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@t54r4n1 also important to say I am going to present by reading the slide text verbatim with my back to the audience

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@t54r4n1 also important to say I am going to present by reading the slide text verbatim with my back to the audience

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@t54r4n1 point taken

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@t54r4n1 point taken

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same as previous image except red text on green background, still kinda blows

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@t54r4n1 oh I got you. That slide has black text but most have green on pink like this:

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@t54r4n1 oh I got you. That slide has black text but most have green on pink like this:

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Another truly horrible slide with green comic sans text on pink background, just absolute garbage both aesthetically and in terms of readability

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@t54r4n1 ok but I won't ask permission to provide feedback on your feedback

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@t54r4n1 ok but I won't ask permission to provide feedback on your feedback

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It's the time of the year when I teach students how *not* to give a good technical presentation

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It's the time of the year when I teach students how *not* to give a good technical presentation

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A truly atrocious Powerpoint slide featuring comic sans, mismatched fonts, and what appears to be a cell phone photo of a web page in lieu of a screen capture

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Visiting Bavaria and a total stranger just handed our 9mo a half-eaten pretzel, is this normal?

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Visiting Bavaria and a total stranger just handed our 9mo a half-eaten pretzel, is this normal?

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Baby in a stroller eating a soft pretzel 

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@rygorous personally I find it hard to deflect much of anything with those poor conjoined tiny men, don't know how people do it

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@rygorous personally I find it hard to deflect much of anything with those poor conjoined tiny men, don't know how people do it

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I did a mitzvah today

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I did a mitzvah today

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Outgoing text message: "Ukrainian Church on Fairview is selling pierogies today. Don't fuck around just go buy some."

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@paintedsky Thanks! Possibly some subconscious influence from some childhood breakfast cereals... 🟣🟡🟠🔴🦜🐰

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@paintedsky Thanks! Possibly some subconscious influence from some childhood breakfast cereals... 🟣🟡🟠🔴🦜🐰

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And to wrap up, here's the finished pillowcase in its natural habitat.

Piping and zippers are tricky in the best of times, and especially painful when dealing with the added bulk of a quilt. But I'm really happy with the end result – it's a more attractive and functional pillowcase than the last one I made because it fits better and the zipper is more sensibly located.

I learn a little more with each project I do. Hope you enjoyed reading about this one!

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And to wrap up, here's the finished pillowcase in its natural habitat.

Piping and zippers are tricky in the best of times, and especially painful when dealing with the added bulk of a quilt. But I'm really happy with the end result – it's a more attractive and functional pillowcase than the last one I made because it fits better and the zipper is more sensibly located.

I learn a little more with each project I do. Hope you enjoyed reading about this one!

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Pillowcase stuffed with a 20" x 12" pillow, and looking pleasantly three-dimensional.

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Back and bottom seam of pillowcase, showing a mostly-hidden zipper. Zippers are a pain.

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Next is regular quilting stuff – adding borders, making a sandwich, and laying out lines for quilting. In this case I chose to quilt along lines connecting all of the degree-six vertices, which really makes the underlying triangular symmetry pop IMO. You can tell the hand stitching didn't induce too much distortion because all of the grid lines intersect nicely.

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Next is regular quilting stuff – adding borders, making a sandwich, and laying out lines for quilting. In this case I chose to quilt along lines connecting all of the degree-six vertices, which really makes the underlying triangular symmetry pop IMO. You can tell the hand stitching didn't induce too much distortion because all of the grid lines intersect nicely.

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Preparing a "sandwich" consisting of top, batting, and backing/lining for quilting. There is a neat triangular grid drawn on the quilt top as a guide for seams to be sewn.

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Once everything is stitched together, you can remove the stiff card stock templates. This is a nerve-wracking step because A) there is no undo button for this operation and B) if you stretched the fabric a lot during gluing or sewing, the pattern might deform on you. In my case, everything behaved beautifully!

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Once everything is stitched together, you can remove the stiff card stock templates. This is a nerve-wracking step because A) there is no undo button for this operation and B) if you stretched the fabric a lot during gluing or sewing, the pattern might deform on you. In my case, everything behaved beautifully!

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Quilt center after removing card stock templates. It is folded on the corner hanging off a tablecloth but other than the additional flexibility, looks just as nice as one might hope.

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For me the English paper piecing process starts with gluing the templates to the fabric and trimming off a 1/4" seam allowance, then gluing the edges down. Then the tiles are stitched together by hand, which I estimate took about 60 hours for this project.

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For me the English paper piecing process starts with gluing the templates to the fabric and trimming off a 1/4" seam allowance, then gluing the edges down. Then the tiles are stitched together by hand, which I estimate took about 60 hours for this project.

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Tiles being prepared for paper piecing. There are three plastic cups filled with unfinished tiles, and many more scattered on a tabletop being finished. An Elmer's glue stick is laying down next to the cups.

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The finished quilt center, after hand-stitching is complete. 

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The program has several important outputs: a solid-color preview to help me refine the composition; a "map" showing each tile and where it lands in the quilt; and finally the 1:1 templates to print onto card stock and cut out for English paper piecing. There were 136 individual tiles requiring 8 sheets of 8.5" x 11" card stock to print in total.

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The program has several important outputs: a solid-color preview to help me refine the composition; a "map" showing each tile and where it lands in the quilt; and finally the 1:1 templates to print onto card stock and cut out for English paper piecing. There were 136 individual tiles requiring 8 sheets of 8.5" x 11" card stock to print in total.

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Solid-color rendering of the quilt pattern from earlier in the thread. 

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A "map" showing labels of each tile in the quilt pattern and its adjacencies to other tiles.

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Example tile templates to print onto card stock for English paper piecing.

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@jsiehler Thanks! Not too painful until the very end where my hands started cramping up a lot. A lot of short sessions finding an hour here or there to work on it on a bus/train, after dinner, etc.

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@jsiehler Thanks! Not too painful until the very end where my hands started cramping up a lot. A lot of short sessions finding an hour here or there to work on it on a bus/train, after dinner, etc.

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Construction was pretty similar to my previous parquet deformation pillowcase described at https://mzucker.github.io/2022/11/17/p entagonal-tiling-pillowcase.html – it starts with a Python script that defines the layout, and helps me figure out a labeling and coloring scheme before I begin fabrication.

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Construction was pretty similar to my previous parquet deformation pillowcase described at https://mzucker.github.io/2022/11/17/p entagonal-tiling-pillowcase.html – it starts with a Python script that defines the layout, and helps me figure out a labeling and coloring scheme before I begin fabrication.

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To the left and the right, the tiling changes to two flavors of quadrilateral tilings: kite shapes, each 1/6 of a hexagon; and parallelograms that combine in pairs to form rhombuses, with three pairs also forming a hexagon.

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To the left and the right, the tiling changes to two flavors of quadrilateral tilings: kite shapes, each 1/6 of a hexagon; and parallelograms that combine in pairs to form rhombuses, with three pairs also forming a hexagon.

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This middle of this one is based on the floret pentagonal tiling, which is the dual of the snub trihexagonal tiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub_tri hexagonal_tiling#6-fold_pentille_tiling

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This middle of this one is based on the floret pentagonal tiling, which is the dual of the snub trihexagonal tiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub_tri hexagonal_tiling#6-fold_pentille_tiling

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Diagram of floret pentagonal tiling, courtesy of wikipedia. Read the linked article for a detailed description

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Finally got around to finishing a craft project I've had kicking around for months – another quilted parquet deformation pillowcase! Center dimensions are approx. 17" x 8" (43 x 20 cm)

Read on for details... 🧵

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Finally got around to finishing a craft project I've had kicking around for months – another quilted parquet deformation pillowcase! Center dimensions are approx. 17" x 8" (43 x 20 cm)

Read on for details... 🧵

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A multicolored quilt in purple, pink, orange, and yellow fabrics that changes from a kite-based tiling (each kite is 1/6 of a regular hexagon) on the left, to a floret pentagonal tiling in the center, to a tiling of parallelograms which combine to form hexagons on the right.