Music To Knit Py

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  Pattern Generated from Bach BWV 315

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  Pattern Generated from Bach BWV 114

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  Just an octocat hanging out for fun

Inspiration

I am always looking for new knitting patterns, and especially patterns I can connect with. Creating patterns with music will give me both those things, the patterns are easily generated, in many different weights of yarn and whatever music I want.

What it does

Generates knitting patterns using music21 to parse the music. Currently it will only give hat patterns, but there's more to come!

How I built it

I used music21 to parse the music and python to run the script

Challenges I ran into

I had never used music21 before, and there was quite the maze of streams, scores, and other types to try to mold into a workable format for me.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am very happy that my knitting came out looking just like it had a pattern. I was concerned it would look too random or stilted, but I ended up with an interesting pattern that I would definitely make a hat out of.

What I learned

I learned a lot about music21 and parsing music. I spent a long time figuring out how music21 defined its types and how to use them to convert to a workable knitting pattern.

What's next for Music To Knit Py

I will continue implementing knitting designs, such as lace and cables in the pattern based on other aspects of the music. I will also make a hat to make certain all the stitch counts are correct as those were estimated.

Built With

• music21
• python