{"id":2066,"date":"2013-05-07T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2013-05-07T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T06:06:18","slug":"wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2013\/wise\/","title":{"rendered":"WISE Banner Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4053.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2070\" alt=\"IMG_4053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4053.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4053-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Whew! That was a test in perseverance.<br \/>\nHere it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished dimensions: 9<i><b>\u00a0feet\u00a0<\/b><\/i>7inches x 30 inches<\/li>\n<li>Approximate time to complete: 15 hours of machine knitting (not including design and setup)<\/li>\n<li>Total weight of yarn used: 2 lbs 8.5 oz<\/li>\n<li>600 stitches per row (200 front and 400 back) x 810 rows x 2 carriage passes per row (one for each of 2 colors) =<\/li>\n<li>1620 carriage passes and<\/li>\n<li>486,000 stitches (162,000 make up the design on the front, 324,000 in the striped backing)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Original logo designed by Jon Tingley.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Custom software, <a href=\"http:\/\/daviworks.com\/knitting\/\">img2track<\/a>, developed by Davi Post for transferring design to Brother KH-930 electronic knitting machine.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Brother KH-930 electronic knitting machine was used to machine knit the image, setting it up to get started is as much of a feat as completing the banner, here&#8217;s a shot of it at the beginning:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4031.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2068\" alt=\"IMG_4031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4031.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4031.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4031-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe image was processed using software developed by another Sector67 member <a href=\"http:\/\/daviworks.com\/knitting\/\">Davi Post<\/a>, starting from a full color image:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WiSE_new_logo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2072\" alt=\"WiSE_new_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WiSE_new_logo.jpg\" width=\"809\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WiSE_new_logo.jpg 809w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WiSE_new_logo-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhich is then dithered into black and white and processed into appropriate stitches to keep the aspect ratio consistent:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WISE-Logo-BW.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2071\" alt=\"WISE Logo B&amp;W\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WISE-Logo-BW.jpg\" width=\"810\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WISE-Logo-BW.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WISE-Logo-BW-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WISE is the Women In Science and Engineering residential learning community at UW &#8211; Madison who now have a beautiful banner to represent their organization at future events! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housing.wisc.edu\/wise\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.housing.wisc.edu\/<wbr \/>wise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! That was a test in perseverance. Here it is: Finished dimensions: 9\u00a0feet\u00a07inches x 30 inches Approximate time to complete: 15 hours of machine knitting (not including design and setup) Total weight of yarn used: 2 lbs 8.5 oz 600<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2013\/wise\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[382,384,381,383],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-brother-kh-930","tag-happy-kitten","tag-knitting-machine","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}