Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Shakespeare and QR Codes

Okay, so I have been having some fun creating QR Codes with lines from Shakespeare embedded in them because I had the bright idea of using QR codes as punchcard patterns for machine knitting. Like this one:

It reads "When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony"
I had envisioned using quotes like this as edgings for cardigans.

However, it dawned on me that punch cards can only be 24 "punches" across and QR Codes are more than 24 squares across...sigh. I'd have to get a knitting machine than can handle more than 24 punches... Alas! Back to my idea of using a random pattern generator to create fair isle patterns...

3 comments:

Åsa Bi said...

It's a cool idea. You'll have to hand-knit it instead :)

Tini said...

annika, I try to send you an email for the last 10 days but it keeps on returning. Can you send me an alternative adress via ravelry pm or via email as I seem to get yours but you are not getting mine.

And I second asa: handknitting:)

Karin said...

Well there is no such things as too many knittingmachines...