Creative projects, science & life.
-
Pi Baby Sweater
A couple of the lovely friends I met through Mathsoc announced they were expecting a child, and I knew immediately what I wanted to send to the shower. Since math nerd baby clothes aren’t exactly the sort of thing one picks up at toys-r-us, I spent a lot of time at PyCon knitting up a…
-
Photos of Portland
I take a lot of photos, but haven’t been sharing them much because I never seem to get time to process them. But my friend K is out visiting the area for a photo expedition, so we did some meandering around. He’s much more disciplined as a photographer than I am, so he sensibly carved…
-
Pictures of knitting in sunlight (a work in progress)
I don’t tend to share work-in-progress shots for a few reasons: 1. I knit a lot on the go, where it’s not too convenient to take pictures. 2. I am really really bad at processing all my photos, and more of them just adds to the laod. 3. I just don’t think of it. But…
-
Colour-changing Nintendo 3DS XL case
In which I finally use some fabric I got at Quelab to Make Something Neat, in this case a colour-changing 3ds case.
-
Vampire Sleeves (sort of a shrug?)
I was out shopping one day with a friend and saw this book: Vampire Knits: Projects to Keep You Knitting from Twilight to Dawn by Genevieve Miller I didn’t buy it right then, because I didn’t know how to knit and wasn’t sure what I’d do with it, but apparently it stuck with me because…
-
Mystery Munch: A Simple Android Game
I made a very simple game! And also fought with the android emulator a lot, and used the hardware acceleration to crash my computer. Good times.
-
Baby bunny! (Amigurumi)
It’s after Christmas, so you’d think by now I’d be digging out the photos of all the projects that became christmas presents. But no, I’m going to dig back a little further to one I forgot from this summer… This little amigurumi bunny was just so charming that I decided to make her for baby…
-
Warthog9’s blue gloves
John and I have been playing an augmented reality game called Ingress for some time. The reason this is relevant to this post is twofold: 1. We spend a lot of time walking around outside in the cold using our smart phones 2. We’re on the blue team. I have some lovely purple gloves I…
-
Little Fox Tail
When my friend K announced that he and his wife were expecting their first child, I threatened to make an inordinate number of animal hats for the kid. The first of these turned out to be a Failynn Fox Cowl, which while adorable, is also much too big for a newborn no matter what the…
-
Brownie in a Mug (or Chocolate Lava Cake in a Mug)
My sister introduced me to this brownie in a mug recipe because she is the bestest sister ever. I tried it out today and it’s everything I imagined, even if I did it “wrong.” Here’s some pictures: That’s everything you need for brownie in the mug, well, almost: 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup sugar 2…
-
My Little Robot
A number of weeks back, it occurred to me that as an adult with disposable income, I could buy a robot anytime I wanted to. So I did. Or rather, I bought a kit to build my own robot. I haven’t had as much time to play with as I’d like (the downside to being…
-
A passel of penguins
Last year at Pycon, I made a bunch of teensy amigurumi penguins to give to the friends who were sprinting on GNU Mailman with me. (Small round penguin ball pattern here) Florian commented some time later that he nearly didn’t get to keep his, as his wife is a huge fan of penguins, so since…
baking BestPractices BestPracticesInPractice blog books choir disability fanfic fiberarts fiber goals food FountainPen FountainPenInk FountainPens free pattern infosec InkSwatch knitting library Life mailman mask mastodon model building OpenSource painting parenting Python quilting reading recipe review ScreenTime security sewing spinning stationery stickers SwatchWednesday travel very watercolour weaving WonderPens wrinting