02 Dec 2025 4 min read december adventure

December Adventure Log

December Adventure was started by Eli_oat at Oatmeal. I love seeing what others do this month - here is a log of logs.

This December, I plan to make a generative quilt, play with origami, doodle some mossy mandalas, set up next year's journal, and who knows what else. This post is the log where I will update and share my adventure.

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Day-1

Pick a quilt

I have a jellyroll of 4-5 tones of fabric, which I hope to make a small quilt with. Using randomness and p5.js, I picked a quilt. There is both a random block generator and a random rotation pattern that I used to get this. I started the code last week and plan to clean it up to share over the month. There are a lot of features and options I'd like to add. My mom looked through the patterns with me, and we had fun looking at ones that sometimes seemed translucent, woven, or jittery.

Here is a snapshot:

Screenshot of jellyroll quilt UI with the chosen quilt and the block.

There is one block (and its reflection). The rotation pattern that wraps is 0 degrees, 0 degrees, then 270 degrees of the reflected block - so a 2:1 ratio of blocks.

A light vertical stripe, then a stripe with a black square and light grey strip, the a dark grey strip and lighter grey square, then a black strip

reversed block with the black stripe on the left and bright stripe on the right mid tones in the middle withsquares from the light and dark.

I am not sure how much fabric I have - because I haven't done the math yet, but I am happy with various sizes of the 0-0-270R pattern with these blocks. Here are some different sizes using that ratio/pattern.

A A7x8 quilt using the jellyroll pattern that almost makes a herringbone pattern.

I made three blocks tonight:

Three jellyroll blocks with fabric that has a mix of flowers, stars, plus signs, and mathematical curves. Two blocks are the same, the other is reflected.

Day-2

doodle-meditate + more blocks

Today I doodle-meditated and quilted 6 more blocks.

vortex doodle with ribbons wrapping around the tendrils - all slate blue tones. it is spinning clockwise. Digital art.

Day-3

Svelte Skeleton

Today I couldn't get my sliders to work right, but got some of the skeleton together for a generative quilt site to share my toys. I plan to put the jellyroll blocks there along with the Hilbert Quilts, Aperiodic Hexagonal colourings, truchet, hex-a-quilts, and more.

I didn't sew any quilt blocks today after work, but have some cut.

Day-4

Jelly Blocks

Today I quilted 3 blocks while hanging with Recurse Center friends. I got more of the jellyroll site working and deployed a draft of it at https://www.genquilt.com.

Day-5

Fix more of the site

Today I fixed the pdf export to not have transparency on export.

Day-6

Run then potato mode

I ran 11miles and thought about the quilt, my journal, and a generative slide program (where the essence of your slide deck is the same, but the colors, font, and visuals are procedural. After my run, I became a potato.

Day-7

More blocks, more pages

Today I quilted quite a few blocks - I lost count at 12. I now have 7x4=28, and I cut enough for one more row to make a 7x5.

7 columns and 4 rows of the jelly roll quilt block that shows the zig-zag stiars that are almost woven. many blocks have separations since they are just laid next to each other on a wooden table and not all sewn together.

Some are sewn together in pairs - and this is a horrible shot, but it was dark, and it gives the gist of it.

I also ported over the Half-Square Hilbert code from CodePen to the genquilt site and added a main page and some navigation. I am not fixed on the design, but will circle back to it later.

Screenshot of the Half-Square Hilbert page showing a hilbert curve similar quilt with white and dark blue-green half-square triangles and controls on the right to change the level and colors of the pattern or download it.

Day-8

mobile fixes

Worked on fixing the Hilbert quilt mobile view and download

Day-9

finished Hilbert page

Finished fixing the Hilbert quilt page. Helped with some Genuary site stuff.

Day-10

Tic-Tac-Toe

Played with tic-tac-toe code for a math session.

Day-11

Journal ideating

I played with what I really want for my experimental journal practice this coming year. I haven't settled on implementation, but I do know I am going back to daily Haiku.

Day-12

Make your own buttons

I made a prototype of a make-your-own buttons to use in math groups: https://inquiries.link/tools/number-theory/two-button-calculators

The default settings are meant to start thinking about the Collatz Conjecture. I hope to write up an activity soon.

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