Been sleeping late and today I woke up just before 0800. Last night was peaceful too. I barely coughed at all and I was only entered in one toilet trot race. I coughed off an on all day but nowhere…

I was going to prepare the layers of a small quilt for basting on my large table in the basement when I remembered I still needed to trim this 16 patch quilt. I didn't look for binding fabric yet.…

Following the success of Simon’s Collingwood appearance at the The Fareham RailEx show earlier this month which included being awarded ‘Best layout in Show’ , Collingwood and its…

Early in the development of Paxton Road there were decisions to make about arrangement of structures… In the original concept the cement silo was to be placed at the rear, as per the inspiration,…

My weekend project was to fix a leaky valve and a leaky connection for the irrigation system at my house. In the ten years I’ve lived here, I’ve replaced just about every sprinkler and a bunch of…

Why I Decided to Upgrade My C10 Cooling System Last summer, while driving my truck to car meets, I noticed it was getting fairly warm when we were moving very... The post Budget C10 Electric Fan…

🛠️ The Year is 1999. Meerendal Wine Estate. If you clean out your old desktop folders long enough, you occasionally stumble across absolute gold. The photo above takes me straight back to the winter…

A human with calipers and an agent with a CAD script put four printable parts online in eight days. Every mistake between them was a stand-in that crossed the gap in place of the real thing.

Picked up a few Wild West bits at the last Sandown Park shenanigans, nothing rare or valuable, but always things of interest, grist to the mill, gap fillers and collection enhancers/improvers - so…

hmm....... Made it to the shop late and I was determined to make something. Even if it was something I didn't need. On the flip side I just had the desire to work with my hands and have something to…

The leakage comes through the air vent holes

So this happened yesterday. Today they're going to do the big assembly for the deck. A lot more work to do, and I'm unsure how it's all going to get done. But the beat goes on... ✍️ Reply by email…

I cut light triangles from Marcia Derse fabrics for my night sewing. <img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="2300" height="246"…

Once the tiling was finished, I took a bit of a break for the summer before starting on the walls. The walls are multi-layered and my main concern was getting the building water tight before winter…

combatdavey built your hotrod

Hinagiku Hat Winter is coming and I desperately need a new hat. My previous beret was a bit small already and it&rsquo;s shrink quite a bit, I&rsquo;m sure I can pull it back by blocking it in a…

Hello, sweet friends! I saw that the Pink & Main monthly challenge and Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge were BOTH Halloween themed so I thought I would make something to join in the fun! Two birds with…

But am hitting the silk floral department often. Never cared for exterior decor that wasn't natural, but these branches (three different) caught my eye. I'll add a few bare craggy branches to this.…

Recently, the remote control for my Media Player developed a fault. I was watching a film, when for no apparent reasons, the video jumped ahead about twenty minutes and then get stuck in a playback…

APC EA200 OVA: Here's a guitar that I picked up dirt cheap on eBay a few years ago. It needed some work. It's hand made and a rare, in their range, steel strung guitar from APC Luthiers in Portugal.…

Good Morning Quilters! This week I worked on making more blocks for the Old Mill Pond quilt pattern. There are 18 blocks in this quilt and several outer borders. I put the blocks I have (15) on the…

When it comes to input devices, I do have my preferences. For many years, I&#8217;ve been using Logitech M650 mice for many reasons, the main one being is that they have silent keys. The main…

Living in a rural area there are often broken down vehicles that end up on the side of the road for a couple days at a time, and especially as the autumn days get shorter, they can pose a bit of a…

It&amp;rsquo;s finally time to start building up the Zipp! Before assembly I had to figure out how to stuff a 1 1/8&amp;quot; disc fork into a frame with a 1&amp;quot; head tube. The steerer does…

Posted 13 October 2026 While working on my new &#8216;vision-enhanced&#8217; robot project, it became apparent the the OAK-D Lite camera was not the best tool for handling a &#8216;stuck&#8217;…

Yarn: Circulo Anne Weaving Yarn . 3 towels. Woven area roughly 12"x24". Hemstitched.

The Jackalope I have is a prototype. Its hinge, jackshaft and fold are magnificent. Other aspects need to change, to improve efficiency (external derailleur instead of Rohloff internal gear hub),…

I wanted a lid for my shop espresso jar, so I machined one from billet 6061 aluminum. JarMagic is a small project made for everyday use around the CL MotoTech machine shop. Continue reading &#8594;

Computer-Casa: Making a Human-size computer case Description ≤500 words Nr. attendees Tech skills requirement Duration Tech requirement Knitting Our Internet Description ≤500 words Nr. attendees Tech…

🧩 I built a LEGO Jimothy! I used the 3-in-1 Forest Animals: Gray Wolf set (#31393) and the excellent Jimothy instructions by Psych0ticsl0th on Rebrickable (thanks for reminding me that exists,…

This video is all about making the neck blank from some very special Cuban mahogany. Also, I set myself the challenge of making a head inlay to match the mandolin’s rosette as seen here - Cheers Gary

In which the author, faced with a wet October and a wall he refuses to put a screen on, borrows a colleague&rsquo;s good idea and builds a Heath Robinson machine to answer one question twice a day.

No I'm not trying to relieve the 80's with bad pop songs, but finishing my sons Ork Killteam. Today is the turn of the Boyz, which make up the bulk of the squad, the first set are the special weapons…

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party! Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, or pumpkin spice latte to enjoy while visiting the blogs of stitchers around the world. It's so inspiring to see what…

And a few more photos of the rest&#8230;.. Swillybegs (O-21) is an exhibition regular, but always worth another looks as a lovely model of a slice of County Donegal. Loughborough Midland (OO).…

View on YouTube or Instagram I got these vintage accordion reeds from ebay ages ago. They have been sitting on my shelf for over a year. I&rsquo;ve calculated that they have gained as much as 1% more…

Orbits Sweater Weighted the 4 bobbins: pink-red: 2.5g lilac: 2.4g medium purple: 2.4g dark purple: 2.9g blue: not counted - colourwork should end here

Now that I&rsquo;ve gotten some use out of them, I thought it might be interesting for me to review some of the tools I&rsquo;ve made and &ldquo;hacks&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve tried. Let&rsquo;s start with…

This is an updated version to carry larger and more wet images or oil pastel art works. You&#8217;ll need: Craft knife ​Flat Tacks Packing tape Cardboard Pizza Box Corks or Water Bottle Caps The post…

How much chainsaw do you really need? For the majority of us who aren&#8217;t in the bush every day and don&#8217;t use a chainsaw as an extension of their hands, I&#8217;d say less than you might…

Both tuck and slip stitch designs that repeat selections for 2 rows, whether for electronic or punchcard machines, as published or doubled in height if needed after conversion to PNGs, can be used to…

I’ve never liked the idea of giving my instruments a name other than one that describes it, i.e. parlour guitar, twin-point mandolin etc. Clearly, the different instruments must have some means of…

POM (Delrin) is the gear plastic in consumer robot vacuums, and notoriously hard to 3D print. Here is how I print it reliably: two sacrificial PETG layers first, then POM.

how and why to print a 2D stencil on a 3D printer

I finished although a bit rough around the edges the warband for the upcoming inq28 event the ruinations at Blacksands Monastery. Radical Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Darthur (a former interrogator of…

The annual Winnipeg model train show was on this past weekend. I made my pilgrimage, stopping to see a few 1:1 scale trains first.

My attempt at buying a dream car and making it road-worthy again.

View on Ravelry Pattern: Lyon Sweater by PetiteKnit Yarn: Knit Picks Swish Worsted Colorway: Nutmeg Heather & Lost Lake Heather Started: 8 February 2026 Finished: 16 October 2026 I finally finished…