… when the original Woolly Thoughts was published … and a lot has happened since then. It is very confusing because everything we do is called Woolly Thoughts but it was originally just this garish pink book. In 1994 we somehow persuaded Souvenir Press to publish a knitting book that had no colour in it …
Tag: mathematics
Square Puzzle
The challenge is to turn a square of fabric into a jacket without cutting off any pieces or adding anything on.
Sum Wear
You could be forgiven for thinking I am beginning to lose the plot. My latest design is for Barbie! This is not just any Barbie. This is Fibonacci Barbie. This is a project that has been languishing for more than 20 years. I started to make some mathematically-inspired clothes for a teddy bear, which I …
Flatland Lock
About ten years ago we came across a puzzle called Bank Raid, in Leonardo’s Mirror & Other Puzzles by Ivan Moscovich. The puzzle itself was inspired by the 2- dimensional world of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott. At the time we made a crochet blanket. Obviously it was not possible …