MakersHourQuestions

Here are the questions for Thursday, 1st December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1: Good evening, and for tonight’s thrilling, chilling, episode of MakersHour, tell us what has given you a thrill in your making this week? #MakersHour

Q2: Is it ‘thrills’ or ‘chills’ if you had to be creative in front of strangers, and why? #MakersHour

Q3: Is your style and method of making seen as quite safe, or is it a thrill a minute? What makes it so? #MakersHour

Q4: What process in your making do you try to avoid because gives you the chills when you have to use it? Tell us about it. #MakersHour

Q5: If you were asked to provide a prop based on your making, to act as a clue or murder weapon in a stage thriller mystery, what would it be and how might it be used in the plot? Bonus question: What would the thriller be called? Funny answers if you can think of one. #MakersHour

Q5: I tend not to make many kits because I have a habit of ‘short cutting’ instructions. Do you always follow instructions, or are you a basher/hacker-about-er? If you’re teaching someone, would you expect them to always follow the instructions? #MakersHour

Q4: I have also worked in education (hence the learning theme). How would you go about teaching your creative/maker skills to other interested people? #MakersHour

Q3: On that theme, one of my reasons for making is I 'Make to Learn’. How do you go about learning new things/skills? #MakersHour

Q2: I have studied a lot because I really like to learn. What learning have you done recently? #MakersHour

Q1: Good evening (or morning, or afternoon if you’re not in Europe) folks, I hope you’re all well. Who’re you and what new thing have you learnt this week? #MakersHour

Here are the questions for tonight, 24th September, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1: Good evening (or morning, or afternoon if you’re not in Europe) folks, I hope you’re all well. Who’re you and what new thing have you learnt this week?

Q2: I have studied a lot because I really like to learn. What learning have you done recently?

Q3: On that theme, one of my reasons for making is I 'Make to Learn’. How do you go about learning new things/skills?

Q4: I have also worked in education (hence the learning theme). How would you go about teaching your creative/maker skills to other interested people?

Q5: I tend not to make many kits because I have a habit of ‘short cutting’ instructions. Do you always follow instructions, or are you a basher/hacker-about-er? If you’re teaching someone, would you expect them to always follow the instructions?

Q5: #MakersHour has Main Engine Shutdown. Zero G and I feel fine. How do we, as a community, ensure the art of making is passed down to younger generations?

Q4: #MakersHour has jettisoned the solid rocket motors. What's your favourite tool, and do you have any novel tool storage solutions?

Q3: #MakersHour is go for staging. I miss Maplin, particularly not being able to go and browse for parts and inspiration. How do you plan your makes, do you let available parts dictate your method?

Q2: #MakersHour has cleared the tower. Political, environmental, health, career. Have any significant events these last few years helped or hindered your making. Any surprises or things you didn't expect to be doing?

Q1: We have lift off. Who are you and show us what you have been making. #MakersHour

Here are the questions for Thursday, 17th September, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1: We have lift off. Who are you and show us what you have been making. #MakersHour

Q2: #MakersHour has cleared the tower. Political, environmental, health, career. Have any significant events these last few years helped or hindered your making. Any surprises or things you didn't expect to be doing?

Q3: #MakersHour is go for staging. I miss Maplin, particularly not being able to go and browse for parts and inspiration. How do you plan your makes, do you let available parts dictate your method?

Q4: #MakersHour has jettisoned the solid rocket motors. What's your favourite tool, and do you have any novel tool storage solutions?

Q5: #MakersHour has Main Engine Shutdown. Zero G and I feel fine. How do we, as a community, ensure the art of making is passed down to younger generations?

Q5: How did you come by #MakersHour? What brought you to us?

Q4: Other than your usual making activity, does your creativity seep out into other areas of your life? #MakersHour

Q3: Spur of the ‘makements’! What have you made on the spur of the moment, there and then, that came out ok? #MakersHour

Q2: Do you consider accessibility in your making (either for production or use)? If so, how? #MakersHour

Q1: Hello! Do tell us about yourself, and if there are any animals that interfere with your making. And if there aren’t, what animal would you like to have interfering with your making? #MakersHour

This is your 10 minute reminder for #MakersHour. Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses. Thank you.

Thank you all for joining in with MakersHour, tonight. Some interesting responses, mainly that few of us feel we can draw, and would like to be better at it!

If this was a physical space, I'd be thinking of starting some art classes here.

Anyway, see you all next week, with another set of questions.

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Q5: Tell us about a manual/guide/book that has informed your making, and how/why it helped you? #MakersHour

Q4: The world is on Fire! You can only save three works of Art/Sculpture/Architecture to put on a (Big) spaceship to best represent creative culture of Humanity. What are they, and why those? #MakersHour

Q3: Given impending Climate Crisis - What are you trying to do in your making to mitigate its potential negative environmental impact & resource usage? #MakersHour

Q2: What skill are you in awe of & consider your personal ‘creative’ skills gap? #MakersHour

Q1: Who (are you)? What (do you make from)? Where (are you based)? Why (are you here)? When (do you do your best making)? Please answer any two (or three) you want. #MakersHour

Q5: What do you plan to make in the future? #MakersHour

Q4: What is your definition of making? #MakersHour

Q3: What encouraged you to make? #MakersHour

Q2: What is your favourite project so far? #MakersHour

Q1: Introduce yourself and tell us what you’ve made this week! #MakersHour

Q5: Who got you into making, parent, partner friend, stranger? #MakersHour

Q4: As the seasons change, will you be spending more or less time in the workshop/makers space? #MakersHour

Q3: Have you ever been to a show/exhibition or watched a fellow maker’s video online and seen a tool that you thought "I should have one of those!". What was it? #MakersHour

Q2: Do you ever suffer from makers block, and if you do, how do you reignite the creative juices? #MakersHour

Q1: Welcome along to MakersHour. As is tradition, please introduce yourself and let us know what you have been making this week. #MakersHour

Q4 How do you like to promote, or just show off your makes? #MakersHour

Ahhh, yes! I learnt about superglue and perspex on a client's job! I then learnt how quickly the proper solvent glue evaporates once opened!

I also had to learn that hardboard needs to be wetted first to make it expand. Then nail it down and let it pull drum tight a it dries.

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Q3 What is the most drastic mistake you’ve learned from as part of a making project? #MakersHour

Q2 When do you know you are finished with a make? #MakersHour

Q1 Tell us who you are and what you’ve been doing these last couple of weeks. #MakersHour

Here are the questions for tonight, 16th July at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1 Tell us who you are and what you’ve been doing these last couple of weeks. #MakersHour

Q2 When do you know you are finished with a make? #MakersHour

Q3 What is the most drastic mistake you’ve learned from as part of a making project? #MakersHour

Q4 How do you like to promote, or just show off your makes? #MakersHour

Q5 Imagine sentient 1/12th scale dolls have taken over the world. How would you survive, escape, or choose to serve your new overlords? #MakersHour

Due to unforseen family matters, there will not be a MakersHour this week.

We will resume when we can.

Thank you, Alfred

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Q5: If you were going to make a whimsy, a retrospective, or a sentimental make for yourself what would you choose? #MakersHour

Q4: A dolls house is a big project with many little projects inside it. Do you work with big complex compositions, or is each make a single job? Would you prefer it one way or the other? #MakersHour

Q3: Do you ever work in different scales, or proportions? What are the challenges of working with smaller or larger projects? #MakersHour

Q2: What is your favourite medium to work in, and what are its limitations and its advantages? #MakersHour

Q1: Hello, and welcome to #MakersHour, introduce yourself poetically, and let us know what you have been making recently?

Q5: Are you a specialist who concentrates on one area or a generalist who puts together different skills? #MakersHour

Q4: Do you use any kits, plans, or patterns when you make, or do you start from scratch, or a combination of the two? #MakersHour

Q3: Are there any tastes or smells that you associate with your making, like the smell of solder, leather, or the taste of a good cup of tea or coffee while you work? #MakersHour

Q2: Is there anything in your making that you find frustrating and wish you could improve, like a tool or technique, and have you been able to do it? #MakersHour

Q1: Introduce yourself tell us what you have made this week, and if you haven’t made anything what have you been thinking about making? #MakersHour

One hour to #MakersHour! Just one hour to tonight's Makers Hour folks.

Thank you all for joining in with tonight's MakersHour. It has been fun and I hope that one day you all have your ideal jobs and time away on a deserted island to enjoy the uninterupted making.

See you all next week! xx

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Here are the questions for Thursday, 28th May at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1: Hi all, what have you been making this week? #MakersHour

Q2: What tips do you have to stay focussed on projects? #MakersHour

Q3: With summer holidays, what are the best maker related things/events to visit? #MakersHour

Q4: I'm struggling through multiple unfinished builds, what are your tips for finishing those problem builds? #MakersHour

Q5: What's your plan of action for the possible dystopian future on our doorstep? #MakersHour

Q3 What’s your response when people ask you where you get your ideas from? #MakersHour

Q2 What tips or techniques do you use to allow yourself time to explore, play and experiment as part of your making? #MakersHour

Q1 Hello! Who are you, and what are you making? #MakersHour

Here are the questions for tonight, 21st May at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour. Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour. Thank you.

Q1 Hello! Who are you, and what are you making? #MakersHour

Q2 What tips or techniques do you use to allow yourself time to explore, play and experiment as part of your making? #MakersHour

Q3 What’s your response when people ask you where you get your ideas from? #MakersHour

Q4 Have you ever shown someone one of your makes and had a truly unexpected response from that person? #MakersHour

Q5 How do you tackle waste in your making? Both in terms of the waste you produce in order to make, and making things out of other people’s waste. #MakersHour

Q5 What is your 'go to' motivation food? If home cooked, we need also the recipe!

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Q4 How much does the desire to help other people, and solve meaningful problems, affect your motivation? #MakersHour

Q3 If you were to ‘motivate’ your art or creation would it be on land, sea, air, or space and how would it be propelled? #MakersHour

Q2 We’ve talked about how you motivate yourself…but how would you help a demotivated Maker friend? #MakersHour

Q1 Hello! Tell us who you are and what’s motivated you this week. #MakersHour

Q5: Tell us about a mundane project you have started, that developed into something surprisingly more fun than expected. #MakersHour

Q4 What's the oldest tool you own? Approximately how old, and where did it come from? #MakersHour

Q2: Do you get happy accidents? Where something went wrong while making, but it actually produced something unexpected yet good/cool/pretty? #MakersHour

Q1: Hello fellow makers how’s your making week been? Any pictures? #MakersHour

Q3. Scottish police once advised people to have an emergency ‘Grab Bag’! What’s in your personal 'Maker related’ emergency grab bag! #MakersHour

Q2. Spread lurve! Recommend a creative artist/maker you follow on the Fediverse. Aha! But ‘not’ someone who takes part in #MakersHour!

Q3 #MakersHour: What are you looking forward to creating or making in the coming year? This could be a personal or professional project.