Hello World.
There is a new girl on the knitting block...that girl is me.
I�m Kate.
I am a problem solver, a people watcher, a curious cat.
More formally, I am a senior at Indiana University in Bloomington. I study Cognitive Science and Philosophy (yet it seems that the more I learn the less I know). I am interested in ideas of embodied cognition; I like to think about the way people think about thinking.
A winding route of email correspondences led me (digitally) out west and back home when I wrote to Mike Eisenberg, a professor of computer science in Boulder, CO. I wanted to know more about his work with e-textiles. I wanted to make things! He wrote a response, in which he answered my questions, and then suggested that I talk with Kylie Peppler - faculty at IU.
I quickly searched for Kylie�s work and learned that she was engaged in research involving crafts, math, and learning sciences. �This stuff is awesome!� I remember thinking as I looked through through her papers. I wrote to Kylie and, rather serendipitously, it so happened that she was looking to grow the branches of her newest research endeavor.
The project is called Re-Crafting Mathematics. I currently wear the �embedded knitter� hat, which means that it is my mission to quite literally �embed� myself into the knitting community. In doing so, I will help to develop a detailed ethnography of women�s crafting circles in the Bloomington area. So far, my debut in the fiber arts world has been as bit, erm�knotty, as learning to knit is certainly not a piece of cake. However, I am learning, bit-by-bit, stitch-by-stitch, that the joy of making is addictive.
