October 2020
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The main two conferences I was looking forward to this year were cancelled, but I made up for PyCon UK by making welsh cakes, which are traditionally served during breaks there in Cardiff.Botober
A blog I follow, AI Weirdness, made some AI-generated drawing prompts to play into Inktober, calling it 'Botober' instead. I decided to use them to do a quick sketch on my phone each day, in the style of the party game "Drawful". As the month progressed I switched to my pen tablet instead, since I felt I could put more effort into them than I did. In the end I spent around 15 minutes on average on those.
Here's the whole selection, or the Twitter thread I originally posted them to. This one's my favourite, a composite I did for the last three days:
A blog I follow, AI Weirdness, made some AI-generated drawing prompts to play into Inktober, calling it 'Botober' instead. I decided to use them to do a quick sketch on my phone each day, in the style of the party game "Drawful". As the month progressed I switched to my pen tablet instead, since I felt I could put more effort into them than I did. In the end I spent around 15 minutes on average on those.
Here's the whole selection, or the Twitter thread I originally posted them to. This one's my favourite, a composite I did for the last three days:
Homemade face mask
I bought a sewing machine! I didn't have much of an idea what I would make with it, but I've been wanting to get into sewing for a while and I figured it'd be better to have one to hand when inspiration did strike.
I realised I could have a pretty good shot at making a face mask that was safer than the ones I already had, after reading an article about the effectiveness of various materials. I bought some material (nowhere near the recommended thread count for the cotton, but never mind) and I think I made a pretty good go at the instructions I used.
I bought a sewing machine! I didn't have much of an idea what I would make with it, but I've been wanting to get into sewing for a while and I figured it'd be better to have one to hand when inspiration did strike.
I realised I could have a pretty good shot at making a face mask that was safer than the ones I already had, after reading an article about the effectiveness of various materials. I bought some material (nowhere near the recommended thread count for the cotton, but never mind) and I think I made a pretty good go at the instructions I used.
Automatic Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Emily and her friend Dave set up AMPDG which is a set of quirky prompts that they encourage everyone to pick one from each month. This month I chose to modify a t-shirt into something new, and since I was looking for reasons to use my new sewing machine, I decided to turn an old t-shirt into some hand warmers.
Working with t-shirt material was tricky (as I'd been warned!) but I was fairly happy with how they turned out technically, even if the t-shirt fabric wasn't quite the right choice for them:
Emily and her friend Dave set up AMPDG which is a set of quirky prompts that they encourage everyone to pick one from each month. This month I chose to modify a t-shirt into something new, and since I was looking for reasons to use my new sewing machine, I decided to turn an old t-shirt into some hand warmers.
Working with t-shirt material was tricky (as I'd been warned!) but I was fairly happy with how they turned out technically, even if the t-shirt fabric wasn't quite the right choice for them:
Carving a home-grown squash
I decided to harvest my squash about a week before Hallowe'en which meant I got to carve the largest one during the afternoon of Saturday 31st.
Being quite small (the tea light _barely_ fit through the hole in the top), I picked a simple pattern and drew it on it by eye. I'm pretty pleased with the result!
The next day, I cooked up all three squash for squash and pine nut pasta, which I got three meals out of.
I also got dressed up in orange and black to take some photos of myself, and I was pretty happy with how I looked that day.
I decided to harvest my squash about a week before Hallowe'en which meant I got to carve the largest one during the afternoon of Saturday 31st.
Being quite small (the tea light _barely_ fit through the hole in the top), I picked a simple pattern and drew it on it by eye. I'm pretty pleased with the result!
The next day, I cooked up all three squash for squash and pine nut pasta, which I got three meals out of.
I also got dressed up in orange and black to take some photos of myself, and I was pretty happy with how I looked that day.
