PopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confluence of Quilting and the Large Hadron Collider
How a quilter ended up in the pages of a particle physics publication We first became aware of Kate Findlay's work thanks to Symmetry Magazine, which publishes articles relating to particle physics. Kate isn't a particle physicist; in fact, she's not even a scientist. She works as an art teacher at a private elementary school in the U.K., and also makes these amazing quilts. Symmetry's interest (and ours, and yours, we think) comes from her inspiration for one particular line of quilts: the hardware of the Large Hadron Collider. We've put together a gallery of her work, and also did a little Q&A with her, below. Click to launch the gallery of quilts. PopSci: How long have you been making quilts? Do you work with other materials? Kate Findlay: I have not been making quilts that long, really. My first one was in 2008, about six months before I started work on the Hadron...