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Casey’s interview this week is with Melissa Gresalfi, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, Department of Teaching and Learning.
Links to things we talk about in this episode:
Another podcast episode about knitting and math
Help for Tight Knitters
Mirror (Backwards) Knitting
Knitting Aches and Pains podcast episode
German Short Rows (short technique video)
The interview with professor Melissa Gresalfi is right up my alley. thank you Casey!
I am a mirror knitter and for simpler patterns it isn’t hard to mentally swap knits for purls and vice versa. Though I did have someone at my knitting group look at me like I had two heads when I was explaining this.
For more difficult patterns, I don’t mirror knit for at least a few rows until I have a sense of the pattern.
Hello, Meaghan.
I am a mirror knitter as well -self taught, obviously. I mirror knit for everything, everytime, and I relate to people thinking “that’s so hard!!!” when I try to explain what I am doing. It is knid of funny, actually.
As for the podcast: Casey, I LOVED the interview! As a professor and knitting enthusiast, I was so happy to listen to someone linking both!
I hate mathematics and most of the time, when I am designing I draw things to keep count of stitch pattern repetitions and the like, instead of doing the math. I think the professor is absolutely right in saying that people hate mathematics because of the way it is taught. As a kid, math teachers would always blame me because I solved problems thru different methods. Now science says I am right, because as a lefthanded person, we tend not to think the same way (meaning our processes are different), so it is normal that we solve problems differently!
Had I had a good math teacher, I know I wouldn’t have hated it so much.
Sorry for the long rant!
Best,
– Tatiana.
Thanks Tatiana! I loved it, too.