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Been working on making a small couch/loveseat based on the New Yankee Workshop version of a Stickley style settle. The frame is now together, all 14 of the large mortises and tenons are tweaked to fit together nicely, and the metal chairs helped confirm the size is good.

#woodworking #stickley

The framework for a mission style settle, unfinished with two metal folding chairs in the middle in an messy garage workshop.

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Fucking finally.

Very pleased with this bind off on this sock. 1-1 rubbing cuff, fold the cuff down and picked every knit stitch to bind off together as I do a stretchy bind off. Rest of sock is a yarn scraps sock switching between yellow and various small balls of a variegated yarns.

#knitting #sock #bindoff

Folded over red cuff on a hand knit sock that otherwise is yellow and browns and blues sitting on a wooden table.

Folded over red cuff on a hand knit sock that otherwise is yellow and browns and blues sitting on a wooden table. A close up of just the cuff in this shot.

The #chair is coming together.

Still need to fine tune the feet leveling but I'm liking the overall look.

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Chair made out of a variety of woods, still in clamps as the arms have just been glued into place.

Got to watch some #honeybees pollinating my apple trees this weekend. Always nice seeing the bees hard at work.

Honey bee sitting in apple tree flowers.

Flowering apple tree.

#spring

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#Baking a Pfeffernusse pie, had some fun with the pastry scraps and made owl shaped eyes and a smiley face in the powdered sugar.

Pie turned out lovely and delicious, went with extra crispy crust, and the spice flavor came out great, recipe from https://www.sisterpie.com/ cook book.

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#woodworking progress on making a copy of the "Arm Dining Chair" from the ~1910 Mission plans from Popular Mechanics, all of the mortises cut for the lower stretchers and half of the tenons. Wood is Sapele and white oak.

Two back chair legs with lower stretchers sitting atop a table saw.

Striped wood color square legs for a chair, with pencil marks and 8 rectangular holes cut into them.

Completed #knitting sock 1, toe up following sockmatician's pattern, and a stroller blanket pattern for the hex pattern on the leg (https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/crafts/knitting/free-knitting-patterns-for-baby-blankets3.htm)

Time to start the second sock.

Purple pink and light green sock with a honeycomb pattern for the leg and striping on the foot.

@brianschwarz we have a local store named "Paper Source" that has a variety of .. I guess artisan paper? The ferns in the photo are real ferns leafs that are embedded in the paper fibers the make up the sheet. This shot shows off the paper a bit better.

@karlauerbach Thanks!

Lampstuff.com has website design from the 90s but lots of fun bits for building lamps. :-)

Completed my #woodworking lamp project. Designed from scratch. Wood is Sapele and Bubinga, lampshade is paper embed with ferns for now. I need to learn how to do stained glass.

A lit wooden lamp with ferns in the lampshade.

@folklore_adam I've had very good experience with wood from them. I'm in the San Francisco bay area so ambient humidity here is 40-50% which I assume is more then AZ.

I've had them send me exotics like bubinga, domestics like white oak or maple.

I have not really seen much movement of the wood after delivery, both if I use it right away or a year after.

Handmade #woodworking #ceramics Collab with @pfooti

It's not the easiest to use cup to drink from, but it's got style.

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