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Too many project books already! Got a few on jewellery the other week to add to the pile.

Currently reading "ikigai", the Japanese philosophy of a fulfilled life. My life is certainly full!
I also read the first chapter of a book called something like "adhd is awesome", but that was weeks ago.

The biggest project in your life is probably you.

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The "black work" chapter head image of Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book, showing her running example worked according to the style of the chapter.

The original of the running example is from a 1590 oval miniature portrait by Isaac Oliver of the central figure, head to hips. reproduced on p.360 and elaborated by the author.

I tend to work "crewel" though with cotton rather than wool thread, but the black work example was clearest.

#MakersHour A5: I bought this "507 Mechanical Movements" book a little while ago, but haven't really explored it properly yet, it is interesting "food for thought" though... it was actually at the request/inspiration of my partner, who also likes mechanisms. I think I prefer books that inspire pondering over books that instruct me how to do a thing.

I'm a lover of books, but must admit that for most practical things I've moved on from them as a medium. I may regret this when our civilisation plunges into the new dark ages ahead... if I have time outside of scavenging for food and trying to stay alive for whatever brief period I survive the cataclysm.

Perhaps the books I desire most are the workshop manuals for cars from the time before they became computers with an engine and wheels. Give me an old Ford F-100, little 4.1 litre Cleaveland V8 in it, and a manual and time to tinker and I think I'd be happy :) [This was actually my first vehicle.]

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Q5: If you were going to buy a book, connected with your making, which book would you choose?
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Something with lots of good instructions for relatively small projects that felt do-able.

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe I guess? I'm a loom knitter and once my friend's mum who had an apoplex was upset because she loved knitting but couldn't use needles anymore. So we had a couple of zoom sessions where I let her watch me knit on various looms. I never said she should try herself, I just had her watch that it was possible with partly paralyzed hands. Eventually I learnt she had asked my friend to bring her 'such a thing'. So maybe I did convert her. #MakersHour

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe I've just finished the book series of Reacher. Except the last one. All of them as audiobooks for multiple reasons. Currently listening to Mercy of the Gods by the guy who wrote The Expanse. It's good. Fear the little feathery monkeys.

The last time I got a making book was the Dummy's Guide to C, which came with a compiler with no graphics library and enough errors that I contacted the author and got a new set of disks from them.
That was 25 years ago now! #makersHour

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I had a book on Japanese joinery once. It was like a tall pocket book and it showed each joint assembled, exploded, and the methods of marking and cutting.

I lent it to a friend and it never came back. The friend passed away and even his family clearing out his stuff never found it.

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe a book with lots of useful knitting stitches in it! I also have a weakness for vintage knitting books with photos of alarming looking knitwear! #MakersHour

@Indigoatcrafts @Maker_of_Things @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe Nope, nope, I've closed the file and not saved the changes. This is one of those little trivial rabbitholes designed to trip me up. Have this. No more. No. #makersHour

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A5: I probably already have that book. But I am fascinated by Japanese carpentry. I already bought a book about the building of the temples and wood joints. But you can never have enough of those. #MakersHour

A4: I feel like I've brought a few people into the maker world. Which isn't to say that they wouldn't have found it otherwise. Some stay, some move on to other things I guess...
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ha... "IF"... I've got lots of maker books, bought, gifted and sadly inherited. I love books.
IF I hing to buy a new one... I think the Scotsman might throw me out!

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A5 generally I have the books I want for the making I do. But I have recently been struggling to find "the engineers black book: metric edition" from somewhere that will ship to the Netherlands for an affordable price.

@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe In a way I'm doing it because I mainly work for audiences who have difficulties reading as far as writing is concerned these days. These people want literature, too. Other than that I'd like to invent (does that count as 'making'?)bthe museum tour that doesn't make workimg-class or low income people feel wrong at museums and then have this tour available at EVERY museum. #MakersHour

A3: There ar etoo many options I guess, but teaching people how to repair stuff or fix things around the home is such a lifechanger...
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