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Touring Tom Sachs’ LEM

Welp, after sorting endless screws, Doc and I got in on the final tour of Tom Sachs’ plywood LEM at the YBCA for Space Program: Europa.

Screws to sort — Piles of screws to sort

Sorting screws — Doc finishing his final sort

Tom Sachs' ATF cabinet — The astronauts’ ATF cabinet on the LEM. In case they need any alcohol, tobacco, or firearms.

Space helmet! — We were there on the Thursday before the final activation, so we got to see Sachs’ team working on everything, rehearsing, and bringing the helmets down

Tom Sachs' LEM keyboard — A keyboard in the LEM

"This art is the shit!" — “This art is the shit!”

Touring Tom Sachs' LEM — Doc finishing with his tour of the plywood LEM

Me photobombing Doc's shot of the ATF cabinet — And, of course, since I’m a meany McMeansteen, I had to make goofy faces and photobomb Doc’s attempts to photograph the ATF cabinet

After the success of my practice peysa, I decided to go right ahead and make one with lopi! I was originally just going to do another variation on the same pattern from the free pattern I used for the practice peysa, but then I discovered this tool for building your own knitting pattern: knittingpatterns.is/ and I got hooked. Note that it required Microsoft Silverlight.

Now I feel like I need to design my own, especially since a quick Google search reveals that (understandably) everybody in the world has knitted the peysa from that free pattern. Whereas if I design my own, then I will have a one-of-a-kind!

This is what I’ve come up with so far:

This is a digital imagining of what my sweater will look like, generated by the tool

I’m also thinking of having the sleeve patterns on the waistband.

And when you export it, it generates a whole knitting pattern for you, including how many stitches to cast on, where to make increases/decreases, etc. It is really cool! Por ejemplo: