Knitting is one of those acquired crafting skills we just never fully warmed up to. We’ll embroider, crochet, or quilt until the sun sets for the last time on the day of the apocalypse, but knitting is just so… boring sometimes. Luckily, ingenious artist Merel Karhof has a solution for monotony of the knit – purl – knit – purl routine. She’s designed and invented a machine that knits all on its own, harnessing the ever-present power of the wind. Called the Wind Knitting Factory, the machine itself looks like a cross between an old-timey coffee grinder and a medieval torture device (which we like about it very much), and knits a scarf in about two hours. This isn’t likely to be the type of thing that every hits the retail market, but we’ll tell you this: if it did, we’d be first in line. Hit the read links for video, more photos, and an explanation of the machine’s design.

Read – Merel Karhof’s blog
Read – Show RCA Wind Knitting Factory

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