DFN Happy Hour No. 15: 30 Day Journals Part Two

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 carlyn 0 Comments DFN, knitting, synth, typography

Coming up Friday at 5:30 pm PDT members Barb Noren (BarbMakesThings), Tod Kurt (todbot) and Carlyn Maw (carlynorama) are back streaming again! Last week we kicked off our 30 day journals (post | video ) and this week we keep on going!!

https://www.twitch.tv/deepfriedneurons

Last Week Redux

Special Notes

Barb introduced us non-Swedes to the concept of Fika

Beverages Consumed

Barb: Stella Artois, can for the win
Tod: La Ferme Julien – a Famille Perrin Wine from Trader Joe’s
Carlyn: Mojito
- Mint Leaves
- Finger Lime
- Sugar
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- 1.5 Oz Light Rum
- Soda water

This Week Preview

Continuing right along with the the 30 Day Journal Project…

Barb

I have kept on making different typefaces, or fonts, or hand lettered alphabets, or whatever you want to call them. They probably (definitely) won’t all end up as usable in text files, but they continue apace. I’m enjoying playing around with them, and I’m actually thinking about making a larger 3-dimensional version of the stylized “fika” in the photo as part of the 30 day project. Fika, btw, is Swedish for a very Swedish kind of coffee break.

After watching a few different videos, I like the introduction from this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqxI9hKDj0, ), which is actually a lecture with really great slides from Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA.

Tod

I continue to work on creating new weird sounds with modular synthesizer gear. It’s fun to explore without the framework of making a song or melody or “track”. I’m also working on my own open source synth modules. The one furthest along is also one of the simplest modules you can have. I call it the TrinketTrigger and it uses a super tiny Trinket M0 microcontroller, programmed in CircuitPython.”

Carlyn

Kept on trucking and kept on logging. Ended up taking Matt’s advice to set a timer when I noticed how late I was slipping. It doesn’t “matter” but it does. I am enjoying having the scarf-inches as artifact. If I didn’t have the scarf I’d have to have come up with something else. It would have put more pressure on the drinks to be different everyday and then I’d find that less relaxing.

I’ve gotten so far that finished the first skein. I made a mess of the hank -> ball process for the second skein and wound up in a complete tangle that took me hours to undo. I started looking into getting a yarn swift, but realized I could just use the backs of two of our dining table chairs and hold the hank under tension that way. Worked great. The third hank got balled up in less than 15 minutes.

Since I’m working with wool which felts to itself quite easily I have a lot of options for doing a join. I went with the braided join, but I think I used too long of a length (8 inches) and am at the edge of the piece so it seems more visible. I suspect that I’ll be able to fix it in blocking. I’m debating undoing it and trying again. Yeah, I will likely undo it. (Narrator: She did.)

Date	Time	Liquid Infusion	Audio Infusion	Tactile Infusion	Misc Notes
8/8/2020	16:30	Barley tea, Pomegranate juice	Gastropod: Shared Plates	scarf knitting
8/9/2020	16:35	Barley tea, Pomegranate juice	Gastropod: Oysters	scarf knitting
8/10/2020	5:03	Barley tea, Pomegranate juice	Gastropod: Counting Fish	scarf knitting	magnetic fish measure
8/11/2020	4:35	Lemon, dried persimmons, sage, kefir grains	Gastropod: Seaweed Special	scarf knitting	since the AM. Good flavor.
8/12/2020	3:50	Lemon, dried persimmons, sage, kefir grains	Gastropod: Salt Wars	hank -> winding & join	Day later… fizzy better with ice., the knots were too bad. couldn’t listen, had to really do it later while T made dinner. Thanks Tod!
8/13/2020	3:50	Lemon, finger limes, dried persimmons, sage, kefir grains	Kitchen Sisters: Kamal Mouzawak – A Lebanese Kitchen Vision	scarf knitting	limes added in the am
8/14/2020	3:52	TJ’s sencha green tea	Allusionist: Shine Theory, Blood is not Water	rejoin & scarf knitting	Rejoined, shorter braid, removed a ply from each yarn