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Welcome to Episode 34: The Forgetting Curve and Knitting

Brainy thing: 21:40 Redwood Curtain 31:40

What We’re Learning from our Knitting:

Margaret doesn’t realize that the Forgetting Curve threw her a curve on the Fish Lip Kiss heel until she messed up. She made a sparkly pair of blue socks out of Knit Circus Pixie Dust fingering weight merino/silk/nylon/polyamide/metallic yarn. Persie's sparkle socks

Years ago she got a similar yarn as a kit from Knit Circus for Jaala Spiro’s half circle Corrina Shawl in the Casseopeia color way. When she ran out (she didn’t do a gauge swatch—for shame) Jaala Spiro dyed a skein that would especially go with the older color way. So she had quite a bit of the yarn leftover.

Along with the Vanessa Ives Mystery Shawl, Catherine continues making socks for the Afghans for Afghans organization. This time she use Kate Atherly’s Baby Socks pattern . She also made Lee Burstein’s Organic Cotton Heirloom Baby Hat , but out of wool instead of cotton.

Catherine continues to make progress on her meditative Vanessa Ives Shawl.

Brainy Thing: The Forgetting Curve

Baffled by her botched attempt at the Fish Kiss Lips Heel (she did it once and she thought she remembered it) Margaret delves into the world of forgetting and meets our old friend Hermann Ebbinghaus who first described the Forgetting Curve. Elizabeth Loftus, a cognitive psychologist, describes different types of forgetting.

Behind the Redwood Curtain:

Catherine tells us about an icon of the Humboldt Bay, the statue of “The Fisherman” by Dick Crane. (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011634667/) He and his wife Salli own Dancing Crane Studios.

Knitting Tip:

Listener Kate Pricey offers a tip about making knitting into the Backward Loop Cast-on easier — go through the back loop.

Knitting Tip Contest:

Five back issues of Pom Pom magazine is the prize for a randomly selected winner from our Knitting Tip thread of on our group on Ravelry.

Podcast Business:

We continue to have an on-going incentive prize for each 100 people who join our Teaching Your Brain to Knit podcast group on Ravelry. (http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit)

Welcome to Episode 31: Knitting, Life-long Learning, Your Brain: Data from the Nun Project

Brainy Thing starts at: Behind the Redwood Curtain:

What we’re learning from our Knitting

Catherine gives an update on the Vanessa Ives Mystery Shawl By Bunny Muff and how even Michael’s Big Box store failed in providing Japanese beads that would work for it.

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While she’s waiting for her delivery of beads, she’s working on Baby Socks by Bianca Boonstra for the Afghan for Afghans project. The socks are made from Treadsoft Yarns that Catherine dyed with Dharma dyed goods._

She’s also been working up some scrubbies for the Dishcloth group she belongs to. The pattern is _Little Scrubbie by Arctic Trails Abstract and made out of leftover Knit Picks Lindy Chain and AllHemp 6 lux.

Margaret tells the “amazing” story of finding a hand dyed indigo boucle cotton at Amazing Yarns in Emerald Hills, CA. She knit the Miami Vice pattern by 3 bags fulled or Hillary Designs and learned of ways to fix the dye from John Marshall of John Marshall Works in Fabric who was at the Natural Fibre Festival in Arcata in September.
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Brainy Thing

Another reason we crafters should continue to learn? Catherine talks about the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of Sisters of Notre Dame which indicates that lifelong learners have a lower rate of symptoms of dementia even if there are pathological signs of it in the brain after death. Also, those with stronger language skills fared better in terms of preventing dementia.

Behind the Redwood Curtain

Margaret shares information about the mission of the Friends of the Dunes’ Humboldt Coastal Nature Center.

Hands-on display at Humboldt Coastal Nature Center

More hands-on opportunities at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center

Path leading to the trails at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center

Stamps House at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center.

Walk outside of Stamps House at the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center.

Knitting Tips (technical problems prevented the recording of this.)

Learn more about indigo from the “word of the Week” on Indigo expert John Marshall. http://johnmarshall.to/blog/category/japanese_word_of_the_week/

Podcast Business

The incentive to sign up for the Teaching Your Brain to Knit Ravelry Group_ continues.

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