@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.

Q5: Christmas stuff is already in the shops, and some of us are making presents for friends and family. If you could give another maker a gift for Christmas, what would it be?
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Q4: If someone was starting out as a maker in your usual materials, is there a project you would recommend they start with, and why?
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I love the idea of the precision of about 9 stitches per inch. 😄

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@MakersHour #MakersHour A3: I do occasionally get excited about vintage knitting and sewing patterns. Nothing specific right now though.

That said, these days I'm mostly writing historical fantasy set in the equivalent of the Great Depression, and I think that counts.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A2: I think the most precise I've ever needed to be in my knitting was about 9 stitches per inch.

@MakersHour @quixoticgeek #MakersHour A1: next week, I'm hoping to have a day job again. My start date was technically yesterday, but I'm locked out of my corp account and nobody is answering my emails.

Q3: Chris from Clickspring has devoted the last 8 years to creating a replica of the Antikythera mechanism from ancient Greece. Is there an item from history you'd like to recreate?
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Q2: Today, we have access to incredibly precise measuring equipment, the accuracy of which our ancestors could only dream of. Do you make much use of precision in your making, or is to the nearest whatever is close enough?
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Q1: This week’s questions are from @quixoticgeek.
What are you hoping to do NEXT week? Share your plans and expectations.
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Here are the questions for Thursday 18th Sept, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1 This week’s questions are from @span quixoticgeek.
What are you hoping to do NEXT week? Share your plans and expectations.
Q2 Today we have access to incredibly precise measuring equipment the accuracy of which our ancestors could only dream of. Do you make much use of precision in your making, or is to the nearest whatever is close enough?
Q3 Chris from Clickspring has devoted the last 8 years to creating a replica of the Antikythera mechanism from ancient Greece. Is there an item from history you'd like to recreate?
Q4 If someone was starting out as a maker in your usual materials, is there a project you would recommend they start with, and why?
Q5 Christmas stuff is already in the shops, and some of us are making presents for friends and family. If you could give another maker a gift for Christmas, what would it be?

Here are the questions for Thursday 18th Sept, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1 This week’s questions are from @span quixoticgeek.
What are you hoping to do NEXT week? Share your plans and expectations.
Q2 Today we have access to incredibly precise measuring equipment the accuracy of which our ancestors could only dream of. Do you make much use of precision in your making, or is to the nearest whatever is close enough?
Q3 Chris from Clickspring has devoted the last 8 years to creating a replica of the Antikythera mechanism from ancient Greece. Is there an item from history you'd like to recreate?
Q4 If someone was starting out as a maker in your usual materials, is there a project you would recommend they start with, and why?
Q5 Christmas stuff is already in the shops, and some of us are making presents for friends and family. If you could give another maker a gift for Christmas, what would it be?

Inspired by one of the questions in this week's #MakersHour. We need to talk about decluttering and minimalism. Cos it's really pissing me off how utterly oblivious to their privilege those who push these are. Not to mention some of the issues relating to the way Minimalism has entered our built environment.

Thread time.

(This thread is not aimed at the lovely people of makersHour. Please be nice to them).

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@MakersHour #MakersHour A5: I'm a hoarder in the draconic sense. I don't regularly gather all of my yarn into a big pile to nap on, but I *could.*

Inspired by one of the questions in this week's #MakersHour. We need to talk about decluttering and minimalism. Cos it's really pissing me off how utterly oblivious to their privilege those who push these are. Not to mention some of the issues relating to the way Minimalism has entered our built environment.

Thread time.

(This thread is not aimed at the lovely people of makersHour. Please be nice to them).

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Q5: I’ve been meaning to clear out my workshop as it is very cluttered. How often do you get rid of things, or are you a hoarder?
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