Bil Bas

Thanks to the six brave souls that took on our second Secret Santa event, in 2025.

We now have a lot of looms at LAMM. The latest two where donated from 3RC, a “community” charity shop in Carnforth. The first one, a 24″ (600mm) wide rigid heddle loom, allows us to make realistic sizes of fabric, rather than just scarves (a limitation of our small old loom).

Quite coincidentally, they also received a donation of an old 4-shaft table loom, in surprisingly good working condition, which they decided would be best in our care.

On this Easter Saturday, we joined the Friends of Lancaster Library (FoLL) to do a workshop with pyrography! Lots of people, young and old, managed to draw a Easter/spring based design onto a wooden spoon.

Even after we ran out of wooden spoons, we still had some wooden coasters for art!

The pyrography pens were kindly provided by FoLL.

We had our first hand-made Secret Santa at the end of last year. A wide variety of techniques and materials were used to make intriguing gifts! I think everyone got something very unexpected, but hopefully also something to be loved for a long time to come.

Thanks for the inspiration from the Good Things Collective,…

We are starting the new year with several sessions that will offer a solid introduction to 3D printing. Each will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday afternoons in January (5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th). They will be hosted at the Makerspace and will consist of small groups of 4 learners (and any parents or guardians that need to accompany younger makers)

Enthusiasts of all ages will be receiving 3D printers as a festive gift and will want to learn how to use it. Or you may have received one in…

For a few years, we’ve been helping to repair things that members and the public bring to us. Ideally, we’ve tried to teach the owner how to repair the article, letting them do all the work, but we’ve done the repairs with their help where it was too complex or dangerous to give them the necessary knowledge. We don’t have a dedicated repair event, but you can come to any of our free open meetings, 6:30-8:30 every Wednesday evening, with your broken items. You can alternatively learn to make or…

We had a class of kids in to try making carving in wood. They all did at least as well as the adult class we had earlier in the year!

All yellow cedar, above, but see how much difference a coat of linseed oil makes!

Working hard in the workshop: