I once knitted a moebius strip using a flexible circular knitting needle that went around the edge (twice around the loop, of course. Casting on took some real inspiration, and the first few rows were really tight. I had to use a crochet needle to move the loops from one end of the needle to the other. But after that it went more easily, and by about row three (or was it six?) I could assume a more normal knitting procedure.
After that I did another by crocheting. Much easier.
Once, when I was about ten, I had a flexible snap-together plastic kind of building thing -- called flex-something -- I forget just what. I decided to see what I could get by making an array of squares and putting one to many at each corner. It got quite messy, and I discovered I had some king of primordial fear of the kind of shape I was building, and quickly took it apart before I could see its full majesty.
I wonder there that primordial fear could possibly have come from. Did our ancestors encounter really dangerous hyperbolic planes in our remote past? Did I encounter them as a toddler?
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Date: 2007-01-09 02:45 pm (UTC)After that I did another by crocheting. Much easier.
Once, when I was about ten, I had a flexible snap-together plastic kind of building thing -- called flex-something -- I forget just what. I decided to see what I could get by making an array of squares and putting one to many at each corner. It got quite messy, and I discovered I had some king of primordial fear of the kind of shape I was building, and quickly took it apart before I could see its full majesty.
I wonder there that primordial fear could possibly have come from. Did our ancestors encounter really dangerous hyperbolic planes in our remote past? Did I encounter them as a toddler?