In case you hadn’t noticed any new photographs lately, that’s because I left my camera to computer cord at my job and was out sick most of last week. I picked it up today. In the mean time, I thought I would plug a book for a a couple of friends. They didn’t ask me. I am just doing it.
The book is Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects (Hardcover) and retails for $30.00 at Amazon.Com. My friends Carolyn Yackel and Sarah-Marire Belcastro are the editors. Sarah knows my husband well, but I met them both during a knitting session at a mathematics conference my husband was attending. Here is a link to some more detailed information on the book.
In case you are math phobic, you should know that the book has been carefully written for both crafters AND mathematicians. There are also bits included for teachers. Remember there are a mathematicians that think crafters do things more complicated than brain surgery (see Yarn Harlot: Secret Life of a Knitter).
I looked through Sarah’s list of projects and I recognize several of them from attending a session on mathematical knitting at the joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in Atlanta in 2005. Having seen them and listened to the accompanying talks, I feel I can recommend checking out this book. One project I loved was Amy Szczepanski’s Quilted Mobius Band. Warning, her web-page is for mathematicians. Another one was D. Jacob Wildbaum’s crocheted Sierpinski Gasket shawl. It’s a study in self-similar crochet.
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