5 posts tagged “book”
Did you ever buy a book, wrapped in plastic foil, unwrap it and find a bookmark inside? A personal bookmark, that is.
This was ours:
When I read in the craft challenge, I should try out something new, my first thought was "But I have tried everything crafty already!" Of course, I have not. So, the three things I've come up with so far: make my own stamps (carving it out of rubber), make my own sqaure book (pretty nifty folding book I bought on the Creativa - I'll post photos when I've made my version) and make a picture with those little mirrors I bought last month. Actually, I could mix the last two projects. But will a book with mirrors on the cover be unpractical?
For now, I just wish you all a happy easter holdiay!
To balance my last bitchy post, now something about a book I'm exited about:.
This is a book I did not buy yet, but a friend gave it to me to read.
It is not hard to read and you can skip the more mathematical
explanations and just start playing, but one of the authors is a
mathematician.
It is about Escher's artwork and how to make geometrical froms with patterns that fit together. A Kaleidozycle is a way to fold a torus out of a plane from paper: Another way to construct it, is to make a chain of tetraeders. You can turn it inside out over and over without breaking it. This is a crocheted version:
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This is a book I bought recently:
I bought it - of course - because there was a mathematical topic and crochet in the title. The first sentence reads:
"The first thing that you need to know is that I'm a mathphobe." This almost made me wish I had not bought it. The reason for the "almost": I'd love it if there was a huge market for mathematics in crafts-books. So I'm happy to spend money on books in that direction. The reason for the wish: So, it is socially chic not to like maths and to be really bad with numbers and stuff. Great. Wake up! This is as chic as not being able to read and write. It can happen and you can still live a happy life, but it is a disability to have no mind for math, not something to be proud of!
I got books! Three more french crochet books (makes it six now - and I still don't speak french...) and Knitting Nature.
Awwww
When I woke up this morning I could not get back to sleep because that hexagon-skirt popped up in my head and I just had to get up and look at the pattern, flip through the book, look at the other books again, planning projects, understanding how a hexagon is knitted (from the outside in, exactly reversed from the crochet version - makes it easier to join t existing parts, but harder to estimate how large it is going to be).
Happy me. :-)
