Orange Rug Yarn Musings

Slides from my all but ad-hoc presentation on geeky needlework at Beaver Bar Camp, where I talked about Mary Rhodes who was a math genius or as they called them during World War II then "computer" or "human computer" involved in decrpytion at Bletchley Park before she became a needlework designer and writer and taught the Rhodes stitch. Then due to user interest we went on to Hilton Stitches. It's essentially just stitch diagrams and 2 examples of geeky needlepoint that I found online. I also brought one of Mary Rhodes' books and Teach Yourself Needlepoint by Jo Ippolito Christensen which has a picture and chart of a circuit in needlepoint (from a postage stamp.)