Making a Curved Knitting Needle with Blender, AI, and a 3D Printer

When my wife needed a curved knitting needle to continue working on a blanket, I used Blender, AI, and a 3D printer to make one for her. Along the way, I found myself reflecting on tools, creativity, and the quiet poetry of co-creation.

Co-Creating with Something Other

Porch, coffee, half-turned leaves, and a familiar question: I want to create, so why don’t I? Tracing an unfinished beehive wind chime back to its source, I find every plan I perfect in my head lays another block in the dam. What if the spring flowed through my hands instead?