Recent Projects

[neotoma]

I've finished several projects recently, and have good pictures for two of them.

	Cabled Beaded Mittens Cabled beaded mitten made from Cleckheaton yarn with beads from Beadazzled. Given to Aunt Bess, Christmas 2005.
	GBlvr's necklace Made from 3 silver-lined art beads, with green and clear silver-lined size 11 seed beads strung in interleaved Fibonacci sequences, from 1 to 21 beads. Given to gblvr

Sadly, beading is almost as addictive as knitting and crochet, and since it's comparatively quick to finish, it's hard not to get a little crazy with the shinyness of it all.

Comments

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The Fibonacci sequence is incredibly pleasing to the eye. I've used it in weaving as well, and if I could figure out how to do it other than as stripes, I'd probably incorporate it into my knitting and crochet too.

[clara-swift.livejournal.com]

Is the fact that it's pleasing to the eye something to do with the make up of the sequence itself. I'm sure Dan Brown was banging on about those kind of things in the DiVinci Code but I wished to kill him by that point and wasn't paying attention. Is it connected to natural proportions or something?

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The Fibonacci Sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Fibonacci_numbers_in_nature) is one of the mathematical phenonema that is deceptively simple and nifty, and appears all over the place in nature.

It also coverges on the Golden Mean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio), which is why it makes for the pretty.

[clara-swift.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is exactly what he was talking about. Even the spiral graph is pretty. I have *never* said that about anything to do with maths before!