Aoife the Woolly Scientist

Aoife 🇮🇪 She/Her
Production Coordinator @sciencemuseum by day...
Science Crochet Designer by Night

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

I am very slowly making my way through the Periodic Table in crochet! Earlier this year I decided I'd have more fun if I made a crochet book to go alongside the finished blanket.... which is fun, but means slower progress!
#SciArt #SciComm #ScienceCrochet

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

Very nearly finished my tunisian crochet blanket of the Periodic Table of the Elements!

All that's left is to add a border 😊😊😊

#SciArt

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@cllantz This is amazing. They look so incredibly cosy! 😍

[Danni Thompson - @scottishseabird.bsky.social @scottishseabird]

It’s early days but I needed something to do on those rainy #fieldwork afternoons. Ok, I did it on the sunny ones too…my first attempt at #knitYourPhD. Merging Fair Isle patterns with my study species, #FalklandsShags

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@scottishseabird @UoABioSci @QUADRATdtp @SAERI_FI @TheSeabirdGroup @aberdeenuni Oh wow! This is fabulous! 😍

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@Thepurplelilac It's really nice to see pictures of kids engaging with the cuddly body parts!

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@jollytoadstool Oooo! This is exciting. I look forward to seeing what you create!

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

118 elements! I made the final element block for my crochet Periodic Table last week.

I still have to block each element block, attach a name label, add a border, and stitch them all together... but this is a great milestone to have reached!

#SciArt #SciComm #PeriodicTable

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@illiriam Omg this is amazing! I really want to do this 📚📚📚

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@TownSeagull Oh wow. This is beautiful

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@LeannMBiancani @SICB_ This is so cool! I love that it has glow in the dark elements! 🦑🦑🦑

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@ariana_costas Your microscope is fabulous! Well done! 🔬🔬🔬

[Oceanography @Oceanographyy]

Melibe viridis feeding with its expandable net-like oral hood

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@ktb38 Yes! My crafting goals seem very ambitious and I'm already worrying I won't have the time to get through them! 🤣

[Annie Safford @AnnieS_wildart]

I just realised I never posted my photos of Katanza - the life sized White-headed vulture I designed and crocheted last year, aka my greatest achievement. She now lives with @HawkConservancy where I received a lot of helpful advice throughout the project!

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@AnnieS_wildart @HawkConservancy THIS IS AMAZING!! Full on thought I was just looking at a picture of a vulture. This is so incredible!!! 😍😍😍

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

@minouette I've not heard of these before! That's so cool. 🦑

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

The design for the blocks is all my own. I started this project first using the C2C crochet method but then I learned Tunisian crochet, and I switched to making the blocks using Tunisian Crochet. I'm much faster and they're a lot smaller so I can buy less yarn!

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

Progress on my Crochet Periodic Blanket Of The Elements!

I've pinned the blocks on a large blanket to see how they all look together.

I love how colourful it is. The different colours represents different chemical groupings of the Elements.

#SciArt #SciComm #Crochet

[Aoife the Woolly Scientist @WoolyScientist]

Some of the blocks have a poorer contrast with the black yarn for the letters and numbers. I think I will outline them with embroidery thread so they can be more easily read!

[Dr. Win @Paleowin]

It’s done and gifted now! Geologic cross section quilt. Based on a sketch by my partner, designed, pieced, and quilted by me! Pluton and active magma chambers following a fault resulting in an erupting cinder cone in front of a larger dormant volcano.