4/17 Yarn-Based Cloth

This paper immediately caught my attention because I love to knit. Because of that, I understood more than anyone else in the class how yarn behaves, which also, I think, made me more critical. Overall I think their results were pretty good, but I was very disappointed that they didn't make distinctions between different types of yarn or needles. Fingering yarn is different from sock yarn is different from worsted yarn is different from chunky yarn. Wool is different from cotton is different from polyester is different from hemp is different from bamboo. All of these are different with different size needles. The first paper didn't address this at all, it seemed, and the later ones had examples with different yarns but didn't say what they were! As I said in class, the rectangle falling over the ball would be great if it were supposed to be fingering yarn on size 2 or 3 needles, but if that's supposed to be a worsted weight throw blanket it looks way to thin and light. I thought they had pretty great results, but they really needed to give their examples some context.