Q1: Hello fellow dishcloths*! Tell us what you’ve been doing this week.
*The new term of endearment for us all.
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@[email protected] I read that as "Hello dishcloths!" and wondered if that was a new term of endearment for us makers! 😂 #MakersHour
@MakersHour Evening all!
I've spent most of this week absorbing driving lesson videos with the full mega intensity of an autistic hyperfocus, so that's pretty much it and also my head hurts.
But I've made it onto the edging of my latest knitting project, and there's not much left to do, so maybe a finish by next week.
A1 Been working mostly on fixing the plumbing for the makerspace. By refactoring the existing plumbing, I've managed to make space for a sink for a new pottery area.
@quixoticgeek
Well done. Making space in a work area is always a good thing.
Hello all. What have I been doing this week? I've been so busy I can't remember...
I baked a cake or two, did more clearing out of stuff, and did a lot of peopling. It's been fun, but I'd like to stop for a bit please.
Diolch cariad.
Yeah, enforced stopping isn't so much fun. I hope you feel better soon.
But hey - you have walls!
When shall we have International Celebrate Your Walls day?
Fabulous.
@suearcher @Janet_52square
Yes, we could have ice cream!
The peopling was all pleasant, I must add. Just a lot of it.
Nothing much planned for the weekend, so hopefully we'll just get on with clearing, and have a bit of down time.
@MakersHour hello #MakersHour! Another semi-random afternoon appearance for me.
A1: This week, I've been making a new PCB design for #emfcamp, which I have finalized and sent off for fab along with a couple other boards I'm reordering.
And lots of other making projects that are creaking along. Hopefully some will move faster now that this task is cleared.
It's a ticking clock here to do outside projects before it gets scorching hot.
@Janet_52square @MakersHour I have that ambition, but as it's 3pm here (but normally 2pm because were in the 'twilight zone' between time changes), it's always a busy time.
Plans always spoil my good intentions.
@grajohnt
Oh those designs look really good.
Q1: Hello fellow dishcloths*! Tell us what you’ve been doing this week.
A1: Hello! Two things last weekend! Look at me doing stuff!
Attached: 2 images Finally got round to sorting out the stand for the railway clock I made. Not exactly how I planned it, but it works. You can’t see most of it anyway! #MakersHour #woodwork #metalwork #railway
@MakersHour hi, Maaike here. This week I've been doing largely the same as last week: stitching on my biro shirt for the 100 day project, knitting a sock (still the same sock). I also did a little weaving project for my textile art challenge, and some light embroidery.
By the way, in Dutch there's an expression 'weak as a dishcloth' for feeling under the weather, so this seems like a very appropriate term of endearment for some makers this week 🙂 I hope you all feel better soon!
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@Stratski
I have heard that socks take a lot of work and effort, so not surprised you are still on the same sock.
@Janet_52square @Stratski @MakersHour
Yes, I like that expression too.
I think a lot of us feel a bit wrung out at the moment too!
@MakersHour *waves* sorry... Kevin here, running a bit late :)
I've been playing with LED matrices again this week.
Now I'm going to speed read what other people have been up to!
@diyelectromusic
OK, Just sit at the back of the class until you know where we're all up to, then join in when you're ready.
@diyelectromusic
I was always a front seat near the teacher swat.
In hindsight it was also because I couldn't hear the teacher over the noise of the class, nor see with all the visual distractions.
@drfootleg
Sometimes, having your workspace completey emptied is a great way to reassess what you really need in there, and where.
A fresh start to it all.
Good luck with it.
@drfootleg
I am gratefully waiting for your set of questions, when you have them ready.
Thank you.
@iris
Yay, well done, intern!
@MakersHour A1. I keep being tempted to go back to dishcloths! Because embroidering a corner is an easy portable project.
But in this very spring weather week I've been trying to restart my newsboy cap pattern from Sachi's Studio.
Q1: Hello fellow dishcloths*! Tell us what you’ve been doing this week.
Outside of the usual seasonally seedling raising (soooo many chillies) and food making: mainly car fettling... finally put in the big order for parts to replace all the suspension, the drive shafts, and other related ancillaries.
I am basically making a car, or as @ahnlak put it: The Car of Theseus.
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