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I keep a 10 ft piece of 550 next to my desk and tie knots during meetings. It helps me concentrate on the meeting (I tie the ones I know, not ones I'm trying to
by JustSomeNobody 4y ago
I keep a 10 ft piece of 550 next to my desk and tie knots during meetings. It helps me concentrate on the meeting (I tie the ones I know, not ones I'm trying to learn). I have actually been wanting to learn how to knit.
- grogenaut 4y agoLots of great YouTube videos on casting on and making hats or scarfs. Get some larger needles and go to town. Happy to provide more pointers. I personally love picking up crafts, which it in of itself is a skill, that and dealing with failure.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoDo you have any particular YT Videos you would recommend for beginners?
- User23 4y agoKnitting is arguably a species of knot-tying. I recall hearing once that Dirac was watching a woman knitting and applied knot theory to deduce the existence of the purl stitch. He told her about it and she was amused[1]. Another time, Dirac was watching Anya Kapitza knitting while he was talking physics with Peter Kapitza. A couple of hours after he left, Dirac rushed back, very excited. "You know, Anya," he said, "watching the way you were making this sweater I got interested in the topological aspect of the problem. I found that there is another way of doing it and that there are only two possible ways. One is the one you were using; another is like that. . . . " And he demonstrated the other way, using his long fingers. His newly discovered "other way," Anya informed him, is well known to women and is none other than "purling." [1] http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html