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Here are your questions for this week, Thursday 10th April, at 8pm UK time.

Questions will be Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.

Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses, and also use the #MakersHour tag, if you are taking part.
Thank you.
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Q1: Hello, tell us how you are today, and what your ‘next big thing’ is for your next project, or the project you’d like to do next.

Q2: Tell us about your first successful creation, the first one that worked out as planned, or as close as planned.

Q3: What project have you had ‘on the back burner’ for so long that it might as well never happen (but still might)?

Q4: As a child, was there a thing you really wanted to make, but couldn’t as you were just a child? Could you make that thing now? What's stopping you if you still can’t?

Q5: Given a single use time machine, 1 foot/305mm cube, to send an object you have created into your own past or future, what would you send, why that thing, and to when?

Here are your questions for this week, Thursday 10th April, at 8pm UK time.

Questions will be Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.

Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses, and also use the #MakersHour tag, if you are taking part.
Thank you.
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Q1: Hello, tell us how you are today, and what your ‘next big thing’ is for your next project, or the project you’d like to do next.

Q2: Tell us about your first successful creation, the first one that worked out as planned, or as close as planned.

Q3: What project have you had ‘on the back burner’ for so long that it might as well never happen (but still might)?

Q4: As a child, was there a thing you really wanted to make, but couldn’t as you were just a child? Could you make that thing now? What's stopping you if you still can’t?

Q5: Given a single use time machine, 1 foot/305mm cube, to send an object you have created into your own past or future, what would you send, why that thing, and to when?

Here are your questions for this week, Thursday 10th April, at 8pm UK time.

Questions will be Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.

Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses, and also use the #MakersHour tag, if you are taking part.
Thank you.
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Q1: Hello, tell us how you are today, and what your ‘next big thing’ is for your next project, or the project you’d like to do next.

Q2: Tell us about your first successful creation, the first one that worked out as planned, or as close as planned.

Q3: What project have you had ‘on the back burner’ for so long that it might as well never happen (but still might)?

Q4: As a child, was there a thing you really wanted to make, but couldn’t as you were just a child? Could you make that thing now? What's stopping you if you still can’t?

Q5: Given a single use time machine, 1 foot/305mm cube, to send an object you have created into your own past or future, what would you send, why that thing, and to when?

#GoodMorningWorlds
I have just done the #MakersHour questions for this week. Due to having my laptop worked on I was a bit too busy over the weekend to do it, so all done on the (Marty Mc)Fly this week. You'll be able to tell I am currently reading the 'Back To The Future' series of books. 😉

I am off to a medical centre this morning to have a CT scan.
I am assuming it will not show up anything of concern.

What I do the rest of the day will depend on how I feel afterwards, and if I just want to run away, or sleep, or something.

I do need to do some miniaturing for this diorama, though.

Hello, and welcome to #MakersHour.

Five questions will be presented at 12 minute intervals between 8pm and 9pm on Thursday evenings each week, UK time.
It us a great opportunity for sharing and discussion with ither makers and creative folks, even if you don't wish to respond to the questions set.

The questions will be listed in advance each morning from Monday to Thursday at 10am UK time for advanced consideration and preparation.

Please use the # tag #MakersHour, and also tag this account, @MakersHour, and also @makershour@a.gup.pe, the boost bot, in your responses.

We are always looking for new questions encompassing #Making, #Crafting, #Creativity, etc. and you can submit yours using the # tag #MakersHourBank.

Thank you.

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A5: Firstly, I would probably do a little dance because I still feel like a total fraud most of the time but I would suggest to start slow. My projects are becoming more and more “multi-disciplined” and I built these skills up over the past 15 plus years so probably best not to jump straight in. Maybe buy some kits or follow some really well documented guides online. I made a lot of mistakes along the way!

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A2: For me, it’s the world of Movies. I’m obsessed with recreating movie Robots (lots of StarWars but also many other franchises). I think though, I’m also very inspired by folks on YouTube. Often I will see a maker do their thing and I’ll see a technique or something and it’ll set off a little spark that later connects with an unrelated spark and that becomes an idea! #makershour

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A1: I’m currently wrapping up a three-month project to create an awesome 7-segment display for my office, then this weekend I am moving on to literally making a “maker table” (well, more of a workbench for my home office so that I can finally separate work and fun and not have to keep putting my projects away and also massively increase my storage capacity! #makershour

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe

A5. Suggestions and cautionary advice for learning my craft techniques.

Suggestions: find instructions which are really readable tutorials for a small simple project. Videos may be helpful. Otherwise your public library branch is a good resource. Use crafting supply thrift stores if you have them locally, or try visible mending for material and projects you mostly have in hand.

Cautionary note: if you sew on the bus, have a care to stow currently needed loose articles in a mesh bag or similar, an easy staging area, so that a bump will not send them flying when you were trying to use them.

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe

A1. As I approach the finish line for my whimsically embroidered fruit picker characters tea towel, top of my list is what to do next as commute bus needlework.

edit: who am I? Jeff, portable project needleworker in the US Pacific Northwest.

Maybe a zipper pull ornament or a pieced appliqué decoration for my project bag or a new series of felt appliqué patches or tags like "B for Balloons" with the red double tailed nautical alphabet flag for "B".