Squeaking in a #MakeShitMonday post just under the wire...

This week I made another batch of kombucha. I just gave my last bottle from my previous batch (of about 2 months ago) to a friend, so I needed to get the SCOBY back to work.

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I designed some stickers and had them printed on brushed aluminum.

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#makeShitMonday, #mending edition!

Our local caving grotto has a large canopy structure that we use for group camping events - as is common with shared equipment, it tends to be roughly handled, and the soft case that holds the poles and canvas for transport has come apart at the top seam.

It's pretty sturdy fabric, and well-constructed - the corner is joined by one seam, and there's a separate seam holding down some thin rubber tape that keeps the seam allowance from fraying. Fortunately that means the failure is the thread holding the pieces together, not the fabric itself...

It's a bit tedious to fix, since I'm trying to use existing holes rather than introduce new points of weakness. And I'm doing each seam as two lines of alternate running stitches, so if the threads break on one line, the other will hopefully hold it together enough for me to fix it more easily next time.

I got through both lines of the joining seam and one line of the edge-tape seam before I ran out of time (and patience) today. Should go a lot quicker tomorrow since the edges and tape are already lined up, so it'll just be a simple running stitch!

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#DIY #repair #sewing #handsewing

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Made a bunch of meal prep stuff including merengues and sugar free brownies.

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I haven't posted in a bit but I got some instruments up on the wall and off the ground, also making progress on an esp32 project.

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Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.

I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a8&t=36s of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?

I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.

#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot

#MakeShitMonday, #crochet edition!

@mbroome and I took a roadtrip out to the Outer Banks this weekend - which meant it was time to start a new crochet project. This time it's a scarf made using the [cat stitch](https://craftinghappiness.com/how-to-crochet-the-cat-stitch-step-by-step-for-beginners/),
for my ex-roommate from boarding school - who is a childless cat lady par excellence.

We discussed dimensions and design and agreed that it's best for the cats to go in short horizontal rows... Except that I'm lazy and *not* enthusiastic about having to weave in ends every three rows for a 5' scarf. So I decided to try carrying the yarn vertically - despite literally no Internet resource suggesting this.

Sadly, it's because the result looks like ass. The edge stitches just look totally scraggly... So I frogged that whole mess and started over, and now it's starting to look respectable!

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#MakeShitMonday, crochet edition...

Baby's first #crochet design!
(Well, adaptation really. But I'm still proud of it!)

I had a full skein of yarn left over from the [Winged Wrap^Scarf](https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/113824081839727708) I made for @mbroome over the holidays... and he was commenting about one of his winter hats not fitting well... so I thought, surely Moogly has a hat pattern to go with that scarf!

Except that [the original pattern](https://www.mooglyblog.com/winged-wrap/) was for a wrap, not a scarf... So no matching hat. But that's okay - I made her [Fallen Leaves hat](https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/111915799536362127) a few months ago, so I understand generally how hats work. How hard can it be? (Famous last words...)

Normal, sane people crochet hats top-down, starting with a magic circle. But I wanted a particular color pattern at the edge, so I started at the bottom and worked my way up! And after a couple false starts and enough frogging and reworking to make *at least* three hats, I finally had a decent start...

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I had to travel and took some pictures!

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Pop quiz: There's a costume party in 2 hours, and all you have is a pair of cat ears and a 3D printer. What do you do?

We were invited to a birthday party over the weekend, and the hostess wanted everyone to come in "party animal" costumes, even if you "just throw on those old black cat ears you got for Halloween".

@llorenzin and I would be masking, since the party would be a bunch people in a small apartment, and I got to thinking about what I could do to add to those "old black cat ears" from the Halloween box...

One of my protective masks has a SIP valve for drinking using a small straw. While out running on Friday, I thought about how could replace the SIP cover with one of my own design, adding an arch that could be used to hold some pipe cleaners as whiskers.

We ended up with a very busy Saturday, but with a couple hours to go before the party, I pulled out my calipers, pulled up Tinkercad, and threw together a simple design for a cover with an arch (made of just 3 basic geometric shapes plus cutouts).

My first two prints failed because I didn't slice it with supports under the arch, and the "arch" ended up as a big ugly glob of plastic. Doh! After re-slicing with supports, it printed great. The fit over the SIP valve was good, and it worked just the way I had hoped! Yay!

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#DIY #3DPrinting #Prusa
#CovidIsNotOver #MasksWork

#MakeShitMonday, crochet edition...

This week I finished and wet-blocked the two #crochet lace shawlettes I've been working on for the past couple of months! Really pleased with how the colors in this variegated yarn stand out once the pattern opens up. It looked a bit jumbly [before blocking](https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/113982287573349065), and now it definitely has the stained-glass effect I was anticipating...

These were really fun to work on - the body pattern is a simple repeat, so it hits my sweet spot for "keep squirrel brain occupied" without taking too much mental capacity. And it's the first time I've intentionally made something with two complementary colors! Yay, serendipity.

Now to figure out my next project...

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#MakeShitMonday, crochet edition...

This week I finished edging my two #crochet WIPs! (https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/113903652876847512)

I bought two skeins of this base colorway intending to make a totally different project, but the variegated colorway didn't work with that pattern (too busy). So I figured I'd see if I could make two of this one-skein shawlette pattern that I love - one for myself, one for a friend. But it's a larger gauge yarn, so needs a bigger hook for the lace to look right, so I only had enough in one skein for the body...

I didn't want to use some fraction of the second skein to edge it, and not have enough left over to be useful. But I realized I had leftover yarn from two other projects that might coordinate... And I'm really happy with how the two edging colors worked out with each individual skein - the two skeins were clearly from different dye lots in that colorway, and I matched up the more colorful edging yarn with the brighter of the two bodies, so the edging doesn't overwhelm the body. Total luck that I could use stash yarn for this, and I'm thrilled with how it ended up!

As I was finishing the first edging, I noticed that the pattern as written results in a very subtle asymmetry at the corners. And I know I'm the only person in the world who would ever notice this, let alone care... But I tried modifying the second edging to make them match, and I do think it looks better that way.

So I ended up frogging the entire damn first edging and redoing to make it symmetrical, and now it won't bother me *every time I wear it for the rest of my life*. This makes me deeply happy and was well worth the ~3 hours of extra work! Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?

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I had to travel and took some pictures!

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#MakeShitMonday, Lunar New Year edition...

Friday night I joined a virtual dumpling-making party with some West Coast friends, to celebrate Lunar New Year. @mbroome & I did this last year - bought dumpling wrappers, made a lamb & rosemary filling, learned to pleat a classic dumpling fold, and steamed a bunch of deliciousness. Great fun! I am the whitest white girl that ever whited - dumplings are waaaay outside my cooking experience, and it was fantastic to learn from friends.

This year I was flying solo, since @mbroome was off to run Uwharrie. We had leftover dumpling filling from last year, and I had just successfully made both whole-wheat focaccia and whole-wheat pumpkin scones earlier in the week, so I got ambitious and decided to make my own wrappers!

...Way too ambitious. I used AP flour and followed a good recipe, but the dough was way too sticky. And 9pm is really not a smart time to start a challenging kitchen project. So I flailed and got flour everywhere and barely got the dough together enough to wrap around the filling - absolutely no chance of pleats. But my friends were very encouraging, and it was neat to try pan-frying my lumpy creations (best for irregular thickness wrappers, according to my cookbook), and they ended up quite tasty!

(Sadly no photos of the carnage because I was too busy thrashing and spraying flour. So these lovely pics are not at all representative of the overall goat rodeo...)

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#DIY #dumplings #LunarNewYear

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I made a card!

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#MakeShitMonday, crochet edition...

I'm making good progress (for me - never been fast at this!) on the second Fortune's Shawlette body from re-purposing this variegated yarn...

Is it just me, or does the color balance look different on the second skein? I personally think the yellow is a bit more prominent in the completed body (upper right) than in the partial body (lower left).

I'm curious because very soon I'll need to decide which to edge in teal vs which to edge in the dark brown / forest green, so I'm trying to figure out whether it matters which color edging goes with which body...

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