technonaturalist

Conscious decision made to use project work time to try to finish this quilt. Decided straight lines were boring so reverse engineered an easy looking sashiko stitch from a photo. Made a cool if slightly wonky net pattern on the back ^_^

_{I cannot stitch evenly to save my life x_x}

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I did a lot this month, just not much in the garden! It’s been cold and wet and muddy out there and I’m a coward who hates the cold. But we really do need to get back out there and transplant the not-sunflowers and nasturtium into the chicken area and tidy up in general while waiting for the ponds.

There was a bit of a kerfuffle about that as when J went to order them he claims that he doesn’t remember them costing that much (I’m pretty sure they did) and then he realised we hadn’t measured the heights (we had measured the widths and knew that would fit). Good thing he did as we found out that the 1200L ponds we wanted to get were too tall to fit under the grow bed frames. He then went to order the 1100L square ponds and decided he didn’t want to pay almost the same price for one that we could have gotten two from the other place, so now are other options are the same pond that we have already or food grade IBCs which are slightly smaller and I presume cheaper. He initially said that the IBCs are also too tall and would need to be sunk which would mean ripping up the paving which I was VERY unhappy about, but then he said we could just cut the IBCs in half and have them side by side.

I’ve been working on the wrong thing again but this one has a due date. The fourth corner patch is finished, I have two purple rectangles with text to go left and right and then two sets of smaller patches which will get pieced and attached to a bigger wadding for top and bottom.

My project is not dead, I will keep working on it, but I fear that I may actually never get any of the stories out now.

And they got prettier again!

Previously looked like:

Also think it got made more responsive as it also got progressively bigger on my screen ^_^

HiveGrove upgraded from 8bit to 16bit XD (it never entered my head to take a screenie when I started playing but there’s plenty on snaps).

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Spent a “crafternoon” with Middle’s boyfriend’s mum making stuff. 10/10 would do again, we decided we would but haven’t made firm plans for the next one yet.

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Got stuck on a bunch of decisions and decided to just go ahead with “good idea at the time” next time I’m working on it x_x

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I know there’s always something to do in the garden but seeing as it feels like we’re starting from scratch (even though we’re not starting from scratch we’re restarting from stopped) it currently feels like an insurmountable task list that will never end added to the other insurmountable task lists that will never end for the rest of my life.

Adulting amirite.

Like the day I started putting down pavers for the aquaponics. It involved scraping an area larger than a single paver as flat as I could with this random piece of plank I found lying around (we have a ridiculous amount of junk in the garden, some of it is ours and some of it seems to have been buried by previous occupants, this one was ours, and I did eventually find a more reasonably sized piece of plank to use), stomping all over it as though my weight would be enough to compact it properly (near enough is good enough!), placing the paver, adjusting the paver, checking with a spirit level to make sure it was flat, adding or removing dirt under whichever side needed it, checking again, rinse repeat, stomping on paver to make sure it was stable and that the dirt underneath was properly compacted (with the added weight of the paver I should definitely be able to compress the ground!), checking again to make sure it was still level, rinse repeat until level. Then go get the next one (the first two I took from the neighbouring raised bed, the next one I had to go one raised bed over as the other neighbouring raised bed had a tyre on top and I wasn’t quite strong enough to pull it out from under the tyre), make sure it’s level with the first paver, and then do all the stuff I just did with the first paver with the second one, and then check to make sure it’s both level with the first paver and also level. Iterare ad nauseam.

Accidentally applied glass texture to the entire plane model which was amusing. It’s slow going as I’ve been focusing too much on the quilt as that kind of has a due date.

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It’s been hours and I haven’t gotten very far with this thing as I have no idea what I’m doing. On the bright side at least I caught up with everything finally and the schedule reconfigurations seem to be working.