This blog has covered a range of topics—science, music, architecture, art, and more—since I began it all these month ago. Despite such a democratic take on things, I never thought I'd be posting about crafting. But my wife has pointed me to two projects that are just bizarre enough to intrigue me.
First, some lunatic Belgian mathematician-crafters have taken the Lorenz equations—three-dimensional equations that describe the nature of chaotic systems—and turned them into crochet patterns. Crocheted chaos.
Try to follow along. These three equations—
—somehow create something that looks like this:
Follow? Me neither. But the lunatic Belgians do, and they've also got mad skills with the crochet sticks.
If you would like dabble in your own crochet lunacy, you can download the pattern [pdf].
"Piece of cake," I can hear my grandma crowing. Well, granny, how about quilts based on topographical maps? That's what I thought!
These are done by Ian Hundley, who had a little blurb with photos in the latest issue of Vogue. (Actually, the ones in the magazine are better, and more maplike, than this one; but this is all I can find online.) You can see his quilts at Earnest Cut & Sew in New York throughout March.
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