Monthly Archives: April 2018

Ep. 083 Who’s Creative and How You Can Be (Already Are) too; Exploring Seed Stitch (including Crochet); Trying Texture for Blanket Blocks; Finding Public Loos

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Welcome to Episode 83 Who’s Creative and How You Can Be (already are)  Too;  Exploring the Seed Stitch and its variations (including Crochet);  Trying  Texture Stitches;  Finding Public Toilets

Brainy Thing:    26:17   Behind the Redwood Curtain:  37:36

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting:

 

Brainy Thing:  Creativity I

Who’s creative and how you can be (already are) too.:   Make it mighty Ugly — Kim Werker  https://www.amazon.com/Make-Mighty-Ugly-Exercises-Creative/dp/157061914X

Behind the Redwood Curtain

Arcata addresses universal human needs:  Portland Loo  http://theloo.biz/

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Today in Teaching Your Brain to Knit we initiate in our podcast   the topic of creativity and how to encourage it;  Margaret experiments with the  Seed Stitch and alternatives in both knitting and crochet,   Catherine explores texture with blocks for a charity blanket, and she also reports on an unusual topic behind the Redwood Curtain — public toilets

Ep. 082 Universal Design in Learning Offers Structure for Learning and Knitting; Two Brains Repair a Shawl; Hiller Park in McKinleyville provides more than a dog park

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Welcome to Episode 82:  Finding a Way to Learn and Teach With Universal Design in Learning;

Brainy Thing:  19:55              Behind the Redwood Curtain:  29:10

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting

Margaret calls for emergency help from Catherine to help her figure out a supposedly invisible repair (Knit Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXD3TdbpDbM;  Kate Atherly in Knitty 2006 http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/FEATrepairs101.html;  
Rina Crochet’s book Flawless Knit Repair  19 pages of gold, I’m guessing, used  for $99 )  of her Multnomah Shawl by Shawl repair
The shawl design is Multnomah by Kate Ray.  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/multnomah
Recommended by Chrissy the Great https://www.ravelry.com/people/chrissythegreat  formerly of the Manic Purl audio Podcast and currently (well, currently in a break from ) Snappy Stitches video podcast.
Purl soho has picture tutorial of  duplicate stitches initials on a cap using the “A”s and not the “V”s of the knit stitch.

Brainy Thing

Margaret explores a comprehensive approach to learning and teaching in the Universal Design for Learning method.  http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl/3principles

Behind the Redwood Curtain

Want a dog park, spectacular views of the Pacific. an eco preserve of a coastal forest, paths in the woods where you won’t get lost?  Try Hiller Park in McKinleyville.   http://mckinleyvillecsd.com/hiller-park

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website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post.
Instagram:   Margaret Kelso for Margaret and MagicWombat1 for Catherine
In today’s episode of Teaching Your Brain to Knit, we explore Universal Design for Learning to help us learn and teach from a more comprehensive approach,  we put our brains together to mend a shawl using what we’re calling the duplicate stitch/weave method, and Catherine reports how Hiller Park in McKinleyville serves many needs from dog park to eco preserve of a coastal forest.