Ever since I wrote for New Scientist about the mathematicians who knit and crochet models of the universe (sorry, subscription required, but there's someone else's take on it here), I seem to have been the magazine's unofficial knitting correspondent. At Christmas, I didn’t help my case my highlighting the fantastic pieces of scientific craftwork at the Museum Of Scientifically Accurate Brain Art (this story is fully available for now). Now one of my colleagues has suggested I write about the nana who knits woolly breasts to help local nurses with breastfeeding demonstrations.
I said no, but here I am, writing about it in a roundabout way. That’s because, in the course of surfing around this story, I found
this little gem about a woman's search for a post-mastectomy prosthetic. It's a lovely story, somehow – and there’s all the info you need to make one for yourself should you need one. Alternatively,
here is a PDF of a pattern for the breastfeeding demonstrator. If you stumble across this, and can knit, why not do something to help breastfeeding women? After all,
breast is best.
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