Teaching Your Brain to Knit
Brainy: 14:50    Behind the Redwood Curtain: 26:21
 
What We're Learning from our Knitting
Catherine is inches away from finishing her Metalouse shawl by Stephen West https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/metalouse. She used Woolemeise and Canon Dyeworks yarns. She is looking for a pattern for a sweater as her next project.
Margaret didn't experience much learning but enjoyed a lot of satisfaction knitting her basic top down, heel flap socks using Online sock yarn in a multiple of colors: blue, grey, orange, yellow and pink. Although she has her own modifications, she basically follows Ann Budd's 6 stitches per inch sock. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/6-stitches-per-inch-sock. Margaret also applied several patches in old socks that were wearing thing.
 
Brainy Thing:
Catherine reports on studies that show the link with biodiversity in nature with human happiness. Diversity in birds are particularly important.
https://theconversation.com/biodiversity-how-our-health-and-happiness-depend-on-a-thriving-planet-157261
 
Behind the Redwood Curtain
Margaret talks about a creek in Arcata, the Jolly Giant Creek, and a new art project to honor it.
 
Welcome to Episode 125 of Teaching Your Brain to Knit, where we talk about the link between biodiversity in nature and human happiness; Catherine updates her work on the Metalouse and Margaret shares about her basic sock knitting; she also reports on a recent outdoor art project in honor of the Jolly Giant Creek. Thanks for listening to our podcast.