Steve’s latest design is a disappearing fairy castle. When you look from directly in front you only see narrow stripes. Stand back and look and you will see the castle magically appear. This is what you see when you look straight at the knitting. This image does not disappear as completely as those in our …
Category: Knitting
Canis Minor – Another Puppy Illusion
Steve’s latest illusion design is another baby blanket, called Canis Minor. We made it the same size as all our other baby blankets but it could have been square by leaving off the top and bottom. Buy the pattern on Ravelry
From Square To Eternity
One of our favourite mathematical designs is something we call From Square To Eternity. It will be very familiar to mathematicians and quilters. The four triangles that make up the new square have the same area as everything that has gone before. If you find that difficult to believe, imagine folding in the last set …
A New Puppy
We get lots of requests for more baby blankets and it’s been quite a long time since the last one so Steve designed this cute little puppy blanket. It is very difficult to photograph illusion knitting. When you look straight at the knitting you only see narrow stripes. The image appears when you look from …
Running Repairs
Ins and Outs of Flexagons
I have always been fascinated by flexagons and have made several over the years, some more successful than others. My first crochet hexaflexagon was about twenty years ago and, amazingly, it is still surviving. It isn’t the most comfortable cushion in the world but it is great fun. I can absolutely predict what will happen …
TMRO puppet show
Ben made a short video of some of the puppet presenters. The soundtrack is from previous TMRO webcasts. The puppets are loosely based on Woolly Thoughts puppet patterns
Puppets become avatars
The presenters were all very excited and several of them immediately changed their Twitter avatars to the puppet version of themselves. They then asked for some close up pictures
New Glasses
Ben made another puppet that needed glasses. I know a little more about 3D printing than I did a month ago so I was able to adjust the settings to get a better print. These are puppet versions of the presenters of the TMRO Space webcast I doubt if anyone else would want to make …