Posted on 01/01/2023 11:18:11 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
http://crochetpatterns09.blogspot.com/2010/07/fibonacci-crochet-scarf.html
Who was Fibonnaci?
Fibonacci, known in his day as Leonardo of Pisa, was an Italian mathematician who lived during the Middle Ages. He is widely regarded as the finest mathematician of his age, and although little is known about him, most of us use the contributions of Fibonacci to society every day. In addition to the classical sequence of numbers named after him, Fibonacci also brought the use of Arabic numerals to the West, along with the use of decimal points. These two math features are often taken for granted today, but they were revolutionary in the Middle Ages.
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers which are mathematically related to each other. Many people know at least the first few numbers in the sequence, which begins with: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and continues with each number being the sum of the previous two numbers. The Fibonacci sequence is used to describe a number of phenomena, such as the golden ratio and the tendency of plants to grow in spirals, maximizing their efficiency in a neat Fibonacci sequence. It should be noted that Fibonacci did not discover this sequence, but he does deserve credit for introducing it to the West from India.
I saw a post today in one of my FB crafting groups that Disney is cracking down on Etsy vrafters again.
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Thank you for the thread, Diana!
How interesting!
Happy, Blessed New Year!
Done! :)
Happy New Year, FRiends!
I’ll have some pictures this month. In the meantime I have been watching a show on satellite, and I haven’t seen anything in years worth watching. It’s a series called Secret Restorations and there have been about 8 episodes so far each one fantastic. Relatives and friends submit an item to a team of expert restorers and they fix and mint each item out to surprise the relative. Great show.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Not ‘creating/making/sharing’ right now with dad in the hospital/rehab, but I expect to have plenty of opportunities later ... looking forward to “doing something” creative! :-)
Happy New Year’s everyone!
I have been supposed to start knitting a scarf since Thanksgiving —I hope mentioning it here will “encourage” me to start it before next month, LOL!
The bad thing is that I want it to be thick and warm, so the thin yarn I bought won’t do—I need to buy some that is thicker.
Well, I guess that will encourage me to start and finish quickly, as I have used up all the corners where my yarn goes! Plus, it really is getting cold.
I wish everyone good fortune with their New Year’s resolutions and projects!
Sounds a bit like The Repair Shop on Netflix. I haven’t watched that in a while, but it was fun when I did!
I haven’t seen that. Secret Restoration is on the History channel. Family heirlooms that mean a lot, everything from a cannon to a treadle sewing machine. They have a team of incredible crafts people. They have 3 or 4 items on each episode and a reveal to the family member at the end.
It sounds awfully similar. The Repair Shop was a BBC thing and filmed somewhere in England. They used experts from every different craft and discipline. So very cool. I’ll have to look up the History channel version.
I love to fix things and have restored many, my mom’s hope chest, sewing machine, a metal table with wooden base from the 1950’s. All items from my family. Plus some statues, cuckoo clocks, all with family ties. Its restoring history.
Love that! I love bringing new life to other things that were once loved.
My family thinks I’m nuts, to want the cast-offs. My kitchen is filled with pots, pans, colanders, and a wide assortment of cooking gadgets and utensils from my grandparents on down. I use all of it, every single day. It brings me great happiness to use the things they did. It’s almost like they are still with me, guiding my hands and my brain to work together the way they did.
Especially anything from my grandparents and my parents. It’s hard to let it go. I donate a lot of stuff, but some things just have a very personal connection. I am what my mama used to say was “seventy-mental” (sentimental).
While I appreciate modern conveniences, I do love the craftsmanship of things from their time. They are exquisitely made. No way I can use things made in China when I have all this from their homeland or from the mid-20th century America. It is history. Mine and theirs.
I know exactly how you feel.
Happy New Year Diana!
This year I crocheted a number of snowflakes and used them on my Christmas tree. I also added the string of “popcorn” and “cranberries” that I crocheted last year. I was quite pleased with how it all turned out!
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