I’m going to be doing another AI rant in a couple weeks, this time online!
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My first time at an AWS event as a civilian! This feels weird. 😂 #observabilityday
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New (reclaimed) knitting project! I finished the Sugar Maple sweater (last photo) two years ago but rarely wore it. The style just didn’t suit me. So a couple weeks ago I unraveled the whole thing, winding it into a cake as I went. Then I used my swift to turn the ball into a hank that I then washed and dried to remove some of the kinks. I’ve now rewound into a cake and I’m knitting another Easy Eyelet Yoke Lite, a style that I know I will wear. The yarn is @hobbii_yarn Twister, a great choice for warm places like Sydney! 🧶 #knitting
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Thank you again to everyone who donated to dementia charities in October! Collectively we raised more than $2500 AUD, most of which went to Dementia Australia (as well as a few similar groups around the world). I really, really appreciate it. 🩷 The S3 Bucket Hat raffle has taken place using the Wheel of Destiny, and all 9 winners have been notified via email or FB Messenger. I’m sorry if your name didn’t come up! Perhaps I’ll have to think of another fun project to give away next year…
New (reclaimed) knitting project! I finished the Sugar Maple sweater (last photo) two years ago but rarely wore it. The style just didn’t suit me. So a couple weeks ago I unraveled the whole thing, winding it into a cake as I went. Then I used my swift to turn the ball into a hank that I then washed and dried to remove some of the kinks. I’ve now rewound into a cake and I’m knitting another Easy Eyelet Yoke Lite, a style that I know I will wear. The yarn is @hobbii_yarn Twister, a great choice for warm places like Sydney! 🧶 #knitting
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Kicked off a special project today with my friends at @morrisandsons. Spent the afternoon learning from the cushion master, Ruth Morris, and using the industrial machine to make piping. Looking forward to the next lesson! ❤️
Kudos to my friend Jenna Price on her excellent article! I’m very much in the “Considered it because of the IRS but it’s too expensive and too much of a hassle” camp.
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Completed sewing project! This is the #arkieshirt from @tessutifabrics sewn up in a lovely @libertyfabrics Tana Lawn I picked up in Tokyo earlier this year. (I’m actually kicking myself I didn’t get enough to make a matching pair of shorts.) While the Arkie has a relaxed fit, I think I can go down a size as this is fairly loose. #sewing 🧵🪡
Only 24hrs left to donate to a dementia-related charity and be in the running to win a Smart, Sensational, Sun-Protecting (S3) Bucket Hat! We’re at $1892 total, so I’m really hoping it’ll hit $2000. Please click this link for more info if you are able to contribute! ❤️
Smart, Sensational, Sun-Protecting (S3) Bucket Hats for Dementia Australia
Happy Halloween! We went to the @statelibrarynsw’s “Haunted Sydney” event to hear some creepy stories about ghosts, shipwrecks, and murders… 🎃👻
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Happy Halloween! We went to the @statelibrarynsw’s “Haunted Sydney” event to hear some creepy stories about ghosts, shipwrecks, and murders… 🎃👻
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Only 24hrs left to donate to a dementia-related charity and be in the running to win a Smart, Sensational, Sun-Protecting (S3) Bucket Hat! We’re at $1892 total, so I’m really hoping it’ll hit $2000. Please see link in bio if you are able to contribute! ❤️
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Completed sewing project: Arkie shirt
I knocked out a quick sewing pattern this week: a new Arkie shirt in some Liberty Tana Lawn I bought in Tokyo back in June. (This is the same pattern I used for the AWS Shirt last December.) I made the biggest size, but it’s fairly roomy and I think I could easily go down a size and still be fine. I think I did a decent job setting in the sleeves, even if I did use a million pins. 😂 I left off the front patch pockets, mostly because I didn’t think they’d add anything and you wouldn’t even see them with the busy print. For buttons, I just used four small pearlescent ones from my stash.The thing I’m proudest of though is that for once I remembered to sew in a label! I’ve had these for ages and never used them before.
I also realised in the course of sewing the shirt that I had never changed the needles in my overlocker. I dug out the manual, started flipping through it, and realised that I’d never actually serviced the thing ever… in nine years. Yikes. After a quick trip to Spotlight for a new bottle of oil and a packet of needles, I got to work. I unthreaded the machine, removed the old needles, cleaned out all the dust and lint, oiled her up, and then rethreaded. I discovered that using all 4 threads is probably overkill for most of my sewing, so I cut it back to 3 and just a single needle. Once I had everything put back together, she was purring like a kitten! I also cleaned out the lint on my sewing machine. I’ll have to put in a recurring task to do this more often. 😬
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…