{"id":1960,"date":"2009-03-03T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T15:51:47","slug":"schroedingers-cross-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Schroedinger&#8217;s Cross-Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/schroedingercross-102x150.jpg\" alt=\"Schroedinger\" title=\"Schroedinger\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>For the crafty amongst us, Etsy seller <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=6200706\">Larripin Labs<\/A> (&#8220;Home of the Cross-Stitched Physicist&#8221;) sells, um, cross-stitched physicists.<\/p>\n<p>Patterns currently available are Richard Feynman, Erwin Schrodinger, and Michio Kaku.  She says, &#8220;since cross stitch seems to be a mostly female pursuit, I hope to spark some interest in young women in math and science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a neat idea, although I&#8217;d like to see a few more patterns available (particularly that one picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue).  If you&#8217;ve got a favorite physicist who isn&#8217;t available for stitching, check out the trial version of Stoik&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stoik.com\/stitch\/\">PM Stitch Creator 3.0<\/A>, which allows you to convert photographs to cross-stitch patterns.  You could do a whole <em>wall<\/em> of cross-stitched physicists.  And then wonder why you never get invited to parties.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/\">CRAFT<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the crafty amongst us, Etsy seller Larripin Labs (&#8220;Home of the Cross-Stitched Physicist&#8221;) sells, um, cross-stitched physicists. Patterns currently available are Richard Feynman, Erwin Schrodinger, and Michio Kaku. She says, &#8220;since cross stitch seems to be a mostly female pursuit, I hope to spark some interest in young women in math and science.&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}