In this talk, I will introduce you to the complex world of automatic machine knitting. We will explore the under-utilized capabilities of industry knitting machines in factories worldwide that can produce reduced-waste garments, complex e-textiles, and innovative functional fabrics. We will then discuss why these capabilities rarely make it into the textiles that surround us in our daily lives—-it's a software problem. We will then explore our recent advances in the digital infrastructure of machine knitting: the development of knit graph data structures that model these complex textile structures; a novel programming language that makes introducing computational complexity into knitted structures trivial; and our emerging work on the next generation of computer-aided design (CAD) software for machine knitting.