28: FOSS Stitch w/ Elana Hashman and Katie McLaughlin

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

Much is also conversed about ih, a project started by Katie with contributions from Elana, a python project 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: