KnitPro from microRevolt

I just found an awesome resource through the Craftster forums! It's a very simple and easy to use little online tool called KnitPro. What it does is transform your digital images into knit, needlepoint, cross-stitch, or crochet patterns. It accepts .gif, .jpg, and .png files less than 1MB - outputing the patterns as .pdf files. They also offer ratio options (specifically because knitting isn't 1:1).



I can even see this being useful for some basic quilting…like that Link quilt I wanted to make! Here's what it did with the little 11x37px Link sprite image I dug up.

Fluffy Bunny Slippers

I'll put up my own picture after the SO's new digital camera arrives. In the meantime, here's a picture that someone else took of the Fluffy Bunny Slippers from Debbie Stoller's book: The Happy Hooker. I'm making a pair of these for my cousin Karin. I was thinking of giving them to her as a birthday present, but today is her birthday and the slippers are definitely not done yet. So, they have officially turned into a Christmas present. That, combined with perhaps a small glass jar of cute little knitted hearts should be good.

The trend continues as today my cousin Kenrick showed me these pictures of quilts of classic video game characters. He asked me to make him one of Link, jokingly I think. It doesn't matter, I think it sounds like a great idea! I probably don't know what I'm getting myself into, and it's probably going to be a lot more time consuming than I realize, but I want to try it! Since these old video games were 8-bit, designing the quilt is going to be a piece of cake.