the easy ones.

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[โ€“] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

As a Linux system automation code monkey I figured out how to turn knitting patterns into bash script to make them easy to read.

Here is a snip from a teddy bear:

CO 32 sts
k 2 rows
{(Kfb k6* kfb)4
K 1 row}
continue till 56 sts on needle k 30 rows
{(skp k10* k2tog)4
k 1 row} 48 sts left after first run continue til 16 sts on needle (skp k2tog)4 8 sts
k 1 row
(skp k2tog)2 4 sts
cut yarn and pass through 4 sts and pull together, secure

[โ€“] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

That's the kind of maniac I'm here for! ๐Ÿ’–

[โ€“] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I am from the internet. I'm here to help.

[โ€“] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are you one of the elders of the internet? Can I hold it for a minute?

[โ€“] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I hope he doesn't set it on fire.