[HN Gopher] Wind Knitting Factory
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       Wind Knitting Factory
        
       Author : bschne
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2025-07-03 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.merelkarhof.nl)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.merelkarhof.nl)
        
       | MikeTheGreat wrote:
       | Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting
       | device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)
        
         | ashurov wrote:
         | you could, but the (original) website is from 2009...so
         | probably not enough interest to keep that up. The old link is
         | dead: https://windknittingfactory.bigcartel.com/
        
         | imzadi wrote:
         | I doubt it would be difficult to make. You can buy the knitting
         | machine on amazon. They usually have a handle you can crank
         | unless it is electric. Just attach a turbine to the handle.
        
       | MikeTheGreat wrote:
       | I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it
       | unraveling.
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       | Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel
       | a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge
       | like a normal bind-off?
        
         | MandieD wrote:
         | Thread a flexible needle (usually called "circular") or a wire
         | through a full row near the cut, unravel the remaining rows,
         | then take a fine crochet hook to chain the loops together.
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         | Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like what she does.
        
         | imzadi wrote:
         | They might be sergering the edges.
        
       | Luc wrote:
       | Most recent archive of the website:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20250614200747/https://www.merel...
        
       | jkhalaj wrote:
       | Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low
       | level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
        
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