Friday night, I got home from Albuquerque, took a HOT bath, & went the hell to bed, cos it turns out that handing someone that much money at once is a BIT stressful & also, tiring. … the LARGE plate of lo mein I bought & consumed on the way home probably helped with that, […]
measuring & planning & sketching Read More »
That was pretty much my first view of MY trailer that is MINE & that I can do what I want with. It was a BIT OVERWHELMING. I mean, though, also awesome! Also stacked behind a bunch of other trailers, on account of it was done a week ago & I didn’t get the voicemail
Yes, this is both your cats & progress post for this week, on account of I’m picking up the trailer on Friday & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa But I finished up the worktable, complete with shelf & lumber storage, & LOOK AT IT, IT IS SO GOOD Also Major Tom likes it a lot. Here, he is saying
Yesterday I picked up my new trailer. Today I did a bunch of measuring & planning & sketching & taking pictures & stuff. If I stick with my usual schedule of posting process posts only once a week, I’ll either be barely sketching out what I’m doing, or posting once a week well into 2023,
I’ve spent most of the week working on what I’m calling ‘tinker’s wagon infrastructure’, or stuff that’s gonna make the build easier — from buying a bench vise to making cutting guides specifically tailored to work with my roommate’s circular saw, thus allowing me, for the first time in my life, to cut wood, or
IT TURNS OUT that if you use right-angle thingers & clamps to hold your 2×2 pieces together, & then GLUE them into place, & ONLY THEN do you drill the pilot holes & put in the wood screws, it works a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
those other shelves Read More »
Specifically, the ‘putting spikes into each pole to loop ropes over’ part. Since I’d bragged on Twitter that I’d worked out a process, here it is!
pavilion poles: a process Read More »
 not that I’m remotely done with the sewing, mind you I think a lot of you are familiar with what my booth usually looks like. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the top picture is what I’ve been running with for the last several years. It’s a pretty standard wedge tent, with one
all that sewing’s finally getting somewhere Read More »
I’ve got SO MUCH going on but I _am_ getting through it. Little by little. Check out my new banner! I am SO HAPPY with it. I’ve got to sew ties to the corners & it’s ready to go. Tent sewing continues. And continues. And continues. Plus I got to do custom soap for a
A bit of progress Read More »
… it’s been An Effort. Because: cats. Sometimes I can sew around them. Sometimes, not so much. … next time I’m getting HAMSTERS.
I’ve been TRYING to sew. Read More »
& that’s it for the year! Everyone here at The Vagabond Tabby is gonna take a nice long nap (ngl most of us are asleep already), we’ll celebrate our various winter holidays, & yeah, probably make more soap.
We’ll reopen January 1st, just as soon as someone manages to actually get out of bed.
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