<![CDATA[Q2: Were you a maker as a child?]]>Q2: Were you a maker as a child? If so, what?

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That is a pretty good compliment, especially from a school report.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/MakersHour/statuses/116257714632774155https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/MakersHour/statuses/116257714632774155Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:25:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:25:04 GMT]]>@MakersHour Q2 A2 Maker as a child? In small packaged ways, polystyrene models and glue. More a collector perhaps? Rocks and coins. My father was more the maker, a bicyclist, photographer with darkroom, who made us an A-Frame playhouse covered with long eucalyptus branches dropped from the grove by the University of California San Diego.

I got into cooking because I had allergies which needed modifications to avoid eggs and milk.

I did a little sewing in middle grades, but most of my making is after moving out on my own.

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A2 yes. Lots, mostly wood, but also ceramics, textiles, electronics, and plastic. In fact my "design and technology" (what school called wood work, metalworking, cooking, and sewing). Report one year said "give her a couple of peices of 2x4, and she'll build anything".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116257703674455053https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.v.st/users/quixoticgeek/statuses/116257703674455053Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:22:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:22:31 GMT]]>@WizardOfDocs @MakersHour Funny you mention it, some Vinted seller sent me a SACK of floss along with the cross stitch fabric I bought from her...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257701971541219https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257701971541219Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:22:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:21:36 GMT]]>@thegiddystitcher @MakersHour I hear about young women making friendship bracelets these days, and it's always beads on a string. The nice ones made of knots feel like a lost art.
Though I did just pick up some lovely embroidery floss destash from a friend...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/WizardOfDocs/statuses/116257698367888952https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/WizardOfDocs/statuses/116257698367888952Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:21:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:20:21 GMT]]>@thegiddystitcher @MakersHour

Oh, that does sound fun!

I think it was just colouring in the same design over and over that stopped being fun after a while. I say over and over, it was maybe 4 or 5 times, but when you're little and you've drawn a Christmas tree design, it feels like a lot of green to colour in...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/suearcher/statuses/116257693438107494https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/suearcher/statuses/116257693438107494Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:20:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:19:45 GMT]]>Q2: Were you a maker as a child? If so, what?

A2: I had Lego and meccano, so yes! One of the few classes I enjoyed at school was design and technology, doing woodwork and metalwork. I remember making a hacksaw, no idea what happened to it!


@MakersHour

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257688548362139https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257688548362139Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:19:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:18:20 GMT]]>@thegiddystitcher
I know the feeling.

I have been trying not to spend money on Lego and die cast toys of my youth, just because I know they are available.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/MakersHour/statuses/116257685518757724https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cupoftea.social/users/MakersHour/statuses/116257685518757724Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:18:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:18:07 GMT]]>@suearcher @MakersHour Oh I loved colouring in! I used to colour in, you know that old wallpaper with like a foam texture? I would colour in the back of that, filling in the patterns. Happy memory unlocked 😁

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257684666462592https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/thegiddystitcher/statuses/116257684666462592Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:18:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:17:58 GMT]]>@MakersHour not really. No more than the average kid anyway. Though for about a week when i was 10 I fancied myself a comic artist. That career spluttered to an end when I realized that I couldn't draw all that well, and couldn't be arsed to put in the wotk to get better at it. So I went back to just reading (which took up about 85% of my free time).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mendeddrum.org/users/Stratski/statuses/116257684092912473https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mendeddrum.org/users/Stratski/statuses/116257684092912473Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:17:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:17:42 GMT]]>@MakersHour A2: I took up crocheting briefly as a kid, and wrote and illustrated some stories for the Young Authors contest

In sixth grade, someone gave me a friendship bracelet kit for my birthday, and that was my special interest until I picked up crochet again in high school (and knitting at uni). I even sold bracelets at a couple of neighborhood garage sale days.

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Q2: Were you a maker as a child? If so, what?

Oh yes. All sorts. Models from old toilet roll tubes and stuff. Lego. Little bits of sewing and embroidery. Hand drawn cards at Christmas for friends and family. Mum used to get us to draw designs, and then she'd photocopy them at work for us to colour in. TBH, the colouring in got a bit tedious....

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/suearcher/statuses/116257678172643056https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/suearcher/statuses/116257678172643056Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:16:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q2: Were you a maker as a child? on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:14:30 GMT]]>@MakersHour My first proper memory is of us moving house when I was two. I spent all of moving day sitting in the new kitchen out of everyone's way, making a Christmas card with cotton wool snowmen on.

When I got older origami became the thing, and then Meccano was an obsession for quite a few years. We had a neighbour who made garden gnomes so I got quite into helping with that too! And in my early teens took up sewing although in a very unskilled manner.

p.s. I just did a search and found out Meccano is still a thing, this would be dangerous knowledge if I had any money...

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