- First step should be seeing what each thing I’ve signed up for actually is:
Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing
- Work with Wovens and Stretch Patterns group to explore incorporating into software
AYAB - all yarns are beautiful
- Task analysis of tool
- Adaptive Textile Tools:
- Research and compile repository of tools → could be a GitHub repo → Daniel will create a Wordpress
- Research community
Start with research & tool repository.
Daniel’s website
Assignment 1:
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, by Emily Ladau
- Please read Intro, Chapters 1 & 2 and answer the following response questions in your VIP notebook/blog:
- A brief summary (3-5 sentences) – what was it about?
- One takeaway – a professional insight you draw from the work/text/media, and that you think will be useful to keep in mind in the near or distant future
- Connection to a real-world example – this could be something you thought of while exploring this work, something that is similar that reminds you of something in the field, a connection to another reading/discussion from class
- A burning question that remains with you. This question can connect with other work you’ve been assigned or what we’ve discussed in class.
Assignment 2 - overdue
Project(s):
- Start learning your tool (machine, software, etc.)! Since you might not have access before we next meet or be able to stop by the Ability Project when someone is in the lab, I recommend watching videos about any physical tools. I find that watching others utilize a tool prior to starting on it yourself will make the learning process a bit smoother.
- Check out the Sewing Machine Training at the MakerSpace. If there are no trainings available yet, ask at the front desk for more information.
- Search for the software or make and model (projects page) on the internet and YouTube.
- Here are some places to start on YouTube:
- Knitting Machines and AYAB:
- https://www.youtube.com/@KnitFactoryImpl
- Breathing new life into old knitting machines | Electronic Textile Camp 2024
- Knitting Machine Repair:
- Freesewing.org
- Lastly, look through my Are.na repository.
- Post:
- List all recourses you found about your chosen tool.
- If you are able to get into the lab or to setup time at the MakerSpace, document your experience.
- Discuss any discoveries and any challenges you might have had.
FreeSewing.org
What is Free Sewing?
FreeSewing is the leading open source library for on-demand garment manufacturing.
FreeSewing’s sewing patterns are made to measure.
We don’t scale or grade patterns. Instead, FreeSewing drafts a design into a pattern made to your measurements. That happens in real-time, in your browser.
- Design: One of the styles that we offer. We’ve got dozens of designs, and you can try them all
- Pattern: The result of drafting the design(turning it into a sewing pattern to your measurements). We’ve got thousands of patterns stored for our users, and some might be yours
FreeSewing for Developers
FreeSewing.dev hosts documentation for developers, designers, contributors, and translators.
FreeSewing.eu Is also relevant
AYAB: All yarns are beautiful
The goal of the AYAB project is to provide an alternative way to control the famous Brother KH-9xx range of knitting machines using a computer.
Watch this: 
KnitFactoryImpl Breathing new life into old knitting machines | Electronic Textile Camp 2024
“We have the Brother KH-910 in the lab for this project”
Make a diagram of all the features of this
https://www.ayab-knitting.com/ayab-hardware/
→ email Daniel to see what I could prioritize / see if I could work with the 3D printer