Some friends of mine created a community, where you don’t sell your things, you swap them for other things. It’s called swopspot and it’s amazing. I already put two things on there from my crafty list and got a dinner (well, ramen) for it. The other one is still being discussed. So if you have …
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Scarf
Well, I know it is spring, but this scarf also took me some time. While it is not apparent how long it is, I hope the pattern comes out nicely. Cudos to Kieran Foley for the pattern itself, which I slightly modified, because I found the consistency between certain parts more interesting. I also made …
Cat Toys
While spending idle time around cats, my husband and I discovered how to make easy cat toys. Basically you just crochet or knit a ball and fill it with stuffing. If you want to drive the/your cat crazy add some little catnip. Personally, I prefer the crocheted balls, since while this is never a long …
Knit & Purl – The Knitting Pattern Generator
Last semester my study group was required to design and evaluate some random piece of software. We chose to look into knitting pattern generators, because what is there available seems to be rather… abysmal (sorry to all the developers putting hard work in there, but a user study could have helped). We did a Paper …
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More toys!
See more toys I did: The hello witchy! This is a toy for a friend of mine who likes the colours blue and black. Can be done at any time upon request, also with variations. Jim the Fish (yes, this is a Doctor Who reference). Although he’s never really shown but only mentioned in the …
Socks and Mittens! (and a vest)
I tend to forget to post everything I actually make and I also tend to forget to even take a picture of all the stuff I make. So here are socks I made for my husband: Also I made mittens for someone else: I like the detail there, look at the leaves: and the wristband: …
Tux!
I made a tux! In purple! Cats like it.
TF-IDF for Dummies
In connection to the latest paper I wrote I had to implement some TF-IDF analysis and since I didn’t find a quick understandable overview on the internet in one place, I’ll just try and give a brief explanation of things here. So what is it? TF is short for Term Frequency and IDF means Inverse …
Happy Fish!
The fish arrived its destination! Seems to be happy there. 🙂
Frog Button Pattern
I figured, since it is a pattern of my own anyway, here for others to make the pattern of the frog button. It’s a free pattern and you can use it whenever you want and modify and whatever. Note though, that these are used as a political campaign material by the Green candidate for the …