Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
New book by Cheryl Niamath
Our friend and fellow knitter, Cheryl, has published a book of patterns. Congratulations! You can order online or email Cheryl through her blog.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Crocheting book wins odd title prize
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/03/27/odd-title-crochet.html
LONDON (AP) — A book charting the frontier between handicrafts and geometry on Friday won Britain’s quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year’s oddest book title.
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by mathematician Daina Taimina beat runners-up What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua? and Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich.
Prize overseer Horace Bent said "the public proclivity towards non-Euclidian needlework" proved too strong for the competition.
"I’ve never won any prizes before. This is my first prize and it’s wonderful," said Taimina, an adjunct associate professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y..
The winning book’s title may be odd but the subject is serious. Taimina uses crochet to create hyperbolic planes, surfaces on which lines curve away from each other instead of running parallel, as on a flat plane, or converging, as on a sphere.
Previous champions include Bombproof Your Horse and Living With Crazy Buttocks.
LONDON (AP) — A book charting the frontier between handicrafts and geometry on Friday won Britain’s quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year’s oddest book title.
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by mathematician Daina Taimina beat runners-up What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua? and Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich.
Prize overseer Horace Bent said "the public proclivity towards non-Euclidian needlework" proved too strong for the competition.
"I’ve never won any prizes before. This is my first prize and it’s wonderful," said Taimina, an adjunct associate professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y..
The winning book’s title may be odd but the subject is serious. Taimina uses crochet to create hyperbolic planes, surfaces on which lines curve away from each other instead of running parallel, as on a flat plane, or converging, as on a sphere.
Previous champions include Bombproof Your Horse and Living With Crazy Buttocks.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fun crochet
Shawnna told us about this fun, modern looking crochet that has become very popular. She brought in 2 books for us to see. Her cat loved the little mouse she made.
Amigurumi!
Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts: Lacy Crochet
Friday, September 18, 2009
Yarn Bombers Book Launch
The book launch for the Yarn Bombers was at ThreeBags Full on Sept 17, 09. Here's a link to the book… http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=294
And here are photos:
And here are photos:
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