Some project ideas to get you started this spring:
Making:
- Sewing
- Indigo dying
- 8 x 10 photography
- Landscape watercolors
- Weaving
- Clay hand-building
- Quilt making
- Woodturning
- Basic metal forging
- Leather painting
- Chair making
- Drawing with Sharpies
- Frame making
- Brush making
- Box making
- Pyrography
- Poetry
- Flag making
- Felting
- Plaster cast making
Restoring & Repairing:
- Knife sharpening
- Axe sharpening
- Small engine repair
- Handheld electronics repair
- Outerwear Maintenance
- Darning
- Kintsugi
- Chimney sweeping
Observing:
- Weather patterns
- Bird migration
- Cloud spotting
- Stream dynamics
- Plant identification
- Animal tracking
Documenting:
- Archival storage
- Collecting natural specimens
- Portrait photography
- Mapmaking
Engineering:
- Plumbing
- Measuring
- Basic house framing
- Stone wall building
- Parging
- Timber framing
- Portable sawmilling
Helping:
- Dog training
- Search and Rescue
- Dog first aid
- Human first aid
- Wildlife rescue
Farming:
- Perennials
- Fruit trees
- No-dig growing
- Beekeeping
- Silviculture
- Firewood
Community Organizing:
- Newsletter publishing
- Clean-up / Maintenance
- Event planning
Exercising:
- Stone lifting and throwing
- Hillwalking
- The Burpee club
- Stretching
Recreating:
- Solo canoeing
- Canoe tripping
- Icelandic horse trekking
- Orienteering without maps
- Shelter construction
- Pigeon racing
- Tenkara fishing
- Drift boat navigation
- Tramping
Communicating:
- Analog radio operation
- Sign language
- Storytelling
- Speech writing
Cooking:
- Baking with sourdough
- Making shrubs
- Cold smoking
- Japanese ice cubes
Misc:
- Bushido
- American Folklore
- Slight of hand
- Dowsing for water
- Meditation
- Film Noir
