Time for #Mikes(almost)DailyDistraction

Today features a poop* dragon, specifically, a crystal dragon.

It's in front of its progenitor, a larger crystal dragon made w/2 filament colors, white & another that is not one color, but a color gradient.

*Rerouted 3D printer filament waste (aka poop).

In today's distraction from < waves hand > all this -- a macro closeup of a 3D poop dragon.

Poop prints are made from the waste that occurs when changing filament color.

To ensure a clean transition, a certain amount of filament is "pooped" out.

This can be redirected to another object w/cool results!

More info in the alt text.

In this photo, I demonstrate how I am richer than all the billionaires combined.

I have Althea, and she loves me. And they don't have either.

Our oldest cat is a void named Shadow. But Cassidy (Cassie) is also known as Shadow 2 for the way she follows me around.

I turned the flash on her tonight and she was patient enough to let me take this nice shot.

She's a gorgeous, stately kitty (she'll be 3 in a couple of months.)

Close-up view of something that will never be seen again: the internals of a 3D print butterfly dragon.

It's fascinating to watch the printer lay down strand upon strand of filament to build something specific & tangible.

Inside is its own world, w/structures & colors only seen during fabrication.

Found this image of a sunflower from last summer on an overlooked memory card.

It feels like an appropriate picture for the day; not for what happened, but for the positive future we will, somehow, live to see.

I'll return to posting with a picture of a "poop" dragon.

Otherwise wasted material from filament changes is routed to a different object, which then gains the colors used in the main object, but in stripes, layer by layer.

It makes for a pretty cool effect.

A little weekend project. Cut on Friday evening, busy on Saturday, and sewn up on Sunday afternoon.

This piece addressed my two main sewing issues, including my main nemesis.

First, I have a lot of tops finished, some even quilted, but few with a back, binding and "finished."

So this one is finished, AND, the binding is acceptable. I've had so many struggles with binding ... I didn't even share the last piece I finished.

So, yeah me! For finishing & a binding that doesn't suck 

#quilting

Another personal culinary first is in the books!

I made hummus, for the first time, and also for the first time cooked dried chickpeas. Wow! I had no idea how much skin debris there would be; it looks like a cup full of dead bug shells!

Anyway, w/that appetizing idea out of the way, here is the real deal. Recipe to follow.

So, besides missing and remembering Aiko 3 months after he left us, I've been making small zippered pouches for a week.

Today I started a small assembly line to make 4 bags at once.

The photo shows the tops, lining and zippers (lower right has two different top sides).

#sewing