Elana Hashman (Python Software Foundation

Fellow and open source hacker) and Katie McLaughlin(Python Software Foundation Fellow and crafter) join us to talk aboutF(L)OSS meets embroidery and cross stitching (FOSS stitching?)including a significant conversation about FLOSS vs embroideryfloss.

Much is also conversed about ih, a

project started by Katie with contributions from Elana, a pythonproject which helps generate embroidery patterns from images.

Links:

• ih!

  • ih presented at PyCon 2019: Katie McLaughlin - A Right Stitch-up: Creating embroidery patterns with Pillow

  • ih, as a service

• DMC (Dollfus-Mieg et Compagnie),

  the textile company mentioned several times

• Python Pillow (continuation of PIL,

  the Python Imaging Library)

• Linux Conf AU, which has had a lot of

  "stitch and bitch" type events: 2018 art & tech miniconf,
  2019 knit, crochet, sew BoF,
  2020 creative arts miniconf

• Cross Stitch Carpentry

• ginger coons' open color standard work

• freieFarbe Open Color initiative, appears to be CC BY 4.0

• Stitching patterns really are a kind of domain specific visual programming language (see the response, "What is this, assembler?")

• Core rope memory was usually hand-woven by women in early computing days (more)

Still here? How about some extra images?

Morgan's needlework of an alpaca, made with alpaca fiber:

Kirby quilt that Morgan did for a babby: