I have a habit of having in mind exactly what I want in something I want to acquire, shopping all over and not finding precisely what I want, and then determining to fabricate the thing myself (or more accurately, usually asking my husband to make it). My current occupation is remodeling our master closet. I want to put a small dresser on my side and since I can't find what I want to purchase, I found free plans to make a dresser in the style I want. It seems simple enough but in a moment of self-realization I acknowledged to myself I have close to zero experience with woodworking and decided to make a small project using some of the skills that are required to build a dresser to make sure I don't totally screw up the end goal. Last weekend my husband taught me how to use our table saw and dado stack and supervised while I did the actual cutting. Then I assembled this box all by myself using techniques I've seen used by various woodworking YouTubers. I learned to cut mitere...

I used to have a prodigious t-shirt collection, mostly shirts you get from participating in sports and school activities and travelling. My style, activities, and size have evolved over the years so I cut up my old shirts to make a t-shirt quilt. That only required the front and/or back design so I kept the shirt remnants. I cut up the remnants into strips to make t-shirt yarn. Most of the shirts are about 1.5" wide strips but some I did wider if they were a thinner fabric in order to maintain consistent yarn size.  I made myself a loom based on this tutorial , strung it with some yarn I had on hand, then wove this lovely rug.  I started out by looping the lengths of t-shirt yarn together like the tutorial shows but later I discovered that gluing the strips was faster, a lot less work, and produced a smoother rug. I use this fabric adhesive . It sets up fast and strong and rubs off easily if you get it on your fingers. It doesn't dry clear though and it can be easy to use too ...