Lynn Jones loves to make things — clothes, jewelry, hats, all kinds of things. On a recent Friday afternoon, she’s using the serger to finish her Thanksgiving jacket.
“I decided that I needed green velvet for Thanksgiving,” Jones told Technical.ly. “I was reminiscing of the days when I used to get dressed up and go to grandma’s house.”
The serger, like a lot of the equipment at the Route 9 Library makerspace in New Castle, is a costly piece of equipment that’s out of reach for a lot of makers. Here, the machine, which finishes edges in sewing projects, is free to use, along with enough pieces of equipment to keep just about any maker busy.
The Maker Lab at Route 9 and now Appoquinimink libraries are hidden gems where people can use the labs’ equipment to make anything from fleece hats to product prototypes to fine art pieces. For makers like Jones who have…
