Brainy Thing: 15:40 Behind the Redwood Curtain: 26:20 What we’re learning from our knitting: Margaret learns about knitting different specialty textured yarns for her textured amigurumi The Three Little Kittens by Sara Scales https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/three-little-kittens-4. Catherine ventures into sweater knitting for a dog using The Darling Darby Sweater: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/darling-darby-sweater. Brainy Thing: Sensory Stimulation Helps People with Dementia General on Alzheimers: https://yourbrainmatters.org.au/about-dementia/what-is-dementia Snoezelen: https://www.snoezelen.info/history/ Paul Shepard quote: http://dreamingup.blogspot.com/2018/01/shepard-for-day5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CaptainFuturesDreamingUpDaily+%28Captain+Future%27s+Dreaming+Up+Daily%29 Herdlevar’s research: https://www.ntnu.no/documents/10401/1264433962/AshildArtikkel.pdf/8f8ba50d-7425-43c7-9e5f-bfef4380e206 Behind the Redwood Curtain: Humboldt Handweaver’s and Spinners Guild: http://www.hhsguild.org/ Facebook: Also, join our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Ravelry Group http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post. Instagram: Margaret Kelso for Margaret and MagicWombat1 for Catherine In this episode of Teaching Your Brain to Knit we investigate using Sensory Stimulation to Ease the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and Dementia; We tackle using different types of specialty yarns for texture and try a strangely shaped design for a dog sweater; And w e give a shout out to the Humboldt Handweaver’s and Spinners Guild.