Am I the only one that enjoys the math?
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Am I the only one that enjoys the math?
It seems whenever I am around other quilters I always hear, "Oh, that involves math and I don't do/like math."
I love that part of the creating. Am I the only one? There has to be another person or two on here that enjoys math. Speak up, please!
I love that part of the creating. Am I the only one? There has to be another person or two on here that enjoys math. Speak up, please!
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I love math! Took every math class that was availble in high school. Also, did scale drawings in biology. My most used quilting book is a graph paper pad and some el-cheapo colored pencils. Can duplicate almost any geometric design I see. I don't do art quilts. Mary Lane, you are not alone!
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One of my favorite parts of quilting is graphing out a layout and determining yardage and cutting layouts. I do the math on scratch paper without a calculator. I like to use legal pads, a ruler, and pen.
Last edited by elizajo; 04-06-2012 at 06:40 PM.
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The math is what keeps me quilting, without it I'd be bored to tears. I tutored it in HS, started out majoring in it in college (later switched), was an accountant all my working life, seek out Numb3rs reruns on cable...love it all. Math quilts, fractal quilts, tessellating quilts, optical quilts...those are my favorites to design and create. As for the comment about art quilts...many successful art quilters have a very solid background in math and/or science.
Elaine Ellison does amazing math quilts.
http://www.mathematicalquilts.com/Ma...s_-_Image.html
http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/ex...eellisonelaine
Elaine Ellison does amazing math quilts.
http://www.mathematicalquilts.com/Ma...s_-_Image.html
http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/ex...eellisonelaine
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