But it’s a lot better than having to build that pattern purl by purl. With a little more work, “Knitting machines could become as easy to use as 3D printers,” McCann said in a CMU news release.

In a pre-print paper titled ‘ Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes ’, CMU’s Vidya Narayanan, Lea Albaugh, Jessica Hodgins, Stelian Coros, and Jim McCann detail a methodology for ...