LTL volunteers will be at the UofL zero waste repair fair this Tuesday! Come by the red barn and learn a few sustainable tips from us and other vendors!

We are in danger of having to pull our @ryobitoolsusa tools from inventory due to lack of 18v batteries! If you have some lying around (or want to make a donation specifically for our battery fund), now is the time to do it! 🪛 Our most popular ryobi tools are the air nailers and drills!

Back, back, back again for spring volunteer orientation!!! 🧰 Did you know LTL is 1000% volunteer-run? That means by registering and getting involved as a volunteer, you help shape what the Tool Library can become! 🧰 We are hosting our spring volunteer training session on Sunday, March 24th from 12-3pm for folks interested in learning the ropes! Sign up at the 🔗🌴

No worries!!! 🥹🥹🥹 🧰 Psst! The link to sign up is available 24/7 and the 🔗 in our bio! It’s pay-what-you-can!

Next pack-a-thon is scheduled! @pagestoprisoners brings amazing snacks. Writing letter is good for you. The work you do helps others. Come be involved! Sunday March 3rd, 2:30-5:30pm at ye olde tool library!

Kreg is in the house!!!

We learned a lot today at Jeanne and Will’s urban orchard! These trees got a big haircut. Thanks again to @treeslouisville for the educational resources and tool loans, and extra special thanks to @buhbradley (TreesLouisville’s volunteer of the year!!) for sharing hands-on pruning knowledge with us. Also congrats to Heather for getting the baby in the king cake!

Our members literally asks for it every week, but a Kreg jig can run ya $100! Do you have one that you’re not using weekly? We’d love to have it in our lending inventory!

It’s getting warmer and brighter out, and those trees are due for a haircut! 🌳 Join us and volunteers from @treeslouisville for a field trip to prune trees in Schnitzelburg! 🌲 Location is a private residence with a fruit orchard. Please be respectful of our host and wait at the sidewalk before the demo begins. Bring gloves, PPE and water! Tools will be provided.

What was billed as a class on how to sew a tailored straight skirt could easily be retitled “Demystifying Manufactured Patterns”! @sadielovesco really gave us a masterclass in every step of commercial pattern-making, which also informed us of why those patters so often don’t fit our bodies. 🪡 Big appreciation to Nicole and all of our class attendees for making this class happen in our cold and dusty tool library. Next class is in two weeks, and we will get to chapter 2: “I sewed the muslin, now what?”

It’s how we make da sauce around here!

The greatest thing since “high-buttoned shoes?!” Let’s not get carried away! 🔸🔺 What top home tips do you want answers to? While we are but a network of volunteers committed to the sharing economy, there are some experts among our ranks! 🔺🔸 This cute pamphlet was shown to us by @lucyysloan

We had a great turnout for our first @pagestoprisoners pack-a-thon, and we hope to do it bimonthly here at the tool library! 📚 This is a great opportunity for people who love books or love writing letters…or both! You can even come and pack orders with headphones if you’re on the shy side!

We are still reflecting on 2023 and how what we’ve learned will impact the tool library in 2024. 🎊 We asked y’all to answer our 2023 needs assessment survey, and we will use those results to shape our priorities for the new year. The big takeaways: y’all wanna learn! 🎊 Comment below if you’re excited for any of the suggested workshop topics….and if you’re reading this and have a workshop up your sleeve, please reach out!

A few sawliday angels dropped off donations to us last week, including this very very cool digital label maker…it has tool icons!!! We are excited to continue sharing with our community in the new year! Have a safe and happy one!

We hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend! If you’re working on any DIY projects this holiday, be sure to grab your tools this Wednesday!

Don’t forget to pick up a wishlist ornament from our SAWliday tree this Wednesday! We have big ticket and tiny ticket items on there! The spirit of the sawliday tree compels you!!!

Happy SAWLIDAYS! Help make ours special by adopting an item from our wishlist! 🎁 When you visit us now through the new year, you can take an ornament from our tree to fulfill…you can even wrap it if you want! Not local? That’s okay, our wishlist is also online! 🎁 All donations are tax-deductible, so don’t forget to get your receipt! #thereisplentyifweshare

More conscious, sustainable communities are thriving in Louisville! Could it be because of a need to consume less? To gather and work together more? To leave things better than we found them? 🕰️ If you don’t know about the @louisvilletimebank , they are one such org. Come to their potluck on December 3rd right here in Shelby Park to learn more about their mission, and how you and your neighbors can benefit from the Time Bank!

It’s giving Tuesday! Your local volunteer-run community lending library is run solely on membership fees and tax-deductible donations. Consider donating if you can, or sharing so that our message can reach a wider audience! #thereisplentyifweshare

🎁Holidays aren’t hard with the LTL gift card!!!🎁 We’ve made it extra easy with a link to purchase gift cards in our linktree! 🎊 The perfect gift for the person who doesn’t have everything and would rather borrow than own! Because truly #thereisplentyifweshare

A little fall break for the library. 🍂 Come grab all your party supplies early! We have crock pots, baking things, chairs, ice cream makers, & more. Happy Fall Y'all!

This Sunday!!! Come join us, no experience needed! If you have any extra dictionaries lying around, bring those as well!

Well either way we can help you get set up! 💸 LTL does not allow auto-renewals for your membership because we know last year’s financial situation might not be this year’s, and we want our members to be able to adjust their membership fee to fit their budget. 💸 Memberships are sliding scale from $20/annually to $120, with equal access to all of the tools and services that LTL has to offer. One membership can cover a household, as long as everyone borrowing tools are 18 years and older. #thereisplentyifweshare

Our video projector has broken and we need a new one! Can you be our hero, baby? 📽️ We use our video projector for movie nights, volunteer meetings, presentations and workshops. Please reach out if your projector is collecting dust and needs a new home!

Stitch ‘n bitch: it’s a pretty freakin good time!!! They meet every other Tuesday! Folkow @madebychelseamae to stay in the loop!

Each one teach one! #thereisplentyifweshare

What a great wrench day at LTL! We appreciate every person who came to volunteer orientation today. If you’re a member and you see new faces behind the intake desk soon, be sure to thank these folks for volunteering their time! 😃 This joyful photo of @katherinekeeney was taken by our workshop host, stitch n’ bitch reglar and now new volunteer @sar6ade

Have you been wanting to learn the ropes of LTL librarianship? Many hands make light work, and we welcome anyone interested to join us this Sunday, October 8 for volunteer orientation! Use the 🔗 in our bio to register!

We have bakers scaffolding! But you gotta wait until @castle.reyes.3 is done with it to check it out!

We are excited to celebrate the Smoketown neighborhood tonight! We will be tabling with other neighbors and there will be FREE dinner, games, and face painting! Come by! 755 S Hancock St, 6-8pm.

Our quilting experts are headed out to the Bon Air Library branch to bring quilting to the masses!!! If you’ve been missing our quilting workshop here at LTL, consider visiting our volunteers this coming Saturday! 📍2816 Del Rio Place

Our members-only raffle prize was awarded to @glowinginfernoo !!! This @crybabylouisville bandana makes us wanna cry every time we see it, and what better to cry into than your @safaicoffeebar coffee, or a beer from @hauckscorner, or into your patty melt at @toastystavern?! Congrats Glow!!!! Thank you to ALL of our members and to everyone who has ever entered our doors. You make it great. #thereisplentyifweshare

HOO BOY! What a great kickoff to the weekend. Those who came in today got to see the madness of unboxing this pallet of brand new goodies from @greenworkstools ! 🪛 Members can show their appreciation to Greenworks by borrowing these tools, using them, and then leaving honest feedback. 🪛 Thank you, Greenworks!

We’ve been meaning to celebrate year one with all of you….why not now?! 🚲 Join us on Sunday, September 10 from 2-6pm at LTL for a car-free afternoon of activities, raffle prizes and of course, tools! 🚲 Logan street, Shelby street, and Goss Ave will be closed to car traffic so plan accordingly and bring your roller blades, skateboards, bikes, or any other motor-less mode of fun and enjoy the open streets of Shelby Park!

How is your 🩷EMOTIONAL FIRST AID KIT🩷 looking these days? A little empty? Possibly missing a few things? Well Dr. Shah is here to help us learn a few new skills for emotional wellbeing! ❤️ Join us on Thursday, Sept 21 from 6-7 for a talk about the basics of emotional first aid, followed by discussion. Please register in advance at ltl.tools or at the link in our bio!

We want to thank @beargrassthunder for taking all of your seed bank forms and turning them into 🌱DATA🌱! 🪻 From these charts, you can see that we’ve had a big change from last year—which showed highest interest in vegetables like lettuce and tomatoes—to flowers. We know as tool librarians that many of our members have been turning their lawns into plots for native species and gardens. @beargrassthunder likes to call them “yardens” and we will too! 🌻 Lastly a reminder: Louisville Seed Bank provides free seeds for everyone! You don’t have to be a tool library member to access the seeds. Come visit us during our monthly seed bank meetup to learn how to start a seed bank in your neighborhood!

We hit ONE YEAR IN THE BIZ this July, so some of your memberships are due for renewal! 💰 As a reminder, our annual membership fees are sliding scale! $120/year is incredible and helps us cover our overhead costs. A helpful metric to determine your annual fees can also be .1% of your yearly income; if you make $40k/year, $40 is a great membership rate and allows you to borrow from our inventory for a calendar year. 💰 If you haven’t made a membership commitment yet, now is a great time to do it! Visit LTL.tools to become a member now!

BIG THANKS to Matt and @doorknob for being our teachers for our first-ever hand tool literacy workshop! Thank you @louisvillefreepubliclibrary for hosting us at the Bon Air branch!

SEED MEETUP PHOTO ROUNDUP! We were an intimate gathering tonight but we got SO MUCH DONE and have a lot planned for next Wednesday and beyond! 🌱 Thank you Jody @beargrassthunder and @farmervonsaid for your efforts in organizing these events!

We love our sewing volunteers at LTL! These photos are from the Sewing Machine Maintenance day at the Bon Air branch of @louisvillefreepubliclibrary 🧵 These awesome folks will be popping up more this summer, but in the meantime…what are y’all sewing?!

We are up to the KILT in new donations: lots of new soldering tools, a massage gun, a balloon inflator and so much more! 👛 Did you know you can add tools to our donation wishlist? Visit ltl.tools for the link!

Your top 6 tools of July: corded power drills, 50’ extension cords, staple/nail guns, the fancy compound miter saw, chainsaws and OF COURSE the pressure washers. 🪛 What are you looking forward to borrowing from LTL this week? Visit the link in our bio (or type LTL.tools into your browser) to peruse our inventory! New things are added every week!

LTL member Daniel G sent us some photos of their success with the flower press (item 1136)! What did you do with your LTL membership this month? We love to know!

Today, we will be visited by folks from @louisvillefreepubliclibrary to share fliers about public library programs happening this summer. They will also be able to sign folks up for free library cards! Visit us between 5-6pm for public library info, and stick around until 7 for @farmervonsaid raised bed workshop!

Rainy days are for crafts!! Today we had Katherine and Becki on our new DIY merch screen printing setup, and Juliet started a sign for our shopping cart parking area!🧶 Thank you Katie from @aptoprint for helping us get our screen set up!

We will be one year old this Saturday! Thank you to all of our members for believing in and supporting this community resource. 🥇 We have made it one year on COMMUNITY DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS ALONE. Let that be a testament to the power of our community. 🥇 ALL POWER(TOOLS) TO THE PEOPLE!

We have ONE WEEK LEFT on our one-year fundraiser. We are still very, very, VERY SHORT of making our goal for a stump grinder. So, however much we raise in the next week will go to another highly requested tool that you all will get to pick! 💰 Help us to continue fundraising through Saturday, July 1st by sharing, commenting, liking, saving, spreading, and donating! #thereisplentyifweshare

To quote another Bill Hader character: “this place has EVERYTHING”

Often the hardest part about learning to sew is figuring that machine out! Sewing machine troubleshooting can be frustrating, but not with the awesome roster of volunteers we’ve wrangled to help you through it! 🪡 Join us at Bon Air Library on July 13th and bring your machines to learn the basics of cleaning, tuning, and troubleshooting. 🪡 This is NOT a machine repair event. However, if your sewing machine is broken, we do have a volunteer waiting in the wings to help get it back in ship shape 😏 stay tuned for that event!

Year one is almost in the books!!! We have loved becoming a community with all of our amazing members, workshop leaders and event attendees! 🌞 As you know, this machine runs on volunteer power. We will be taking a short break from July 1st through 5th to enjoy the holiday weekend and chillax to the max. 🌞 Any tools checked out this week will automatically be loaned for two weeks! Thanks, Louisville!

Why buy when you can DIY your very own deodorant?! 👃🏼 Learn to make your own low cost DIY deodorant with only 3 simple ingredients! Optional: bring an essential oil if you'd like to give your deodorant a specific smell and/or bring a small jar or container. 👃🏼 This is a drop-in style workshop, so just rsvp at the link in our bio, and come by anytime between 5:30-7! 👃🏼 Note for those with sensitive skin: ingredients are baking soda, arrowroot powder, and coconut oil plus optional essential oil.

We had a great time at @cyclouvia today with artist @violencecreative 🚴 As with tools, there is plenty of space on our streets if we share!

How are your sewing machine troubleshooting skills? 🪡 LTL is offering a sewing machine troubleshooting and tune-up day at the Bon Air Public Library on July 13th from 6-8:30pm. We could use a few more machine wizards to help out! 🪡 Volunteers should have comfort with basic sewing machine maintenance, and there is no expectation to REPAIR broken machines. We are talking about cleaning out lint, rethread if complicated machines, adjusting tension and so on. 🪡 Please send us a message if you’re interested, and share this with your crafty friends!

We have FREE STICKIES to spread the sharing ideology! Come by, grab a few, and share them with friends because…#thereisplentyifweshare 🩷❤️🧡💛 Thanks as always to @meme_tech ! We love being able to use a local vendor for our merch and they are great to work with.

Time to get crafty! Thank you Whitney for donating this completely kitted-out cricut cutting machine! ✂️ From the @cricut website: “Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more!” ✂️ The model we’ve got comes with cartridges similar to an old-school Nintendo with pre-loaded designs, so you can craft with or without a computer!

Y’ALL BOUGHT THIS!!! Thanks to your donations, we were able to buy a bigger, beefier electric tiller. Let’s keep the donations going so that we can check a few more things off of our member wish list!!! What “tool” do YOU want to see in our inventory?

We could use one more, since this one got checked out the moment we put it into inventory. Be a tool library hero and make a donation today!

Happy Pride, Louisville!

@horrorbookstore came by and taught us a fun craft to reuse junk mail and business cards! They are an independent book store on Barret Ave and they have both miniature and normal sized books for you to buy! Give them a visit! Thanks again, Jenny!

If you check out our free room this week, you can thank volunteer @elizabethreid3004 for how good it looks in there! 🧺 It takes so many people with different skills to keep our little tool library open and functioning—way beyond tool knowledge! 🧺 If you’ve got a special skill that you’d like to share with the community, we’d love to have you around 🤝

Wow today was a blast, both at #lfplhowtofestival and at the library! Thank you St.Matthews @homedepot for sponsoring our electric demo wall. We will be using this continually to provide an introduction to home wiring at the tool library!

Frost warning is past, so it’s all gas all crops with our local gardeners and farmers! Come by on Wednesday and let us know what you’re planting!

We can’t recommend the Stitch ‘n Bitch meetup more!!!! If you’re into crafting/needlework and are looking for a chill environment to meet new friends, please follow @madebychelseamae and join us for an evening or two or more!!! Our volunteers have witnessed Chelsea Mae create a wonderful, supportive and fun environment for everyone who’s visited LTL for a stitch ‘n bitch. Truly, it’s such a joy to behold!

Sometimes, a tool or electronic device can’t be repaired. Did you know there’s a way to retire those devices sustainably? Next Monday from 6-9pm, @roblgagnon will show us how to separate e-waste components into reusable materials, minimizing landfill waste. All are welcome! Feel free to bring your own e-waste to take apart, or help us with our pile!

More like Surely DontFall 🤠 amirite!!! Anyway, we got stilts donated today!

Can you believe it’s 10 years of @louisvillefreepubliclibrary How-To Festival?! We are so honored to be a small part of this years #lfplhowto happenings. Come see lots of amazing speakers, including our own Paul!!! He will be presenting “How to demystify home electrical wiring” from 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM at the Main Library. May 13th, 301 York street. See y’all there!!!

How you know the new volunteer orientation is going well: @madebychelseamae cuts some tape with her pocket hatchet. We had so much fun welcoming new folks into the library! We have opportunities for extroverts and introverts; tool heads and craft fiends; the chronically organized as well as the chronically dusty!

Happy Saturday! We got a massive donation today that checked off several things on our wishlist. Thank you to the Jones’s for giving to our community! #thereisplentyifweshare

We’re 1000% volunteer run, as you prolly know! Long-time volunteers like Von and Lou are so excited to be welcoming a new round of volunteers this Sunday. Did you sign up? The link is in our bio!

Did you know LTL is 1000% volunteer-run? That means by registering and getting involved as a volunteer, you help shape what the Tool Library can become! 🤝 We are hosting our spring volunteer training session THIS SUNDAY 4/23 from 12-3pm for folks interested in learning the ropes! 🤝 Registration is easy! Link in bio.

Do you like to pick up litter, eat pizza, and meet cool people? If so, this is the event for you. 10am this Saturday!

Concrete mixer has just entered the chat! This tool is available to all of our members, come by and see what else weve got!

Taking a page out of @thetoollibrary ‘s book to post our own Please Do’s and Please Don’ts….don’t’s?! Anyway, when in doubt, check this out!

See y’all at Joe Creason Park on April 15th for TREEFEST! We will have sustainable, tool-based activities for youngsters and oldsters alike.

That’s right: WE NEED YA! Our little tool library is ready to grow, but we want your input to make sure we do it right. 🗣️ If you have five minutes, please take our Community Engagement Survey at ltl.tools and then ask a friend to do the same! 🗣️ We appreciate y’all and YEAH IM SURE ABOUT THAT!

Twas a great seed savers meetup! Lots of super rare finds, including Pike County grease beans and wine cap germ spawn! Thanks to everyone who came by, especially our heroes @jecoreyarthur and @louisvillefreepubliclibrary 🌱 Seed savers wouldn’t be possible without the dedication and love @beargrassthunder has put into the Louisville Seed Bank!

Don’t know why “wooden mushroom creation” refused to leave the chat, but we can’t go back now! @loui_bird_creations knocked it out of the park today, and so did all of our amazing attendees! It was so nice to have the library LITERALLY humming with creative energy. More soon!

Yeah we had a WHITTLE bit of fun last Saturday 😏 Thanks to @godzillaondvd ‘s leadership, no fingers were lost and many cute owls were made. Drop a 🦉🦉🦉in the comments if we should offer this class again!

It’s never not a good time at the Stitch ‘n Bitch! The stitchers even managed to help a friend in real crisis tonight, and the vibes stayed immaculate. We love the cyborg couch cross-stitchers with all of their fancy gadgets. We especially love @madebychelseamae for putting this on for the community. 🥰

There’s so much happening at LTL that we can barely contain ourselves! Introducing the Quilt n’ Kvetch! 🧵 This is an open studio/social gathering for anyone who is already familiar with quilting or doesn’t need dedicated guidance—such as previous quilting workshop attendees! Deva, Rachel and Jenny will be with us to help troubleshoot anything that comes up. 🧵 1227 Logan Street. 6-9pm. BYOB. SEE YOU THERE! ✌️

We want to hear from you! 🗣️ Our first community engagement survey is live. Tell us how we can serve you better, Louisville! 🗣️ If you take the time to complete this survey (under 5 mins, we promise!) please share the link with a friend!

THANK YOU to our friends at @louisvillegrows for an awesome donation that includes this BRAND NEW ELECTRIC MOWER!!! 🌾 Now available to all LTL members!

Do you have any spare envelopes, or clean and empty plastic jugs? The Louisville Seed Savers could use them for our meeting TOMORROW! If you are our hero, you can drop items off at LTL tomorrow 2/22 between 5-7pm. Pass it on!

Here at LTL HQ ©️ we are always looking into ways to make your browsing and borrowing experience more enjoyable. That’s why we’ve created the patented False Weenie ™️ from a paint roller, butcher paper and black hot glue! That way, you’ll never mistake the Weiner extender for a trash grabber or back scratcher. GUARANTEED ®️

Guess who’s back? That’s right it’s MATT’S MOM! 🧶 We are doing a fun and intimate (only four students!) crochet workshop on baby afghans! 🧶 If you’re a veteran crocheter (crochetist?) and want to come by, please do! But only snag a free ticket if you’re a newbie in need of a mother’s guidance. 🧶 Signup link is in the bio!

Hooray quilts!!!! Second intro to quilting workshop is a wrap and I think we found our stride (and ideal table layout). Thank you times infinity to Deva, Rachel and Jenny for being excellent anti-capitalist, there’s-no-wrong-way instructors. Next one will be announced soon!

@amyaammyyaaammmyyy finished their quilt square from our Intro to Quilting class with Deva North!!!! AND THEN THEY MADE IT INTO A BACK PATCH!!!! And it’s looking so great! 🪡 We are getting pumped for our next quilting class this weekend and then we will put another one on the calendar!

Might as well share! 🤠

Join us tonight and tomorrow night @ 5:00 to tune in to candidate interviews with Louisville’s Metro Council on the big screen 🧠

GUYS!!! We have SO MUCH free fabric for you to take and make something beautiful! Come by on Wednesdays and Saturdays and get you some!

What is a lending library and how does it work? Find out this Sunday! By joining our volunteers, you will help shape this organization & make changes by bringing your unique perspective and skills to our team! There are many ways to volunteer—too many to list here—so come by to learn more! Link in bio to register !

Butter us up! Guess what’s new at LTL this week. Things keep gettin’ sweeter and sweeter around here 😘

Big ups to our volunteer SAM!!!! They are enrolling in JCTC to get an associates degree, focusing on woodworking! 🍾 We have saved lots of toolboxes and we have a surplus of the “basics” that a toolbox needs. We are saving them to donate to women, non-binary folks and queer friends studying to become tradespeople. 🍾 Everyone say YOU GO SAM!

Time to get some seeds in the dirt! Did you know all it takes to get your garden going in January is a milk jug or two? @beargrassthunder will be leading us in a winter sowing demo. ❄️ We will have a few milk jugs, but bringing your own is encouraged. We might also make some seed bombs to circulate our older seeds out! ❄️ We will be slang’n seeds on Wednesday, January 25th from 7-9. See you there!

What a fun day!!!! Big thanks to Deva—our generous instructor—for sharing knowledge with all of our workshop attendees. Quilts beget quilts, and I think we are all just getting started. 💘 We will take the weekend to rest our sewing fingers, but watch this space to hear about what’s next!

#toolspotting we saw this at @barretbabes this weekend and this tool looks familiar! Is it a Caulkie-cutter? A cookie gun? You tell us.

Couldn’t have said it better than Paul—save your back this season and let our newest donation split wood for you! Thanks to our friends @thebarretbar for getting this to us!

Wow, y'all are very excited about this workshop (so are we!!)! We added five more spots for anyone who didn't get in but wants to attend. Hopefully, this can become a regular event at the Tool Library!

We’ve just made plans for the first warm night of the year. 🍿 Check out this MASSIVE inflatable projector screen! Comes with stakes and ropes to keep it from blowing away. 🍿 What movie should this be christened with?! Let us know below!