Gifted Needlework (was Knitting and Crocheting)

Why is it that knitting or crocheting or cross-stitch... is often a pastime of gifted children and adults?

Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane

No pattern, but an interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina...
 

Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold by Hinke M Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf

The Lorenz attractor is the best known image of a chaotic or strange attractor. We are concerned here with its close cousin, the two-dimensional stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system, which we call the Lorenz manifold for short. This surface organizes the dynamics in the three-dimensional phase space of the Lorenz system... Read about it in Mathematicians crochet chaos  (requires ^{Adobe Reader})
 

Dr. Montville's Double Helix Seaman Scarf

This scarf pattern was commissioned by Dr. Thomas Montville, a professor at Rutgers University (and also the photo model). Dr. Montville kindly agreed to serve on my doctoral thesis committee in return...
 

The Dr. Who Scarf seasons 12, 15, 16, and 18 patterns

One hobby has taken Palmer Station by storm this year: knitting. In the last few months, almost half of the station residents have learned how to knit. The knitters have used lots of ingenuity in designing styles and patterns...
 

Hat Math by Susan in POP Goes Antartica

One hobby has taken Palmer Station by storm this year: knitting. In the last few months, almost half of the station residents have learned how to knit. The knitters have used lots of ingenuity in designing styles and patterns...
 

Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects edited by Sarah-marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel

Investigate the interplay between mathematics and needlework, with stories of what happens when mathematicians turn to their hobbies but still continue to think about mathematics.  Great math, carefully explained, with simple knitting projects.  Read KFinn's review for Hoagies' Page on Amazon...

 

Makurokurosuke Soot by Moon's Creations

The fun characters from My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away, in crochet...
 

Möbius Scarf (also available in a crochet pattern)

A never-ending scarf...
 

Quidditch Scarf by the girl from auntie

The mathematical derivation for the scarf pattern to emulate characters in a a certain popular children's book, or it's corresponding movies...
 

Professor Lets Her Fingers Do the Talking by Michelle York, The New York Times (requires free membership)

Some people looking at the crocheted objects on Daina Taimina's kitchen table would see funky modern art. Others would see advanced geometry.  The curvy creations, made of yarn, are actually both...
 

Ravelry

Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. The content here is all user- driven; we as a community make the site what it is...
 

Real Men Knit by Dawn Goldsmith

The knitted six-inch, perfect square boasted a delightful geometric pattern beginning with a knitted center diamond...  "You made this?" I asked. "What did you use for yarn? For needles? Where did you get the pattern?"  He shrugged, more interested in finding a snack than discussing the potholder. "I found a cone of string at work, and that's what I used for yarn."
 

sarah-marie's mathematical knitting pages

A never-ending scarf...
 

String and Air

Knitting is a medium that provides endless depths for exploration and discovery.  The dimensions are fiber, structure, texture, and color.  The results are as varied as imagination...
 

Wooly Thoughts

We are designers of mathematical knitwear. Or perhaps we are mathematical designers of knitwear. Whatever you want to call us, many of our designs are simple geometric shapes combined to make elaborate patterns.  We are mathematicians at heart and so most of what we do has a mathematical basis. This may not always be obvious and it doesn't explain the cartoons and word-play which often creep in...
 

The Yarn Harlot

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee goes on (and on) about knitting...
 

Last updated November 17, 2009