Is it just me, or is crochet really hitting the cultural scene lately? In addition to this upcoming hooky dance performance, next month NYC's Natural History Museum will host a crochet /coral evening, replete with a discussion of the plight of coral reefs and the craft of crochet hyperbolic coral reefs. (Craft meets science again! I love it!)

For those of you who are not crochet geeks, basically there's some kind of mathematical formula which, if you crochet it, becomes a hyperbolic plane, but which also occurs in nature form of coral. Ha, or something like that! (If anyone can provide a real explanation of this phenomenon, please post in in the comments!)

The event is next Tuesday, April 8 at 8:30. Click here for tix - say hi if you're there and you see me!

I'm excited to go to this event because I just visited the Natural History Museum about a month ago, and I was so struck by its old-school craftiness. I loved all the old dioramas, and the charmingly outdated handmade displays, and all the wood paneling which has come full-circle and is now all trendy in the DIY/craft world. The museum is a gorgeous old stone castle-like structure in the middle of the city. It is truly of another era. They are slowly renovating the museum and I know that all these great old displays will eventually give way to flashy digital flat-screen thingamajigs, which will be sad. It will be fun to spend an evening talking craft among all that craftiness, while it's still there.