Week 717 – Sublimation Printing and Embroidery

by | Mar 3, 2025 | Weeknotes | 0 comments

Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.

And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!

Trip to North West Computer Museum and Leigh Hackspace

We’re organising a DoES Epic Trip to Leigh for 26th March. You can follow the discussion in our Google Group here. There are 7 people going so far, get in touch if you want to join us.

Things of Note

Assim of Zanders Group (one of our permanent desk members) making good use of the sublimation printer in our workshop and supporting local charities with merchandise and print-on-demand services
and Terry produced this lovely interpretation of the Japanese Ajisai-sashi (hydrangea) woven embroidery pattern using Inkscape and the DoES Liverpool embroidery machine.

Coming Up in the Next Week

Monday 03 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm 7pm-9pm Socialist Alternative discussion group
Tuesday 04 March, 1:00pm-3:00pm LCR Repair Week
Tuesday 04 March, 6:30pm-9:30pm Hack the Space Evening (Software)
Wednesday 05 March, 7:00pm-9:00pm Liverpool Linux User Group
Thursday 06 March, 7:00pm-11:00pm LivNUG (Liverpool Nix/NixOS User Group)
Thursday 06 March, 7:00pm-9:30pm Maker Night
Our free weekly evening meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Saturday 08 March, 12:00pm-6:00pm Maker Day
Our free monthly daytime meeting where you can find out about our space and all the making equipment in it, get a laser cutter or CNC embroidery machine induction, and work on projects from physical computing and electronics to 3d printing, routing and sewing. Just pay for materials used.
Sunday 09 March, 2:00pm-5:00pm Plastic Playgroup (DoES Workshop)
In a world with mountains of plastic and molehills of play, let’s get our spades out and shift the balance.Make new things from abandoned plastic with us. Plantpots, purses … pedalos?Shred plastic. Blend it. Meld scraps together with a heat gun. Make sheets. Laser cut it. CNC it. Stitch potato bags together with soldering iron? Make fabrics with a regular iron? What have we got, what can we make? We don’t know – let’s figure it out!
Two rules:
1. No Objectives – this is an aimless and wandering session.
2. Bring Your Own Initiative – this is an active session and we’ll help you get creative.
Every two weeks on a Sunday afternoon, between 2pm and 5pm.Facilitated by Plastic Tactics – follow on social for the latest updates, and to see what we make if you can’t be here in person:
http://instagram.com/plastacs
http://twitter.com/plastacs
http://facebook.com/plastictacticsliverpool

Somebody Should

The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.

See all the issues…

Issue counts: 426 open, 1596 closed

8 new issues:

Featured issue: Rework power plug/sockets for Sheila. Can we move this on or close it?

9 issues closed:

Thanks amcewen, JackiePease, magman2112!

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Maker Events are regular meetings organised by DoES Liverpool to provide a space for people to learn, experiment and work on projects related to Physical computing, Laser cutting, Arduino, Electronics, 3D printing…

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