A thread (ha!) about a knitting project. Back in October, I saw some people wearing hats that I clocked as frog-hats, green, with white discs on top with black spots in the center. Roughly similar to mickey mouse ear hats, but a different color scheme.

Made a #scarf on my #sentro #knittingmachine for Mom's birthday, in candy cane colors for the holidays. 230 rows, which turned out to be 44" in the finished scarf, a little short, but better than my previous scarf with 400 rows, something around 6 feet long.

Holiday "Santa" hats, knitted on #sentro #knittingmachine #circularknittingmachine Using Wool-Ease yarn, which is maybe my new favorite, it has the feel of wool, a nice wooly texture and mottled appearance.

Another hat experiment, a gift for my sister (don't tell her). I wanted to buy some nice yarn at a local yarn place, and I think I misread the yarn weight on the shelf - normally, I buy worsted, weight 4, and I think this might be weight 1 - I don't know a lot about yarn, but that seems significant.

I had a long holiday weekend, which I filled by visiting two yarn shops and making two hats.

When I set out to make my most recent scarf, I weighed the yarn I had purchased, did some math, made a design (of sorts) that I expected to approximately use all my yarn. The scarf ended up being 400 rows, 6 feet long, which is a little ridiculous, but it didn't use all the yarn I planned to use.

Using the #sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine to make a scarf today - I had purchased 4 skeins of some nice wool yarn last spring, but I had avoided making this scarf for several months - in part due to season, in part due to not being satisfied with my skill to finish the ends.

Continuing to get the (literal, figurative) dust off the hat-knitting pipeline. I was having difficulty with the Sentro knitting machine feeling "tight", and producing what I believe are called "tucked" stitches. I wasn't sure if this was a result of gunk accumulating inside. [thread]

Today's knitting adventure - I disassembled, cleaned, lubed, and reassembled my Sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine and proceeded to attempt another experimental green hat (see previous post). This hat has 150 rows, which feels maybe a little longer than I was shooting for.

New hat for November 2025 - reacquainting myself with my Sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine, reminding myself the procedures for making a hat, remembering how many rows goes into a comfortable hat.

Flow Field Half-Hexagon Quads Still, largely experimenting with pen swaps and flow fields. #iDraw #penplotter #flowfield #proceduralart

Flow Field Chessboard I took my flow field code and generated two flow fields - one mostly horizontal, one mostly vertical, then clipped the resulting paths into individual squares. I collected the squares into two SVGs, plotted them with different pens #idraw #flowfield #procedural #penplotter

"Squared Circles" for 9/16/25 September 16 2025 was a "Pythagorean date", each element a square, the 2-digit year being the sum of the other two numbers. I nested a sequence of 4, 9, 16, 25 circles inside a square. #idraw #penplotter #circles #pythagoras #procedural

New Flow Field variation on a theme - constrained the flow field to a circle, constrained the vectors in the field between -35 and 75 degrees, for a more "river" flow visual. #iDraw #penplotter #generativeart #proceduralart #flowfield

Flow Field drawing Flow field, where the direction of the flow comes from simplex noise. Plotted using blue EnerGel gel pen with an iDraw H SE plotter. #iDraw #PenPlotter #ProceduralArt #GenerativeArt

A poster for "Math Jam", a get together of recreational math folks mathsjam.com using Hershey fonts, bridson blue noise, and line segment SDFs. #iDraw #penplotter #math #mathjam #mathsjam

#iDraw #penplotter #proceduralart an exercise in clipping shapes (circles) against other shapes (circles, half-planes) specified as SDFs. Reminds me a little of a guitar or a fried egg.

Drawing an Apollonian Gasket with a circle inversion on an UUNA Tek iDraw H A3 pen plotter #penplotter

Has this happened to you? You have a less-than-perfect experience at a local business (e.g. a movie theater), you go to their website to inform them of what was less than ideal, provide a few suggestions of how to make it better next time, avoid the bad experience.

Three color beanie in white, light green, dark green, on my Sentro 48-hook circular knitting machine. I've been having fun (literally) cranking out hats on this machine, but now and then, I'll get a yarn (or a particular skein) that feels tight on the machine. #sentro #knittingmachine

My current health care provider (in the US) provides "virtual" (i.e. Zoom) visits with my PCP, which is good. However, it seems like everything routes through one of the worst websites, I've had difficulty logging in, re-verifying my insurance coverage, my history of care has disappeared.

More #sentro #circularknittingmachine hats - using yarn I bought at Bayshore Yarns in Silverdale, WA. www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

"One for them, one for me" - I made a hat for my sister (shh, don't tell her, it's in the mail even now) using a speckly gray yarn and a turquoise blue yarn. I also made a black/white/gray hat for myself. I intend to add a pom pom to the top of my hat.

Latest #sentro #circularknittingmachine #knittingmachine project - I made a yellow/orange/white hat as a late/very early Halloween project.

I don't normally look to NPR as my curator of interactive entertainment, but there's some stuff here I'll take a closer look at. www.npr.org/2024/07/16/g...

my polyhedral puzzle printing project (that's a mouthful!) yielded these two guys. These are after Stewart Coffin designs www.johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorl... Figures 101 and 107, respectively - the second and third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron.

New #sentro hat, reversible purple/pink or pink/purple

Third project on the #Sentro, a hat in blue and white variegated yarn. The yarn is a lighter weight than my previous projects, which didn't work as well as I had hoped, including getting quite tangled around 2/3 of the way through the project. I gave it to Mom, and she seemed to enjoy it.

Holiday themed hat, knit on the #sentro 48. This was my second project, and it turned out quite well. If I make another one, I'd probably make the white brim stripe a little wider, but it turned out well.

Another 3d printed polyhedral puzzle, taken from Figure 100 from Stewart T. Coffin's "The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections". I think Coffin shows this puzzle as a stepping stone to Figure 101, which is currently on the printer. #3dprinted #puzzle

Day 1 with my new #Sentro Circular #KnittingMachine. I made a hat. ~120 rows, a few dropped stitches here and there. Good enough results to make me encouraged to try again.

With all the Laws and Orders and CSIs and NCISes and for that matter Perry Masons, Matlocks, and Hawaii 5-0s, you'd think that we could train up a generator that would spit out cop shows on demand. A procedural procedural, if you will.

programming languages I have liked: BASIC (Applesoft/Apple II Integer) GraForth Pascal Scheme / LISP C (K&R) Python Rust And I'll just mention emacs, which has been with me through most of that.

Some computer games I have enjoyed: Miner 2049er (Apple II) Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set (Apple II) Star Blazer (Apple II) Autoduel (Apple II) Bard's Tale I+II (Apple II) Airheart (Apple IIgs) Tass Times in Tonetown (Apple IIgs) Tradewars 2000 (BBS) Wing Commander (PC) X-Wing (PC)

Just 3d printing some polyhedral puzzles