Kelly Turns Your Grandma into a Knitting Machine

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:01:00 -0000

When I first heard about knitting machines, I was skeptical. Then I heard about a model that could connect to a computer and I had to have one.

Kelly breaks it on down here, giving you an intro into the world of machine knitting. This was filmed at NYCResistor, a hacker space here in Brooklyn. I love the close up shots of Kelly casting on and off!

The machine looks incredibly confusing when you first open it up, but Kelly makes it look easy. She even fixes a problem on the fly in this video.

In this video: Kelly Farrell, Eric Skiff (behind the camera / CC-BY music), Raphael Abrams ("this machine is my grandma!"), George Shammas, and Bre's knitting machine. - Link

Update: Here's an MOV version of the video that will look a little bit better! - Link

About Us: Kelly aka kfarrell

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:26:00 -0000

Etsy has had quite a growth spurt in the past year, and we have the awkward pictures to prove it. We'll be posting a series of About Us pieces to help you get to know the Etsy admin (and since many of us work remotely, for the admin to get to know each other!). You've seen the admin badge, and maybe you're a bit curious about the person behind it! For more on Etsy's mission and about the company, please see our About page (the link is in the little blue footer of every Etsy page).

Kelly! Our geek-in-residence is our favorite prickly pear over here on the Etsy team. We never know when Kelly's gonna be like, "Nah, I'm not going to do that for you. That's stupid." And you know what? She's usually right. And when Kelly has a better idea, she makes it come to life so intelligently, we feel even more dumb. (Just kiddin'.)

Seriously, folks. Kelly is such an asset to Etsy! She works on the Product Team, where she helps design and improve the interface of our website. She's totally passionate about problem solving and the internets and crafting and crazy computerized knitting machines. As the spawn of old-school geeks, she's got the 1's and 0's flowing through her veins, giving her the science fiction like ability to translate what the engineers are talking about to the other teams!

Oh, and she also makes really sweet jewelry and other cool objects. Kelly, can I get a deal on your "WTF" belt buckle?

Kelly, hardcore in high school.*

Look at this bad-ass this lil lass!

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Kelly Turns Your Grandma into a Knitting Machine

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