I keep forgetting about the Lemmy groups, and my health sucks, so this post is just trying to make my addled brain remember these groups, heh.

Anyhoo, this project is for my elder son (if anyone remembers the Vault Boy one I made for my younger son a few months back), and I'm attempting a few new tricks.

1. I stapled this monks cloth to a painting frame. It does look like I'll need to do some tightening once I'm done, though. So I hope I can figure that out.
2. I painted the outside, eyes, and mouth, and I do like how the mouth and eyes make the fabric pop.
3. I found a larger needle that came with a kit on one heck of a sale at Hobby Lobby, and that is what I'm using. However, it is a tad too large for the yarn I got. So quite a bit of it looks rather frazzled, :thinking:.
4. And I'm attempting (all-be-it a poor one) flow. (I have no idea what the proper term would be, heh, but it's where the thread leans in one direction, or flows along a line so each row...erm...flows with every other row. (Oof! Well hopefully you can understand that gibberish, HAH).

Meh, regardless of the issues (and boy can I not draw worth snot) it still looks pretty darn good. Now for the body...:grimacing:...The proportions are just a tad off, but it'll have to do.

woops! Guess I didn't post about the Vault Sweet Vault here...Well, here's that one.

I've been using one of the Pandora services, but I've been getting a little annoyed with the stations (which I presume I would get the same annoyance from other services, too). So I'd like to be able to create a station and add songs that I own and that wouldn't normally be in that station. (And I know you can add artists to the stations, but some artists only have a few songs I like, and I surely don't want the station inundated with similar artists of the music I don't like. Shudder the thought, 😬 ).

First time doing an odd shaped fabric thingy, so the edges aren't too great. Plus, didn't figure out a better method of punching around the outlines til close to the end...Meh, still makes us all giggle like school children, heh.

Oh, if anyone knows of a video tutorial on folding over, shaping, and gluing monks cloth with odd shapes (i don't have this issue with softer fabrics)...I'd be so thankful, heh. I just could not get it to work, so I just gave up and rubbed marker over the edges.

Forgot to mention what I used.

Lavor needle with the largest needle in the package.
The black yarn is sport weight "I Love This Yarn" (the maximum this needle could handle).
The white is an unknown we had in our stash, and a faint thinner than the black.
Artiste Monks cloth, 1yd x 62in. (unknown thread count, purchased from Hobby Lobby).

And here is the frame I made.

This is the second frame I made, and since I used my table saw to cut the dowel, it left a large gap, to which I used the jute as a means to grasp onto the cloth. However, it was partially intentional as I wanted to put more into the dowels holding onto the sides of the fabric over the center parts.

The only real problem I had with it was the dowels. It's not easty gripping and twisting to tighten the fabric down. I much prefer the square ones I made on my first model. They offered a much better grip for tightening. Once I feel up to it, I'll make a couple for this one, but they'll have to be thinner than the first model. Which might not be possible. Hmm! Still haven't decided on what I'll do yet.

Ok! I give up trying to find this stuff on my own, heh.

Anyway, I built my wife a large outdoor miniature diarama for Christmas and I'm wanting to do a winter theme for her opening (the door), and I'm rather stumped on these.

So far, the best solution I found was snow powder/flakes and spray on adhesive, but I'm definitely open to something else (that's not overly costly, 🤷‍♂️. I spent a looooot on this so far).

It will have a dirt base, so the snow needs to adhere to that as best as possible.

Since I have studied mesoamerican languages, which includes base 20 numbering systems, I was curious to see what may happen by following the same rules for 7 in decimal.

The following will be written as follows.
7*x : 5

Which implies any number that is divisible by 7 can be found by the following programmable formula (ignoring integer division) (y - y % 10) / 10 + (y % 10) * 5 where y = 7 * x (Erm, just watch this video).

Maya Number : Multiplier
7*x : 6
13*x : 2
17*x : 6

Just what I've seen so far...Am needing sleep, and am older and a lot more decrepit, so have no clue if I'll ever work this out fully and completely in the future, heh. Meh, it was fun while it lasted...Time for sleep...

If anyone else wants to play around with it, I do have a few pari/gp functions written that can be used to work with it.

\\ Maya(x) convert a decimal number x into a Mayan number as a list.
Maya(x) = { V=List();while(x>0,listinsert(V,x%20,1);x=x\20);return(V) }

\\ Maya2Dec(X) convert a Maya number list X to a decimal number.
Maya2Dec(X) = { t=0;for(x=1,length(X),t=t*20+X[x]);return(t) }

g(x,t) = x\20+(x%20)*t;

Edit:

Since this was rather confusing, I'll try a different method to explain this.

A base 20 system, such as the Maya or Nahuatl/Aztecs counted in, the single digits would be 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, as they counted with both fingers and toes.

Another way to aid in this, in the Tzotzil Maya language, they count based on a person or persons.

20 = jtob
21 = jun scha'vinik (2nd person's one [digit])
22 = chibal scha'vinik (2nd person's two [digits])
39 = balunlajunebal scha'vinik (2nd person's 19 [digits])
40 = cha'vinik ([the whole] 2nd person. Each person has 20 digits, so including the second person is 40 digits all together).

Now, with that, lets look over the 13\x : 2 that I wrote above.

Is the number 6875 divisible by 13? In a base 20, 6875 would be written as 17:3:15, using the colon to differentiate the digits from a base 10 system. Thus, 17 * 20^2 + 3 * 20 + 15 = 6875.

• 17:3 + 2 * 15 = 18:13 (Base 10 ; 343 + 30 = 373)
  • 18 + 2 * 13 = 2:4 (Base 10 ; 18 + 26 = 44)
  • 2 + 2 * 4 = 10 (No! This is not divisible by 13).

Is the number 7527 divisible by 13?

• 18:16 + 2 * 7 = 19:10 (Base 10 ; 376 + 14 = 390)
  • 19 + 2 * 10 = 1:19 (Base 10 ; 19 + 20 = 39. Check, this is divisible by 13).

Hopefully that is better.

Edit 2:

And here is the work in Maya. (Using circles around the + and = signs to make it easier to read. Plus, using very well defined parentheses to differentiate between the line used for the digit spacer and as showing multiplication).