Turtlestitch | Karen Blumberg

View from the 48th floor! Many thanks to @susanettenheim for organizing a #TurtleStitch meetup! #MakerEd #STEAM @turtlestitch @scratch2017bdx pic.twitter.com/xA5d7KCxnt

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) February 28, 2018

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Suzanne Coley is sharing gorgeous examples of handmade books and multimedia embroidered creations. https://t.co/1F0GarjnDB #TurtleStitch #MakerEd #STEAM #ArtsEdTech #ArtsEd pic.twitter.com/iF3ycc4eXF

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) February 28, 2018

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Joek van Montfort (organizer of @scratch2017bdx) is visiting NYC from The Netherlands to learn about how American schools are teaching Computer Science. #TurtleStitch @scratch #MakerEd #STEAM #cschat @csnyc pic.twitter.com/owrgYdOuWy

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) February 28, 2018

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Judith Seidel (@seidelj) of @FriendsSeminary shares a marvelous passion project she’s working on — a singing quilt of birds which plays different bird calls depending on which bird you touch! @NYCISTk6 @NYCISTorg #MakerEd #ArtsEdTech #elemaker #STEAM #STEMed @SparkFunEDU pic.twitter.com/n3orM8s1xJ

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 1, 2018

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Sunita Vatuk of @CityCollegeNY shares about the hand-drawn kolams by the women of South India found on streets and in homes. #StreetArt #MakerEd #STEAM #ArtsEd https://t.co/3L7wNouBPn pic.twitter.com/DmymGXwpou

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 1, 2018

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Just learned about @SheCodes4Change which aims to nurture young girls to develop an interest in creative technologies and #STEAM careers: https://t.co/Lz3ucs8Lcc #AfricaEd @edTechSummitsA #MakerEd #edtech #ShePersisted #GlobalEd #GlobalEd18 #girlswhocode #WomenInSTEM

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 1, 2018

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Thanks to Susan Ettenheim (@susanettenheim) for knowing that Michael Aschauer (@back_face, Lead Developer of TurtleStitch) was going to be in town from Vienna, Austria! Susan gathered a bunch of educators and technologists to meet today both in-person and virtually — on the Google Hangout were folks from Kenya and Brooklyn, and also Andrea Mayr-Stalder (@turtlestitch, TurtleStitch’s Project Lead) in Austria. We were able to chat about TurtleStitch and talk about their growing community of people worldwide interested in sharing patterns and projects. Thanks as well to Jaymes Dec (@JaymesDec) who offered to have us hang with him at the Thingspace at Teachers College, Columbia University and hosted us during his office hours.

Here are some links:
1. The TurtleStitch website: https://turtlestitch.org
2. TurtleStitch cards for beginners which can be download (they remind me of the wonderful TurtleArt cards!): http://www.turtlestitch.org/static/download/TurtleStitch-Cards-Beginners.pdf
3. Michael also shared StitchPad http://stitchpad.io/ which allows you to sketch a picture with your finger on your phone and exported the design as an .svg or a .dst/.exp file to be embroidered with a digital sewing machine
4. Here’s a detailed blogpost by @RichardMillwood about using TurtleStitch: http://blog.richardmillwood.net/2017/10/20/turtlestitching-programming-embroidery/

Learning #TurtleStitch from the two co-founders (@back_face and @turtlestitch)! https://turtlestitch.org #MakerEd #STEAM #STEMed #mathchat pic.twitter.com/CYUEp69RWJ

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) December 10, 2017

Side project by @back_face: #StitchPad allows you to sketch a picture with your finger on your phone and exported as an .svg or a .dst/.exp file to be embroidered with a digital sewing machine https://t.co/ZDZUFjPnzB #MakerEd #STEAM #STEMed pic.twitter.com/6sE3zHIxVh

— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) December 10, 2017