Pin me

Here is the Proto Robot Brooch as it looks "on". Flogging Molly t-shirt not included.

I do have one for sale on Etsy, if anyone is interested.

Speaking of which, does anyone have a good online source for brooch pin fasteners? I want to make a bunch more of the little guys and I want to spend my time knitting, not driving, parking, getting parking tickets, paying parking tickets.... yes, donnez-moi the internet-don't-have-to-leave-my-house transaction s'il vous plait.

Anyway - know any good sources?

Thanks in advance.

La Knitterre Robotte

Robot Away

New from the robotknitter development labs comes the Proto the Robo Brooch.

PieceWork Magazine is running a contest for needle art brooches. I heard about it from InterweaveNews on Twitter. (Who says Twitter is not a useful tool?)

So, of course I had to come up with a wearable robot. A robo-buddy who can go with you everywhere. Hoo-ha!

Wish me luck!

Meanwhile, need to get back to the labs and start working on the next generation of robo-knittetics.

Peace out.

Robots looking for good homes

Well, here goes nothing... I have been obsessively knitting up proto robots in various shades and hues and have started putting them up for sale on Etsy. I have more to go as soon as my in-house photographer takes some photos - and he is waiting on the sun. Could be a while here in still-wintry New England.....



Know anyone who would want to take one home?

http://robotknitter.etsy.com

Flower for Grandmot

Still struggling to get the mittens for Cindy done before spring. Could it be because of all the little side projects? For Grandmot's birthday I knit her a flower brooch from a variety of pretty yarns in my stash. This is a take on the basic flower from Nicky Epstein's book, Knitted Flowers.

Thoughts of spring, and a flower for your lapel (and a bit more yarn out of the stash). Cast one on now!

Posted my first free pattern!

I finally got around to typing up the instructions to my proto robot pattern. You can download it from my new website robotknitter.com.

Please give it a try and let me know how it goes. Send me links to your completed robots so I can share them here. If you are a ravelry member, be sure to link to the pattern too!

Happy knitting.

Robots to Love

I happened to actually read one of the emails Boing Boing sends me the other day, and noticed a wonderful piece of robot art painted by Brian Despain.



It was love at first sight, alas the $300 price tag for a limited edition print would cut too deeply into the yarn budget. For those with the moola, there are 7 left as of this posting here.

For those with less cash to spend, you can buy a skin for your laptop, iphone or [insert name of technology object here] on the GelaSkins site. You can also download free desktop art there as well. So cool!!!

Knitting Cafe

On a recent trip to the MFA store, I picked up a new knitting book called Knitalong. I could not resist the pattern of the felted origami crane. In between the knitting patterns, the book is about knitting traditions, and the thread of crafting together as it has spun out over time - from quilting bees to crafting get-togethers.

The book also describes the emergence of a relatively new phenomenon - the knitting cafe.

So on a recent visit to NYC, I sought out and visited a knitting cafe called Knit New York. The sign out front contained one of the most evil marketing messages I have ever seen: "Knit for Free". Wow. Yes, knitting is free, but the yarn, the needles, the bags, the stitch counters, tape measures, and on and on, are not. Joy!

Inside, they have cute little tables with flowers on them. They have these fabulous yarn storage shelves - look like something from Imelda Marcos's closet of dreams.


The staff was very friendly, but there was something about the place that did not tempt me to linger -- not what I expected to find. Also, the espresso machine definitely had the look of something that has been unused for quite a while.

I guess I had my hopes up after reading Knitalong. Does anyone have any good knitting cafe's to recommend?