WWW: When yarn and science collide; our very own “Knitting Humourist”

Love love love these: knitterly illustrations from this week’s New Yorker.

Image (c) Pat Ashforth.

Even if you are not mathematically inclined, these projects are absolutely beautiful. And if you ARE, they are also jaw-droppingly clever. Mathematicians Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer create yarny designs to illustrate mathematical concepts.

The blanket pattern on the left is derived from an image of a grid of superimposed sudokus puzzles, where each of the digits represents a different colour Sudoku grid…

Serves him right: a burglar broke into the home of a woman and managed to get away with only a briefcase full of knitting patterns. Although, if it was out-of-print and hard to find issues of the Rowan magazine, it wouldn’t be quite so funny…

Image (c) Allison Meier for Hyperallergic.

I had no idea: how the Pantone color system evolved from a way of categorizing bird colors.

A lovely profile of “Knitting Humourist” and friend-of-the-show Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot, and her appearance at last weekend’s KnityCity event in Vancouver.