Hankering for Yarn

May 8th, 2008

Butterfly Effects-Update on the Crocheted Lorenz Manifold

OH!!!!! I am just delighted! After reading my posting about Hinka Osinga’s spectacular crocheted model based on the mathematics of the Butterfly Effect,  Kristi found the actual pattern for it!
I’ll never have time to do it, but I love it that now I COULD!
Here’s the pattern URL: Crocheted Mathematics of Chaos Butterfly Model   by Hinka […]

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May 7th, 2008

Butterfly effects in crochet

Lately, there has been a lot of attention paid to crocheted mathematical models.

I am passionate about butterflies. I am constantly designing homages to them in crochet, weaving, knitting, (see yesterday’s entry for a knitted Butterfly Bag), spool knitting, tatting, sewing, you name it. The picture above is a butterfly that is part of a […]

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May 1st, 2008

Hey! I just won an award!

The Crochet Liberation Front on Ravelry awarded me their hookalicious award for kewl crochet for my earth friendly design for a crocheted market bag:

I love it that they GOT my pun: It’s a♥ GREEN ♥bag that’s all about ♥ loving the earth! ♥
I am tickled pink. When I was nominated for […]

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April 23rd, 2008

Earth Day - puppets and words

Terri posted a wonderful entry about Earth Day on Salt Spring Island: Earth Day Weaving
and mentioned to her mom about all the ‘R’ words that I used to use in the environmental puppet shows that I wrote, built and performed for 20 years or so….

A few of the ‘R’ words that I used to […]

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April 6th, 2008

Lace Fence

Synchronicity is amazing.
I was just reading about the common root of two opposing words:
Hospitality vs Hostility
and then the link for this amazing and beautiful piece of work was sent to a list that I belong to:
Lace Fence 
I am awestruck by the lace fence. As a lacemaker, I KNOW how incredibly difficult creating the lace fence […]

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