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Today is a day of learning new things...
Feb. 8th, 2026 11:13 amMostly, how to create an SVG file and then turn it into something usable for my Cricut, so that I can start making vinyl patterns of my glass, making it that much easier to make them look a little more similar, where more than one at a time is ordered.
The reason? It's not that I am the hugest fan of uniformity, I can assure you. But more than in order to make them within a sensible timeframe, my usual method of cut here, grind there, grind a bit more over here, make that fit by recutting that piece and grinding a bit more over there... Well, as you can imagine, it takes an absolute AGE
so I am hand drawing all my patterns (aka, making a line drawing with a Sharpie of the best "version" of a piece I've made), then taking a photograph, then faffinf and eventually, trying them out on the cricut machine.
Also, the new kiln...oh dear lord. SO much SPACE in there.
I need to make something that is worthy of such a magnificent piece of kit. Eventually.
The reason? It's not that I am the hugest fan of uniformity, I can assure you. But more than in order to make them within a sensible timeframe, my usual method of cut here, grind there, grind a bit more over here, make that fit by recutting that piece and grinding a bit more over there... Well, as you can imagine, it takes an absolute AGE
so I am hand drawing all my patterns (aka, making a line drawing with a Sharpie of the best "version" of a piece I've made), then taking a photograph, then faffinf and eventually, trying them out on the cricut machine.
Also, the new kiln...oh dear lord. SO much SPACE in there.
I need to make something that is worthy of such a magnificent piece of kit. Eventually.