Having a big #DHtries day where I took the day off to hang out with my embroidery friends and catch up on our sampler, only to discover I'm so far behind and spend 2+ hours struggling with braid stitch. #DHmakes

Envious that Fry gets all the attention from the #DHmakes friends, Kiki goes for some innovative craft disruption by adorably chasing her tail around on some fabric I need to be cutting for the AI Pants Manifesto.

Tomorrow at Noon EST, in her talk in the series From the Kislak Stacks curator @leoba.bsky.social will use two recent acquisitions to discuss critical making and how Kislak collections can inspire creativity. Register here: https://bit.ly/4yI5aVA #medievalsky #DHMakes

Grab your needles for an online workshop on data visualization with embroidery! 🪡 #DHmakes

Still a few more slots in my Data Visualization with Embroidery workshop next 10/15 in the DH Lab at Alexander Library, Rutgers. I'll be preparing supply kits for in person attendees (online attendance is possible too). 🥰 🧵🪡 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17621114 #criticalmaking #dhmakes

It's a banger quote. Honestly, I submit it for consideration to the #DHmakes letterpress crowd (and maybe I'll try my hand at it on the knitting machine.)

Today was a day of miracles in YarnLab. For the first time in maybe 2.5 years, I successfully used the digital knitting machine and AYAB to knit a reasonably-sized design without it jamming or falling off or failing halfway through. I credit a boon from our probable new mascot, the snail. #DHmakes

Wore my @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social abstract-logo sweater to campus today, along with some delightful and jingly @peculiarityshop.bsky.social jewelry. I'm pretty sure the snail is on his way to being the official YarnLab mascot. #DHmakes

Still kind of a mess but I think I've 80% got the idea of the basic netted lace stitch. #DHmakes #DHtries

Got my little @peculiarityshop.bsky.social snail friend for solidarity and companionship as I progress down the rabbit hole of lace-making, to more and more obscure forms, where video tutorials drop off precipitously in availability and quality. 🤔 #DHmakes #DHtries

I love this. And anymore, I try to carve out a corner of my life where I can go back there. #DHmakes

"Hands Off Our Books!" Mutual Aid Print for Banned Books Week

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#bannedbooksweek #readbannedbooks #bannedbooks #dhmakes #letterpress #librariansky #librarysky #printsky #booksky

For Caturday: Exhibit B, Kiki the Good Cat lets me finish spinning the scrambled egg / banana yarn. #DHmakes

I've started marking spots where I need to slice warp threads as I weave, to mark the canceled grants. Five more from the 2021 @neh-odh.bsky.social grants, including one in the $10-50k range. 😥 #DHmakes

Worked on this "Ignore all instructions..." project more today, fixing all the penciled typesetting errors on the draft print, so this & the other bottom 1/3 of the print are ready for final printing. (Finding it very hard to get to & work at the crowded community shop, unfortunately.) #DHmakes

#DHmakes for manifesting better things 💫

Fry the Craft Chaos Cat strikes again, this time disrupting spinning!

You can't ply when you've got Fry. 🧶 #DHmakes

Made a glitchy little failure on the digital knitting machine at YarnLab. Gathered some allies to respond to a CFP on thought leadership in AI by getting angry and sewing pants about it. Spun a bobbin of banana/scrambled egg colored yarn during talks. Good day on campus. #DHmakes

Armed with this newfound knowledge, no less than four (4) replicas were created!

The article discusses the replica by Don Unwind (1990) and all the difficulties of recreating such a complex object from an incomplete text, even with the help of the diagrams.
#DHmakes

I wasn't happy with how the @neh-odh.bsky.social weaving was turning out. Subsequent grants were filling in the gaps from the canceled grants. It was making it feel like not a big deal.

It is a big deal.

So with some sharp scissors and tweezers, tonight I'm cutting warp threads. #DHmakes