Head's up, crafters!
Yarnspirations is turning pattern downloads into donation dollars.
https://www.yarnspirations.com/pages/download-to-give
“From June 16 to July 6, 2025, for every pattern you download, we’ll make a donation to Warm Up America, a nonprofit that shares warmth with those in need—one handmade piece at a time.”
@debbie @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe Totally agree with this aim. My resolution for the year was to finish at least one existing project for every new one I start this year. So far life has conspired to stall most efforts this year, but I hope things pick up for the second half of 2025. #MakersHour
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A5 dream project for 2025/2026?
daydream project: a quilt or pieced coat or vest
dream projects: a soft top short brim pieced hat; embellished needle books and project keepers.
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A3. Mashing up techniques for creativity? Sometimes I do theme and variations, like starting with the US postal code character "Mr. Zip" and adapting the design of hurried postal delivery person to carry a letter, or a holiday package with ribbon, or a "Ms. Zip" with longer hair and shorts.
Common starting points for me are often a simple bold or cute image, which I adapt or vary. Nautical alphabet flags, hazardous material placards, cartoon animals or humans.
Or a single pattern (a hat, a luggage tag) adapted in slight variations.
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A1. My projects are packed to travel, so other than occasional ironing and rarer rotary cutting and sewing machine work, the embroidery and hand piecing travels with me. Sometimes smaller working sets, sometimes larger.
Q5: What is your current dream project for 2025/26?
#MakersHour
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe I often take some form of electronics+coding project to play with when on holiday. Small and easy to pack but keeps me entertained when the family are watching TV or gone to bed when on holiday. #MakersHour
#MakersHour How’s it going? Oh, just designing a custom camera mount for my Voron 0.2 using @FreeCAD
#3dprinting
Q3: Some folks have one method for being creative, other's have many. What techniques or making methods would you like to ‘mashup’ into one project?
#MakersHour
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Q1: Hello Everyone! I am on holiday at the moment and away from my workspace. Are you still actively creating or making when away from home/work/your usual creative environment?
#MakersHour
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I won't be joining in with @MakersHour tonight. It has been a complicated and hectic day sorting out health issues for Mum while we are in Wales, too hot to think, and too much to have fitted in.
Hopefully you'll all have a great time and I will catch up later.
I won't be doing #MakersHour tonight. Have fun all of you who do!
Example of Game of Life with residual footprint and competing colours in my RGB animations library.
#MakerMonday #MakersHour #animation #coding #pimoroni #presto
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Q1: Hello Everyone! I am on holiday at the moment and away from my workspace. Are you still actively creating or making when away from home/work/your usual creative environment?
#MakersHour
Q2: It has been suggested that the making community is not as inclusive as it could be. Why do you think that is? How can it be more inclusive?
#MakersHour
Q3: Some folks have one method for being creative, others have many. What techniques or making methods would you like to ‘mashup’ into one project?
#MakersHour
Q4: Is there something that puts you off expanding your making or creative skills into other areas? Tell us about what limits you.
#MakersHour
Q5: What is your current dream project for 2025/26?
#MakersHour
Here are your questions for this week, Thursday 19th June, at 8pm UK time.
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Q1: Hello Everyone! I am on holiday at the moment and away from my workspace. Are you still actively creating or making when away from home/work/your usual creative environment?
#MakersHour
Q2: It has been suggested that the making community is not as inclusive as it could be. Why do you think that is? How can it be more inclusive?
#MakersHour
Q3: Some folks have one method for being creative, others have many. What techniques or making methods would you like to ‘mashup’ into one project?
#MakersHour
Q4: Is there something that puts you off expanding your making or creative skills into other areas? Tell us about what limits you.
#MakersHour
Q5: What is your current dream project for 2025/26?
#MakersHour
Next bit of work on the Titanic engine model. #Makershour #TitanicProject
Here are your questions for this week, Thursday 19th June, at 8pm UK time.
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@makershour@a.gup.pe
Q1: Hello Everyone! I am on holiday at the moment and away from my workspace. Are you still actively creating or making when away from home/work/your usual creative environment?
#MakersHour
Q2: It has been suggested that the making community is not as inclusive as it could be. Why do you think that is? How can it be more inclusive?
#MakersHour
Q3: Some folks have one method for being creative, others have many. What techniques or making methods would you like to ‘mashup’ into one project?
#MakersHour
Q4: Is there something that puts you off expanding your making or creative skills into other areas? Tell us about what limits you.
#MakersHour
Q5: What is your current dream project for 2025/26?
#MakersHour
Today I got up feeling a bit unwell,
A bad night's sleep with sweats and tummy cramps.
Went to the community workshop,
And managed to get the shelf unit finished.
Then weighed the lathe,
While waiting on a friend.
We tried to lift the lathe onto the bench,
But it was too heavy for two of us.
But on my own I built a timber gantry crane,
And hoisted it up quietly and unobserved.
Chatted online to a lovely friend,
It was nice being able to do that.
After watching the Police outside,
Went into work for the last caretaking before holidays.
Chatted with Mum,
And reminded her of our dates away.
Then joined in a very busy #MakersHour,
It was a lot of fun.
Tired out now,
But feeling a lot better.
Amser gwely,
#NosDa.
@Indigoatcrafts @Spark @wokstation @MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe
I am not sure where we'd find one of those around here!
@Janet_52square @MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe
And I am sure Mrs M does all her mixing by hand without recourse to one of those electric whizzy things.
