Guided kits

Sewing & quilting

• Plan a quilt from block layout to binding

  A step-by-step plan for a pieced quilt: choose the block layout, work out triangle and strip cuts, allow for shrinkage and cut the binding, with checklists.

  5 steps · About 20 minutes

Electronics

• Bring up an LED and a 3.3 V input from a 5 V supply

  A bench checklist for a first breadboard: size an LED resistor, read its colour bands, divide 5 V down to 3.3 V for an input, test the loading and check a batch of resistors.

  5 steps · About 15 minutes

Cooking mass and portions

• Plan pizza night: pizzas, dough and water temperature

  A planning checklist for a pizza party: count slices and pizzas, scale a dough recipe by weight, check the ingredient shares and work out the water temperature for the dough.

  4 steps · About 10 minutes

Gardening

• Plan a vegetable plot: beds, dates, water and compost

  A season plan for a small vegetable plot: count the plant spaces, date sowings from a frost reference, stagger harvests, test old seed, budget drip water and balance the compost.

  6 steps · About 30 minutes

Knitting & crochet

• Knit a sweater panel to size: gauge, stitch counts and yarn

  From a washed swatch to cast-on and row counts for a body panel and a ribbed cuff, then a yarn substitution and a budget, with checklists for before you cast on.

  5 steps · About 20 minutes

Woodworking

• Make mitred picture frames and hang them in a row

  Buy the wood for picture frames, set the saw for the mitre, space a row of frames evenly along a wall, find each hook’s height and buy the hooks, with checklists.

  5 steps · About 20 minutes

Presets on the tool pages

Tools in these crafts have a “Presets” menu above their inputs: worked examples such as a throw-size quilt, a red LED on 3.3 V, a pizza dough, a lettuce succession or a ribbed cuff, which fill the form and calculate. You can open one from a link ending #preset= and the preset’s id, and change any number afterwards. Each preset says what it is for, adds a note where it needs one and cites its sources.

Presets and kits are plain files in the Toolmoz repository, so anyone can propose one. Every preset is checked against its tool and against an independent calculation before it is accepted. These kits have not yet been reviewed by a specialist in each craft, and each page says so.