So what is denim anyway? Where did denim come from? The quintessential American fabric originated far from America. The earliest use of denim refers to a serge material (a twill fabric commonly used in military uniforms) from Nimes, France in the 1850s. Historically, fabrics were named after...
Here is the first garment I made. It is a spring coat, not a raincoat. It is a beautiful woven fabric from my stash about the weight of light denim, same on both sides, 100% cotton. I used large black snaps and embellished it with a running stitch using dark red Perle cotton size ...
Place one of the assembled long sides onto your work surface with the pocket holes facing upwards. I positioned the short sides inset from the front by the same distance the long side panels are. I used a block of wood to ensure both are the same distance. (2nd and 3rd images). Don'...
For many people, writing is a chore. It used to be for me, too. I started my career as an engineer and I hated writing the weekly project reports. Even worse, I hated reading others’ weekly reports because they were so…boring. But I quickly talked with executives and ...
catching the edge. When the print is finally ready to edition I finish off this bevelling with fine sandpaper and polish it up with the back of a spoon which gives a sharp clean print mark that does not cut the paper. Bevelling the plate before printing is compulsory in any class I ...
The main thing you do in a run is collecting two toys from toy dungeons and consecutively pass a trial dungeon for each of the toys that has puzzles which only can be solved with the respective toy. Furthermore, there are many small caves and a handful of tasks you get from...
, bass…for fillet such as black cod, just put it on a heat resistant plate…lay 4 chopsticks in a tic tac toe pattern just aove the water in the wok and lay the plate on it….for whole fish such as rock cod, bass…this is what i do…In a wok, put water enough to cover ...
This large block plane is my favorite for general planing operations in my shop. Nothing compares to the sound and feel of a well-tuned plane dispensing curly chips and the glass smooth surface it leaves behind. The above photo compares the angles of two gouges. The lower angle gouge in th...
2. For the lower shelf on the ottoman, I used plywood. Plywood is stainable, where MDF is not. I covered the not-so-pretty edges with pieces of 1″ x 3″ lumber. 3. For the scalloped mirror, I used MDF, for all of the same reasons as on the scalloped console table. (FYI,...
But it is 2011 after all “dad” and Dura Ace has been trickling down through Ultegra to Tiagra to Sora for years. Work continues on my Steel Bike Philosophy PhD, which began back in 1975 when the training wheels came off the midget Sting Ray and I rode around the block unassisted. ...