all zipped up

queer carping

I had the pleasure of being the TA for this year’s queer basic carpentry skills class at Hammerstone! It’s held every summer during pride month and its like gay summer camp with saws! I had so much fun helping this sweet group learn by building their own sawhorses.

quilted canvas

Recently, I wanted to make a heavy-duty set of bags for my grocery-getter bicycle. Using duck canvas and bias tape, the seams became thick assemblies. I realized that with more careful planning of the layout of the quilt, the seams could be laid out like a rope basket, within the tote-form of the bag.

good dirt

I’ve been using my compost bin a surprising amount this winter. I’m feeling relieved that the absolute labor of building it over the summer wasn’t for nothing. I also made a video documenting the weeks I spent at that.

It hasn’t gotten up to a stable temperature, but it seems to be turning into a flatter and flatter pile each week. With the cold weather, I’ve been spending a bit less time working on the property, but I started experimenting with some brass sheets to make better roofs for the posts. The roof itself is held together by the standing seams alone. The rivets are made by hammering sections of brass tubing with a ball shaped strike, and are used in the structure that anchors the cap to the top of the post.