Well, it seems like I’ve let a week slip by since my last post.  I really didn’t mean for that to happen, as I knew what I wanted to write about next.  But, well, life happens.  And things get in the way.  I suspect many of you totally get that. I love me a good used booksale for all the treasures to be found, for books never known about, heard about, ever seen before.  That said, it doesn’t mean that I’m against buying a new book every once in awhile.  I’m pretty picky when

This past weekend, I was fortunate to spend a beautiful fall day at Winterthur in DE.  If you are anywhere near the region, it is well worth a visit. If you’ve never heard of it, a brief description from Winterthur’s website: “Almost 60 years ago, collector and horticulturist Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) opened his childhood home, Winterthur, to the public. Today, Winterthur (pronounced “winter-tour”) is the premier museum of American decorative arts, with an unparallele

As I wrote about in my last blog post, a few years back, I learned about these prints, dated from around the first years of the 1500s, these knots created by the artist Albrecht Durer.  I was so taken by them and truly delved into a personal research project to learn more. Some background came from an exhibition catalog, “Durer in America: His Graphic Work” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 1971.  There, two of the knots were on display and in the catalog ca

In my other world (as opposed to my needlework world), I am a middle school math teacher.  And I only bring this up today because it is relevant to the story I am telling. Some of you may already have known about the math side of me.  Some of you may have already seen some of that come out in the sometimes (but certainly not always) geometric nature of some of my designs.  A number of years ago, I became more and more interested in the cross section between math and art, on a