The holiday busyness made me defer all my projects that I had been thinking about. So I have been working on a lot of things, the past couple of weeks.
First, I redid the lampshade for my floor lamp, which was starting to fall apart. I took off the trim and fabric, retaped the [...]
My wooden drying racks have been getting beaten-down and broken and jumped-on; some of them were that way when I got them. This morning I have been playing rack mechanic–which is challenging when StrongBaby wants to grab at everything that I’m working on.
Mostly the breaks happen when the connecting tenons split and [...]
I hadn’t done a major rearrangement of the living room furniture for about eighteen months (longer than I have lived in many apartments), because I had optimized the arrangement already, and the whole system was basically over-constrained. I tried various things out with my graph paper and furniture templates, and confirmed it.
A [...]
I was looking through a catalog and saw a battery-powered LED candle, and thought, “Oh, I could make one of those…”. Then I thought of making it solar-powered instead…. Then I realized I had nearly all the parts on hand, in the form of a cheap solar-powered yard light: a little solar [...]
So, after making two prototype T-shirts to test and adjust my custom pattern, I took one of my own shirts and cut it down, then re-sewed it. Actually, I did most of the sewing by hand on the playground while StrongBaby crawled around and filled his clothes with sand. There is really not [...]
From Craftzine.com:
One Project You Are Particularly Proud Of
Two Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past
Three Things That Make Your Work Unique
Four Tools You Love to Use
Five Inspirations
One: I am particularly proud that I am now able to dress myself entirely in things that I have made or modified myself.
Two mistakes: Handsewing things to my [...]
Having discovered that I have no shirts that fit well, I am making myself a T-shirt pattern. If one of my shirts had been close, I would have drawn up a pattern from it. But this time I started with my own measurements and sketches. It is simpler to do than to [...]
I’ve been slowly doing a systematic decluttering and de-thugging*, starting in the bedroom. I found several of my shirts that I had forgotten about entirely. Tried on all of my T-shirts and decided that none of them really fit me well, so I plan to make myself a custom pattern. MFH has [...]
MFH is beginning to roll out his Stella Amp guitar amplifier kit, and he is teaching a class on it tomorrow night at the Hack Factory. I haven’t said anything about his Stella amplifier before, but it’s a great little amplifier, and a great kit to start out building your own amplifiers with, even [...]
Lulu recently announced their new ePub converter. To my surprise, I discovered that they had already converted and listed my book as an ePub, not only on Lulu, but in the iBookstore as well.
Back when I was getting it listed on Amazon, I looked into also making it available as an eBook (beyond the [...]