tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33978708695565743562024-03-05T21:11:19.998-05:00Beachton Blank WorksHype the PrototypeBeachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-25039867085154824372019-06-07T10:22:00.002-04:002019-06-07T11:03:52.649-04:00Peach Jam with Rosemary and Ginger Flavor: Multiple Batch Process(cross-posted from Spasms of Accommodation)<br />
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My aunt brought me a box of peaches from Barney last Friday. That's about 25 pounds. There were 79 peaches in there. I managed to use up a lot of them fresh, but 65 of them got made into jam. I made a video. (music: www.bensound.com)<br />
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I live in a tiny house with no stove. My procedure does not comply with Georgia Cottage Food Law since I do all the cooking outdoors. I accept the risk of contaminating my product as I eat it all myself. If you have a full kitchen you can work entirely indoors for maximum food safety. And if you have a big stove you can use two burners at once and streamline your process.<br />
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Recipe for two batches of jam:</h2>
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On the first day:</h3>
Start a stock pot of water boiling.<br />
Prepare an ice water bath and a bowl of ascorbic acid to reduce browning. This is for all the peaches, not split into two batches yet.<br />
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<li>4 teaspoons Fruit Fresh</li>
<li>6 Tablespoons water</li>
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Mix in a large bowl.<br />
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Get 24 ripe peaches out of the refrigerator. Chilling them first makes this part nicer.<br />
Drop 6 peaches into the boiling water and count to 30. Remove the peaches to the ice water bath.<br />
Replace lid and let pot boil up while you peel the skin off the first 6 peaches. Roll them around in the ascorbic acid as you finish them. I wear food prep gloves for this part because the acid in the peaches makes my skin rough.<br />
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Repeat for all the peaches.<br />
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You get to sit down for this next part. Cut out the pits and slice up the peaches into chunks. I don't like to cut too close to the pit or it gets woody bits in the jam. Put all the peaches into the bowl with the ascorbic acid. I squeeze the pit over the bowl to get all the peach juice.<br />
Mix the cut up peaches after every one to coat in the ascorbic acid.<br />
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After all the peaches are cut up split them between two bowls. Add flavorings (5 sprigs of rosemary and a handful of sliced ginger in each bowl. Also add a teaspoon of Angostura bitters.)<br />
Add 1 cup of sugar to each bowl. Use this amount for each batch.<br />
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<li>~ 6 cups cut up peaches</li>
<li>5 sprigs rosemary</li>
<li>2 + tablespoons sliced ginger</li>
<li>1 tsp Angustora bitters</li>
<li>1 cup sugar</li>
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Stir, cover, and refrigerate until the next day. Stir occasionally if you think about it.<br />
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Start sterilizing jars. You need 7 half pint jam jars per batch of peaches. This low sugar jam doesn't last long when it's opened so I try not to make jars bigger than the 1 cup size. I ran out though so I used a few full pint jars. I may use that for cake filling so it gets used up all at once.<br />
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I use a silicone trivet in the bottom of a stock pot for my canning pot. Put 7 jars in the pot and start it boiling while you work on the peaches.<br />
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Take a bowl out of the refrigerator and pick out the rosemary sprigs and as much of the ginger as you see.<br />
Scoop the cut up peaches into a food mill with the plate with large holes. Process all the peaches to a puree.<br />
Repeat with the second bowl of peaches.<br />
Measure out 6 cups of pureed peaches into a bowl. Repeat with another bowl.<br />
Add citric acid and calcium water.<br />
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<li>6 cups peach puree</li>
<li>1 1/2 tsp citric acid</li>
<li>6 tsp calcium water</li>
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Check on jars and swap first batch for second batch to get them all sterilized.<br />
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Measure sugar and pectin into 2 bowls. Each bowl gets.<br />
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<li>1 cup sugar</li>
<li>4 tsp pectin</li>
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Get all jars into the pot of boiling water and set it aside.<br />
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Put one bowl of peaches into the pot. Stir over high heat until it boils. (about 8 minutes)<br />
Add one bowl of sugar + pectin. Stir and bring to a full boil (no more than 3 minutes)<br />
Turn off the heat.<br />
Remove 7 jars from the pot and fill them with the hot jam.<br />
Add hot water to the jar lids to soften the glue<br />
Wipe down the rim of the jars with a wet paper towel and put on lids and rings. Set these jars aside.<br />
Wash the pot, funnel, and scoop.<br />
Start the second batch of jam.<br />
Heat and stir to boiling,<br />
Add sugar and pectin in the second bowl.<br />
Boil again.<br />
Fill jars, add lids.<br />
Put canning pot back on to boil.<br />
When water is boiling add the first batch of jam jars.<br />
Time 10 minutes.<br />
Remove jars from the water bath.<br />
Put the next batch of jars in.<br />
Time 10 minutes.<br />
Remove the jars from the water bath.<br />
When all the jars have sealed, the lid has sucked down and gone PLINK! then you can unscrew the rings and dry the threads and wipe off the jars.<br />
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If you still have peaches left repeat this whole process. You already have a pot full of boiling water! You can start right away blanching more peaches. Repeat for as many days as you have peaches.<br />
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This process yields 1 half pint jam jar for every 1.75 peaches. These were quite large peaches I had this year. You can calculate your own yield after you do your first batch. I started with 17 peaches and then raised that number to 24 to make it come out even at 7 jars per batch.<br />
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Materials needed: You can get most of this stuff at Walmart. They sell the jar lifter, magnet on a stick, canning funnel, citric acid and ascorbic acid (branded as Fruit Fresh), jam jars and lids, and big plastic bowls with lids. I also got the crock pot there. My enameled cast iron jelly pot I got from Tuesday Morning.<br />
<br />Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-58239315421698021582018-10-08T17:22:00.000-04:002018-10-22T19:28:17.195-04:00Great-Great-Grandma's DressMy great-great-grandmother Ida was born in 1850 and died in 1931. My grandmother would have been almost 18 when her grandmother died. She never told me any stories about visiting her big house in Delaware, but my aunt remembers hearing about it. It was on the Delaware River, near Philadelphia. My grandmother and her siblings would take the train with their mother from south Georgia. My mother remembers playing dress-up in Ida's wedding dress in the 1950s. At some point the dress was given to our cousin Ellie who just sent it back, September 2018.<br />
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I don't have a photo of my great-great-grandmother Ida in her wedding dress, but I do have a photo of another great-great-grandmother, Anna, in her wedding dress in 1877. This woman would have been a contemporary of Ida's. Her son James and Ida's daughter Rosalie married sometime between 1898 and 1913. 1898 is when Rosalie was in her mother's second wedding and 1913 is when my grandmother was born.</div>
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Ida's best friend was named Rosalie Butcher. Her sister Laura was married to a natural gas tycoon named Addicks. Ida got married to a man named Wilson. She named her first daughter for her best friend Rosalie. When Laura died, the tycoon Addicks married her sister, Rosalie, Ida's best friend. But Rosalie suspected her husband and Ida were having an affair so she divorced Addicks. And sure enough Ida married him next. Way too much drama for me. I'm not sure at what point in the proceedings Ida's husband died. There was a 12 year gap where she was just a widow.<br />
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I thought the dress was from Ida's second wedding to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edward_Addicks">J. Edward Addicks</a> in 1898, which I can read about on Wikipedia, but upon examination I see that the name written inside the shoes is Miss Carr. She was already Mrs. Wilson when she married Mr. Addicks, as evidenced by the New York Times wedding announcement. Ellie speculates maybe Ida wore this dress for both weddings. I don't know about that. It was probably close to 20 years between them. Surely the style changed. But it was customary in those days to not have a dedicated wedding dress. Even Queen Victoria repurposed her wedding dress into a ball gown. Most women just wore their very best dress to their wedding. This dress is indeed totally over the top. I can see how Ida might want to wear it again.<br />
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I can't read the document showing the date Ida married Joseph Bernard Wilson to see the earlier possible date for this dress being made. It was easy enough to find a picture of the marriage record online, but I'm too poor to shell out $9 to Ancestry.com to get a look at it bigger than a thumbnail. Times have changed. I don't have a lot of money to throw around. My ancestors had money, oh yeah. According to the website of the people who currently own the ancestral home, Anna's husband, A. Heywood Mason, was worth 2 million dollars in 1890. This was at a time when the entire federal budget was 384 million dollars. I'm not bragging, I'm frankly disgusted by that. As bad as the sociopolitical situation is these days I just have to shrug at the question "Where did we go wrong?!" The very beginning? Anna's husband got his money the same way rich people do it today — from his father. James S. Mason immigrated from England in 1830 and built a factory making ink and shoe polish. He had 200 employees at a steam powered factory in Philadelphia at the peak production of James S. Mason & Co. I expect the CEO got rich and the workers didn't, same as today.<br />
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Anyway, judging by Ida's dress, she was pretty well taken care of too. She seems to have marched right into the tailor on her very narrow feet and said, "I'll take the works."<br />
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A few years after Anna and A. Heywood Mason got married they came down to the piney woods in a horse drawn coach with their wee baby James. They stayed in an opulent hotel for the winter. They went hunting and had a big time socializing with other rich folks. They liked it so much in South Georgia they bought land for all their hunting needs, complete with a big Gone With The Wind looking plantation house. (This all happened after the civil war. There were freed slaves to take care of the house and land but the Masons paid them and taught them to read and whatnot.) When I was a little girl my aunt and uncle lived there. It was right through the woods and I used to visit them. I took tennis lessons on their tennis court and my cousin Sherry taught me how to ride a horse (I didn't go nuts over either of those activities, preferring to read and make things.). My aunt and uncle sold the big house when I was in college. But my grandmother's descendants retain the part of the land that she inherited. This is where I live in my tiny house.<br />
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When it comes to heirlooms my grandmother was just not set up to conserve textiles. She was terrible at taking care of anything that wasn't improved by setting it on fire. She was an early proponent of prescribed burning for these forests. Our woods are a beautiful example of a diverse native ecosystem. But that enormous oriental rug in her old house where my aunt lives now, it is in a sad state. It would probably be worth a lot if it hadn't been in an unairconditioned house in the South for the last 130 years. Linen tablecloths and dresses are equally degraded. Some of the furniture is still around, but honestly most of it is pretty ugly. Victorian taste was grotesque.<br />
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I feel like the design of this dress has value for costume purposes even if it is so damaged as to not be usable as a garment. I can measure and document it and take a lot of photos. Somebody could refer to this information to create a replica as a period costume. If you have a membership to Ancestry.com you can find out exactly what year Ida Carr got married the first time and pinpoint when this was the height of fashion in the Philadelphia area.<br />
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I'm curious about the technology they could have used to make this dress. I looked on the <a href="http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/model-list/classes-1-99.html">ISMACS site</a> (sewing machine collectors) for what sort of industrial sewing machines they had available then. Singer introduced a vast selection of industrial sewing machines in the 1890s. But if this dress was for a wedding 15 or more years before that there would have been a much reduced set of machinery to make it. The tailors would have been limited to a few kinds of chain stitch or lock stitch machine driven by hand crank. I think the treadle came along around 1880. This dress may even pre-date that innovation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Singer Ruffler hadn't been invented yet when this dress was made. All these ruffles were made by hand</td></tr>
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I don't think the crimper with the treadle was invented yet when this dress was made.<br />
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Question: am I wrong to call it a dress if it's a skirt and jacket? What would Ida call this? An outfit? An ensemble? I will now start referring to it more specifically by the separate parts.<br />
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The Jacket</h2>
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I can't get over the color of this outfit. It's basically like if an old sepia tone black and white photo was actually a color photo and everybody was just dressed in shades of beige and gray in the 1800s. Since when do taupe and gray go together? Maybe not since 1900. </div>
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The jacket of this dress weighs 12 1/2 ounces. It has stiff interfacing in the bottom half of the sleeves but the rest of the jacket is quite soft. The bodice is a taupe silk low luster satin with silk faille or taffeta sleeves and embellishments. I'm not sure what to call the fabric. The grayish stuff is quite stiff where the taupe is soft, like the silk blouses I used to wear to work when I had a job. Is it peau de soie? It's very pretty material especially on the back where it is less damaged. For 53 detailed photos with measurements go to the <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/do3DEGLnGEEAw2kV8">Google Photos album.</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The jacket from the front had these inward facing ruffles and I'm not sure what they were meant to do.</td></tr>
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The Petticoat</h2>
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The petticoat would fit me if I removed all my internal organs below my lungs and put on a corset. It's got a 23" waist. The length comes to the top of my ankle in front. There is a train in the petticoat. I can't tell if its got room for a bustle. It's quite heavily gathered up. There are ribbons inside it that I guess were meant to be tied together to bustle it up if you didn't want the train dragging.</div>
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Front Length: 39"</div>
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Back Length: 61"</div>
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Ruffle: 16 1/2" with 4" hem and 1/4" turned under. Would have started out as a 21" wide fabric strip 225" long. (18 feet 9 inches)</div>
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At the top of the ruffle where it is gathered is 138" (11 feet 6 inches) </div>
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The front gore of the petticoat is 22 1/2" at the bottom and 6" gathered at the waist. I don't know if it started out a rectangle or not. I wonder if the ruffle is made from the full width of whatever fabric they made this out of? The gores on either side are steeply angled down and are 11" along the bottom seam at the ruffle. <span style="color: #0000ee; text-decoration-line: underline;">More photos on Google</span></div>
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The skirt and petticoat together weigh 6.2 pounds. The skirt alone is 4.2 pounds.<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/eNivtkUfZUhZ1pH87"> Link to more photos and opportunity to comment on each.</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ida had her a pocket for her HP15C. (Not really. Those came out in 1982, not 1882. Sorry, Ida.)</td></tr>
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The length of the front of the skirt is 40 1/2". It would come about 1/2" off the floor if I put it on. This is me standing on tiptoe to estimate 1 1/4" heels. I expect with petticoats and a bustle and possibly a hoop holding it out, Ida was probably a little shorter than me. Probably about my mom's height around 5'4". (I have a 32" inseam. Average to above average for modern times. 100 years ago that would have been unusual.)</div>
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The front of the skirt is made of 3 gores. At the waist they measure </div>
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and they are perfectly flat, no gathers. I don't know what happens when you bunch up all that petticoat under there though.</div>
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At 22" down from the waist there is another triangular gore sewn between the middle and side gores. It measures 5" across the hem. The total width at the hem is like this</div>
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There are 4 ruffles arranged on the front of the skirt from about the tip of the jacket to just below the knee. They have a bit of a V shape to them. They are made of bias cut strips of silk taffeta with a doubled 1/4" hem folded to the front. They are hand gathered and hand attached to the skirt. The ruffles are topped with bias cut banding with more of that 1/4" folded hem. Some of this has a mesh backing.<br />
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The bottom front business is a 15 1/2" wide bias cut silk band with a 1" hem on the bottom and a 2" piece sewn on the top so these weird pleats can be turned down. Basically each pleat takes 11 1/2" of fabric and turns it into 2 1/2". This happens five times across the front of the skirt. It's simply a device to put more fabric in this garment.<br />
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I have this image in my head of a young woman and her maid going into a tailor's shop carrying three bolts of fabric each. They drop them on the counter and the lady says, "I've just come from a trip to France where I purchased enough fabric to make new draperies for the entire new wing. But I've changed my mind and I would like all of it made into just one dress."<br />
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The bias cut is no joke. They must have just converted several bolts of taffeta into one long 12" strip and then they cut that down into all the other trim profiles. I looked up how wide fabric was in the 1870s. Standard looms seemed to be turning out fabric a yard wide, so only 36".<br />
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The front design goes like this. # is a gather and * is a bow.<br />
# * # * # * # * #<br />
I undid one of the gathers and measured 18" from the side seam to the first bow.<br />
18" x 5 = 90" for the band across the front before it's gathered up. After it's gathered and sewn on it comes to 44". That's a 15 1/2" strip too, not just 12". That's two yards of fabric just to make that decoration. Not counting the bows.<br />
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There are two side panels to describe before I even get to the back. After the band on the front there is a 9 1/2" wide at the bottom and 2 3/4" at the top panel. It is framed out on the back side with two lines of this tape with a folded double 1/4" hem, invisibly stitched from the back. This makes it stiff. I think that's why they keep doing this. These panels are attached on top of the side gores.<br />
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But wait! There's more! The side panels are backed up with another 2" bias cut ruffle and filled in with 5 bows. On each side. For crying out loud already!<br />
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Now, on to the back. There are 5 gores on the back of the skirt. The back is so heavily gathered at the waist that they didn't even try to make it flat. They just sewed through the pleats and lined them up against the small of Ida's back like a folded fan. It must not have been very comfortable. It wouldn't matter if it looked funny as the tail of the jacket would have mostly covered it up.<br />
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In fact they seemed utterly unconcerned about what went on at the top of the skirt. The edge of the waistband isn't even finished. There's no sign of a buttonhole. I wonder if the waistband was replaced later. This seems likely. For an event Ida would probably have her lady's maid sew her into it and then cut the stitches at the end of the night.<br />
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Flipping the skirt inside out I will measure the gores in the back. The whole thing is backed up with muslin same as the jacket. It's not really lining, just interfacing.<br />
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Gathered up at the waist there are 5 gores in back. The measurements all gathered up are<br />
|2"|2"| 4" |2"|2"|<br />
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Measuring along the stitching line for the first ruffle:<br />
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The center back has a clear oval area like a little shelf to show off the ruffles of the swallow-tailed jacket. There may have been a bustle under this business. From the center back waist to the first ruffle on the back is 15". These ruffles are 5 1/2" wide. They are hand gathered seemingly at the same time as the raw edge at the top is folded under. When they are attached to the skirt the raw edge is hidden under the ruffle. The top seam isn't very neat though. It's just all wadded up and tacked on. The hem is still that 1/4" doubled hem folded to the front and blind stitched from behind. But the ruffles are sewn through the taffeta and muslin interfacing in one motion it seems.<br />
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The ruffles down the back are 4" apart at the edges and 4 1/2" apart in the middle. There are 10 ruffles sewn on in an oval. The total length of the back of the skirt (measured on the inside) is 60".<br />
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There is a 5 1/2" wide box pleat sewn into the bottom back of the lining of the skirt on top of an interesting polished cotton layer. I feel like this must be to protect the fabric from moisture on the ground?<br />
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The very edge of the dress is bound in a sturdy tape. This goes around the silk taffeta, the muslin interfacing, and the polished cotton. But not the box pleat. That's added on after.<br />
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14 total bows on the skirt. 3 on the jacket, 1 on the hat, and 2 on the shoes. The two on the sleeves are my favorites. They are special both tails coming from the same side.<br />
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The Shoes</h2>
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Here's the shoes that go with the dress. Heel height is 1 1/4". For more photos and descriptions go to the <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/9wfWnypgiKyNjZAM8">online album</a></div>
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I can't figure out how this hat is supposed to go. It has some wire in it to hold it in a sort of crescent shape. There is way too much silk all bunched up on one side. I don't understand why the last ruffle has the raw edge sort of hanging out. And why did they use brown thread to do all these gathers? Maybe there was a veil added to the top of the hat for the wedding, similar to the photo of Anna above.<br />
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I sent a link to the photos of this dress to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChyWv5fy8utAWVhRPVV85XQ/featured">Angela Clayton</a>, a YouTuber who sews a lot of frilly dresses and period costumes. (<a href="https://angelacostumery.com/">Website</a>/<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChyWv5fy8utAWVhRPVV85XQ/featured">YouTube</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span>This is how I was aware this is a thing that people do, which is why I documented this dress in the first place. She thinks this dress is from the early 1870s, so definitely Ida's first wedding, not the second one. She said it is definitely useful to see pictures of the inside of it and the details of how it was sewn since fashion plates and museum photos don't let you see that stuff.</div>
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Angela sent me some really interesting links to similar dresses as fashion plates and one from the <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/64857.html?mulR=28539%7C229">Philadelphia Museum.</a></div>
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Thank you, Angela! I didn't even know about fashion plates before. But I was sort of picturing Ida's dress drawn this way instead of thrown over a wicker chair. I still can't believe people wore this stuff. Those bustles are ridiculous looking. I don't understand the point of that AT ALL. It looks like a pantomime horse under a tablecloth.Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-3762295460010925472018-09-08T14:37:00.003-04:002018-09-08T14:45:46.115-04:00Pitch Pineys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm trying a new marketing approach, sales benefit something of ecological importance. This is no different than everything I make and sell, but I'm interested to see if it matters to emphasize the good cause. I am also going for a very low price point. That may make more difference. If $10 doesn't work I will try something lower.<br />
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Longleaf pine was one of most abundant tree species in North America before industrialization. Now less than 3 percent of the original forest remains. Half of this is on private land like my family's.<br />
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Maintaining the longleaf pine ecosystem is a lot of work. It requires annual prescribed fire to keep the understory open for keystone species like red cockaded woodpeckers and gopher tortoises.<br />
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I live out here in my tiny house and keep an eye on the property. If lightning starts a fire I run out there with a rake and I put it out before it jumps a fire lane and sets the neighbors' land on fire too. I kill time between thunderstorms doing science communication and making arts and crafts in my lab. I don't have room for any art in my tiny house, so try to sell things online.<br />
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When I say that buying a Pitch Piney supports conservation of Longleaf Wiregrass Savannah I mean I'm going to buy a can of gas with that money and I'm going to mow some firelanes. Or I may buy groceries. I don't have non-profit status, I just don't get paid at all for anything. I have tools from when I had a job and I hang on to materials I can upcycle. Aside from a branch that fell in my yard this project uses file folders I got with a free file cabinet somebody gave me when they moved. And I have foam core scraps from framing posters for a friend. You can check out my <a href="http://www.spasmsofaccommodation.com/2018/01/2017-wrap-up-no-as-big-as-medium-year.html">testament to smallness over on my other blog</a> to verify my efficiencies.<br />
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Longleaf pines were nearly wiped out because they are just so useful. Longleaf is the strongest wood for structural posts. These trees also produce a very useful resin that is distilled into turpentine. In certain parts of the tree this resin can become so concentrated it stops behaving like normal wood. It actually allows light to pass through it like stained glass. This is the basis of the Pitch Piney project.<br />
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Here's how they look hanging in front of a sheer curtain in my lab.<br />
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In addition to being visually striking Pitch Pineys have a pretty strong smell of pine trees. This will grow less pronounced as they outgas. <div>
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They will also darken from UV light. They will go from yellow to orange to brown to almost black if you wait long enough. (It takes decades)<br /><br /> I made a video about them.<br />
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You could sand them if you're into that. Here's what one looks like sanded. Kind of hard to tell the difference when it's doing its thing. Sanding will release more of that smell. Be sure it doesn't bother you. It kind of makes my face burn, same as latex balloons.<br />
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Thanks for your interest in Pitch Pineys! Here's a hatchling gopher tortoise I saw in my yard this week.<br />
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Here he is the next day after he got rained on overnight. You can still see his egg tooth!</div>
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I had an idea for another expansion for my board game — WatUR for three players. If I add four squares at one end and two on the other a third player could play straight down the center column while players one and two play the regular C shaped routes.<br />
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But Go stones only come in black and white. A third player is going to need a third color. Mesopotamians were heavily into lapis lazuli, so blue is the obvious choice for the third color. <a href="http://wondertrail.com/games-and-puzzles/gaming-dice-and-dice-sets/bulk-dice/kop01979-blue-d6-16mm-blank-counting-cube-dice-200-koplow-games.html">Koplow makes blank blue dice</a>, so I could make those easy enough. I just need to figure out how to make white Go stones blue. To the internet!<br />
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I found some car restoration enthusiasts who tried dying white plastics black. They used <a href="https://www.ritdye.com/type/dyemore-for-synthetics/">Rit Dye More</a>, a fabric dye made specifically for polyester and nylon blends.<br />
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The Go stones I like are made of melamine. Wikipedia gives a good specific description of melamine. It appears to be just nitrogen and hydrogen. Whereas, also according to Wikipedia, nylon is a general term for a polymer made from mixing two liquids together. The structural elements are nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. Polyester seems to be missing the nitrogen. It's just hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. I'm not sure what that means for getting the melamine to bond with a dye.<br />
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I know that the thermoplastic polymers absolutely cannot be dyed. Polypropylene and olefin fabrics are in this category. If the pigment is not in the vat when it is molten plastic it's never going to happen. (This makes those fabrics extremely stain resistant, as you can imagine.) So I thought I'd compare that molecule with what I've got. I'm no chemist, but it doesn't look remotely the same to me. I think I've got a chance.<br />
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I searched online for who sells the Rit Dye More — all the major craft chains and Walmart, but not Target. I went to town and bought a bottle. I had a coupon and got it for under $3.</div>
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The dye instructions for fabric require you to keep the dye bath almost boiling the whole time. This sounds totally reasonable to me. They use melamine to make cooking spoons. It will be fine. I wanted to give the dye the best possible chance of working so I decided to scour the stones first. I combined washing soda and water in my dye pot and brought it to a boil. I put in 70 white Go stones and stirred it for several minutes at a simmer. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washing soda and Go stones on the boil</td></tr>
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I poured off some of the water and then dumped the stones and the last of the washing soda water into a bowl to stay hot.<br />
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I wiped out the pot and added distilled water a few inches deep. I set my hot plate on high to bring the water to a boil. When it was boiling I added half the bottle of dye.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distilled water and Rit Dye More is all I used to dye the stones</td></tr>
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I didn't add the dish soap that the Rit instructions called for. I thought the washing soda on the stones would serve the same purpose. If I do it again I may use some dish soap just to see if it makes a difference. I think I'll still scour the stones with washing soda though.</div>
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After mixing the dye well I drained the washing soda out of the hot stones and added them to the pot, still wet. I commenced stirring on medium heat with a wooden spoon. I stirred constantly for about 30 minutes. I entertained myself by dipping other random stuff in there, like polyester ribbon, the lid to the plastic container the Go stones came in, and a nylon cable tie. The cable tie died the best. That's almost instantaneous.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dyed stones after stirring on heat 30 minutes or more</td></tr>
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I used a stainless steel skimmer to get the stones out of the dye bath. I spread them out on some cardboard to cool.<br />
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I cleaned up the rest of the work area while the stones cooled. Then I took them to the sink to wash them. I started with a dishpan of cool water and some dish soap and swished them around good. I was happy to see the water didn't turn too terribly blue.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wash the cooled stones in cool soapy water</td></tr>
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It only took two rinses for the water to stay clear.</div>
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I dried the stones with paper towels, rubbing each one to be sure it wasn't going to bleed.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Faux Lapis Lazuli Go Stones</td></tr>
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I'm really pleased with how these turned out. I like the ones that have swirls and color variations. Some of them are just evenly blue. I can pick out sets that go together.</div>
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The next step is to mail these to California for laser engraving. I can't wait to see if the engraved line shows up in a contrasting white color. The line on the white ones is sort of brownish, but if you scrub each one with a toothbrush and soap it goes white. I'm afraid if I did that to the dyed stones I'd take some of the color off. But I will definitely test it. It would be easier to scrub each stone than to press caulk into the engraving and wipe it off.</div>
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Here's how they look plain on a wooden board.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wooden WatUR board with taped lines, water slide decals and hand painted stars</td></tr>
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I tried it with orange too, to make stones that look like carnelian. I like it.<br />
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This is the idea behind it, lapis and carnelian jewelry from the time frame of the original Royal Game of Ur.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I dyed the lines in the dice with hair dye. Not bad.</td></tr>
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I got a request to replicate a garment for a baby that's a sort of bib with arm holes. An apron, if you will. Or a smock. I like the word smock. I asked her if she had some old clothes I could use to make these smocks. She went through her old t-shirts in storage and got some with sentimental value that she never wore anymore. </div>
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The sample bib my friend gave me had a knit front and some kind of light gauge toweling on the back. There's a 4" ribbon between the front and the part that fastens in the back. I had some cotton terry cloth so I tried that. Then I showed it to my aunt who is a retired kindergarten teacher. She is an expert in the perpetual moistness of small children. She said all t-shirt material would probably be fine. Might not need the terry cloth. So for the shirts that didn't really go with white terry cloth I just used the back of the shirt for the reverse of the bib.</div>
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I eyeballed the original garment and drew a pattern. The original had velcro on it but I don't like velcro. I tried some plastic snaps on some of the ones I made but I decided I sort of like this shoelace method the best. I will report back after these are tested on the baby.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howl's Moving Castle T-shirt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Place the pattern </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut the pattern from both the front and back of the t-shirt. Flip the parts so it's right sides together</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut a shoe lace in half and place the cut end at the turn in the armhole of the bib. Do both sides.</td></tr>
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<li>Cut out the pattern from both sides of the shirt. Flip the front and back so it's right sides together</li>
<li>Cut a shoelace in half and pin the halves between the fabric layers with the cut end at the cut edges under the arms. The loose shoelace should be contained inside the sandwich</li>
<li>Pin all the way around</li>
<li>Think about where you're going to leave it open to turn it and then sew around with a 1/4" seam allowance. When you get to the ends of the shoulder pieces skip about 3/4 inch unsewn on the sides just below the ends. This is to thread the shoelace through.</li>
<li>Turn right side out.</li>
<li>Thread the shoelaces through the ends of the shoulder straps</li>
<li>Pin the shoelaces with 4" between the fabric parts</li>
<li>Fold in and pin the opening where you turned it</li>
<li>Top stitch around the whole thing</li>
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I did one from a Big Lebowski t-shirt too, but it was a size enormous and the neckhole was so big I couldn't get the shoulder straps to work out. I made a new pattern that I think it not going to fit well. But the design was limiting. Here's how it turned out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bib Lebowski Back</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bib Lebowski</td></tr>
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This is a good repurposing project without the terry cloth back because you don't need to buy any fabric. It's all just one t-shirt. You can buy this bib apron pattern online I'm pretty sure. A lot of them seem to use bias tape but that seems hard and expensive to me. This is easier.<br />
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Update 12 June 2018:</h4>
My client sent me a photo of her drooling youth who has soaked the top of Bib Lebowski with saliva. She reports the double layers of t-shirt do a pretty good job of keeping it off his outfit so she only has to change the smock throughout the day.<br />
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I decided to digitize this pattern so I don't lose it. It fits on a ledger sized sheet of paper so you could print it if you had a big printer.</div>
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I ended up making about 16 of these things. I used terry cloth for the backing for about half of them and then decided it was too hard to sew and switched to flannel for the backing. My favorite is half t-shirt, half flannel. This is thin enough I can close it with Kam Snaps. (Shoelaces are expensive.) I can get 4 smocks out of 1 man's XL t-shirt. Be sure to pre-wash the flannel.</div>
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My client reports that Bib Lebowski fit the baby for over a year, well after the other ones were too small. So go ahead and make those large mens shirts into bibs. You will get a lot of wear out of them!</div>
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I made some poster weights on commission 4 years ago for a friend who acquired a flat file for his poster collection. I made them out of some scrap blackout fabric I cut off some curtains. I had to hand finish them and it was quite difficult. I made some for myself at the time and <a href="http://www.spasmsofaccommodation.com/2014/08/reuse-coach-startac-case-to-paperweight.html">wrote it up on Spasms of Accommodation</a>. Since then I've gotten better sewing machines and have learned about cutting 100% polyester with a soldering iron. I thought I'd like to try poster weights again. Maybe my friend could design something neat to have custom printed and I could sew it into weights and put them on my Etsy store.<br />
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I tried a rectangle sized to fit a set of weights in a Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box. It came out 2 1/2" x 5". I immediately didn't like it and dismantled it to use the shot again. I decided to play with a round shape. I finally worked out a design I like and here's how I did it.<br />
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First I had to make a pivot attachment for my sewing machine. Lots of tutorials on YouTube say to tape a thumbtack to the bed of the machine. I had two problems with that. First, I didn't have a thumb tack. Second, if I did have a thumb tack the pointy part would be necessarily large and would make an ugly hole in the middle of the fabric. I did have some sequin pins. These are 7/16" long straight pins with a small head. I got myself a scrap of aluminum flashing and made a backing for my pin to make it stand up like a thumbtack. I just held the pin with pliers and banged it with a hammer. When the pin dulled or bent I pulled it out and used another one. I have a bunch. I only ruined about 5 pins making my tack.<br />
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After I got the pin through the hole I bent the edges of the aluminum so it would sit flat, taking up the space of the pin head. Then I put a dab of Superglue on the pin head and let it dry overnight.<br />
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I put some masking tape on my aluminum scrap so it won't scratch my sewing machine. I drew some lines on it to help line up the pin where I want it.<br />
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I made a little gauge with a scrap of file folder to position my pin in the right place. I placed the card next to my jig and marked 1 1/4" and 2" from the pin so I can get a reliable radius. I taped the outside then moved the card and taped the inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pin taped down at 1 1/4"</td></tr>
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With my pin in place I stabbed it with the leg of some tights I picked up on clearance at Target. This is going to be my secondary containment for the lead shot. If I do a lot more of these I can buy continuous rolls of stockinette on Amazon. They sell it for bandages.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Circle sewn, opening left for filling</td></tr>
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After I sewed circles out of all the stockinette I had I moved my pin out to a 2" radius.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2" radius set up</td></tr>
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I cut some 5" squares of polyester outdoor fabric. With right sides together I stabbed the center on the pin and sewed the circles, leaving an opening for filling.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a close-up of the pin through the fabric. </td></tr>
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I could stick a piece of an eraser on this pin while I'm sewing if I wanted to not stab myself. But it seemed to stay put fine and I only pricked myself once and not that bad.<br />
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After I sewed the circle I cut off the excess fabric with my $3.99 Harbor Freight soldering iron. This glass table makes it a cinch to cut and seal these man made fibers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut around the sewn line with a soldering iron</td></tr>
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I use a pair of hemostats to turn the circle right side out. Get cheap hemostats from <a href="https://www.pjtool.com/hand-and-hobby-tools/hemostats.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIr8bR6fSw2wIV0QOGCh0VtgMxEAMYASAAEgLwIvD_BwE">PJ Tool</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hemostat helps turn right side out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To finish turning I use an 8mm wooden knitting needle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Push the edges out and finger press the seam</td></tr>
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Now to the actual weighty part. I found a lot of weights for sale that are filled with sand, which is probably ok, but sounds messy. I also found a lot filled with rice, which is just weird to me. It could attract bugs and it could absorb moisture and make a damp place in your flat file. And aside from that it just isn't that heavy. I like a weight to feel heavy for it's size. I like lead. I want these to be not too fat though, so I'm going to try just half a pound of lead. I tested it to see if it it's enough to flatten a curled up roll of EVA foam. One in each corner will do it, but more is better.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weigh out half a pound of lead shot</td></tr>
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Now back to the inner circle. I cut off the excess fabric with scissors. Stick a funnel in the opening and fill with the 8 ounces of lead shot.<br />
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The shot just goes right in there. This part is fun.<br />
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Poke the excess fabric back in the hole and sew it up on the sewing machine. This is the inside part so it won't show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sew up the opening on the secondary containment</td></tr>
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I took a picture of putting the secondary containment inside the turned circle but it was blurry. It's kind of hard to get it in there with a small opening, but I like a small gap in the stitching better than a big one that is hard to shape into the curve.<br />
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Turn the excess fabric into the opening after the pink lead filled bag is in there. Sew all the way around the edge of the circle so the closing stitches blend in and look on purpose. I use my seam guide at an angle to sew right at the edge of the bag.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seam guide helps sew right at the edge.</td></tr>
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Here's the final product. Having all the lead shot held away from the edge leaves a sort of lip that makes it a lot easier to pick up the circle weight.<br />
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I like this design. I need to get my hands on some more stockinette and some different fabric patterns and see what kind of pretty circle weights I can make. I find weights very handy around the lab. I use my StarTac case weight all the time. That one is over a pound. I may try making some other heavier circles too.<br />
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I made a bunch of these out of some fabric with circle designs on it that I had left over from making a floor cloth. These are for sale on my Etsy store for Fall 2018. I'm happy to share my process so people can make their own, but if you use my instructions to make these to sell please send me a commission. 10% sounds fair. I take PayPal.<br />
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I got some <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DX7KEP8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_49ghBbX51B31E">3" stockinette from Amazon</a> (sold for bandages) to make the secondary containment. I stitched it with a 2 1/2" radius.<br />
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I got some more lead scuba weights used on ebay. This kind has larger shot. I can kind of feel the difference in the weight but I still like it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contents of 4 lb Sea Pearls Scuba Weights bought on eBay</td></tr>
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I found a new technique for holding the weights in while I sewed the secondary containment closed too. Bobby pin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bobby pin keeps lead shot out of the way while I sew the knit pouch closed.</td></tr>
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I like these a lot. The fabric really works. This polyolefin is very good for this use as the color is heat sealed into it. You can't stain this stuff so by extension I think it should be very unlikely to bleed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reverse side, solid camel 100% polyolefin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand to show scale. Weights are easy to pick up by the thinner edge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The thinness of the weights allow them to be used inside flat files</td></tr>
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<br />Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-38717975887028108792018-05-22T21:50:00.000-04:002018-05-23T17:33:44.404-04:00Graduation Laundry Bag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I graduated from high school in 1985 a lot of things were different. I had my own computer, but there was no internet. Instead of cell phones we had to remember phone numbers and dial them by hand on land line phones and pay long distance charges.<br />
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But one thing was the same. If you wanted clean clothes you had to wash, dry, and fold.<br />
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My Aunt Dorian gave me a big denim sack with my initials on it for my high school graduation. I took that sack to Georgia Tech. Once a week or so I would cram all my dirty clothes and sheets and towels in there and lug it across the street from old-timey Glenn dorm that didn't even have air conditioning to the new-fangled dorm that had coin operated laundry machines in the basement. It was a long skinny bag with a round bottom. My folded clothes would stay folded when I pushed them back into the bag when they were all clean. It was a very good graduation gift. I wish I hadn't spilled epoxy on it in the '90s. Anyway, that's why laundry bags are now my traditional graduation gift for nieces.<br />
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My niece Brenna just got done at Jupiter High School. Here is her report:<br />
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My graduation was yesterday morning. The senior graduating class was 777 students! I walked across the stage for less than 5 seconds of the 3 hour and 30 minute ceremony. </blockquote>
I graduated with only 211 other people. So that's another thing that is different.<br />
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I have more nieces to go, so I thought I should document how I made this bag. If Brenna gives me notes on how it works I can make improvements in the next version. Let's start with finished photos:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front View, un-cinched with a pillow inside</td></tr>
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The basic structure is a box bottom sewn to a cylinder. The yellow bottom is made of 100% Nylon Cordura canvas. I bought a 1/2 yard of all the different colors of yellow they had at Seattle Fabric to see which one matched my board game. I used half of a sample for the bottom.<br />
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The patterned fabric is Waverly outdoor canvas, 100% polyester. I got a yard of this at Joann when it was 70% off just because it's pretty.</div>
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The lining is a royal blue 100% nylon taffeta. It's been in my stash about 16 years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side View, un-cinched</td></tr>
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The strap is made from the 8" strip left when I cut the main fabric rectangle. It's backed with 3" orange grosgrain ribbon I had leftover from the FLORIDA sash for the Women's March.<br />
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Box Bottom:</h3>
To start, look at your heavy fabric and decide how big to make the box bottom. I folded a t-shirt and measured it and decided to make a 14"x9" rectangle. I had enough width in my piece of fabric to add 4" to all sides. In hindsight this may have been too big for folded clothes. It is a great bag for carrying all your bedding in though.<br />
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I marked 4” squares in the corners on the wrong side and sewed them right sides together with heavy duty needle and thread. I left long tails and hand sewed the flaps folded toward the small ends. I cut the Cordura with scissors because it has a coating and doesn't unravel.<br />
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<b>Cut Bottom Rectangle: 22" x 17"</b><br />
Finished Size: 14" x 9" x 4"<br />
Circumference: 46"<br />
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Bag Body:</h3>
<b>Cut main canvas piece: 27” x 49”</b><br />
Finished size: 27" tall open cylinder<br />
Circumference: 46"<br />
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For the 100% polyester fabric I marked it with a white Scribe-All pencil and then cut it using a $3.99 Harbor Freight soldering iron and a pica pole. (A long metal ruler) Make a tall tube out of the pattern canvas. You need to leave an opening for a drawstring, so mark 2 3/4" from the top edge and skip 1/2". My fabric has a definite right side up, so be sure you get this correct.<br />
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Switch sewing machine to regular size needle and thread to match the other fabric. I used royal blue, the lining color. With right sides together sew quite a large seam to achieve 46” circumference. Mine was just shy of 1 1/2". You may want to sew around the opening like for a buttonhole but wait to do that until you're sure you don't have to adjust this seam to fit the bottom.<br />
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Join Bottom and Body:</h3>
Turn the bottom inside out and put 1/2” EZ-Steam II seam tape on the edge. I gave this a quick press over the backing paper with the iron on low setting. That helps it stay on one side when you reposition the layers. I put a label in at this stage, sticking it to the seam tape on the bottom so it would come out right no matter how many times I redid the next step.<br />
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Put the bottom inside the tube so right sides are together. I used a ruler to get the seam 7" from a corner on one of the long sides. Secure bottom edge of bag fabric onto the box bottom with binder clips. Go around and be sure circumference is right. Remove cylinder and adjust the seam as needed.<br />
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Go back to the heavy duty needle and heavy outdoor thread. Sew cylinder to bottom with 1/2" seam allowance.<br />
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Fold patterned fabric up and top stitch through seam allowance with the heavy thread to make it neat. (This is the same outdoor thread I use for the lines on the star on the WatUR cases.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up showing the texture of the cordura compared to silkscreened canvas</td></tr>
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Lining</h3>
Switch sewing machine to regular needle and thread for the lining.<br />
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<b>Cut lining, 2 pieces: 25” x 38”</b><br />
Finished size: 38" tall pillow case shape<br />
Circumference at top edge: 46"<br />
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For the lining I'm going to make an ordinary box bottom bag with drawstrings on both sides. It's going to take more fabric. (I originally cut two 25” x 44” rectangles. These were 6” too long. I finished the whole lining and tested it in the bag and determined what it needed to be and I ripped the seams at the bottom and moved the box bottom up 6". This made the fabric at the bottom double thickness for the prototype bag. I figured it would help it be extra stiff? 25” x 38” would be better.)<br />
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I marked the rectangles with a white Scribe-All and cut the nylon taffeta lining with the soldering iron.<br />
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Mark openings in the seams 4” and 4 3/4” from the top. Don't sew between the lines. Make another pair of marks about 6" apart in the middle of one seam for turning. Measure 23" across the middle to determine your seam allowance. You need to be sure you're going to end up with the same circumference as your box bottom. Sew seams right sides together, and across the bottom leaving gaps for the drawstrings and for turning.<br />
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Turn the lining right side out and insert it in the main fabric and pin it around the top edge to be sure it is the same circumference. If not, adjust the side seams before going forward. Take the lining out of the bag again.<br />
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Box bottom in lining</h4>
I used a file folder cut with a square corner. (Cereal box is also good) I put a ruler across the corner to find a 9" hypotenuse, the length of the short sides of my box bottom. I made sure the two legs of the triangle were equal, drew a line, and cut out the triangle. Insert the cardboard triangle with the 90° point going into the corner seam of the lining. With the seams all open, fold the lining around the cardboard triangle so the seams line up down the middle of the triangle. Press with a cool iron. Draw the line on the fabric along the hypotenuse of the triangle and take out the cardboard. Sew the line. Then secure the flap up the side for stiffness. Repeat on the other side.<br />
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Make the Strap</h3>
I had an 8” strip leftover from cutting the main fabric so I just used that. Fold over the two sides to make a 3” wide strip. Sew grosgrain ribbon on top of the raw edges. It doesn't have to be this wide. I just had that 3" ribbon so I went for that width. I sewed the strap with orange top thread and a blue bobbin. You can kind of see blue dots on the ribbon side, but I like it better than a blue line.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of strap attachment.</td></tr>
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I cut the ends with the soldering iron so they don’t unravel. I pinned the strap over the seam of the bag from the box bottom to 3" below the drawstring opening. Using orange thread to match the ribbon I sewed through the big seam allowance and the strap with several rows of stitches 1/2” apart. I left 1/2” loose at the bottom and stopped the top below where the lining will be sewn down. Then I tried on the bag to determine how long to make the strap. I cut off about 6” of it.<br />
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<b>Final strap length: 44 1/2”</b><br />
<b>23 3/4” loose</b><br />
<b>19 3/4” sewed to the bag</b><br />
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I sewed the two pieces of strap together to get the finished end underneath. Then folded it at the bottom and secured it about an inch up the back going back and forth a few times. I switched back to the blue thread for this since it was showing on the patterned side. This hides all the hot cut ends inside. It's fairly stiff because there's 5 layers of canvas in there, plus the grosgrain ribbon. My 1951 Singer 301 sewed this like it was nothing. My Singer from the '90s that I only use to wind bobbins would break the needle trying to sew this much heavy fabric though. Be warned.<br />
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Sew In the Lining</h3>
Turn the lining right side out and turn the bag with the bottom inside out. Mark the halfway point from the center back seam to line up the side seams of the lining. (Half 14" + Half 9" = 11 1/2" from the center back seam) Put the lining into the inside-out bag. Be sure the box bottoms line up. The side seams should be on the mark. Work around, pinning the fabric together. If it doesn’t come out, adjust the side seams on the lining.<br />
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When it’s right unpin it and take it out and sew the seam allowances open on the lining. Do any finishing you want around the openings for the draw strings now too. Finish the ends of the threads to the wrong side and then pin the two parts together again.<br />
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Sew the lining to the outside with a 1/2” seam allowance.<br />
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Turn the whole thing right side out through the hole in the side seam of the lining.<br />
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Make Drawstring Channels</h3>
Now fold the outside fabric down so the opening for the drawstring is at the edge and the lining seam is about where the strap attaches. Pin this in place with a consistent edge. Sew right at the lining seam. Then sew a 1” channel for the drawstring.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lining is sewn to the outer fabric but then that is folded down into the bag to make a second drawstring channel.</td></tr>
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Next fold the nylon to line up the drawstring opening at the edge and sew that channel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cord lock secured to back of bag above strap</td></tr>
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Finishing</h3>
For finishing I cut a length of ribbon to attach a cord lock for a white cord in the outer fabric. I used blue satin cord in a double pull configuration for the lining. I heat sealed all the ends and threaded them through the channels with a yarn needle.<br />
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I sewed up the hole in the lining (from turning it right-side out) by hand.<br />
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I used some of the yellow thread to tack the corners of the lining to the bottom of the bag.<br />
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<b>Finished size:</b><br />
<b>Base: 14” x 9”</b><br />
<b>27” from bottom to top of patterned section</b><br />
<b>Strap 23 3/4” loose, 19 3/4” sewn to bag</b><br />
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<b>Folds to 8” x 11” x 2”</b><br />
<b>Weighs 1 pound</b><br />
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Here's the finished bag with the drawstrings pulled closed<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inner drawstring only. This one you just yank the two sides.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second drawstring with cord lock at back of bag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side view cinched shut</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front view cinched up. Drawstrings shown not tucked in.</td></tr>
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You could tuck the drawstrings into the bag if you have to put it in the car or something.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top can fold down when you're starting to fill it up with folded clothes</td></tr>
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With the leftover fabric from the yard of Waverly outdoor stuff I made another little drawstring bag with blue lining. This fabric is a bit stiff for a really cute bag. I'm not sure what this is a good size for. It will fit a giant iPhone. Or about $40 in rolled quarters. I will send it to Brenna for whatever she might need to carry around. Pens and pencils, chapstick, medicine. To go in her backpack or whatever.<br />
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I also made a tiny pouch with the 6" I cut off the strap. This is possibly the easiest thing I ever made. I burned two holes in it with the soldering iron to put in the snap first. Then I snapped it closed, pinned the sides, opened it, sewed the side seams, and it was done. The raw heat sealed edge is unabashedly the edge of the item. It's got a bright orange lining though!</div>
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Fold It Up</h3>
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One advantage this drawstring bag has over regular luggage is it folds up pretty neat. Here's how it goes.<br />
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This folding feature is going to make it very easy for me to mail this to Brenna tomorrow. I save envelopes.<br />
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Only tangentially related to this, but I'm flabbergasted and have to put this here. I just looked up Glenn Dorm to see if it had one n or two and <a href="https://housing.gatech.edu/building/glenn">the Georgia Tech website lists how much it costs to live there now.</a> It has gone up nearly an order of magnitude! 7.5 times the 1985 price to be more precise. I distinctly remember it was $305 per quarter because it was about $100 cheaper than my brother's dorm on West Campus that had air conditioning. Three quarters in a typical year, so my dad forked over $915 a year for me to live in Atlanta and go to school. Now school is just two semesters and it would cost $6850 to spend your freshman year in Glenn! Whole Lee Shit. That must have been some renovation they did in 2015. Oh look, on site laundry! I bet these machines are on the internet. I wonder if they have one laundry room that is strictly for unscented detergent and no dryer sheets? They should.<br />
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This renovation gave them laundry rooms on every freaking floor of the dorm, plus elevators! You might as well have a wheels on your laundry bag. Oh well. Maybe Brenna will still have to deal with stairs and will be glad for her shoulder strap.<br />
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Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-88512439393374267472018-04-19T21:33:00.003-04:002018-04-20T21:39:31.761-04:00Introducing WatUR: Not a KickstartUR, Actual Games For Sale<iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yG6B_xhICO0?rel=0&showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/595069220/watur-royal-game-of-ur-modurnized?ref=shop_home_feat_1">WatUR is now for sale on my Etsy store</a>. I've listed one because I've only finished one. I have 11 more ready to sew up. As soon as they're done I'll edit the listing and release some coupons and do some promotions.<br />
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This is the best game I've ever played. It's easy to learn and instantly engaging. Whenever I get new people to play it so I can watch I have a good time watching them enjoy the give and take of offense and defense that seems like the decision to be made with every roll of the dice. And then in the end it always comes down to such an exciting, close finish everybody feels evenly matched and as though it's all fair in the end.<br />
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Most of my play testing and rules development has been with my nieces, Kate, Brenna, and Kara. After I developed the expansion pack and the final case design I went down to my brother's house to play a few rounds with Brenna and Kara. I woke Kara up early on Saturday morning and made her model for me in the pool before the sun got too high. Kara is 14 and it is not in her nature to get up early on a Saturday. She was a very good sport and an excellent model. I used my brother's cell phone to take these underwater photos and videos. I still can't believe how great it turned out. Later that night Brenna and I sat on the side of the pool on a towel and played two games in a row with our feet dangling in the water. It was exactly as fun as I hoped it would be.<br />
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This deluxe version of WatUR comes in a floating case called a presURver. It is good for travel. It fits in a tote bag or backpack. The fabric is Solarmax 100% nylon with a water repellant finish and superior UV resistance.<br />
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I've shown the board, dice and stones going into a dishwasher because it is theoretically dishwasher safe. At low heat and without detergent I would absolutely do it. But high heat and strong chlorine based detergents would likely degrade the dice or leave unsightly watermarks on the board. I don't actually recommend putting WatUR in the dishwasher. I'd just hand wash it. (I don't even own a dishwasher though. I understand some people just don't hand wash things.) If it's so contaminated it's either that or throw it away, go ahead and stick it in the dishwasher. Let me know how it comes out. If the black dice and stones get chalky try rubbing them with some car polish to bring the color back. While all of the parts are fine in the water and sun for a little while they can't stay in the water continuously. Don't set up a game of WatUR as an aquarium decoration. And don't try to wash the case with laundry. Just rinse it off and wipe it down. Dry it out of direct sun if possible. Every time I've gotten a case wet it was dry again in under an hour.</div>
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The board is fiberglass with etched copper lines. I would love to see what it looks like on an airport security x-ray monitor. All the lines should show up at high contrast because they are copper. Be sure to pack it so it is flat on to the x-rays and not on edge. That would be boring.</div>
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The rules I've written for WatUR are the ones <a href="https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I">Tom Scott and Irving Finkel played on International Tabletop Day in 2017</a>. I've read other rules but these are the ones I like.<br />
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I read the full white paper Finkel wrote on his translation of the cuneiform tablet referenced in the video linked above. The main point of it was that stars are lucky. He deduced that players would have a pile of tokens that they would use as sort of gambling and to reinforce that lucky aspect of the squares with the stars. I find it interesting that the board the British Museum found is actually decorated with rosettes, not stars. Mine has stars. And now with the expansion pack it also has 30 tokens for rewarding you for landing on a star and penalizing you for passing over one. I call this ElabURation.<br />
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I made up another expansion called FloURishes. This is entirely my invention. The first time Kate played with it against her boyfriend Matt she made him run out of tokens entirely. We made up the rules for that instance on the spot. Running out of tokens is bursting. You lose.<br />
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Inside the presURver there are three pURses that hold the dice and stones as well as ElabURation and FloURishes.<br />
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I'm really glad I matched the dice and stones because if I play one game as white then the next time I play as black I might forget and try to move the wrong stone. Anything that reduces my cognitive load leaves more energy for coping with the fact I'm in a social situation with another person.<br />
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I'm almost ready to sell my new version of the Royal Game of Ur. Thanks to <a href="http://www.funjump.com/">Chris Warnock</a> and his computer controlled laser cutter I have very sharp cases and unique dice and stones that match my board.<br />
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Chris sends me the dice and stones after they're etched and I color in the lines one at a time by hand. The dice I do with gel enamel that I brush into the grooves then I wipe off the excess on scrap cardboard. (The inside of cereal boxes) Then I cure it under a UV lamp before going on to the next side.<br />
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The stones are a bit harder as they are double convex. I've experimented with a lot of different materials and methods and finally came up with a way that I'm going to keep to myself for now because it took me a really long time to come up with it and I'm not ready for somebody else to copy me.<br />
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I got quotes for custom molded dice but even at quantities of 2000 they are still more expensive than laser cutting blanks. And they would have rounded corners and not look as nice. I am determined to get my head in this repetitive task game and learn how to be fast at production work. So I only bought enough for the prototype boards I had for the first run.<br />
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The nylon fabric I use for the case comes on 60" wide rolls at over $9 a yard. I could only afford the raw materials to make 15 full sets in my first run. (I can't use fabric from the fabric store because it's folded and that fold will not come out of nylon. Only the 60" wide rolled fabric from industrial sources will work. The added advantage of this high priced fabric from Seattle is that it doesn't reek like all the fabric from JoAnn.)<br />
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I went through over 10 design iterations before I finalized the PresURver pattern that I sent to Chris for laser cutting. I heard about a new industrial standard process of bonding instead of sewing and wanted to try it out. Bonding is like gluing fabric together with a strip of adhesive between two pieces of fabric. It's heated under pressure to make the seam. I have some expensive bras that are bonded instead of sewn. It makes a smooth seam that doesn't chafe. I don't have the specialized expensive industrial machinery to do bonding fast and efficiently, but I can mimic the results using products for sale at my local craft store, namely <a href="http://www.pellonprojects.com/products/ez-steam-ii-2/">Pellon EZ-Steam II</a>. I can still peel it apart though, so it's just like basting. I still have to sew everywhere.<br />
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Chris cut circles of the sheet style EZ-Steam with the laser. Then he used a laser-cut template to locate them on rectangles of nylon ready to go in the laser bed. The laser cuts the outline of the star shape, sealing the edge of the nylon fabric with heat with the added security of the bonding material preventing any unraveling.<br />
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When the fabric gets back to me in the mail I apply the gold circle, also laser cut, to the back of the fabric. I have a special iron with no holes for steam that I use to bond the gold and black fabric. I made a two layer canvas mat for my Fireslate workbench so I can put all my weight on the iron to press the fabric together. I can only use low heat because it's nylon. I feel like the pressure is critical for this reason.</div>
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I mark the lines of the star on the front with a water soluble fabric pencil using a stencil pattern also cut with the laser. Then I sew the lines with 100% polyester outdoor rated heavy thread. I use a Singer 301 sewing machine from 1951 which makes exceptionally straight stitches.<br />
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I sew the 4 main star points first in one continuous line then go back and do the short points. As I finish each point I turn the piece over, pull the needle thread to the back with the bobbin thread and knot them. If I don't do it as I go the tails can get caught in the stitching for the next line and make a mess. I use the presser foot of the sewing machine to hold the fabric so I can use both hands to tie the knots. I got pretty fast by the last one. I could sew all the lines for a star in 12 minutes. Chris says this is absolutely not how he would execute this task, but it gives the results I want with the equipment I have. I don't think there is any embroidery machine that can do this exact thing if I wanted to scale up. Embroidering on the whole star would weaken the fabric enormously. I would likely have to redesign this feature for mass production.<br />
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The final step for the front of the PresURver before assembly is adding the snap. I had Chris save the center circle of the star cut out with the EZ-Steam on it. The laser cut about a 2 mm hole in the center. I line this up with another laser cut hole and bond it on with the iron. The snap goes through this reinforced hole and is pressed in place with some special pliers. I rigged them to be a bench mount apparatus with a length of 3/4" PEX tubing heated and shoved on as a handle extender. </div>
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The edges of the pocket and lining are finished with a single fold bonded with 1/2" EZ-Steam tape. Because they are heat cut the raw edge won't unravel. Both hems are sewn as well. There is an inner pocket for the rules on the lining that is prepped with the 1/4" EZ-Steam and sewn around all 4 sides.<br />
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I came up with a pretty handy way of making that folded hem even. I cut one side of a legal size manila folder to 1/2" less than the final width of the fabric. After I peel off the paper backing on the bonding tape I fold the edge down to meet the manila folder all the way across. I made these jigs for all the hems I had to do and it improved how straight and square they come out and make it faster. The EZ-Steam can be peeled up and repositioned before it's ironed. It's a nice way to get things really lined up just the way you want them. Nylon is so springy I don't think I could make this without the adhesive.</div>
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The rest of the PresURver is assembled with 1/4" EZ-Steam tape to hold everything together while I sew it. It also gives some stiffness to the edge of the case. I worry about clipping the corners of nylon for fear it will unravel and make a hole in the corner, but with the EZ-Steam I think it will hold up well, so I clip the corners then turn the case right side out. I insert closed cell foam rectangles between the outside and the lining as stiffeners before sewing the fold lines. The last step is to put in the other half of the snap. I fold the case closed and mark the spot for the snap with a white Scribe-All then burn a hole through with a soldering iron. Then I can crimp on the snap. If I just use an awl to punch the fabric it runs, making four lines shooting out along the grain of the fabric. Unacceptable.</div>
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In addition to the main case which holds the board there are separate pURses for the dice and stones plus a new gold one for the expansion. </div>
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I did them each in a solid coordinating color. The pUrses have closed cell foam stiffeners and will float their contents individually. They also have color matched non-latex elastic. Finding non-latex elastic in three colors was unbelievably hard. I ordered from 4 different sources before I finally got all three colors of the same width and texture. I went with foldover elastic on these. I didn't like the line the fold made when used flat so I folded it over and sewed it with a double needle. This is a ridiculous extra step. If I go to quantity production I hope I can find a source of the satin faced so-called bra strap elastic that will work instead. I have finally gotten 3 yards each in 3/4". My next run of pURses may have that instead of this kind. </div>
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The black and white pURses hold the stones and dice and the yellow one is for ElabURation and FloURishes. These are two optional expansions that can be played together or separately. There are 30 acrylic gems and 5 small printed circuit boards duplicating designs on the main board. The acrylic gems were selected over glass to keep the weight of the complete game under 16 ounces. USPS First Class Package Service is the most affordable method of shipping but it is only for packages under a pound. This game can be shipped for under $5, but that is without insurance. I found these at JoAnn on clearance, plus I had a coupon. I had to wash them in dish soap and dry them on a mesh lawn chair in the sun to get that JoAnn smell off them. I have enough for all the cases I have. Next run, who knows. If I have to buy them online they are going to cost a lot more.</div>
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I have some custom woven labels in the design. The pURses have my brand, Beachton, sewn into them. My thinking is that anybody who loses some of their parts can google Beachton, find this website, and contact me for replacements. The main case has the name of the game and logo on the side. I bought both these custom labels online from the <a href="https://www.dutchlabelshop.com/en_us">Dutch Label Shop</a> in minuscule quantities. The price per piece is quite high, but it works with my goal of making high quality products without a giant investment up front. If I manage to sell these then I'll use that money to buy slightly more next time. And even more the next time, reducing the per-item cost with each subsequent increase in quantity. Will I ever make a profit? I doubt it. I'd be delighted if if I can recoup the expenses. My time will remain uncompensated for the foreseeable future. My goal of the year is to beat my lifelong difficulty with repetitive tasks. I've always been lousy at it. I have a hypothesis that only through muscle memory can you do a good job at repetitive tasks. I want to see if I can reach that point.</div>
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I also hope that everybody who buys this game will appreciate it as a unique and valuable experiment in design possibilities or as an art object that they will treasure and show off to their friends.</div>
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The boards are all ordered online from <a href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/fusion_pcb.html">SeeedStudio</a> in China. The ordering process couldn't be simpler. I upload a ZIP file of all the Gerber layers and it generates a quote automatically. There is no set-up charge. I pay for it with PayPal up front, including staggeringly expensive shipping. It takes about a week to make the boards and only 3 days to ship them to me. The board and FloURishes are like the woven labels. They scale down to small quantities while still allowing for full automation.</div>
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I would like to credit my board layout software too, since it was free. I used <a href="http://www.osmondpcb.com/">Osmond Cocoa</a> for Mac. Their payment model makes it like a demo version until your board has a certain number of holes then you have to buy it. Since my board doesn't have any holes at all, free software. This is perfect for my minimum-cost-up-front business model. I had to do some real file format conversion gymnastics to import a DXF file at the right scale. Then I had to do a lot of careful editing to delete the lines it added to make every single curve in the design into a closed polygon. I think the results are very good though and I'm happy with this program. The Help files are excellent. I was able to learn the tools I needed and ignore all the actual features that a normal person would need to make a useable circuit board. I actually drew the cuneiform numbers on the FloURishes using the tools in the program, which is really really not made for that.</div>
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If anybody has read all the way to the end of this then you are exactly who I wrote it for and I don't need to explain why.</div>
Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-63095179420153449922017-10-10T00:07:00.000-04:002017-11-02T11:27:41.038-04:00Pode and Abode play WatURPode and Abode are prototypes of a knitting pattern I developed to celebrate a <a href="http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1603/dailyupdates/media/video/dive_1/ex1603_dive1_022716.html">new genus of octopod</a> discovered by the Okeanos Explorer. They're going to play a game of WatUR. Pode is on the left and is playing with black dice and black stones. Abode is on the right playing the white stones and white dice.<br />
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On her first roll Abode gets a 2. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pode's first roll he gets a 3.<br />
He places a black stone on the third square above the notch on his side of the board.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On her second turn Abode rolls a ZERO!<br />
She doesn't get to play this turn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pode rolls a 1.<br />
He moves his stone one space to the star. The star means roll again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pode rolls again for being on the star. He gets a 2.<br />
He decides not to move that same stone.<br />
He places another stone on the board instead, 2 spaces from the beginning. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abode takes her turn. She really rattles those dice to make up for that zero. She gets a 4!<br />
She places a stone on the star in the corner on her side. Abode gets to roll again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On her roll again Abode gets a 3.<br />
She thinks about her options and decides to move out into the center column.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pode's turn. He rolls a 1.<br />
He moves one space forward into the center column.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abode's turn. She rolls a 1.<br />
She moves her stone forward on to the center sun.<br />
She gets to roll again AND she is safe from being bumped off by Pode.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On her roll again Abode gets a 3.<br />
She can bump Pode's piece off the end of the board. So she does.</td></tr>
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Now that we've seen how to get started, let's cover some what-ifs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Pode's turn he rolls a three.<br />
He is blocking himself from moving his first two stones.<br />
And the last stone needs a 2 to move off the end.<br />
He decides he can't move.<br />
Look carefully to see if Pode missed something. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How does the game end?<br />
Pode and Abode both only have one stone left.<br />
Whoever rolls the special number first wins.<br />
Abode rolls a 1! Abode wins!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But what if she didn't roll a 1? Roll it back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What if Abode rolls a 2?<br />
She can't play her stone. It's Pode's turn. Pode rolls a 2 as well.<br />
Pode wins!</td></tr>
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WatUR was launched with a <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beachton/watur-royal-game-of-ur-modurnized?ref=created_projects">KickstartUR</a> in October 2017.Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-54815675463552083512017-10-08T21:13:00.002-04:002018-04-19T18:25:04.300-04:00WatUR: The World's Oldest Board Game, ModURnized<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9kt-6cFJpio?rel=0&showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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I've been working on a new project all summer. I saw a video in April of <a href="https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I">Tom Scott and Irving Finkel playing an ancient board game</a> and I became obsessed with it. I loved the dice especially. It uses four dice that represent 0 or 1. You add them up. This appeals to me because I have trouble adding big numbers and I have some relatives with the same genetic deficiency. It's not an impediment to doing higher mathematics or anything, but if you're playing a game for fun it's nice to be able to relax and not have to face your shortcomings whenever the dice come up with too many spots showing.<br />
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I decided I could make this game myself. It's 4500 years old, surely it's in the public domain. I got some blank tetrahedral dice like they found in the Royal Tomb in Ur and I modified them for the game. The ones in the museum were carved from bone. I was ready to embrace modern materials though, so I used plastic.<br />
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I had some scrap 1x6 pine boards so I cut out the shape of the board. I bought Affinity Designer when they came out with the upgrade recently so I set out to learn that software and design the decorations for the squares. I studied the original closely.<br />
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I don't actually like the original design. It's a lot of variations of the all-seeing eye and it sort of creeps me out. There are a lot of copies of this game and they all just look like this. Why? As long as the designs repeat in the same places it could be anything. Why not be original when you're copying the oldest board game in the world?<br />
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I thought the 5 spot squares looked like frog eggs. So I designed Frog Ur as my first version.<br />
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I took this one to the coast and played it with my nieces and their friends on vacation. They liked it a lot. We played it enough to establish an average time it takes to play (25 minutes) and we tested an alternative route for a more complicated game and timed that too (45 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes). We discussed changes I could make to lead you through that alternate route. They had ideas for other Ur puns, like a boat themed one called SailUR or one with domesticated animals called FarmUR. I wanted to do one of star fish and sand dollars called EchinodURms. There could be a Game of Thrones themes one called WintUR.<br />
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I tried several of these but I felt compelled to be true to the 8 pointed rosette theme that ran through all the artifacts I saw on the British Museum website. I finally came across Enki, the god of Water. He was often shown as a mountain goat with a fish body, or he had a river just shooting out of his head with fish jumping in it. That's how I settled on WatUR, with mountain goats, turtles, fish, and sun and stars instead of rosettes.<br />
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I made some more of the wood boards with decals and played it with a friend. He complained that the dice were hard to pick up. I didn't mind sliding them off the table, but I wasn't crazy about how hard it is to make them. I'd contacted all the dice makers to see if they could customize these dice to have contrast colored tips and they refused to even try. They were happy to customize dice on the flat faces. So I decided I could solve two problems at once by having 6 sided dice made to only have 2 outcomes. Put spots on 3 sides, leave 3 sides blank. Now the odds are the same as the tetrahedral dice. And it's this probability that makes the game work. The fact that your opponent is more likely to roll a 2 than a 1 or a 3 helps you decide where to put your pieces.<br />
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I found some ready-made binary dice that had 1 and 0 on them. 1 and 0 made me think of digital logic and that made me think of printed circuit boards. TransistUR was born.<br />
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I did some research and found there are prototype board houses in China with no set-up charges and quite a low fee per board. Cost less for fiberglass cut with a CNC router and shipped express from China than it costs me to cut out a piece of wood and sand it, let alone decorate it and hand paint it.<br />
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While I was working on my board layout I was also exploring the possibility of doing laser engraving on wood. In the process of getting the vector file to a laser engraver I figured out I could convert my Affinity Designer files to AutoCAD format, good old DXF.<br />
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The board layout program can import that. In just a day or so I had my WatUR design rendered as a printed circuit board too. But I can't have 1 and 0 with Sumerian artifacts. They used cuneiform, not Arabic numbers. So I had to find a source for custom dice. It turns out they're just as affordable as the circuit boards. But only if you buy 2000 of them.<br />
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After all this work I really really want these custom dice. I got a dozen made one at a time by hand for $3 ea to photograph, but I want the custom molded ones from the UK. I continued working on the rest of the steps to product launch and decided I could buy the dice if I could get 250 people to pay $35 ea for a set.<br />
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Here's the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beachton/watur-royal-game-of-ur-modurnized?ref=created_projects">KickstartUR link</a>! It's not going to make it, but it was fun. I have some ideas. I may try it again later.Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-91828846641564506742017-06-23T16:24:00.003-04:002017-06-23T16:24:45.362-04:00Grady the Traveling Tardigrade<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I posted a photo of the wire frame poseable nudibranch on Twitter and immediately got a request to make a poseable tardigrade. Since I like knitting as close to realism as possible I based mine on an optical microscope image. Most tardigrade art is based on scanning electron microscope images which make them look much more solid than they really are. They are really quite see-through. You can distinguish their last meal inside them, usually algae. So I set out to make a blobby, clear, 8 legged creature with wires inside. How'd I do?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I started the project by wrapping the plarn around a stitch marker onto DPNs. The head is knit in the round.</td></tr>
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OK, that's the beauty shots out of the way. Here's how I made this thing.<br />
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It bothered me a bit to make what amounts to a skeleton inside an invertebrate, but I gotta do what I gotta do. First I made a sort of fleece covering by sewing two layers together like so.<br />
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Next I cut into one layer in the center so I could get inside.<br />
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Then I put in a wire backbone running through 4 wires making up the legs. I put beads on the ends to stop the wires poking through the fabric and to aid sewing up.<br />
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Here's the back of the inner body with all the wires in place.</div>
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I sewed the wire to the fabric through the beads<br />
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I stuffed the body part with polyfill and sewed it up<br />
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Here's the rather blobby and not impressive tardigrade innards<br />
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I cut another piece of fleece and shaped it into a head by adding some padding and sewed it down the back so the wire wouldn't be so pronounced. I didn't take separate pics of this step.<br />
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Next I needed a cuticle. Tardigrades actually have an outer skin that they shed as they grow. When they shed their cuticle they leave their eggs inside it. (<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266402584_Tardigrades_Tardigrada_in_Baltic_States">Citation</a>)<br />
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I stacked up a couple of plastic produce bags and cut across them to make rings. I interlocked the rings to make a long chain I could knit<br />
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I knit by eye, holding the knitting up to the body to tell what I was doing<br />
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After I had the cuticle knit all the way I sewed it on. Notice I put some algae "inside" the tardigrade first by sewing some bright green merino wool and retroreflective thread onto the body. Also notice I sewed some glass bead eyes to the head.<br />
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Finally I finished up by making the toenails out of some stretchy clear tubing that is meant for making toy pony bead jewelry. I cut it at an angle and then sewed it to the ends of the legs.</div>
Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-65067248265810503682017-06-23T16:24:00.002-04:002017-06-23T16:24:32.827-04:00KnitibranchAfter I finished knitting pussyhats for the Woman's March I had a lot of hot pink yarn leftover. There's some hot pink sea creatures so I thought I'd knit one. I present the lowly nudibranch. Doesn't bother with camouflage because they taste terrible. Make fish puke. They eat tunicates and integrate some chemical from them into their flesh.<br />
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Here's the first nudibranch I knit. I finished it while I was watching the Okeanos Explorer live feed. That's the ship in the background retrieving the Seirios camera sled.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot pink nudibranch</td></tr>
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When I put this picture on twitter I was promptly asked if I could knit this exact nudibranch in this <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-photography">photo by David Doubilet</a>, the famous underwater photographer. These nudibranchs are 6 centimeters long so he took a white box down to the reef and posed them like this.<br />
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I said I could do it.<br />
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She wanted high quality merino wool yarn. I ordered it special from Webs. I am allergic to lanolin but I can knit superwash. I used Cascade 220 Superwash Merino in Dark Teal for the body and a combination of laceweight and roving in neon green for the stripes. I changed my mind on the orange and went with laceweight baby alpaca and silk blend. I started with a Turkish cast on from the gills to the rhinophores and knit it in the round. I had to frog it several times trying to work out how to make the tail so pointy. I finally came up with a good way. I may write it up and make a video. I need to make another one first. Here's more photos of this first one.<br />
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I had a lot of this beautiful yarn left over so I decided to try a hat inspired by the nudibranch. It came out too small for the client who wanted the nudibranch and I forgot to cast on with the blue and then switch to green so the stitches wouldn't show through the 3 needle pickup. And I had my camera settings messed up when I photographed it. </div>
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At the last minute when I was about ready to ship the nudibranch I decided it needed a piece of coral to pose on. I used two shades of cream in dishcloth cotton. It was hard knitting but it came out ok.</div>
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I ordered more yarn to try the nudibranch again. First I had another go at the hat. This one is better. I'm still not happy with the lace I made up for the gills. I like it ending with a plain graft. I am hoping to do some more tests and write up a pattern for this nudibranch beanie for this Fall. I'd love to have feedback from people who live where it's cold enough to wear a wool hat.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nudibranch beanie prototype 2, no gills, slouchy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the edge of the hat intentionally loose to mimic the flare on the nudibranch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think the looser edge will make it more comfortable over the ears</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The contrast edge can be folded up for a tighter fit and triple thickness over the ears</td></tr>
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<br />Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-42377358387599347782017-06-22T19:32:00.005-04:002017-06-22T19:32:38.105-04:00How to Build an Ice GiantOK, not many people got my sense of humor in I AM BECOME DEATH. Here's a more mellow take on that planetary pattern.<br />
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The outside of the geode looked like an asteroid or a moon so I decided to try to knit Mimas. I did a complicated random increase pattern with purl stitches for the craters, then I flipped it inside out and grafted the edges. I put in a bean bag to represent the odd core that Mimas has, evidenced by orbital anomalies.<br />
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People on Twitter thought my Mimas looked like the Death Star so I thought I'd make a planet for it to destroy. Uranus as photographed back in the '80s is a simple blue disk. Easy to make, easy to unravel. Here's the pattern I made up for it. It starts out like a geode but I added some extra blank rows in between.<br />
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This took 12.78 grams of Loren Patik 100% acrylic yarn.<br />
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When I stuffed the ball I wanted it to have all the layers of the ice giant Uranus.<br />
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The Outer Atmosphere is the blue yarn. The Atmosphere is the polyfill. The Mantle is the bean bag filling. For the core I used a ceramic polishing ball I found on the ground at a defunct silica mine.<br />
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Mimas was difficult though. Grafting the middle together is too hard. The Uranus method is easier.</div>
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The other day a friend texted me that he just walked past a store at the mall that must be my idea of hell. They sell geodes and incense and the sinus-inflaming smell fills the whole corridor on the way to the movie theater. My reply was "I can knit a geode." I had seen one on <a href="http://www.oddknit.com/patterns/rocks/geode.html">oddknit.com</a> so I knew it could be done. Jessica Goddard also studied physics and seems to have the same philosophy of knitting that I do. We approach it like science, technical problems to be solved. If it turns out artistic that's just a bonus.<br />
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This is the tutorial which is over an hour long and details all the trial and error aspects of this project. It's not a precision job with a gauge to meet and it will come out perfect. You have to have a bit of finesse to get it right.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.oddknit.com/patterns/rocks/go/geode.pdf">ODDknits pattern</a> is good and has an illustration for how to join the edges. You can try my version if you like a balanced lifted increase better than a kfb. Also I worked my inner layer with worsted weight.<br />
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I had some <a href="https://www.yarn.com/products/berroco-captiva?color=Steel">Berrocco Captiva yarn in the steel color</a> leftover from a vest. It's a cotton/acrylic string wrapped with a shiny polyester tape. It has a shine and heaviness to it that I thought was very rocky. I recommend it for a geode. I have no particular recommendations for the other yarn. I just used what I had, <a href="https://www.yarn.com/products/loren-patik">Loren Patik</a> in two colors of gray and some 100% lint, I mean cotton, from the craft store in a hot orchid color. Here's the whole What You Need set up. I used three different sizes of DPNs, 8 (5 mm), 4 (3.5 mm), and 2 (2.75 mm). Also two sizes of sewing needle, one for yarn and one that fit through the beads. (I just got these Inox DPNs on eBay and I am a big fan already.)<br />
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The basic premise is to knit a hemisphere, then knit two rings and sew them together. Then there are two more hemispheres.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When joined tightly the three layers of the edge give it a lot of body</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thread the yarn needle under all there Vs of the bind off edges</td></tr>
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The outer hemisphere is knit with a 6 wedge increase. The two layers of the edge are each 6 stitches smaller in circumference. I knit them all on the same size needles but with different yarn.<br />
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The inner hemisphere I knit by test. I guessed it would need two less decrease rows than the outside done in heavier yarn on twice as big needles. I had to finish it and test it to see I had 10 stitches too many. Then I frogged back to the right number of stitches and worked straight rows up to the edge again. I had to frog the bind off a second time because it was too tight. I went up 2 needle sizes and the bind off was perfect. This is a trial and error situation. Embrace it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I included some bean bag filling between the layers of the geode. </td></tr>
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I sewed the inner layer into the geode first to see what it felt like. Jessica of ODDknits sewed her two inner layers together first then joined them.<br />
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I had to straight wing it on the beaded section. I couldn't fit the beads I had onto any of my yarn. I had to thread them on polyester sewing thread and knit that. I did it all by feel and then just tried to finish with a number of beads that would match up with the stitches on the inner ring. Embroidery thread might have been easier to knit.</div>
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This geode really blew up on <a href="http://the%20basic%20premise%20is%20to%20knit%20a%20hemisphere%2C%20then%20knit%20two%20rings%20and%20sew%20them%20together.%20then%20there%20are%20two%20more%20hemispheres./">Twitter </a>this afternoon. @KimLincolnMusic suggested I should make another one so they could zip together. That's brilliant. Zipper would really need to go in place of that outside piece of edge knitting. I may have to do two more halves. The first one took me two days so a whole one could be a week long project. I may be able to use magnets and reuse this first half. I'll update when I work it out.<br />
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*Update June 4, 2017*<br />
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I did make the zippered geode and you can see it in the video in Part 1. I am still working on some other stuff to go with it. It needs a dragon or turtle or something to hatch out of it.<br />
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I also started knitting the moon Mimas with the leftover yarn. If it comes out I will include both of these in the updated PDF of the geode pattern.<br />
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I just realized I never posted my blog about how to make the larger size fleece sheep with a knit coat. I wish I'd written up the pattern while it was fresh in my head. I'm going extract the information out of my database and publish what I wrote down last year just in case anybody wants to try this for Easter. I will come back and update this if I make another one before Easter. I don't know anybody who wants toys this year so I don't have any plans to make kid stuff.<br />
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I used a worsted weight yarn and US size 6 needles. Probably DPNs. It's garter stitch knit flat and seamed it up. There are little flaps that tuck in the front around the legs like a collar. I only have one in-progress photo in my database.<br />
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This pattern seems extremely overcomplicated but all the increases and decreases make it curve around the neck and cover the front of the body. The long flaps are just tucked into the middle when you put it on. It's very easy to dress and undress the sheep with this design for a sheep coat but it covers the belly and looks more real than the tiny sheep with just a cup-shaped coat.<br />
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Cast on 38<br />
k6, ssk, k3, ssk, k3, kfb, k4, kfb, k3, k2tog, k3, k2tog, k6 -- 36 stitches<br />
knit across all stitches<br />
k5, ssk, k3, ssk, k3, kfb, k4, kfb, k3, k2tog, k3, k2tog, k5 -- 34 stitches<br />
Bind off 7 k2, k2tog, k3, kfb, k4, kfb, k3, ssk, k3, ssk, k5 -- 27 stitches<br />
Bind off 7, k3, ssk, 4 from end k2tog -- 18 stitches<br />
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I want 18 stitches remaining between leg tops. 26 around middle.<br />
Need three garter ridges above legs. Knit until there are that many<br />
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Cast on 3 each side.<br />
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Knit until there are 5 garter ridges between front and back legs, then bind off 3 each side again.<br />
Knit 3 more garter ridges.<br />
Cast on 7 each end. k1, k2 tog all the way across leaving the end 7 plain knit<br />
Knit ends straight, k1, SSK middle.<br />
bind off 6 knit to end, bind off 6, run thread through remaining stitches and pull up tight and secure after knitting the tail.<br />
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Flatten out and add the tail. Pick up right above center decrease.<br />
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Pick up three stitches on the butt. k1, p1, k1<br />
Turn, seed stitch back, kfb, kfb, k1<br />
k1, p1, k1, p1, k1<br />
Seed stitch back<br />
Seed stitch back again<br />
Seed stitch again<br />
Keep going until tail is as long as the back<br />
Run thread through stitches and weave in the end<br />
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Pull up the center stitches and use that tail to sew up the middle of the belly. The front flaps stay free to make it easier to dress and undress the sheep.<br />
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<br />Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-42646520975341487012017-03-17T16:45:00.000-04:002017-03-17T16:45:39.985-04:00Like Easter Sheep, but BIGGERI wanted to draw my lab for my blog banner so I downloaded a 10 day free trial of Affinity Designer. I like it a lot. It's very useful. It's only $50 to buy, but I felt it was better to buy $50 worth of yarn because I can probably get that back selling what I knit. Don't think I'm going to get $50 for this blog.<br />
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But while the free trial was still good I thought I'd try drawing a pattern for a fleece sheep and figure out how to embed that in the blog. Here's the result. You should be able to pop out that image and save it or print it. It's sized for 8 1/2 x 11 paper. You can get all the pieces out of one 8"x 8" piece of fabric if you tighten up the arrangement.<br />
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This pattern is a longer legged version of a sheep I made for my new cousin Immy at Easter. I named her Bewildred Nostrilson. Because Immy is a newborn I doubled the ears and changed how I did the wire legs so they would be safe.<br />
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I made up a pattern for a coat that I really like. I made her two, a regular one and a colorful baaaathrobe to go over her baaathing suit. I sewed the bathing suit out of the toe of some pink cotton tights I'd cut up to to make poster weights. It was a halter top one piece and it was hilarious, but I didn't get a good picture of it.<br />
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Bewildred was intentionally made with very short legs so she would fit in this plastic egg.</div>
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I will now make the new version, explain how it's done and give the finished measurements. And then I'll write up the pattern for the coat in another post.<br />
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My mother has no shortage of craft projects she needs for the Women's March on Washington. She sent me something she found on Facebook describing a sash that says she's from Florida. Since her friend is from Georgia and both states are mentioned on their banner I decided to make two-sided sashes for them. My mother's will have Florida on an orange ribbon in front with pink in back. Her friend will have Georgia on a pink ribbon in front with orange in back.</div>
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I got a Dymo Labelwriter 4XL for myself for a Christmas present. I thought 4"x6" mailing labels would make good stencils. I created a document in Affinity Designer and picked a font I liked and got my letters spaced nicely. Then I selected a 4x6 area and printed it. Then I selected an overlapping 4x6 area and printed that. I peeled away some of the backing under the R and lined it up with the other R on the second half of FLORIDA. Then I cut out the letters with an X-Acto knife. For Georgia I tried just letting the printer automatically cut it into two pages. This did not work well as it left out part of the R. I had to splice in an extra piece of sticker and freehand cut the part of the R that was missing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut my ribbon 30" long</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made a two color pair for each sash</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I sewed the two ribbons together with a French seam so the ends don't unravel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut out the letters and then stuck the stencil over the ribbon on a piece of cardboard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut out the centers of the O, D, and A and placed them by eye</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I squirted out some black puffy paint and applied it to the letters with a brush</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I peeled up the sticker while the paint was still wet. Then I worked on Georgia</td></tr>
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After I finished Georgia I went back to partially dry Florida and gave it a second coat freehand. Then I did the same to Georgia. They looked quite good. I was glad I used the cardboard because the paint bled through the ribbon and left a ghostly image on the black cardboard.<br />
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I also did a test FL on a scrap of ribbon. The next day when it was dry I applied heat to my test with a heat gun. It definitely puffed up. But it also went gray and lost the glossy finish. I decided I liked how it looked better without heat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above: Air dry 1 day, no heat<br />
Below: Heated with a heat gun until puffy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To keep the ribbon from getting creased or frayed<br />crammed into their luggage on the train I used an <br />empty toilet paper roll to wrap the ribbon.</td></tr>
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Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-23172551285197960512017-01-12T19:28:00.002-05:002017-01-15T19:04:59.819-05:00Banner Enhancement for Women's March on WashingtonWay back in November my mother bought a train ticket to Washington for the Women's march the day after the Presidential inauguration. Last week she asked me if I could make a banner for her. I asked my Twitter followers for help in the wording for the banner. I got some immediate help from @Thorvaaldr who rejected my initial attempt "RESPECT MY EQUALITY: HOLDING THE LINE FOR FREEDOM" and suggested "HOLDING OUR GROUND FOR EQUALITY: WOMEN ALONG THE GEORGIA/FLORIDA LINE." My mother is counting herself as Floridian because that's where she votes and her friend lives in Georgia. (I live and vote in Georgia.)<br />
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I also suggested "THE KING IS A FINK" and "I'LL TEACH YOU A LESSON YOU WON'T FORGET IN A HURRY" but my mother didn't go for either of those or "MIND YOUR MANNERS: DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE."<br />
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I had some banner material I got free from Vistaprint. I thought that's what all banners are printed on, but I was wrong. I figured out how to sew a pocket in the vinyl and decided I needed 4" on each side for that. Then I asked my mother to measure her suitcase so the banner would fit inside it on the train. The finished banner needs to be 19" high so it will fit in rolled up. I asked my graphic designer friend, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LeacockDesignCo/" target="_blank">Steve Leacock</a>, to design a 2'x4' banner with the plan that I would cut it off at 19" from the bottom and fold over 4" on either side. He emailed me a PDF Monday night. Tuesday I went back and forth in text messages to my mother to decide what color she wanted. Then I uploaded to design to the Staples website and ordered the sign. It cost about $25. I drove down to Tallahassee Wednesday to pick it up. That's when I found out it wasn't vinyl, it was a sort of papery plastic material. It seems like it will scratch and crease. But it was fast and cheap so I was determined to make it work. I spent all day Thursday fixing it up.<br />
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The rules for the march don't allow for sticks on signs. I was hoping I could make the ends of the banner stiff just by doubling over the material. I ended up using 1" strips of foam core in conjunction with grosgrain ribbon and the extra material I cut off the bottom of the banner. I'll detail the rest in captioned photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Needs to fit in this rolling suitcase. 19" long</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have about 3 1/2" between the supports on the back of the suitcase </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I trimmed the white off the top of the sign then trimmed the bottom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am not experienced with the rotary cutter yet. I learned the hard way you should always put the ruler over the part you're keeping, not on the waste part.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These clear rulers are awesome</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I accidentally let the blade wander away from the ruler. Rookie mistake. I am ashamed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This time I put the ruler over the part of the work<br />
I'm keeping and let the waste stick out. <br />
Cut an extra 1/4" off to correct my mistake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Because this plastic material is translucent I want to stop people signing their names over the<br />
letters for EQUALITY because it would show through on the front and look bad.<br />
I set up a light under my glass table and traced around the letters with a highlighter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This should indicate a keep-out zone when my mother's friends sign the banner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used a lot of this seamstick basting tape on this project. I got it from Sailrite to make an awning</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made some ribbon loops for the ends of the banner. I cut them 48" long and doubled them 2"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After one false start I decided to add a strip of foam core.<br />
I had a piece 2" wide so I cut it in half</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I started working up a sandwich of the ribbon and the banner material and the foamcore</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wrapped the ribbon loop around the end of the foamcore and stuck it down with more seamstick</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With even more seamstick I added the extra material from the bottom of the banner to the edge </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I proceeded to fold all this stuff up, exposing strips of seamstick as necessary</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I was all done with the second side I realized<br />
I'd put the loop on the bottom instead of the top.<br />
I'm going to blame this migraine. <br />
I woke up with it and have been impaired all day.<br />
But now you know what to watch out for!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut another piece of ribbon and sewed it into a loop. I carefully loosened the seamstick<br />
and got the ribbon loop into the sandwich at the top of the banner with more seamstick</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK, here it is! I signed my name in the corner to see how that's going to look. Not bad!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now my mother still has to carry this thing around for a week to get her friends to sign it.<br />
So I made her a bag out of a pair of jeans. I made an extra pocket for this piece of<br />
CPVC pipe to stop the whole thing from bending.<br />
Once the foamcore gets bent it's all over.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here it is with the pipe in the exterior sleeve and the banner inside the bag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Test it fits in the suitcase. Brilliant.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mother came by to get it to take it to her<br />
book group. Lots of signatures tonight!</td></tr>
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Tomorrow I'm going to take more of that wide orange ribbon and make a sash that says Florida and a pink one that says Georgia for her friend. I'll write that up too. But I'm going to need this migraine to go away first.Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-41680010141487025372017-01-10T17:57:00.002-05:002017-01-15T19:05:36.992-05:00Beachton Doubled Edge Pussyhat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beachton Doubled Edge Pussyhat</td></tr>
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My mother is going to the Women's March on Washington next week and she's demanding a lot of my creativity. I'm making her a banner and a sash and hats specified as the uniform of the movement. <a href="https://www.pussyhatproject.com/" target="_blank">The Pussyhat Project</a> has a pattern for a hat knit flat and seamed up the sides. This doesn't really appeal to me. I'd rather do a Kitchener seam across the top for the same result. I have some pima cotton/baby alpaca yarn on hand that I bought on sale in colors nobody in my family likes. But it's perfect for this. I have two 50 gram skeins of each color, fuschia, coral, and candy floss. I have no use for little scraps of this yarn so I'm going to try to use up every inch of it.<br />
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The pattern online calls for a hat that's 100 stitches around. In my hat experience that is way too big for tiny-headed people like me and my mother. I'm going to start with my favorite chunky yarn pattern for baby alpaca hats that has 72 stitches.<br />
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I'm using my new favorite stretchy cast on, the slip knot cast on.<br />
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I cast on 72 stitches using a size 11 tip. I switched them out for size 8 tips for the first hat, a very small one. Making sure the stitches were not twisted I started knitting in the round, k2, p2 all the way around. It should end on p2. After one round I took a yarn needle and threaded the tail with it. I inserted it through the first slip knot stitch where the yarn came out. This makes a nice looking join and you can hardly tell. Then I knit 2x2 ribbing until I finished the first 50 grams of yarn. I joined on the second skein of yarn and knit another three rows of ribbing. Total ribbing came to about 5 1/2". It is 6" wide folded in half.<br />
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I slipped a longer cable into the stitches to try on the hat. When it seemed like the ribbing folded double would cover my ears I switched to size 9 needles and straight knitting. I kept knitting until the sides met in the middle when I tried on the hat. I actually started to run out of yarn when I was pretty close. I measured that I had 6 arm lengths left, knit around, measured again, and found it took 2 to do a round. So I had enough left for two more rounds. That works out as one to knit, and one for the graft. I knit one more round. Then I knit 18 stitches past the end of round marker, 1/4 of the way around. I moved the other 36 stitches to another cable needle.<br />
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Then I did a kitchener close across the top. I used a size 9 DPN to hold the gauge of the graft. It came out a little too loose. For the next one I will go down a needle size for the graft. The final height of the stockinette section is 5". It is 8 1/4" wide folded in half.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchener closed with a DPN to hold the gauge. I wrap the yarn under the needle to work the front stitches and go over the needle to work the back stitches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5" stockinette, 5 1/4" of 2x2 rib</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top section is 8 1/4" wide</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ribbing is about 6" wide. Photo is deceiving because fold is on a purl row</td></tr>
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I use a needle and thread to secure the ends of this chainette yarn after weaving it in a bit. It's too bulky for knots and I don't trust cotton to stay put.<br />
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It came out to 98 g at the end.<br />
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No side seams, cute little ears.<br />
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Update: I grafted the top of the coral hat during the spacewalk on Friday, Jan 13. I used a 9 needle for the ribbing and 10 for the stockinette. I like this one better than the tighter knit hot pink. It's only 1/2" bigger but it makes the ears cuter. I also went down 2 needle sizes for my gauge-holding needle for the graft. I used an 8 for size 10 knitting needles. This was good.</div>
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How about another scarf similar to the last one, but this one is easy? No 5 page PDF, just this<br />
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<b>Succinct Pattern:</b><br />
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<li><b>Yarn to knit: 1 skein Lion Brand Heartland, 142 g, 251 yards </b></li>
<li><b>Yarn for fringe: 15% of a skein of Lion Brand Heartland Thick and Quick, 18 yards of a 125 yard skein</b></li>
<li><b>Needles: 5mm US 8</b></li>
<li><b>Crochet hook for fringe</b></li>
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<li><b>Long tail cast on and pass over bind off are fine. Any method works</b></li>
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<li><b><b><b>Number of stitches: 27</b></b></b></li>
<li><b>First row K1, P1, repeating, end with K1</b></li>
<li><b>Turn the work. K1, P1, repeating, end with K1. Work the opposite of the stitch below for every stitch</b></li>
<li><b>Repeat that over and over</b></li>
<li><b>When almost out of yarn bind off</b></li>
<li><b>Cut 56 equal lengths of the bulky matching yarn for fringe. Use a crochet hook to pull loops under the cast on and bind off edges. Put ends through the loop. Align ends and pull fringe tight.</b></li>
<li>Block the scarf by washing and drying it or just play with it until it's stretched out</li>
<li><b>Length of knit part: 65"</b></li>
<li><b>Length including fringe: 74"</b></li>
<li><b>Width after stretching: 5 1/2"</b></li>
<li><b>Fringe cut length, whole strands, in bulkier yarn: 11 1/2"</b></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Compare striped seed stitch scarf knit in the round and steeked, bottom (hard)<br />
and solid seed stitch scarf knit back and forth with fringe added (easy)</td></tr>
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My mother liked the striped seed stitch scarf I made but she wanted hers to be solid red, longer, and narrower. I had a skein of Lion Brand Heartland Redwood, some 100% baby alpaca in Ruby, and some red mohair. She liked the 100% acrylic. That's the same kind of yarn I used to make the rat snake. I showed her how wide that fabric was if the stockinette wasn't rolled up. She said that looked right. The snake came out about 7' long. That stuff comes in big skeins. I hoped 142 grams/251 yards would make a pretty long scarf. I cast on 27 stitches with my new favorite slip knot cast on and started seed stitch with some 5 mm size 8 aluminum DPNs. This yarn recommends 5.5 mm size 9, but my vintage aluminum DPN collection only goes to 8. Aluminum is best with this 100% acrylic yarn. Bamboo is right out. Sticks to this yarn like velcro. My nickel plated needles work but I prefer a short DPN to a cable needle for a narrow scarf. I use little silicone stoppers on the ends when I knit. I pull the stopper off the empty needle and stick it on the other end of the one in the work when I stop. Keeps everything in place until I pick it up again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edge. No slip stitches. Just knit both sides.</td></tr>
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I didn't do anything special for the edges. I just ended both sides with a knit stitch, turned, and started again with a knit stitch. I had to knit from the front and purl from the back in combination knitting but I got the hang of it immediately.<br />
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The scarf still on the needles was 54" long and 6 1/2" wide. My mother really wanted it long enough to double it and pull the ends through. I used this same color yarn for the O of a Valentine's door decoration. But it was the Thick and Quick version, not the worsted weight. Still, same color. I had a small amount leftover. It could be fringe. So I simply cast off in pattern instead of doing a grafted slip knot bind off. It will be covered up, no need to make it match the cast on.<br />
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I measured how much I had of the Heartland Thick and Quick Redwood, divided by 26x2, the number of fringes I would need, and got 12" per fringe. That'll do. You need about 18 yards of yarn to make this much fringe. I had 20 arm lengths at 32" each, total of 640" with an error bar of at least half an arm length. 640 / 52 = 12.3" got rounded down to 12" as a starting point.<br />
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I measured a cereal box and snipped and folded one side section to make a 12" place to wrap the yarn. I wrapped the whole length of yarn to be sure I would get 26 wraps (each wrap has two sides). I was about 3/4 of a wrap short. I curled the box over to pull the yarn off, then cut the box more and folded it up another half inch and wrapped it again. I was trying to do it loosely to not stretch it because I thought that would make it uneven. That gave me one piece of fringe extra. Perfect. I cut the yarn at both ends to make my 53 pieces of fringe.<br />
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I used a crochet hook to pull the center of each strand under the cast off stitches going between the columns. Then I pulled the ends through the loop, lined them up, and pulled it tight. I failed to take any pictures because I didn't realize it would make a good contrast blog post to the hard-to-make scarf at the time.<br />
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After playing with the scarf and trying it on the mannequin the scarf stretched out a lot. It got 10" longer and 1" narrower. That's good for me. I haven't wet blocked it yet because after over 40 days with no rain there's finally a thunderstorm coming. The stretched measurements are:<br />
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<li>Length of knit part: 65"</li>
<li>Length including fringe: 74"</li>
<li>Width: 5 1/2"</li>
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The bulkier yarn makes the ends of the scarf flare out a bit. This turns out to be cute when worn because it doubles over the fringed part like a sophisticated ruffle.<br />
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I made up a new pattern for a slouchy hat for a geek teen this week. I started a matching ribbed scarf already, but when I put the red scarf on the mannequin who was already wearing the green hat I remembered red and green are complementary colors. Too bad Christmas ruined that fashion option. I think it looks fetching together.<br />
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<br />Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-32230813199689269132016-11-13T15:31:00.000-05:002016-11-14T16:50:50.876-05:00Seed Stitch Steeked Stripe Scarf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just realized I'm following up all these posts on snakes with a scarf with the initials SSSSS. I may be in a rut.<br />
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I posted a 9 page PDF to Ravelry with full details of this pattern. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.ravelry.com/purchase/beachton-knit-works/365503%22%3Ebuy%20now%3C/a%3E">Buy Now for $5!</a> The PDF includes still photos for the slip knot cast on, a full chart of the exact row count for the scarf pictured above, and formulas written out to duplicate the spreadsheet linked below. Also there is a scarf length comparison chart to help choose how long to make your scarf.<br />
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This is my promised follow up to my <a href="http://www.beachton.com/2016/02/mounting-stitches-beginners-seed-stitch.html">circular seed stitch scarf post</a> where I suggested seed stitch in the round as a good way to practice combination knitting. There are pictures in that blog for how to read the stitches for seed stitch knit in the round. When I finished the black, sage, and gray scarf I was disappointed in the stretchiness of the edges. I wanted it to be evenly stretchy all over, with the edges just as stretchy as the middle. I made up my mind I was going to make that happen. I finally found a way to make a cast on that was just as stretchy as seed stitch — the slip knot cast on. There aren't many videos for how to do it. The one with hand motions I could actually copy was such terrible quality I made my own.<br />
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The first seed stitch steeked strip scarf I made, the black and gray one, came out 104" long. I gave it to The Black Knight who is a big fella and he loves that it is long enough to double over and pull the ends through the loop and have the ends still come to his waist. For a small person like me that's way too much scarf. I wanted about 72". Based on the long one I figured I needed 220 stitches to get that.<br />
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Well, it only came out to be 54" long. Same needles, same yarn. I guess I was just so uptight about current events I knit much tighter than normal! As such my scarf came out shorter than I meant for it to be. I don't know what number of stitches to suggest. I did a gauge swatch and did the calculations and I was just wrong.<br />
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So if you try this scarf do your own gauge swatch with the yarn you want to use and be prepared for surprises. I'm not sure I even want to encourage other people to make this scarf as it is so unpredictable. But just in case I thought I'd try something. I made a quick calculator in Google Sheets. Click this screenshot to go to it. Copy and paste it into your own Sheets Account. I thought about making it editable but that's too risky. A bot could get in there and fill every cell with obscenities. Or worse, mess with my formulas so you get the wrong answer. I think this method is the best I can do without learning how to embed Javascript into Blogger. So copy and paste it into a new spreadsheet. Then you can change the stitches and inches of your gauge swatch and the length of your desired scarf and it will calculate your gauge and the number of stitches you need to cast on to get that length, the Golden Numbers. I even found the function to make it automatically round to an even number. I also already added back the 16 inches for the fringe, or whatever number you type in that cell.<br />
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OK, so that's the cast on and the number of stitches out of the way. On to the grafting. I figured out the secret to grafting seed stitch if one side is a slip knot cast on. (I'm not sure I know how to do it if there are two sides of seed stitch. I think it will just never work in that instance because the graft will come out in between the columns. That's a test for another day.)<br />
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I managed to get the explanation of the graft worked out in the video when I was in the middle of the graft. Then I came back to the camera for the end and I went into opposite land and start purling when I'm saying to knit and knitting when I'm saying to purl. I think my brain is defective. My muscle memory will take no verbal cues. Let's see if I can describe it in words. I think 99 out of 100 people would rather watch the video, but who knows? There could be some kind of disaster where YouTube stops working but miraculously Blogger still functions and somebody's life could depend on being able work a seed stitch graft with nothing to go on but my blog. I am a big damn hero.<br />
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<li>Start with an equal number of stitches on two needles. For this instance the back needle is the slip knot cast on in contrast yarn. I put on a few extra slip knots because it's better than not enough.</li>
<li>Start by working a set up stitch on the back and front. Look at the first stitch on the front needle. If it is a purl stitch then the first set-up stitch is through the first stitch on the back needle purlwise. Insert the needle from right to left and pull through. If it is a knit stitch on the front needle then work the first stitch on the back needle as a knit. Insert the yarn needle from left to right and pull the yarn through. Leave the stitch on the knitting needle.</li>
<li>Work the first stitch on the front needle as whatever it is. Be sure the working leg is in the front. If it is a knit stitch it should be facing the front already. Insert the yarn needle from left to right and pull through. If it is a purl and you purl underhand like me, flip the stitch on the needle first, insert the yarn needle from right to left, pull the yarn through purlwise. Keep the stitch on the needle. The set-up is equivalent to the second half of the following steps worked on two stitches on each needle at a time.</li>
<li>Now hold a DPN the same size as your knitting needles over the yarn between the needles. Go to the back needle over the extra DPN and work two stitches. Look at the second stitch on the front needle. Working the back needle stitches, insert the yarn needle in the direction indicated by the second stitch. If you purled the set up stitch this means you go into the first stitch on the back needle knitwise and drop it off the knitting needle. Then go into the second stitch on the back needle knitwise and leave it on. Pull the yarn through. If you knit the set up stitch then the second stitch on the front needle is a purl and you purl a stitch and take it off, then purl a stitch and leave it on. I abbreviate this into a chant "purl off, purl on" or "knit off, knit on."</li>
<li>Now hold the working yarn under the DPN and under the front needle.</li>
<li>Work two stitches on the front needle the same direction as you just did the back. Look at the second stitch to confirm. Whatever the second stitch is on the front needle that is the way you work these stitches. Knit off, knit on. Or purl off, purl, on.</li>
<li>Repeat this two stitch pattern for the entire graft. Go over the extra DPN to the back, go under the DPN when coming back to work the front. This will allow you to pull tight on the working yarn and get the tension perfect for the whole graft. Keep sliding the DPN along with the work letting the stitches fall off the back. It's just like a cable needle. It's only important for a few stitches near the ongoing work.</li>
<li>The chant is a double repeat, starting in the back. purl off, purl on. purl off, purl on. knit off, knit on. knit off, knit on. purl off, purl on. purl off, purl on..." If only that worked for me. I have to look at the second stitch on the front needle every time.</li>
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Don't make my mistake. Hold your yarn up to your coat before you start! It doesn't match my brown hooded nylon vest either. I got this yarn on clearance a while ago and most of the good colors are gone. This red is still available but not the other colors. It is more of a formula than a yarn-specific pattern though. I am hoping somebody will commission one of superwash merino based on the sample in acrylic. Maybe some other obsessive compulsive knitter will try it in some pretty yarn and post photos on Ravelry. I hope!<br />
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Yarn Information:</h4>
Loren Patik 100% acrylic (I got it from <a href="https://www.yarn.com/products/loren-patik">Webs</a>)<br />
100 gram skeins, 210 meters<br />
Total final weight of red scarf 160 grams = 336 meters<br />
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<li>Sage 60 grams, 126 meters (137 yards)</li>
<li>Deep Red 95 grams, 200 meters (218 yards)</li>
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I just this minute realized I knit this on size 4 needles because "4-4,5" is written on the ball band. But nothing else on there is in US units. It's even a decimal comma, as if I needed more of a clue it's not US units. It's millimeters, not needle size. I feel much shame. Although the other reason I used a size 4 needle could be that I bought a size 4 needle for these cables for another project but I don't have a size 7. Oh well. I like it dense like that. It's so springy. But if I'd used 6 needles it would have been a lot easier to knit and longer. A commenter on Webs says it feels like DK weight to them, not worsted, so maybe that's why I went with the small needle. Point is, whatever yarn and needle combination you use is fine. If you want it as stretchy and dense as the one in the video go for smaller needles than called for. This helps it stand up on the neck I think.</div>
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The needles I used for this scarf are Nova Platina interchangeables. I got them used on eBay. I like them for scarves better than the Addi Lace Short needles I use for hats. The join is smoother and they come in larger and smaller sizes. I've gotten extra cables and tips from Jimmy Beans Wool. The Addi Lace needles allow you to pull through different cable lengths for trying things on. These don't do that.<br />
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I cast on with a size 8 needle then switched down to a size 4 to knit the first row. You have to experiment on your gauge swatch to be sure the needles you choose will make a sufficiently stretchy edge. I think the perfect match of my edges is partly a function of the too-small needle thing. If there were more yarn in every stitch there's more chance the edges would stop stretching before the body.<br />
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Thank you for bearing with me for this long explanation. If you want to encourage me to do more of this <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.ravelry.com/purchase/beachton-knit-works/365503%22%3Ebuy%20now%3C/a%3E" target="_blank">buy the PDF on Ravelry</a>.<br />
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Beachtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13792937145012547220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397870869556574356.post-35667427348428343402016-11-12T13:36:00.003-05:002016-11-12T13:36:51.692-05:00Bandy Bandy Zap Mama videoYou may wonder what a knit snake is FOR. Stop motion video, obviously. When I was researching snakes to knit I found the song Bandy Bandy by Zap Mama. I liked it so much I made up my mind to knit a Bandy Bandy just so I could do a video for the song. The song is copyrighted by the musical artist so the advertisements are theirs.<br />
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My knit version is made in 100% cotton worsted weight yarn. I knit with much smaller needles than what is recommended for this yarn to get a dense fabric. The ventral side of the snake is worked in reverse stockinette and the dorsal side is stockinette. It's worked in the round on double pointed needles. I made a spreadsheet and filled the cells with gray and white to picture how it was going to look and wrote the instructions out row by row as a checklist.<br />
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After most of the snake is finished, cut a strip of white fleece fabric that rolls up to the right size to fit inside your snake.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut a rectangle that rolls up to the right size to fit inside the snake. I cut off triangles to make tapered ends.</td></tr>
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I tapered the filler piece by cutting triangles off the end so when I sewed the exposed edge I sort of spiraled around. Fleece doesn't unravel so you don't have to turn under the edge. I cut a piece of nylon trimmer line to go inside the fleece filler. Then I pushed it into the body. I finished knitting working around that insert.<br />
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When I got almost to the end I cut the fleece and the cable and sewed some black fleece on top and closed up the fleece with needle and thread. </div>
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I finished by grafting the stitches together with black yarn to make the blunt nose.<br />
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I worked out where they eyes should go just behind the white band on the nose. Bandy Bandy's have tiny eyes so I used <a href="http://www.crscraft.com/products/product.asp?V2=0&V3=0&V4=0&pid=03185&L1=0&L2=0&L3=0&L4=0&searchoffset=0">4 mm glass eyes from CR's Crafts</a>. They're $0.70 for a package of two. I bought them at the same time as those magnificent amber eyes for the Dugite scarf. These have a little wire loop embedded in the glass for sewing on.</div>
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And sewed the eyes on. I used the needle and thread to be sure to secure the fleece filling inside the head so it wouldn't twist around.<br />
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I decided to sell this pattern for $3. Here's the link to it on <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bandy-bandy">Ravelry</a>. You can search Patterns for Bandy Bandy if you want to check it out later. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.ravelry.com/purchase/beachton-knit-works/364994%22%3Ebuy%20now%3C/a%3E">Click here to Buy Now</a> if you aren't a Ravelry member.</div>
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