Data-Visualisation

6 Months of My Handmade Year

We’re six months into the year, so it’s time for an update on my self-imposed challenge to wear at least one item from my hand-made wardrobe every single day. And I’m pleased to report that so far, I have a 100% success rate. …

Parsing the Past

I have been blogging for a very long time. I started for real in 2006; before then I’d been a heavy user of MySpace, but there just wasn’t enough room in a post to fit everything I wanted to say. So I used the html and css skills I’d learned from customising my MySpace profile to throw together a ‘zine on GeoCities, and set to publishing on a weekly basis. …

Souping Up My Craft Tracking

At the beginning of the year, I started my hand-made wardrobe challenge, attempting to wear at least one hand-made item every day, and logging my choice so I can analyse my hand-made wardrobe for trends and insights. Up to this point I’ve been using a spreadsheet to track my progress. It’s a bit unwieldy, though - I have to type in the right garment name every time, I’ve had to put together some truly heinous formulae to try to get to the information I need, and - not to put too fine a point on it - Numbers just kind of sucks. …

Blanket Tracking

Toward the end of last year, I promised my mother I’d knit her a nice cosy blanket, and I set myself a slightly risky challenge: I would start it on New Year’s Day, and I would deliver it by Mothers’ Day (30th March, this year). …

Starting my 'Year in Craft' for 2025

A couple of years ago I ended up doing a crafting challenge, my Year in Craft 2022. tl;dr, I tried to spend at least one minute every day doing some crafts, tracked it in my bullet journal, and created an unconventional data visualisation from the results. …

2022 Year in Craft

A few years ago I spotted a course on Domestika called Data Visualization with Alternative Mediums, in which a designer was creating data visualisations with embroidery. This hit me hard; I watched the course and loved the idea of melding my two great loves - data and crafts - but at the time I couldn’t come up with an idea of what I could visualise. …