#binary crochet

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now am found, 'twas blind but now I see

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THE A-TEAM

Space: the FINAL FRONTIER. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission: to explore Strange New Worlds, to seek out New Life and New Civilizations, to BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE

At long last, it is finished. My life's work, my magnum opus, my ninth symphony. Eight months of my life, though it feels like twenty.

Also me: *happily and voluntarily calculates yardage, stich counts, and how many clusters of 8-character binary blocks need to make up a row to get the best results for my crochet project*

Me, internally: well first of all it's crochet so jot that down. But actually it's really cool because I'm using a filet crochet-style pattern made from a poem I ran through a binary converter so that the 1s become double crochet and the 0s become chain-one spaces. And I reverse every other row so that theoretically, someone who can actually read binary (not me, the only thing I recognize is the group for a space: 00100000) could look at the finished product and be able to read the poem. I've done several different projects based on poems, songs, and movie quotes, the longest was a blanket I made based on Earendil the Mariner, it took me several months and I'm quite proud of it. The one I'm working on now though is the Song of Durin, which Gimli recites in the Fellowship of the Ring. It's the only poetry he recites in the whole trilogy (unless you count him waxing poetic about Galadriel or the glittering caves in Helm's Deep), because Aragorn doesn't give him a verse when they're sending Boromir over the Falls of Rauros, which never seemed fair or symmetrical to me