Ep. 089 Changing our Minds; Catching the Virus fever; Starting and Stopping Projects; Getting to Humboldt

Brainy Thing:    21:10               Behind the Redwood Curtain: 32:54

What We’re Learning from Our Knitting

Margaret caught the Virus fever when she needed a bright, sunny shawl before the sun came from its winter’s sleep in Humboldt.   It’s a four row repeat crochet triangle shawl -- Virus Shawl  No one know who the original designer is but you can find it at:

Written http://giftsbyhelen.co.uk/2016/06/virus-shawl-a-written-pattern/

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6gJPoo5t60

chart  https://www.woolpedia.de/english/crochet-tutorials/shawl/

colored chart:  https://www.ravelry.com/projects/theped/virus-shawl---virustuch

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/virus-shawl-flower-edge

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/virus-shawl-flower-edge

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/scallop-border-for-virus-shawl

 

Catherine talks about starting new projects and finishing old ones.  And it’s time for the annual dishcloth swap again.  Annual Dishcloth swap:   https://www.ravelry.com/groups/annual-dishcloth-swap.  This year’s theme is beauty.  

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/heaven-scent

Dishcloth swaps

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/quadrant-dishcloth    Quadrant Dishcloth   Jenny Konopinski

 

 

Brainy Thing:

Why don’t we want to change our minds but how we overcome it — that’s what Margaret shares on the Brainy Segment.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180622-the-surprising-reason-people-change-their-minds

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140521-the-best-way-to-win-an-argument

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201504/what-is-confirmation-bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

 

Behind the Redwood Curtain:

We talk about how remote Humboldt is but how do you actually get there?  Catherine shares information and pitfalls about getting to Humboldt

 

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Today in Teaching Your Brain to Knit we explore how we change our minds and why we don’t want to, Margaret beats the winter blues with a yellow shawl;  Catherine shares her finishing old projects and beginning new ones;  and she also shares how to get to the isolated Humboldt county.