Feel Good Yarn | Teaching Your Brain to Knit

Welcome to Episode 27: Reading/Writing Learning Preference and Your Knitting

Brainy thing: 25:10 Redwood Curtain: 33:50

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting

Margaret concludes (at least for now) her cotton sock yarn comparison with Feel Good Yarns sock yarn knitted in a generic sock pattern and using the new-to-her Fish Lips Kiss Heel by Sox Therapist in Feel Good Yarn Company sock yarn.

Below, she compares Feel Good Yarn with Cascade Fixation and Cobasi by HiKoo, which is currently her favorite.

Hi Koo CoBaSi	Cascade Fixation	Feel Good Yarn Silver Spun
US 1	US 3	US 3
$7.50 / 50 gm	$5.50 /5o gm	$48 42 /86 gms, 400 yards
Very stretchy	Very stretchy	Very stretchy
Pleasant feel	Bumpy feel, thick	Pleasant feel
Hard to weave in	Okay to weave in	Fine to weave in
After washing, not so hard to weave in	Stays plumb and soft	Strand of silver (don’t see it) conductive, inhibits odors, inhibit bacteria, thermal, suggested for those with diabetes, arthritis, sensitive skin American made

Catherine talks about her painful learning from the Mona8pi or Bunny Muff’s Vanessa Ives Mystery shawl out of Woole’s Yarns Creations Color Changing Cotton.

Brainy Thing: Who put the “R” in VAK?

In earlier episodes, we’ve talked about the VAK learning style – Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic preferences for taking in information. An updated version of that is the VARK system. The “R” stands for the Reading/Writing preference. While many people including educators find these systems useful, other criticize the research that has been done.

http://easychangeworks.com/articles-nlp/markova-quiz.htm

http://teachertools.londongt.org/?page=VAK

http://easychangeworks.com/articles-nlp/markova-1-intro.htm

http://learningstylesevidence.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-meta-analysis-of-vak-pre-vark.html

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2012/05/fleming-vakuous-learning-styles.html