Alpaca 2025 attendees - please introduce yourselves!

[forresto]

Forrest O. joining remotely from Helsinki. I introduced myself and one favorite pattern in this thread…

Sashiko patterns for embroidery and weaving

I took a mending class and was drawn to Hitomezashi Sashiko which are patterns made by offsetting rows and columns of stitches by 0 or 1 stitch length. As a programmer I challenged myself to stay AFK during the class, but after the class I had to experiment with programming some visualizations of the patterns. I made this in collaboration with the class instructor, who also does these patterns in weaving, which is called Sashiko Ori. I started experimenting in Cuttle (parametric 2d design app),…

I have another favorite pattern (Sierpiński curve) animated and papercrafted here…

Sierpiński curve animation