#beginner project

[taymustlearn]

After so many years of knowing how to crochet but never actually making anything wearable, my first beanie :). I started it yesterday after finding some yarn that I love and even though it's a bit wonky it'll still keep my head nice and toasty.

[lt-sarai]

I made hat today

[anielskaaniela]

small sewing projects for gifts

In this post I show you how to sew 6 absolute beginner sewing projects for gifts or sell. Sewing is a wonderful hobby that can also be a great way to make personalized gifts for your loved ones. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, there are many small sewing projects that you can create in a short time and with minimal materials. In this post, I will share with you some ideas for small…

[creativespot123]

Poll vote Result: Stepper Motor

Thank you all for voting on the poll, as of today I find the Stepper Motor to be the one which was the winner.

Okay so I have a few ideas, not going to poll them because I want to do the zany one first, then I'll move on to the more grounded and harder one.

Henry is a two-armed robot which will move along the ground using a set of arms connected to a servo, turning on and off with the press of a button, using a sort of crank shaft mechanism which moves both arms simultaneously.

The second is a locking mechanism which will work on a clock, which will be elaborated on in a different post.

For now, let me introduce: Henry the Crawler, this is a fairly basic idea which I plan to expand on with real blueprints later.

The idea is that I will be using an Arduino nano, connected to a breadboard which gives commands to a single stepper motor to make two arms throw itself forward.

The Single stepper motor will interact with the two arms via an axle, similar to a wind-up machine, only instead of a key there is a microcontroller and a button to turn it off and on.

Now I understand that there are issues with Henry, but I think he will be hilarious.

Now I thought the best way to do this would be to use the basic wind up mechanics for the actual moving parts in this robot. Doing this out of cardboard will be difficult but it seems like it is simple enough to build, just time consuming. As for the rod part I was able to ask a roommate for bamboo sticks to add onto it, so shout out to roommate for that.

As for the winder, spring and gear part of the components, I want to use one of the 28BYJ-48 5v dc stepper motors so as to make sure it is only one part which might be able to turn the beast on and off. I'll post more with the bread board and jumper wires later on.

Though not specified in the picture, I think arms with tendons in the actual moving parts might be kind of useless, and it is beyond my knowledge to be able to make them more utilized. I will likely keep the idea around for further projects.

[mimikyuno]

Nothing about how I feel about you has changed.

i wasn't gonna post this part of the chapter bc it was too long but. i truly cannot stop thinking about it. im unwell.

dabbled in translating and it was fun!! this was translated and edited by me and pls do not repost this, at least until the event is over!! thank you!

[just-a-sketchbook]

First Quilt!

It has been a lot of fun and a lot of trial and error but it's done!!!

It's roughly 1.20 x 1.20m (which is a number of feet I can't be bothered to look up but let's say it's about child sized and it'll be great to chill on the couch).

I want to thank @langdon813 who I've never talked to (sorry if you hate being tagged) but whose gorgeous Drunkard path quilts made me wanna do it too :)

I had never done any quilting before (but I did sew), so here's what I've learned, if any beginner is interested in jumping off the deep end the way I did and wants advice from someone who has freshly acquired experience but will also not use any confusing technical terms (with pictures!) :

Fabric picking : so most advice I read was to go for pre-selected bundles of fabric that already go together, but I'm contrary and like to do my own thing so I used wax fabric (the blue ones on top the pile) I had laying around, which I strongly recommend: it's very easy to cut due to it being waxed, and I added a few fat squares from the shop, plus I also had the orange and blue floral and I based the coulour scheme on it. One thing that's true is it would have been easier to work with fabric of the same thickness, and the floral was givne to me by my ma who got in on trip to Thailand and it was alot thinner than the rest which didn't help.

Cutting: I got a rotary cutter for the occasion and it's great! Do not maybe push too hard on it and give yourself nerve damage the way I did (temporary but still), it's actually ery sharp and easy to use, so long as your template doesn't slip you're fine

Piecing :Yes you can do curved piecing even if you have zero experience, you just gotta make a template and

pin it a lot.

1/4 inch margins is the standard so I rolled with it because I don't like converting, but when you're strictly metric it is kind of annoying but doable because my machine does have a 1/4 inch mark and if you stick a length of tape along it it's pretty easy to follow, even for curved piecing.

Layout: At some point you've got to decide the layout is done, because I've re-arranged the blocks at least 6 times and it's a very good way to go insane. (For rough reference, my plan was to have no repeat fabrics in any of the circle-in-a-square blocks, and I only made one mistake which I clocked too late to change)

Chain piecing!! Meaning you pile your blocks together in a specific order (that I personnaly wrote straight up on each piece with a very sophisticated letter/numbers down/across system) and then just sew them together in a line without having to cut the thread between each pair. Looks a little like a fanion banner and at some point it feels like you'll be forever tangled into it but then it's magic :) It's not that hard actually and will save you a lot of time + there's a lot of online tutorials you can use.

Basting! (which it took me while to understand is the part where you attach the backing, the fluff and the quilt top together) : you need more safety pins. Safety pins will save you from the wrinkles and the unfortunate oopsies of realising you've caught your backing double folded into your quilting stitch, which I did a good three times and was not fun to undo. Also, I forgot to tape the backing to the floor and it probably would have helped with the wrinkling...

Backing : I used an old linen table cloth I got for 10€ at a charity shop, and I've still got about 2/3 of it left, so I recommend that, it's sturdy but soft enough, doesn't thread easily and can be washed at very high temps, if that's a thing you do.

Quilting! Well, my machine came with a quilting foot for free motion quilting (which means you're the one moving the fabric along in whichever direction and you can sort of draw with your stitches) and it seemed fun so I did that, and here's what I learned : curves are hard but doable, also my machine doesn't like to go back (kept skipping sitiches for some reason) so it involves a lot of shifting the quilt around, which isn't easy considering the bulk. And also, drawing the quilting pattern you want so you can follow it while quilting actually does help, I used an iron/heat-erasable pen and it worked just fine. Check your stitch tension, mine was too loose and I realised too late so there's spots where I could pull on the thread and it looped, had to stitch back over that.

Quilitng pattern : I wasn't sure what to do, supposedly your batting (aka: the fluff) comes with instructions on how tight you should quilt to avoid it coming apart through use but I got mine cut at the fabric shop and forgot to ask so I just rolled with a rough 10cm maximum distance in between stitching lines but tried to do less in most places. According to many blogs : the tighter your lines the stiffer your quilt, so I kept it loose for comfort. (Picture is halfway done, I added a smaller square/circle inside each square/circle and if you look at it you'll see it's actually diagonal lines form one end of the fabric to the other.)

Binding is boring, and there's nothing to it. I got a length of pre-cut bias binding, machine-sewed it front to front to the quilt top side of the quilt and the folded it back and secured it by hand to the back with a ladder stitch. Took me roughly and entire rewatch of the Last Of Us. There's a trick to doing the corners that's fairly simple but I've lost the tutorial...

Overall : I got myself a quilting book with techinques and such and it helped, but there's a ton of stuff online, and once you get over the very Christian American mum vibe of most of the blogs, it's all very helpful (and gorgeous!) (no offense meant to Christian American mums, it's just a bit of a culture shock from where I'm standing).

[essektheylyss]

I finish one knitting project and suddenly I get delusions of grandeur about what I should do next. I made one nice-looking hat and I'm chomping at the bit to jump right into a whole ass sweater. I DO have the confidence of a mediocre white man but only immediately upon finishing a craft project.

[manhvre]

TETOTETOTETOOOOOOO o((>ω< ))o (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

[juusou]

she keeps messing up her drawimg :((

[thehaberdasheress]

Green Coat update: Jazzed up Butterfly #2, started Butterfly #3

Oh, and also! The cross-stitch patch collection these are from are now up on Etsy!

And yeah, that's the Etsy where ALL embroidery patches are 40% off right now. Stick 'em on, wash 'em off, look beautiful.

[itz-queenayt]

Some GFX art, cause why not!!!

It's from most recent to first.

(Man I love when my oc edit is just in the corner)

Why did it take 12 hours for Idia, cause it's so basic.

Mizuki Akiyama is next...

[puppyanqel]

[stxrlighttx]

MDZS project

Sketchbook fully dedicated to mdzs

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[echodrawsthings]

DESERT DUO MAP CALL NOW OPEN!! It allows any design (regardless of species) for Grian and Scar, as long as they stay within the color palette!