Q2: What in your making improves your patience or what increases your frustration?

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@MakersHour #makershour A2: knitting is patience training in and of itself. I do get more easily frustrated with it when I'm tired, or during the most boring part of a project (and sometimes I need to split my attention and thereby become less bored to push through)

[diyelectromusic@mastodon.social]

@MakersHour A2 I'd imagine it is probably the same things for me. Puzzling out how something works can be oodles of frustration ("how did this ever work"?) but with patience, and even the odd nights sleep part way through to background process, eventually illumination dawns ("ah, I get it now")

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[andy@tenforward.social]

Q2: What in your making improves your patience or what increases your frustration?

A2: I’ve said it before, music. I can’t make without it. Keeps the naughty parts of my brain distracted whilst I’m concentrating.

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[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

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A2 Increases frustration is easy? stuff not working. Or people moving things without telling us or updating the documentation. Having to walk round the shop three times to find a tool is a right pita.

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[popchicken@mstdn.social]

@MakersHour what increases my frustration in my making is TV shows with lots of subtitled content (basically means that I need to stop knitting/ sewing to follow the action!). I’m talking about Shogun here (which is great, by the way) #makershour

[indigoatcrafts@cupoftea.social]

@MakersHour A2 #MakersHour having time and a clear head and quality materials is good for patience. It I'm working with a poor thread or pattern or I'm pressured or overtired... Hmmm not great. I might just get a bit upset and grrrrrrr.
Funnily enough I've been so thoroughly put in my place by this latest medical adventure that my ability to chill and not get too agitated is quite surprising. I've met my match so I'm doing what I can and have to accept the rest.

[aly@mastodon.nz]

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Q2.

Oh boy. Things on a timeline increase my frustration. The prime example being complicated epoxy set ups that I need to keep moving before they cure and can't be changed.

On the patience side, nice weather, podcasts in the background, gentle steady progress... just feeling good and in control I think.

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[indigoatcrafts@cupoftea.social]

@wokstation @MakersHour yes I'm having to think my way around things that brute force and foolishness would have accomplished prior to now. Thanks to insane levels of steroids 🫩🤯I'm awake much of the night with a mind spinning with ideas

[indigoatcrafts@cupoftea.social]

@WizardOfDocs @MakersHour actually yes my crocheting in the hospital helped me not spin into crazy panic whilst awaiting scary test results so I think I do use it as s calming tool

[indigoatcrafts@cupoftea.social]

@Andy @MakersHour ah yes audiobooks.
Though right now after a month of being inside with an opaque window birdsong and new green shoots are calming

[tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social]

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Q2 I’ve never been a very patient person but blacksmithing is both working on my patience and testing it. My imagination sees things a lot quicker than I can do them.