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Waddlin'

Waddlin'Oct 13, 2026

October 12 - Fall has Snuck Up Upon Me

I am quite nearly finished reading East of Eden

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web-goddessOct 13, 2026

Clearing the open browser tabs… Amok Island’s Geometric Murals Teem with Vibrant Local Flora and Fauna – This is the person that Canva got to do murals for the Sydney office! (You can see one behind me.) Live webcam of Sydney Harbour – Neat. If you’d been watching Sunday morning, you could’ve seen me cross […]

embroideryknitting

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web-goddessOct 9, 2026

Screenprinting Workshop

What do we do when the world is a scary place, where stressful things befall the people we love and we can’t do anything about it? We make art. I continued my adventures in printing today with a screen printing workshop with Carizza Designs. Carizza had invited us to bring in our own black-and-white designs […]

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web-goddessOct 1, 2026

I backed Knityak’s Kickstarter 9 years ago, and I was excited to see the site’s relaunch offering even more procedurally-generated knitted garments. Unfortunately she’s not crafting them individually anymore, but she’s offering a lot more designs including Mandelbrot fractals and Mac book ROMs. They look really cool. Some of them are completely unique and she’ll […]

knittingComputers and Internet

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web-goddessSep 28, 2026

Sydney Craft Week

Sydney Craft Week is coming soon! I’ve booked in for a symposium at UTS on “Fashion translated through Artisan Practice,” as well as a screenprinting workshop in Marrickville. I’m also going to a pub to learn how to crochet a vagina. (Seriously.) I was also strongly tempted by the workshops for glassblowing and leather journal […]

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web-goddessSep 27, 2026

Beginner Printmaking

Our fifth and final week saw us experimenting with image transfer and Chine-collé. First I used some of last week’s drypoint prints to transfer some toner-printed images. We rubbed eucalyptus oil on the back, and then either ran it through the press or rubbed with a pencil to transfer the printing. I did one of each, […]

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web-goddessSep 24, 2026

Volunteering at Phoebe House

Today I had my first day of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Australia. We spent the day painting, gardening, and tidying up Phoebe House, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program for mothers, some of whom have their babies living with them. I’m proud of what we managed to do. I was the first volunteer […]

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web-goddessSep 20, 2026

Beginner Printmaking

Week 4 found us exploring drypoint, a printing method where you scratch a design into a plate, cover it with ink, and then wipe the ink off the flat bits. We first did a small sample using a bit of cut-up tetrapack from a carton of soy milk. I based my drawing off a silver […]

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web-goddessSep 18, 2026

Clearing out the browser tabs… Make, Believe, Magic – The worlds of The Jim Henson Company – QAGOMA have a Muppets exhibition!! We must go. Little rainbow series of linocut bookmarks – How great are these!? I’ve been really getting into the r/printmaking community. ColdChef’s knuckle tatt stamps – Love these too! fugleramme – an […]

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web-goddessSep 13, 2026

Beginner Printmaking

I have found my artistic niche, and it’s making linocut prints of silly cats. I love this so much. Today’s lesson was using the “reductive” print method, where you print in one colour, carve some more away, and then print again in another colour. It worked perfectly for Amy Cat! I did a sort of […]

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web-goddessSep 11, 2026

When I was growing up, my parents used to watch PBS shows every weekend about home improvement, gardening, and crafts. I thought they were so boring. I realised last night though that I essentially do the same thing now, just with YouTube. These shows are how I self-soothe when I’m stressed. Mad City Modern – Barry […]

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web-goddessSep 6, 2026

Beginner Printmaking

Today’s class was all about linocut printing! I brought along a trace from a photo of Petey Cat for my design. Once I transferred it to the block, I started carving the outlines. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but thankfully I managed not to cut myself. Here’s how it […]

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web-goddessSep 3, 2026

Adversarial clothing

I read about Simon Weckert’s experiments with digital camouflage recently, and I’m intrigued. The idea is that you can make clothing out of fabric with a print that confuses and breaks facial recognition systems. Metafilter was deeply skeptical about its efficacy, but I like that people are playing with this. Here’s another project selling finished […]

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web-goddessAug 30, 2026

Beginner Printmaking

I am crossing another item off my Retirement To Do list – take a printing class! This is a five-week beginner course at the Pine Street Creative Arts Centre not far from my house. This morning was our first session and we focused on monotype printing, where you only get a single set of prints […]

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web-goddessAug 21, 2026

Which it is a more rational Garment

“My wool garment? You have noticed it, have you? I had forgot, or I should have pointed it out. Have you ever seen anything so deeply rational?” LOOLLL. The Aubrey-Maturin subreddit discovered The Garment (the one that went viral on Ravelry recently), and they are chuckling over the comparison to Stephen’s “rational wool garment” from […]

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web-goddessAug 14, 2026

Fixing my Weasley Sweater

In 2003 I knitted a Weasley Sweater because the Potter books meant a lot to me. Then 17 years later JK Rowling revealed herself as a litigious, fascist TERF punching down at people who really, really don’t deserve it. She has profoundly disappointed millions of fans who thought better of her, and I’ll never give […]

taco 'bout it

taco 'bout itJul 2, 2026

if you really loved me, you’d buy me this for 95 bucks

This Figurine Statues & Sculptures item by NieboArte has 45 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Spain. Listed on May 26, 2026 Source: Hamster Meme Figure - Etsy

Chris McLeod

Chris McLeodMar 7, 2015

Crochet Loki is the Cutest

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