Social Knitting

Social Knitting is a DIY project for people, for those of who want to create a social disturbance. It gives you extra time to think about your social status while you are going through approx 20 hours of serious knitting(if you are a newbie to whole knitting process).

It could be anything, anything that shows your friend's names and how much they mean to you(by star rating). But for myself I designed a macbook cover.

It has a MySQL table format for listing your friend names, limited to 14.

Well, this project can cause offence from your friends, so think about it before you start it.
Actually, I got a complaint from my sister for not putting her name in, so think about the definition of 'friend' before you start it.

It's a project done in HomeX class at Parsons DT, supervised by James Powderly at GRL.

Step 1: Skills and Materials

Skills:
Basic knitting skill
Stranded color knitting
Weaving

Materials:

2 balls of worsted weight yarns(2 different colors)
black and white set doesn't really work, you may want to try something else

double pointed needles(size 8)
a hooked needle(size 8)

a piece of paper, a pencil whatever that will help you designing

Step 2: Gauge

If you have everything ready, the next step is to knit the guage.

5" X 5" gauge is recommended to get exact numbers.

I did 4"X4", and a little design for fun.
Well, this is a really bad example, since I'm not a serious knitter.

Step 3: Design

I measured a macbook and designed the social table fit into the measurements.
Now, all you need to do is fix some of layout according to your gauge and put names of your friends.

Download the pdf file if you got the gauge right, otherwise you can do it on grided paper.
It won't take too long.

use YourName <--the name of the database
Social Table <--table name
+-----------------------------------+
| Name |
+-----------------------------------+
| Name |
| Name |
| Name |
| Name |
| Name |
| Name |
+-----------------------------------+

Step 4: Knit, Knit, Knit!

The implement of the social knitting is very simple but the most time-consuming part.
Knit away!

After you're done knitting, stiich up the bottom, and it's done. All yours.