That was pretty much my first view of MY trailer that is MINE & that I can do what I want with. It was a BIT OVERWHELMING. I mean, though, also awesome! Also stacked behind a bunch of other trailers, on account of it was done a week ago & I didn’t get the voicemail …
Yes, this is both your cats & progress post for this week, on account of I’m picking up the trailer on Friday & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa But I finished up the worktable, complete with shelf & lumber storage, & LOOK AT IT, IT IS SO GOOD Also Major Tom likes it a lot. Here, he is saying …
Yesterday I picked up my new trailer. Today I did a bunch of measuring & planning & sketching & taking pictures & stuff. If I stick with my usual schedule of posting process posts only once a week, I’ll either be barely sketching out what I’m doing, or posting once a week well into 2023, …
I’ve spent most of the week working on what I’m calling ‘tinker’s wagon infrastructure’, or stuff that’s gonna make the build easier — from buying a bench vise to making cutting guides specifically tailored to work with my roommate’s circular saw, thus allowing me, for the first time in my life, to cut wood, or …
IT TURNS OUT that if you use right-angle thingers & clamps to hold your 2×2 pieces together, & then GLUE them into place, & ONLY THEN do you drill the pilot holes & put in the wood screws, it works a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
Specifically, the ‘putting spikes into each pole to loop ropes over’ part. Since I’d bragged on Twitter that I’d worked out a process, here it is!
 not that I’m remotely done with the sewing, mind you I think a lot of you are familiar with what my booth usually looks like. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the top picture is what I’ve been running with for the last several years. It’s a pretty standard wedge tent, with one …
I’ve got SO MUCH going on but I _am_ getting through it. Little by little. Check out my new banner! I am SO HAPPY with it. I’ve got to sew ties to the corners & it’s ready to go. Tent sewing continues. And continues. And continues. Plus I got to do custom soap for a …
… it’s been An Effort. Because: cats. Sometimes I can sew around them. Sometimes, not so much. … next time I’m getting HAMSTERS.