The SciArt Crochet of Tahani Baakdhah

25 September 2024
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Dr. Tahani Baakdhah doesn’t just study eyes—the retina, the lens, the cell structure—she also crochets them!

In addition to being a skilled crocheter and crafter, Tahani is a science communicator and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, where she studies retinal stem cells. Picture the microscopes, rows of test tubes—a whole lab full of busy scientists in sterile blue gowns—Tahani is at home there.

She’s also at home with a crochet hook and has published a book called Science Crochet: Building the Retina. She sells it, plus her science amigurumi creations and other related products, on her website, The Purple Lilac Science Crochet.

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Dr. Tahani Baakdhah with some of her SciArt crochet amigurumi creations.

All images courtesy Tahani Baakdhah. 

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About Kim Fenton

Kim is a freelance writer and editor who lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia. She has a love of all things fibre and had, for a time, a wonderful store filled with sustainable yarns and fibres. She is an avid knitter and spinner, and has a whole lotta making going on in her studio, including beading, boro stitching, miniature making and mixed medial collage. There's also a big old oak desk her great-grandfather made where she works on her manuscript. She's active in her community, volunteering with the Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild, the food bank and more. She loves to swim and goes year round into the ocean with a group of likeminded women. She's got an ebike and can be seen cruising around the creek. She's delighted be able to embrace her first love, writing, with her second love, fibre, and contribute to Digits and Threads!

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