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QC Craft Circle
Barmymoo:
My new village has a wool shop and they have a knit and natter evening once a month, plus an SOS surgery on Saturday mornings if you get into a snarl with your knitting! I'm excited about going along to the group, although I will have to wait til the end of September, boo. I'm slowly coming on with my jumper since it's lying out on the table being visible - eventually I will clear the table and then it'll have to go somewhere else, but hopefully having a regular group will spur me on.
Lines:
Nice! I wish I lived closer to a local yarn store, but most are a 30min drive to the other side of town, so I don't venture to them often.
But! I did find out that there is going to be a fiber fair in a arts & craftsy kind of town about an hour away from here in two weeks and I'm gonna go! I've been wanting to learn more about spinning my own yarn and they'll have lots of demos for that, so I'm excited.
The Seldom Killer:
This seems the most appropriate thread for this so I hope it's acceptable. I'm starting the process of upcycling old bicycle, cassettes, cogs and chainrings into useful things.
This is where I'm making moulds from some master templates so that I can cast cogs into resin to make coasters.
It feels a bit like crafting through science, which makes me pretty happy.
More pictures to follow as I move on through the process.
Lines:
That sounds pretty cool! (And thanks for reviving this thread. Seriously.) I've only done casting with plaster and either ceramic or wax, but I really enjoyed what I did. What material are you using for the molds? Silicone?
The Seldom Killer:
Yes, it's a silicone based mould.
It's my first time doing this so I'm not going to tun it out until the 24h mark. However I have it a quick prod at 3h and it seems to be good.
I'm going to order up the resin now and get ready to start casting the coasters soon.
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