Wow! They are very beautiful bowls colonedan!
I am impressed!!!..
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One of these days you’ll need to tell me what you charge for those. I super want one
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I finished spinning this spindle of fiber I was working on at one of our recent Fiberfrolics in Creative Arts. Finally. It’s many hours of work.
(The gory details…) 
It’s a blend of silk and yak down (the fluffy braid on right) spun on this 10" Tibetan-style support spindle I got for Christmas. Support spindles rest their tips in a dish when spinning, versus being suspended. It’s good for delicate fibers or ones being very finely spun because the spindle is very fast building twist.
It was both reasons in this case. The spinning method this spindle needs lets the fiber spin very fine yet capture the soft fluffy nature versus compressing it like another method/tool would.
Incidentally, the pottery dish is one I made ages ago then did raku with it. It’s been languishing in a shelf and I’m happy to have it in use for this. Most of my other support spindles have metal tips (this one is all wood) and I worried how the raku would wear. Now I can use it. Yay.
This yarn I made is kinda between sewing and quilting thread size. The spindle-full you see represents a good part of a weekend binge-watching a series, quite a few evenings, and some fiberfrolicking at DMS. So, quite a few hours. But it’ll be a goodly amount of yardage once I get the rest of the fiber spun (probably two more spindles). This yarn I made is kinda between sewing and quilting thread size. I’m probably going to weave with it. Not sure what it’s going to grow up to be yet, but likely a scarf since it’s crazy soft. It’ll be a special project.
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I made a couple of drill bit sorting gauges for the makerspace, using some of the acrylic the @Hardsuit donated.
To use, slip a bit into the slot and slide to the left until the bit stops, then read the size off the scale at the bottom.
I made three: one for the wood shop, one for the general workshop area, and one for me to take home.
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really cool, nice work.
Made Orange essential oil, it came out really good and strong. Used about 6 large oranges’ peel to get roughly a tablespoon of oil.
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Just for the record, there is an Empty Bowls project here in Dallas. Most of the contributions for pottery although I donated Glass at one point. When I checked https://www.ntfb.org/get-involved/events-campaigns/empty-bowls it is March 2 and in a new location.
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That’s absolutely beautiful. Is that its final color? I hope so because I adore it.
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Re final color of yarn
It’ll blend slightly more when I ply it. Then it can blend slightly more depending on next project. Kind of get more heathery. Not planning on dyeing it though.
Knit/crochet would blend more, plus any texture introduced.
Weaving, it depends on what else i pair it with for warp/weft. Close color value and texture of pattern would be more subtle. Or I can go with darker contrasting value to make it pop. I’m thinking if I did that, then probably I would dye some silk a dark dark brown picking up the dark notes of the yak down.
The other option to go with it is I have some raw buffalo fiber (they shed and industrious lady I got it from has a neighbor that let her glean his pasture). I have to separate it (they have five distinctly different types of fibers in their coats) plus get the grass out of it and wash it, then spin the downy undercoat part and see if it’s enough…
Weaving, maybe a nice scarf for my husband. I’ve been thinking about adapting the opening music score of Barber’s Adagio (his fave) into a music draft and using that as a basis for the pattern (doesn’t literally look like music, but rather the music is sorta converted like math into a weaving pattern, but the genesis of the music to textile is there). Gotta play around with that to see if it will do what I want…
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This is fantastic. Any chance you might share design so I could cut one for my home workshop?
I haven’t had a lot of time recently to work on projects but I did manage to finish a game prop with only a day to spare a little while ago. I needed an otherwise innocuous case that opened up to be a portable altar/workstation for a modern day, progressive voodoo practitioner. Big thanks to @mreynolds for the sweet penmanship on my favorite item in the whole case, individually labeled vials of graveyard dirt!
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Very cool.
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I was excited to be a part of a crazy awesome project! Looks amazing
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Ok that’s just awesome! All the neat bits. But now we REALLY need more story on this project. Too cool.
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That is probably the coolest prop I’ve ever seen. 
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My son used Makerspace tools to design and create his first pinewood derby car. I tried to “guide” a bit of the design by my sons iron-will ruled and I truly was only the cutter and holder as he hammered. 100% his design not a bit of my own messing.
Today, at his banquet, we found out he came in 3rd place - which I honestly consider first because “parent fingerprints” were all over the other cars. Couldn’t be prouder. Look at his lovely grin. Thank you guys for making the pathway for success for so many people and projects.
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