#learnnewthings — Public Fediverse posts

I learn more vocabulary and weird facts from @cstross 's books than anywhere else. As I find myself on a bender of the later #LaundryFiles series, I need to either read in ebook format for the built in dictionary or have my phone or a physical dictionary near me.

Today's gem was learning about The Bluestocking Society, a women's rights and intellectual movement from the 18th century.

#reading #learnnewthings

Ah, the age-old tale: 🌟 "passion" is the secret sauce to engineering greatness, because collecting a paycheck is so last season. 😴 Let's sprinkle some belief-fairy dust and magically transform into coding wizards, while ignoring the outdated notion of actually learning new things. 🎩✨
https://0x0001.cc/blog/good-engineer.md #passionoverpay #engineeringgreatness #codingwizards #learnnewthings #belieffairydust #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the age-old tale: 🌟 "passion" is the secret sauce to engineering greatness, because collecting a paycheck is so last season. 😴 Let's sprinkle some belief-fairy dust and magically transform into coding wizards, while ignoring the outdated notion of actually learning new things. 🎩✨
https://0x0001.cc/blog/good-engineer.md #passionoverpay #engineeringgreatness #codingwizards #learnnewthings #belieffairydust #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the age-old tale: 🌟 "passion" is the secret sauce to engineering greatness, because collecting a paycheck is so last season. 😴 Let's sprinkle some belief-fairy dust and magically transform into coding wizards, while ignoring the outdated notion of actually learning new things. 🎩✨
https://0x0001.cc/blog/good-engineer.md #passionoverpay #engineeringgreatness #codingwizards #learnnewthings #belieffairydust #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the age-old tale: 🌟 "passion" is the secret sauce to engineering greatness, because collecting a paycheck is so last season. 😴 Let's sprinkle some belief-fairy dust and magically transform into coding wizards, while ignoring the outdated notion of actually learning new things. 🎩✨
https://0x0001.cc/blog/good-engineer.md #passionoverpay #engineeringgreatness #codingwizards #learnnewthings #belieffairydust #HackerNews #ngated

The shading is finicky, and I pull out and redo about 30% of it. I work on it folded so I don't need a big frame, but it makes mirroring the shading a bit trickier, so I have to spread it out from time to time to see how balanced I am keeping the shading.

I am using at least 8 different shades of yarn for the blues/purples in this stage.

#BriggsAndLittle #yarnhooking #rughooking #makersgonnamake #makesomethingbeautiful #learnnewthings #rustic #HookersOfMastodon

Prepping for the next (scariest) bit of this piece. It involves colour blending with a bunch of different shades of yarn.

For Folks interested in my "process", most of it is eyeballing measurements and using a Sharpie to sketch things out directly on the work surface.I just finished dividing the sky up into segments/gradients to (hopefully) keep my colour blending in track.

To give an idea of scale, this piece is 3 feet wide from border to border.

#makersgonnamake #rughooking #RugHooker #learnnewthings #thisis47 #BriggsAndLittle

Progress shot:

Grass is done. Now I need to roll some skeins into balls before starting the sky.

#rughooking #yarnhooking #rugmaking #briggsandlittle #makesomethingbeautiful #cottagecore #learnnewthings

Stopped at #LeeValleyTools and picked up some new toys to add to a gift I received a ear ago but haven't had out to use yet. (Garden kept me too busy last year.) I now have a decent range of gouges in various sizes, a few chisels, and some chipping knives.

I have a near infinite pile of burls in different sizes from a massive willow we trimmed, so I'll have no shortage of material to play with this summer while creating some whimsy for my garden. :)

#woodcarving #learnnewthings #thisis47

My 3yr old is super impressed with my efforts thus far.

#linocut #stamps #stampmaking #learnnewthings

Okay, first go at it, but I think I will have a lot of fun learning #linocut techniques.

#learnnewthings #thisis47 #makersgonnamake