I’m in the middle of a dilemma. I like to post an article a week these days, so that people know I’m still working on stuff. Yet at the same time, some of my readers are also recipients of the things that I’m making. So, that’s no good. I can’t very well show what I’m working on, and give away the surprises meant for later in the season… right?
So what I need to do is give an update on what I’m working on, without giving away what I’m working on. And the best way to do that is to present areas of skills-development and talent-training.
Sewing/Tailoring
- Sewing machine cleaning, triage and repair
- Sewing straight seams
- Sewing curved seams
- Scaling patterns up and down
- Designing patterns from scratch
- Sewing multiple/thick layers of fabric together
- Quilting
Bookbinding & Graphic Design
- Panel Book Making
- Book of Secrets Making
- 11×17″ book layout & binding
- Coptic stitch binding
- Belgian secret binding
- 11×17″ book layout & binding (long-edge binding
Metalworking
- Brass soldering
- (still can’t do it. But have the tools, and can experiment)
- Wire sculpting
- Jigs and templates for soldering
Knitting
- Knit Stitch
- Perl Stitch
- Casting On (Long Tail)
- Casting Off
- Bamboo Stitch
- How to knit a lazy-8 scarf
Programming
- Progress on HTML/CSS
- Progress on JAvaScript
- Progress on Python
- Writing my own program using arrays, variables and counting processes
All in all, I’m making pretty good advances on the skills that I have, and that I’d like to have going forward. I still feel like electronics and robotics eludes me to a large extent. But I have other abilities that most Maker Spaces and Maker Programs don’t have.
