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Soft blocks

I visited my local fabric shop and bought some lovely striped fabric from the sale basket. It’s soft and stretchy—I suspect it’s a blend of cotton and some elastic fibre like elastane. Of course, I didn’t know what I would…

Christmas Cards 2024

In previous years I used my plotter to create my Christmas cards. After starting a new job the plotter is temporarily unavailable so I decided to get them printed professionally, it certainly made my life easier! After 7 years of…

Dinosaur Hoody

My Christmas project this year was to make a hoody for myself. The pattern was from WardrobeByMe and was quite easy to follow, although the hoody caused me a lot of confusion. I used to make my own juggling balls…

Wood Universal Joint

I roughly followed the design for two connected universal joints described in Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood. It doesn’t serve any purpose at all except to amuse me for a few minutes if I’m bored! Further reading on universal joints…

Christmas Cards 2022

The Christmas cards from 2021 went well so I thought I’d do a new design for 2022. This year the robot has a helper to pull his sleigh. I used the same machine as last time (a clone of AxisDraw).…

Wooden Lego Man

Spring was transistioning into summer and I thought it was time to start a “substantial” project. Making a giant wooden minifig took longer than expected even with this excellent tutorial by Simon Beggs. I’ll make another one someday because it’s…

Christmas Cards 2021

It’s been a few years since I made my own Christmas cards and I must have forgotten how long it takes to do so! I assumed that using a machine to do the actual drawing would speed up the workflow.…

The Most Annoying Machine

Everyone loves The Most Pointless Machine EVER so I thought I’d make the evil cousin. With none of the charm of the original, this bad-boy has already irritated a lot of people! Yes, there is a way of turning it…