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Q1: Hi, what have you been up to this week? Did things go as expected with your making or were there surprises, good or bad?

I've started a scarf and finished a set of grip covers. I don't have enough of the red yarn.

I accidently founded The Club Of Silent Subway Knitters. If you have to take a certain line twice a week and are restricted on where to sit due to a mobility aid you notice things. My 'companion' uses needles though, she's making a thing for the grandkid.
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Q1: Hi, what have you been up to this week? Did things go as expected with your making or were there surprises, good or bad?

I've started a scarf and finished a set of grip covers. I don't have enough of the red yarn.

I accidently founded The Club Of Silent Subway Knitters. If you have to take a certain line twice a week and are restricted on where to sit due to a mobility aid you notice things. My 'companion' uses needles though, she's making a thing for the grandkid.
#MakersHour

Here are the questions for Thursday 25th Sept, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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Thank you.

Q1: Hello, Tell us your maker nick name or alter ego? Or one you might like to adopt?
Also, last week we asked what you would do this week. Did you achieve that?
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Q2: You are allowed one tiny bit of help in the form of a miracle, magic, or sci-fi technology to kick start a fantasy project. What’s the project and how are you helped?
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Q3: Thinking back to a childhood fancy dress party, with all your current creative skills, what would your fancy dress be?
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Q4: None of us are getting younger. Do you foresee a time when you decide your current making is too much, and change or stop it? Or will you try to carry it on forever?
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Q5: Speaking of the future, what would you predict could be a notable change in your craft that may happen in 100 years time?
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Before I give up on it, does anyone have a schematic for a subzero SZPA-P88 PA system? Usual places have drawn a blank, and I suspect it’s not available anywhere. #makershour #maker #repaircafe #repairs #fix #electronics #paSystem #UK

@MakersHour Optimistic view: after decades of declining quality of mass produced stuff, people gain a new appreciation for skilled artisans and good materials and are willing to pay a fair price for nice things.
Pessimistic view: [redacted for being too depressing] Let's just focus on getting to the optimistic one.
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Q5: Speaking of the future, what would you predict could be a notable change in your craft that may happen in 100 years time?
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@MakersHour #MakersHour A4: I am going to keep knitting and writing until those things become physically or psychologically impossible.

Q4: None of us are getting younger. Do you foresee a time when you decide your current making is too much, and change or stop it? Or will you try to carry it on forever?
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@MakersHour #MakersHour A3: I want to reknit the Seventh Doctor sweater vest I made in college. The original is Red Heart Super Saver, very inefficiently made because I didn't know how to do stranded colorwork, and doesn't fit anymore even after top surgery.

It's on my long term to-knit list.

Q3: Thinking back to a childhood fancy dress party, with all your current creative skills, what would your fancy dress be?
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Q2: You are allowed one tiny bit of help in the form of a miracle, magic, or sci-fi technology to kick start a fantasy project. What’s the project and how are you helped?

A2: I’m going to go with Star Trek Replicator, but for tools only. So when you need a Left-Handed Screwdriver for one job, you can replicate it, use it and then recycle it back into the replicator so you can then replicate a Fluorescent Tube Bender for the next job!

It would save me a fortune in buying tools!

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@MakersHour #MakersHour A2: my fantasy project is finishing my novel. The miracle would be having energy, motivation, and free time simultaneously and for long enough.

Q2: You are allowed one tiny bit of help in the form of a miracle, magic, or sci-fi technology to kick start a fantasy project. What’s the project and how are you helped?
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Q1.Hello, Tell us your maker nick name or alter ego? Or one you might like to adopt?
Also, last week we asked what you would do this week. Did you achieve that?

A1. I don't really have one? Although someone described my personal style as "low-key cosplay" so that might point toward an alter ego or nickname.

I started binding the Tiny Sewing Kit, so that would be a "yes".

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@MakersHour #MakersHour A1: Hi, I'm the Wizard of Docs *points to username*

and no, I didn't get to start my day job yet because Google are cowards, but at least I cast on @Canageek 's sweater!

Q1: Hello, Tell us your maker nick name or alter ego? Or one you might like to adopt?
Also, last week we asked what you would do this week. Did you achieve that?
#MakersHour

Before I give up on it, does anyone have a schematic for a subzero SZPA-P88 PA system? Usual places have drawn a blank, and I suspect it’s not available anywhere. #makershour #maker #repaircafe #repairs #fix #electronics #paSystem #UK

Here are the questions for Thursday 25th Sept, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Hello, Tell us your maker nick name or alter ego? Or one you might like to adopt?
Also, last week we asked what you would do this week. Did you achieve that?
#MakersHour

Q2: You are allowed one tiny bit of help in the form of a miracle, magic, or sci-fi technology to kick start a fantasy project. What’s the project and how are you helped?
#MakersHour

Q3: Thinking back to a childhood fancy dress party, with all your current creative skills, what would your fancy dress be?
#MakersHour

Q4: None of us are getting younger. Do you foresee a time when you decide your current making is too much, and change or stop it? Or will you try to carry it on forever?
#MakersHour

Q5: Speaking of the future, what would you predict could be a notable change in your craft that may happen in 100 years time?
#makershour

@MakersHour #MakersHour A5: Yarn store gift card, if we're both knitters, unless I know their yarn and needle preferences well enough to pick something.

If they're not a knitter, I'll offer to make them something small that I think fits their style, and then the rest is negotiation.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A4: just make squares. Cast on about 20 stitches, work in garter till it's roughly square, bind off. If you want to keep going when you're done the square, turn it into a scarf instead. If you get really excited about squares, make one every day and you'll have enough for a blanket in a couple months. If not, well, now you know.

But either way, you now have a coaster or a trivet, and the satisfaction of finishing a project.