Aoife the Woolly Scientist

I guess I'll start out by sharing some up close, detail shots from my book- Stitching Science. Ask your indie bookstore if they'd like to carry it. (Or push the big name stores to order more than 1 copy). #sciart

Awesome! So cool!

Excellent! I'm looking forward to seeing it!

What an awesome woman, she accomplished so much! I really hope you'll use some cobalt blue for the printing??

The recipient was absolutely thrilled with it 😊

Thank you!

I have been very fortunate to find a regular group of starlings murmurating along my journey home from work. They've really been brightening up the dark evenings for me with the stunning patterns they make while flying 😍

#Murmuration #Starlings

I carved out the stars and am using a UV light while I inlay fluorescent rocks into this wood slice painting. (Second photo shows the rocks lit up with the UV light!)
#art #sciart #astroart

This is so cool!! What are the rocks you're using?

This is beautiful! Your colour choices are fantastic

Oh wow, this is incredible. I can definitely understand being so moved by such an amazing work

Crochet teddy bear astronaut sitting beside a crochet telescope. The teddy bear is wearing an orange suit with a star on the suit. The bear looks happy

Crochet teddy bear astronaut. The teddy bear is wearing an orange space suit with an air supply on his back. He has big round ears on top of his head which are moulded into the helmet. There is a yellow star on the chest of the space suit. The teddy has blue eyes and appears to be smiling

Attending a baby shower tomorrow for a colleague. We've worked together on our charity's space content for schools so my gift to her is this teddy bear astronaut!

I made this pattern up as I went along and used scheepjes yarn. 🧶🐻🪐🌌👩‍🚀

Yessssss!! You're going to have so much fun! Can't wait to see what you make 😊

Thank you!

🤣🤣🤣 from now on this is the only way I will describe it!

Haha, I may have reached peak nerd!

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Thank you! I made that choice partly so it's a bit longer and yeah, more quilt shape, but also I prefer how it looks visually rather than directly on top of each other

Omg this is great! Definitely calling it that from now on 🤣

I like to say tunisian crochet is like if knitting and crochet had a baby 🤣

Fully endorsing learning tunisian! It's great, you get a really nice feeling fabric from it aswell and it's very pretty 😊

Thank you! It's tunisian crochet. I actually made a first attempt with C2C but the blocks were very big and too dense so I rethought the whole project! 🤣 here is a comparison photo and how far I got in the C2C journey!

Aoife sitting on the ground cross legged. In front of her is a large blanket.. the blanket is the Periodic Table of the Elements. It is made out of yarn and is full of color. The different groups of the table are each done in their own colour. From left to right...Hydrogen is red. Alkali Metals are deep green. Alkaline earth metals are orange. Transition metals are turquoise blue. Post transition metals are purple. Metalloids are yellow. Reactive non metals are deep grey blue. Halogens are burgundy red. Noble gases are neon green. On the bottom Lanthanoids are pink and below them are the Actinoids in sage green.

3.5 years ago I decided I wanted to make a crochet Periodic Table of the Elements.... and now here I am... having succeeded!
I still have a white border to add but so so close to having this blanket and massive project fully finished!