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Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality? #MakersHour
Nov 13 at 8:12pmWeb
Show threadQuixoticgeekNov 13

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A2 only in so far as everything we make has a part of ourselves in it. I think once I'm upto the point where I can make bigger furniture items, then more of my ideas on design and aesthetics will start to become apparent. Hopefully. For now, there's a definite utilitarianess to many of my makes, as I'm largely making tools to make the things I want to make. Bootstrapping is hard.

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Show threadRopeyNov 13
@MakersHour A2 #makershour I was already to give up on my #makeroftrees project but I've seen the error of my ways so it's back on. Plus I got out of bed at 3 in the morning to write an idea down about a week ago.
My question to me though "have you actually progressed any in the years since you 1st wrote this question?" 🙈🙊
Show threadThe Oracle WokStationNov 13
@MakersHour I think anything someone makes reflects their personality in some way, it's just how it works. Other than that? No. #makersHour
Show threadSue ArcherNov 13

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Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality? #MakersHour

I think they reflect my taste at least. I don't tend to make a thing I wouldn't like. My dolls house was furnished with items I'd probably choose to have in my own home one day.

Show threadRopeyNov 13
@suearcher @MakersHour I now only own houses for small folk. It would be nice to own the one where I live but my thyroid blew that
Show threadAndyNov 13

Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality?

A2: I think everything we make has something of us in it. My love of Star Trek has inspired many of my makes. I’ve made things out of old motorbike parts. Music led to my record player project. I work in the rail industry and I’m fascinated by old railway engineering, especially signalling.

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Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Nov 13

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Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality?

A2. As a person whose dress style was once described as "low-key cosplay" and whose makes are maybe half wearables, yes.

One of my first embroidery projects, still notionally ongoing, is my story coat which includes decorations recording donations of blood and bone marrow, Edward Lear's Owl and Pussycat in a boat, cuff designs from Principia Discordia, and pine and oak shoulder patch designs as trees I like.

A more recent make: Cascadia flag embroidered and pieced felt decorative tag for my hatband.

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Show threadMakersHourQuestionsNov 13

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That is quite a project, to include so much.

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Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Nov 13

@MakersHour It has the virtue of a coat being big enough to do more than one thing with, and I have the virtue of being easily pleased with my own work.

Except edge binding. Must do better.

and I would have to say that to Q2 / A2, #PixieReport my digital re-make of Tamsin Bowles' Weatherpixie, inherits autobiography via selfie from the original.

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Show threadIris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Nov 13
@jmeowmeow @MakersHour memorable way to be described! (you should be proud)
Show threadRopeyNov 13
@jmeowmeow @MakersHour what a great idea. I like the idea of stories and memories on textiles. I once made a baby quilt out of patches of all the babygrows and tops of a little boy's 1st year for a fr. Huge responsibility but it worked out well
Show threadFirehorseart Lives!Nov 13

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My drawings and sketches are usually from life, so they reflect my energy levels, where I've been and what I've enjoyed seeing.

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Show threadMaaikeNov 13
@MakersHour oh, definitely! They all come from my head after all. I guess the most literal autobiographical one at the moment is my kawandi quilt blanket, made from leftovers from all kinds of garments I've made for myself.
Show threadRopeyNov 13
@Stratski @MakersHour how wonderful
Show threadDr Footleg (he/him)Nov 13
@MakersHour A2: Do my makes reflect aspects of me? Well I suppose they are generally technical and gadgety in nature, so yes! I do a lot of electronics, CAD and robot designs. Also LED interactive games. #MakersHour