eLOOMinate
eLoominate is a digitally-augmented knitting loom and CAD software that aims to alleviate some of the challenges for knitters in Fair Isle knitting. Fair Isle knitting is a technique for creating patterns using multiple colors of yarn. The process requires a crafter to take their eyes away from their work to read a pattern, which slows down knitting and creates an opportunity to make errors. eLoominate is a novel tool that embeds individually-addressable LEDs into a circular knitting loom to provide row-by-row patterning instruction. This tool works with Computer-Aided Design software I am developing to allow users to quickly design their own repeating patterns and upload them to the loom.
