Math Monday: Knit or Crochet a Dodecahedron

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Math Monday: Knit or Crochet a Dodecahedron

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

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If you knit, here’s a stuffed, dodecahedral thing—I don’t know quite what to call it—a toy, a pillow, a mathematical model? The shape is based on twelve 5-sided units like a dodecahedron. But they bump out, so the form is more like a small stellated dodecahedron. This was designed by Norah Gaughan, who provides instructions in this Berroco pattern.

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If you prefer to crochet, here’s another variation by Betsy Myles, also for Berroco.

4 thoughts on “Math Monday: Knit or Crochet a Dodecahedron

  1. Marcello Cardoso says:

    that, to me, is a katamari 

  2. Emily Shreve says:

    I’d like to mess with the patterns to knit flat sections for a big plush D20.

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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