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Do you make crafts? Do you like to look at crafts? Would you like to get (or give) advice about crafts? All crafts are welcome. Share photos, stories about projects in progress, and connect with other crafty folks.

You are welcome to make your own posts, and this community will also do a monthly call for people to share what they are working on, or what they've seen which may be inspiring them. Images of projects old or new, completed or in progress are welcome, as are questions, tutorials and advice.

If you have any questions, ask them here!

aquaeri

I've been neglecting this community, but I'll try to get back to it. Starting with links to other people's stuff.

Here's a clever pattern for a tetrahedral coin purse made from a zipper and a ribbon. You can unzip it completely so you just have a ribbon with a zip sewn (rather oddly of course) around it.

firecat

http://www.lelaboratoire.org/en/archives-13.php

Le Laboratoire and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design are pleased to sponsor an exhibition by Argentine artist and architect Ciro Najle, a frequent design critic at the GSD, entitled cummulus. From 2007 to 2010, Najle worked alongside engineers, scientists, and water experts in Chile to design fog-collecting nets. Informed by this research, his complex cloudlike installation was developed using computer-numerical technology and constructed using crochet, a material ideally suited to forming complex topologies. cummulus, the moving aesthetic outcome of Najle’s creative engagement with the issues of water access and the atmosphere, was first exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver in 2010/2011. The opening for the public is on Friday October 7, 2011.

Slideshow at link.

alias_sqbr

http://www.tsocktsarina.com/blog/?p=446

I don't knit so I got a bit tangled up in the description but it seems pretty interesting

aquaeri

aunty_marion has knitted a Moebius scarf and has helpful pictures of how practical a scarf-shape it really is. Leave any comments there, so she can respond.

aquaeri

Vonda McIntyre describes how she does hyberbolic crochet and beadwork here and here.

(I do my own hyperbolic crochet a different way, and I may even make a post describing how, one of these days, but I thought the community needed a bit more life. And I support every and all ways of constructing hyperbolic surfaces.)

firecat

Emission spectrum scarf:

http://sternlab.org/2010/02/emission-spectra-scarves/

firecat

Even if they do perpetuate the error that crochet is a subset of knitting.

http://discovermagazine.com/photos/03-the-bizarre-and-brilliant-world-of-knitted-science

jelazakazone

Disclaimer: I don't crochet. I'm a quilter. But I was websurfing and came across this link for making your own Borromean rings and I thought some of you might appreciate it.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-Borromean-rings-You-know-you-want-/

I have to say that that website looks like fun and I'm going to be poking around there too.

jumpuphigh

Finally, I have a place to share cool articles like this one - Math and yarn - and have the people I share it with actually care.

jumpuphigh

I was so excited to find recycled sari yarn on eBay. It arrived and I pulled out the skeins, lined them up and petted them. However, I'd read about how this yarn tends to have a musty smell so when I caught a whiff, I wasn't too concerned. The advice was to spritz it a few times with Febreze. Be prepared for this if you want to work with this yarn. It smells like it has been sitting in the moldiest, mustiest, darkest, dankest corner of my grandmother's basement for the last 10 years and that is after I've soaked it with fabric freshener multiple times. I've even soaked a hank in water and dishwashing soap and it is hanging to dry. It didn't help. There goes my vision of sitting in a coffee shop, knitting while people exclaim over the loveliness of the yarn while I show them sketches of my geometric wall hanging that I'm creating. So sad. I'm going to have to do a sniff test on the swatch I knit up as well as figuring out the gauge.

Has anybody else worked with this yarn? I've heard it's a tough one but I love how it knits up and the colors are so gorgeous that I want to figure out how to make it work.

( Recycled Sari Yarn Photo )

aquaeri

As soon as I figured out I wanted to start this community, I knew the first item I wanted to posted about: the first thing I ever made that combines maths and textiles.

( Meet my icosahedral pincushion )

piglet

Am starting my first modular knit mitered squares project -- juet a scarf. With Noro Silk Garden Lite in what I can only call cotton candy (albeit colours I've never eaten). The head-spinning joy of a line that turns into a square -- and would turn into a triangle were I to move the increases! I am delirious.

Have you mitered squares? Was it trippy?

sqbr

Klein bottle hat instructions I made a few years ago Requires remarkably little skill or money, own the downside it looks pretty dorky :)

Current Mood: cheerful

firecat

Here is a dump of my "Mathematical Knitting and Crochet" bookmarks. Included are patterns, galleries, articles, sites, tools, and general discussions of patterns that can be used in knitting and crochet.

Crocheted Möbius Scarf Instructions:
http://home.att.net/~susanBinKC/patterns.html?mobius.html

Knitted Möbius Scarf@Everything2.com:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1387180

Knitted Mobius Scarf, Klein Bottle, and Klein Bottle Hat:
http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/klein.txt

Woolly Thoughts:
http://www.woollythoughts.com
This entire site is worth exploring. There are a number of books and pamphlets available describing mathematical designs to knit or crochet in pillows, scarves, shawls, and afghans. The creators of this site also wrote No Pattern Knits, which uses some mathematical techniques.

Priscilla's Probability Pullover:
http://www.fuzzygalore.biz/articles/probability.shtml
Cabled sweater designed with the use of a die

Fibonacci Sequence:
http://www.fuzzygalore.biz/articles/fibonacci_seq.shtml
Ways of using the Fibonacci sequence in your knitting

Homemade Topological Shapes:
http://web.meson.org/topology/
Mobius Strip, Klein Bottle, and Real Projective Plane

Mobius Knitting:
http://www.math.wayne.edu/~isaksen/Expository/vismath-paper/
Explores several methods

Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane:
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html

Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/crocheting.php

Crocheting the Lorenz manifold:
http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/staff/hinke/crochet/

The Home of Mathematical Knitting (sarah-marie's mathematical knitting pages):
http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html
Möbius bands, Projective Planes, Klein bottles, Other Nonorientable Surfaces, Orientable surfaces, Hyperbolic plane, S3 scarf, Mini-braids. Also has links to more sites, both knitting and other fiber arts

Sierpinski Variations
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~dwildstr/crochet/sierpinski.html
Includes pattern for crocheted hat and a gallery of other crocheted Sierpinski triangles

Fractal Crochet:
http://www.marypat.org/stuff/nylife/020325.html

The Institute for Figuring Gallery of Crocheted Hyperbolic Models:
http://theiff.org/oexhibits/05b.html
With lots of links to other similar stuff

The Institute for Figuring Crochet Coral Reef Project:
http://theiff.org/reef/index.html
Think that only Dale Chihuly can create beautiful artsy seascapes? Think again!

Crafting Geometry (Craft Magazine article - pdf):
http://cdn.oreilly.com/make/craft/01/craftinggeometry.pdf

Random Stripe Generator:
http://www.kissyourshadow.com/stripe_maker.php

Cellular Automaton Knitting with Perl:
http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/20040706/liz-1.html

Tesselated Fish Pattern:
http://knittingarrows.blogspot.com/2006/04/fish-return.html
Here's a picture of something like it:
http://www.rubber-ducky.net/blog/2005/07/fish-blanket-finished-isnt-it.html

Kimberley Chapman's Knitting: Baby's First DNA Model:
http://kimberlychapman.com/crafts/knit-gallery.html#dna

aquaeri

Welcome to

intertwined!

I've been combining mathematics and yarn and fibre crafts for as long as I've been doing either, pretty much. They seem like a very natural match to me, and I always find it a bit strange when people treat them as incompatible. I guess mathematics is seen in our culture as very male, and most people think of physics and engineering as the major "users" of mathematics, and these two university disciplines have the highest ratio of male to female students. Conversely, knitting, crochet, lace-making, sewing, quiltmaking and so forth are "feminine" and often treated as trivial and insignificant crafts that couldn't possibly be intellectually challenging. I'd like to find some kindred spirits, and share the joy of mathematical fibre crafts.

Feel free to tell a bit about yourself in comments.

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The intersection of fibre arts and mathematics

Recent Entries

Every Kind of Craft now open!

Tetrahedral coin purse

Clouds modeled using crochet

Moebius sock!

Moebius scarf

Vonda McIntyre's hyberbolic crochet and beadwork

Geeky idea for a long scarf

Knitting and crochet in science goes mainstream

Crocheted Borromean Rings

This community makes me happy (and will make my friends happy too)

Recycled Sari Yarn Project

Icosahedral pincushion

mitered squares

Make your own dodgy Klein Bottle Hat

Mathematical fiber arts linky goodness

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