I have been exploring the world of mathematical fiber art through the site The Home of Mathematical Knitting. I’ve thought about doing a math-based needlepoint since college at least when I became fascinated with the sieve in the my math tutorial.
One of the links on the site is to The Random Stripe Generator. Intended for knitters, this little tool lets you specify the colors you want and the width of stripes you want. It returns for you a stripe pattern using the colors and widths you chose. If you don’t like those stripes, hit refresh and you’ll get another one.
The stripe is shown in color and then a pattern is listed showing the color and then how many rows. Your pattern can have up to 100 lines.
Think of how cool this could be to generate backgrounds for your needlepoint, or to stitch in both as horizontal and vertical stripes to make a plaid. Or maybe put a different stitch in every width of stripe for a cool sampler. Or use it to plan random stripes of a piece of clothing in your latest project. Or stripe an animal in bright colors for a child’s room. I could go on and on.
I could go totally nuts with this.
I’m getting ready to start a new project this weekend, so I chose the background colors for it and made a stripe. The foreground of the project is rather on the busy side, so I’m going to pick fewer colors and wider stripes and see what it comes up with.
Just to show you what one looks like, here’s one I did thinking of it as a background for a bunch of shells or for a sea background.
I’ll try to share the results later in the week.
Have a fun Memorial Day!
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