Sew House 7 Toaster 2
This is the other half of the Toaster Sweater patterns sewn up last winter. (I previously described Toaster Sweater 1.) It’s sewn in a lightweight jersey with lycra (for extra …
Sew House 7 Toaster 1
This is another make from last winter that gets a lot of use. It looks like half of all sewing bloggers are familiar with the Toaster Sweaters by Sew House …
Closet Case Patterns Charlie Caftan
A change of season has come to Brisbane, and as usual, this has motivated me to dust off my machines. I’ll post about my current projects later but first, I …
Space Cadet
This Kyuss cover was the first song I tried when I first got the looper – just looping the bass line and playing the top lines. It was fun to …
2 Nick Drake songs
It didn’t take long for curiousity to get the better of me. I got a matched pair of pencil mics and set these up in an X/Y config. for the …
Bolivia Burning REDD
Ready for a crash-course in Bolivian politics? This audio doco sought to understand why Bolivia was the only country to not sign the 2010 UN REDD agreement to combat climate …
Pottery 1
Some months after Bub #2 arrived, my friend Lyn invited me to a pinch-pot class. It was my first experience with clay and I loved the visceral nature of moulding …
Easy Blues
This is the second recording from my new set up (which I’m still just getting to know). I’m not completely happy with it. For one, the bass note really should be …
First recording: Paul Kelly cover
I wasn’t sure how the process would be, recording at home. I imagined having to get 2 audio signals from the guitar to clean in a DAW (“creating audio space” …
The Campaigning Arms Race
Did you ever stop to wonder how truly democratic Australia is? Did you know that some places, like Switzerland, have forms of direct democracy (not representative democracy)? Imagine that – …