Katherine Seaton

Granny Life Community Build Project Granny Life

Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com.

Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :)

#mathsky #crochet 🧶

Louise is there! I met her at Bridges.

Dr Wood. Poor typing.

#MathPhoto25 For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, I could have taken all this playful maths home from the charity shop. However, I do already own them all, including the Dr Woo puzzle centre bottom.

It was great meeting you, too.

Ah, it is available in Australia but only in specialty yarn shops. I was given a kit at Bridges, but @mathgrrl.com might be somewhere that you might be, or someone you know?

Oh, I didn’t think of that. I thought I had the worst jet lag that I have ever had and thought it was because I am not as young as I used to be, and can’t bounce back from 26 hour flights plus 8 hour time difference.

I like "good junk of the afternoon". I may use it in future.

Absolutely. It is excellent with a slice of pavlova.

You might like this little prototype for some brooches I made for the people who helped me with my Bridges workshop. In one direction 2025 in binary. In the other, vowels/consonants in Bridges as 0/1.

I love a collaborative fibre arts installation project. I believe that this might be the fifth I have joined. Two were definitely not mathematical, two were/are mathematical, and one was mathematical but the participants and organiser probably didn't see it that way!

Thanks to Neil for a great introduction to my book, and a beautiful shaded rendition of a Fibonacci snowflake in hitomezashi.

Yes, it’s a consequence of the recursion relation that is used to generate them when created with hitomezashi.

And I forgot to say, I'm adjusting to using worsted weight - the most common yarn used in Australia is DK! Another reason that a practice piece is a good idea for me! We can get worsted here (demand driven by so many on-line patterns being available), so I am using some part skeins that I had.

It may just be that there’s a lot to take in the first time: picking up the carried thread, doing the colour changes and picking up in the other three corners. And translating from US terminology…With all those sorted out, I am confident about learning the join!!

Have done part of a practice piece, and so glad that I am doing this. Discovered I'm not yet getting the join neat enough. All the rest is going well, and now I can focus on learning to do the join/corner. Also, I picked a square with 148 colour changes! I thought it was pretty. #grannylifecrochet

My latest visualisation - Hitomezashi Snowflakes. Inspired by @mathskath.bsky.social and her book A Stitch in Line, here's my digital recreation of an order five Fibonacci snowflake (highlighted in white, with smaller order snowflakes in different colours).

Blog post and explanation to follow! 📊

I’m looking forward to seeing how you will visualise data with hitomezashi.

My delayed suitcase has arrived! I can start!

Purple allium flowers against green foliage. Several bees are on the flowers.

Can you see just how large a hommel (bumble bee) is, compared to a honey bee?

Update. I am forgiven. She slept cuddled up next to me, not on my feet which is her usual practice.

I showed him photos of things with symmetries and patterns on my phone, and his mum said "They should teach *this* in school." Pointed her quickly to the nrich site before the Sprinter reached their station. Outreach on the move!

Amazing interaction this w/e with a child and mother on a train in the Netherlands, explaining in my best (simple) Dutch the distinction between rekening (he said to me in English 1 plus 1 is 2) and wiskunde.

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Ah, mid-afternoon. The time when jet-lagged people fight to stay awake.

I was away for 11 days. The cat won’t speak to me.

Front glass wall of a gallery. The exhibition title is in big white letters and a leafy structure is supervised on a human profile.

The three swans made of white metal around a black pole outdoors. The signage says Singer Laren.

An unexpected pleasure while visiting friends was this museum in Baarn. “We are Nature” is an exhibition initiated by Princess Irene (aunt of the current King) who encourages us to enjoy the benefits of time in nature and to take better care of it. No photos, no talking- stilte. Many different media

Woman standing beside a glass window. Her reflection is visible beside her. The window displays works of Escher.

This might not have been the angle I would have chosen, but my friend has appropriately caught a reflection of me in the window.

White shop with black writing and artwork of Escher displayed in the windows.

Today I am visiting friends in Baarn. We walked down a little street, and look what we found. This is the home of the publishing company. Escher lived in Baarn, but not in this house.

Shelves containing cones of yarn in a spectrum of colours.

Here is an uncropped version without me obstructing the spectrum.