I’ve made a couple tote bags before. They’re easy to make (with very few 3D parts) and surprisingly useful these days when the bulk of your outside trips that require a bag are only to the grocery store. I’d spied some neat reflective fabric last time I was shopping on extremtextil (my current go to …
Author archives: Moses Hoyt
Hammock Under quilt Project
Summer 2020 has involved a lot of domestic exploring. I bought a Hennessey Hammock early on in the season with the intention of spending more nights under the stars. I soon realised the need for some insulation from below. Even on warmish summer nights a little wind cools you down quickly when being suspended by …
Copper Lamp Project
I wanted a new challenge involving more than just carpentry, and I had a lot of copper pipe around from building a couple tables. I’d seen these pretty cool looking pipe lamps for sale using a lot of copper, and figured that it wouldn’t be that hard to make my own. It didn’t go completely …
2018 in Numbers
0 broken fingers, 4 new countries, 21 books read, 84 selfies, 49 Instagram photos (only 3 of which were food!), 90 Crossfit classes, and 3700km travelled by foot. “You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern …
Bench Project
About a year ago I had a party coming up and we needed more seats in our kitchen for the guests. Instead of buying some small chairs, I figured why not make a kitchen style bench to go with my door table from an earlier project. The whole thing came together pretty easily and at …
Coffee Table Project
Recently I had the idea to make a coffee table from scratch. We needed one in our apartment and I figured the fun thing to do would be to make one. Here’s how it went down. I wanted the coffee table to include copper piping – I’ve waiting for a project that I could use …
2017 in Numbers
1 broken finger, 7 new countries, 32 books read, 63 selfies, 95 Instagram photos (only 28 of which were food!), 80 Crossfit classes, and 3669km travelled by foot. “Space I can recover. Time, never.” – Napoleon Bonaparte And now for 2018.