Grace Hopper by Carla Mitrani

Grace Hopper

Crochet
March 2023
DK (11 wpi) ?
2.5 mm
21 cm (8 1/4 in) tall
US
English

Why Grace? Because during World War II, she joined the American Navy and, thanks to her impressive brain, was able to understand the inner workings of the Harvard Mark 1, one of the earliest computers, which occupied an entire room, and explain it to others in an understandable language. She is widely known as the Mother of Computing.

Materials

  • 100% 8-ply cotton; color used: skin color, white, black, dark blue, yellow, light grey, small amount of pink
  • Yarn needle
  • 8mm safety eyes
  • Stitch marker
  • Fibrefill stuffing 20cm (7 3/4 in) of black coated wire
  • Round nose pliers
  • Plastic tube, approximately 1 xm (3/8 in) in diameter
  • Craft glue or black sewing thread