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Mechanical … dragon(?)

Our first few meetings with Harriet involved exploring basic mechanics, gearing motors and transferring between rotational and linear motion. I have no idea what this is, but it’s…

Locum at the sewing studio

Covering for a colleague at the occupational therapy sewing studio. Banged out a laptop case, padded with an old camping mat, a bag suitable for warm breakfast rolls and…

Oculus Thrift

A very homebrew Oculus Rift. Weirdly I was putting this together just before Google dropped Google Cardboard, which it then worked really nicely with. This was the step…

Crocheted scarf

Super-soft and a really fun yarn to work with, there are large bobbles on the yarn that make up the bulk of the scarf allowing it to be…

Glögg set

Fourth and fifth items respectively. Having now gone to pottery twice I felt ready to make a jug (!?). Luckily it turned out great and has been used every…

Third pot

  Absolutely love this little pot. The dirty-denim look of the glaze is so nice. I left some rough edges deliberately that suit the glaze really well. I…

Pottery first blood

Like anyone who was a teenager in 1990 I’ve always wanted to try my hand at pottery. The opportunity presented itself during an open-house at one of our…

Runestone

When H. was asked what he wanted for his birthday he said “a mobile phone….. or a runestone!” Silly boy; one runestone coming up. Armature of loo-rolls covered…

The Barbas

If we go out for drinks some time I will tell you the long story of these. Short story is that these are homemade barbababies, the lower one…

Bleach printing

Great in theory, but the bleach ate through the shirt. Scanned my tattoo, rolling my arm to match the speed of the read-head, made a stencil and sprayed…