Also had a real #DHtries where I engraved a friend's research project logo on a round wood plaque. Backwards (horizontally reflected, whoops), because I'm used to doing that for printing blocks (may still work as one but that wasn't the intent)
This is the sign from the universe I needed to get back to making terrible drawings. They still suck enough that it's not exactly a boost to make one, but I do think they got better when I was trying every day. #DHmakes #DHtries

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"Trust the slicer," they said. "It'll be fine," they said. Alas, the 246 whistles I babysat all day are a gorgeous and unsplittable solid brick. This time I'm trying two-color whistles and I say it to children so I'll say it to filament, "Nobody better be touching anyone else!!" #DHmakes #DHtries
This return to crochet is now pretty solidly positioning itself in the Weird Blanket category. The fluffy white yarn was very confusing to read, leading to a LOT of increases that I had to decrease because it was turning into Not Blanket Shape. Also briefly forgot the pattern. 😬 #DHmakes #DHtries
#FiberuaryChallenge Day 17: Project bag. Let's be honest, all my project bags are full of shattered dreams. This is the bag for knitting a blanket for the second-grader. I can't count, the thing is a mess and getting frogged. I also failed at a Pride cardigan I loved recently. #DHmakes #DHtries
This block prints its bamboo grain (had to run to an ACH zoom before I could do a 2nd/3rd laser pass to remove, & some lines were too thin for more passes so needed to edit those out of the cut). Looks neat, even though I would've preferred a cleaner block given this image's detail #DHtries #DHmakes

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This was also a #DHtries as when I placed to cut these, the laser wasn't coming out of the laserhead. We cleaned the lenses, recalibrated, restarted the software, etc. but... didn't do that "turn it off & back on again" physically. Turned out unplugging it and re plugging it fixed the issue.
I am deep into my first major "take it apart and fix it" moment with the 3d printer. It's the kind of thing that's always terrified me. But I'm telling myself that I handle small fiddly things all the time with embroidery, knitting, and crochet and screws are no different. #DHmakes #DHtries
For #Caturday #DHtries, my kids encouragingly told me this one "isn't even very cursed". #DHmakes