3.14. It's Pi Day! From what I've read, Larry Shaw founded the holiday in 1988 here in San Francisco. We love Pi Day because it is an excuse to bake a pie, never mind the math. I take that back. In a minute I'll tell you why. Dragons in the Canopy is my round quilt, which followed after the hole cut out from Wind Song became a hot pad for the table. I discovered that binding the edges of a circle was pretty straightforward; binding around the curve is no different, really, than other bindings. I just needed to pay attention, which is useful in all cases. Bonus: no corners.
For Dragons in the Canopy, rather than taking my flexible tape measure around the circle to figure out how much material length I would need to bind it, my shower moment said, "Pi R Squared," but no, that was the area of a circle. "2 Pi R!" Two times Pi (3.14159) times the radius!" (at that point the radius was 17.5 inches). 109.95 or 110 inches, plus a little extra for ease of working.
Up until that moment I had never used that formula that I had learned in high school. So, this year, I am celebrating Pi Day with appreciation for more than just dessert.
The "hole" from Wind Song (6.5 inches / 15.5 cm)
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I do love your Dragons.