Do It Yourself
Plans and tips for making almost anything, including exciting woodworking projects.

• Yo-Yo Shawl
  Based on the traditional granny circle bedspread, the yo-yo shawl is easy to make into a practical garment.
• Your Own WATER-POWER PLANT
  Harness that stream and forget the electric company. Here's the first of three installments of the five-part article printed by Popular Science that very concisely sketched out every step necessary for establishing a small water-power plant on a farm or homestead.
• Your First Boat
  A primer on the language and lore of boating, including hull types, mulithulls, hull materials, power and requirements, horsepower capacity.
• Your Basic Tool Kit
  Buying necessary tools, including hammer, chisels, pliers, screwdrivers.
• You've Just Seen Your Last Blackout
  Building a portable power station from plywood, inverter and battery, including: construction, operation, materials list, diagrams.
• YOU CAN TOO MAKE A QUILT
  

  YOU CAN TOO MAKE A QUILT January/February 1976 by: Nancy Caduff This article honors a gift handed down to us by the pioneer women of our country a skill conceived in poverty, pride, and love and considered by some to be the only true American folk art.

• YOU CAN STILL REGISTER FOR MOTHER'S SEMINAR PROGRAM
  

  YOU CAN STILL REGISTER FOR MOTHER'S SEMINAR PROGRAM March/April 1979 IF YOU HURRY... In MOTHER NO. 55 we promised to give you some information on our Seminar Advisory Board "brain trust" in the near future. And, as you know, when MOTHER says she'll do something, she does it! So, since the Earth-Sheltered Homes

• You Can Start Your OwnPublishing Business
  How to start a home publishing company, including do-it-yourself versus vanity, typesetting, justification, layout, copyright, printers, the economics of self-publishing, five ways to increase direct sales.
• YOU CAN RAISE YOUR TAX BRACKET BY PREPARING INCOME TAX RETURNS
  You don't have tobe a CPA to start preparing tax returns as a home business.
• You can make money in the country with a camera
  Wildlife photographer shares the secrets of the trade in this beginner's guide, including equipment, preparing work for submission, markets, and publication contact information.
• YOU CAN MAKE AN ""EAR OF CORN"" DOLL
  

  YOU CAN MAKE AN ""EAR OF CORN"" DOLL September/October 1976 In MOTHER NO. 35 (see "Cornhusk Dolls for Fun and Profit", pages 38 — 43), Nancy Bubel told us how to make and market two kinds of dolls — traditional and contemporary — from nothing but the paper — like shucks

• YOU CAN MAKE $30 A DAY PLANTING TREE ON CONTRACT!
  

  YOU CAN MAKE $30 A DAY PLANTING TREE ON CONTRACT! January/February 1977 by RONALD A. PERSON The Halfway Ranger District of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota paid local people nearly $25,000 for planting trees last year. Now this was only one

• You Can Help Keep Sprays Away
  Ann and Phillip Hunt sought alternative to having their farm sprayed with Dimilin to control gypsy moths.
• YOU CAN GROW YOUR OWN MUSHROOMS
  Equipment, supplies, and instructions for growing mushrooms at home or on the farm.
• Year-round Watermelon
  Watermelon doesn't have to be just a summer treat; you can preserve it in a number of ways detailed here, including pickles and preserves, dehydrated watermelon, watermelon wine.
• X-RAYS, RADIATION, AND YOU
  The basics of radiation, including how it is measured, medical uses and how to avoid unnecessary x-rays.
• Write Your Own Will
  You may not be able to take it with you, but you can help control where it goes if you follow this procedure, including buried in paper, how should it be written, alternatives to wills, uniform probate code.
• WRAP 'EM IN PASTRY
  

  WRAP 'EM IN PASTRY January/February 1979 Want to turn your "every" meals into mouthwaterin' treats? PATRIES...UPPER PENINSULA STYLE! KITTY DONOHOE Michigan's Upper Peninsula is probably the pasty capital of the

• Would You Like to Become a Midwife?
  

  Would You Like to Become a Midwife? July/August 1985 There's a growing need for compassionate, skilled women to attend natural childbirths. by Mary Baechler Although the modern world is becoming increasingly oriented toward technology, one of the world

• World Game
  World Game: a unique experiment to develop a computer coordinated model of planet earth - used to "play the world" and develop ways of running the future for the benefit of mankind.
• WORKING WITH THE LAND
  Jon Stuart and Carol Mack have spent 25 years on 40 acres in the woods of northeast Washington. In Mother’s first Report From the Field, Stuart tells what worked, what didn’t and why the family wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
• WOOL: THE CAMPER'S NATURAL FRIEND
  

  On our first hitchhiking trip together, my partner A1 and I carried low-cost fiberfillinsulated sleeping bags. (We simply couldn't afford goose-down bags and knew that the feathery stuffing loses its warmth-giving properties when it gets wet, anyway.) Pulling out of Fairbanks, Alaska in September, we roamed down the Pacific coast as far south as San Francisco. After Golden Gate country, we decided to indulge ourselves, and took a bus to Ohio. From there we went back to thumb power while traveling to Florida and Connecticut and then homeward through Maine and across Canada. We reached Fairbanks with the first leaves of spring.

• Woodworking Basics
  

  Use these three powerful techniques to bring your wood projects together.

• Woodstoves and Mobile Home Safety
  The pleasures and economic advantages of wood burning are now available to those who don't dwell in site-built homes.
• Wood-splitting season
  A guide to constructing said table, log-splitting table plans, materials list, diagram.
• Woodlot Safety
  Chainsaw and logging protection including safety gear, safe clothing, tools, habits, tree selection and cutting.
• Wood-fired Hot Tub
  

  Angus W. Stocking of Paonia, Colorado describes how he built his own wood-fueled hot tub.

• Wood-fired Central Heat
  The benefits of selecting a wood-burning furnace or boiler to heat a home over a woodstove, including forced-hot-air systems, hyrdonic systems, combination systems, dual units and installation.