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Correct me if I’m wrong but this isn’t “something to do with weights” is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLlYrWaTTA
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 14:11 |
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learnincurve posted:Correct me if I’m wrong but this isn’t “something to do with weights” is it? It kinda looks like a weight belt, but velcro is a pretty terrible idea for weight belts. (It's also not the greatest idea if it's BDSM equipment.)
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 19:21 |
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I totally get the not doxing one’s own children thing but enquiring minds need to know. How did the willy wonka Halloween costume go on the day?
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# ? Nov 4, 2018 12:04 |
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I grabbed two vintage (pre-WWII) sewing machines for free and had them repaired - finally started sewing with one today and realized I have no idea what half the knobs and switches do. Would people here be able to help me out if I post some pictures? The lady at the repair shop had them both running fine but the second I got them home the bottom bobbin is acting up and the machine's just eating thread like there's no tomorrow. I was able to thread them by following what she did but I'm not sure how to reload the bobbin holder or adjust tension or anything.
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# ? Nov 6, 2018 05:33 |
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fuzzy_logic posted:I grabbed two vintage (pre-WWII) sewing machines for free and had them repaired - finally started sewing with one today and realized I have no idea what half the knobs and switches do. Would people here be able to help me out if I post some pictures? The lady at the repair shop had them both running fine but the second I got them home the bottom bobbin is acting up and the machine's just eating thread like there's no tomorrow. I was able to thread them by following what she did but I'm not sure how to reload the bobbin holder or adjust tension or anything. Yeah post pics. Are they Singers? Singers had some pretty standard ways of doing most things.
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# ? Nov 6, 2018 07:41 |
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Anne Whateley posted:This style of shaver. If you go slowly and work on flat/taut surfaces, it's very difficult to gently caress up the piece. With the sandpaper block style, I totally ruined a pair of jeans, and a razor is too risky imo. I use my shaver for things I've knit, so my #1 goal is not loving them up. Thank you!
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# ? Nov 14, 2018 00:26 |
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I got a quilting book recommendation https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N9IDK70/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o03_?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This is genius, what she does is use needle punched battling cut into squares and pieces directly onto it, and assembles as blocks, that way you got the battling and top already done before the backing goes on. I’m going to be using this method to log cabin all my scrap as I accumulate it from now on.
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 16:35 |
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learnincurve posted:I totally get the not doxing one’s own children thing but enquiring minds need to know. I can not be happier with the way it came out, my daughter's costume came out great, I was able to build my wife's easily and ran out of time and had to buy mine. The tube idea to cover the frame was fantastic and saved a ton of time.
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 19:49 |
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You guys look great!!!
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 20:07 |
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Fabulous! I hope you all won first prize
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 20:24 |
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learnincurve posted:I got a quilting book recommendation https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00N9IDK70/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o03_?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Quilt as you go is pretty neat. The problems with it are still needing to quilt the finished top to the backing, and chunky seams where you sewed the batting squares together. I had customers that would use this method to use up batting scraps, and then do batting and backing like normal to get an extra thick quilt. A fleece backing is another good way to hide chunky seams if that looks like it'll be a problem.
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 21:29 |
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Rythe posted:
You guys are frigging adorable, you look so great.
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 22:06 |
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I’m still relatively new to quilting, have just spent a lot of time on a few large and repetitive projects, and I’d never heard of needle punched battling. Fleece backing sounds like the way to go thank you, without it it could end up too thin in general.
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# ? Nov 19, 2018 22:11 |
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learnincurve posted:I’m still relatively new to quilting, have just spent a lot of time on a few large and repetitive projects, and I’d never heard of needle punched battling. Fleece backing sounds like the way to go thank you, without it it could end up too thin in general. Needle punched is just a fancy term for machine felting, and a lot of brands use it to make their batting. It's really common with wool and low-loft cottons.
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# ? Nov 20, 2018 01:06 |
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I’ve been sewing stuff for 10 years now and I’m constantly amazed at how little I know, most feet are a mystery to me, I got put off doing shirt collars for years because of a Mcalls pattern that was marked as easy but was anything but and the list goes on. Blog bit: I had this teacher at school by the name of Mrs Batt “”IT’S GOT TWO Ts!” who was dreadful unless at age 12 and in your first lesson you could already thread a sewing machine she put you on some sort of twisted hate list and from that day on concentrated on people she called “natural talent”. Couldn’t be bothered to actually teach basically. Before I dropped the class at her insistence I made an appliqué peg bag for my mother, when Bat was showing off everyone’s work to the class she ignored mine so I thought well all right then. 15 years later I saw she was still using it and it was legitimately really good (ended up lasting 20 years) and that was when I got back into sewing.
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# ? Nov 20, 2018 08:31 |
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update: I had the loving needle in backwards, I didn't even know that was a thing you could do.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 05:47 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:It kinda looks like a weight belt, but velcro is a pretty terrible idea for weight belts. Looks like a dip belt maybe. If it's for light weights, velcro might be fine.
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# ? Nov 24, 2018 21:37 |
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fuzzy_logic posted:update: I had the loving needle in backwards, I didn't even know that was a thing you could do. Yep, sewing machine needles are directional. Hell if I know how that actually works, but it is is a thing.
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# ? Nov 24, 2018 23:41 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yep, sewing machine needles are directional. Hell if I know how that actually works, but it is is a thing. There's an indent on one side so the bobbin can grab the thread.
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# ? Nov 25, 2018 04:27 |
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Schmetz needles do not deserve the good reviews on Amazon. Not designed for the more powerful machines at all. First you find out that the eyes are too small for the automatic threader and then they hit the foot and snap.
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# ? Nov 25, 2018 10:06 |
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I made a backpack for shuttling books, paper, pencils, and dice to and from tabletop gaming sessions! This is, by far, the most complicated thing I've ever put together, and it turned out stunningly great! I also made a lil' dice bag from the leftover material.
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 21:11 |
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I really need to know where you got that dice fabric. Looks great!
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 22:42 |
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Rotten Cookies posted:I really need to know where you got that dice fabric. Thanks! The Dice Fabric is from Spoonflower: https://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/7861118-dice-galore-spooky-by-pi-ratical I had enough left over to make a few Christmas gift dice bags, too!
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 04:27 |
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Has anyone in here got experience with automatic machine embroidery? The long and the short of it is that our university lab is working on some projects involving wearable embedded electronics, and we'd like to try embroidering control buttons and the like onto fabric with conductive thread. I'm looking around at various machines from Brother, Singer and Janome but it's been pretty overall. The machines themselves are surprisingly inexpensive; $500 to $1000 for a machine with a ~5x7" working area, it looks like, which ought to be fine for our purposes. However, it seems that the software situation is really terrible. We would obviously want to be able to generate our own patterns (probably from Illustrator vectors, SVG/EPS/etc), but in the home sewing world that is apparently considered an advanced niche technique, because I don't think any of the machines come with software to do it. Instead they will advertise how many fonts are built-in to do automatic lettering, or that it can do 2000 different holiday designs, or that the machine comes with a cartridge to make 150 different licensed Disney characters, or whatever. It's like some kind of clip-art print shop software from thirty years ago. So I look around for software, and I'm just baffled. Half of the companies don't even list a price for their "digitizer" software (this is the term they use for "can make your own designs from scratch", apparently) because I guess it's like, you would only do that if you were running a business? And it's extremely difficult to figure out which of the software offerings have what features, because they take the same nickel-and-diming approach to that too and make you buy the module to use custom fonts and the module to make this kind of stitch and so on. I've got no idea why no company appears to have taken the "plug this into your macbook and embroider anything you want!" approach -- I bet that would sell extremely well to hipster knitting circles etc -- but maybe their market is entirely non-technical grandmas who just want to push the christmas tree button and don't care what it looks like exactly. So, tl;dr: can anyone recommend a machine and software package for, say, $2000 or less that is reliable enough for academic work and which would let us make arbitrary custom stitch designs (a learning curve is fine) in a 5"x5" or larger area? Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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Sagebrush posted:Has anyone in here got experience with automatic machine embroidery? I have an embroidery machine and I’ve managed to figure out a few things. Yes the market is very skewed towards the older generation and it’s a mess to figure out. Some of the various embroidery software makers do offer trial versions. I can dig through a Facebook group I’m in to try to dig a few suggestions out to you later tonight or tomorrow. I’ve heard the Singer machines are a finicky nightmare.
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# ? Dec 4, 2018 05:11 |
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Sagebrush posted:Has anyone in here got experience with automatic machine embroidery? This might be worth looking into: https://github.com/Embroidermodder/Embroidermodder You'd probably still need the machine-specific software though. (Or someone who's cracked that / cracked the format.)
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This might be worth looking into: I’m not a software engineer but the way I understand this is that a lot of the commercial programs will have a working file type proprietary to that program: that’s where a lot of the digitizing work happens and the settings are chosen. They then export a more limited basic file to the machines themselves. Those machine files are more per brand than per machine. The Brother machines take a .pes file and it doesn’t matter if you have the $18k top of the home line machine or their $300 model that file will work for either.
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Sagebrush posted:I've got no idea why no company appears to have taken the "plug this into your macbook and embroider anything you want!" approach Aside from proprietary software and compatibility issues? Because it's not really worth it below a professional level. Digitizing is a skill; you're creating a program for your embroidery machine to read. The software provides tools to facilitate that, but it can't do it for you. So for the same reason most people aren't getting a 3-d printer to make their own Warhammer figurines, most hobbyist embroiderers aren't going to go through the effort of learning how to digitize their own patterns. If you want to make totally from scratch designs you're probably going to have to look at the industrial market, then you'll need to train someone on the software who preferably already has experience with machine embroidery. You can also just hire a digitizer to make files for you, same as you hire a graphic designer to make a logo. You should probably talk to professional embroiderers and see what they recommend. Another idea is to go to a machine embroidery convention where you can talk directly with the brand reps and tell them what you need.
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Comrade Quack posted:I’m not a software engineer but the way I understand this is that a lot of the commercial programs will have a working file type proprietary to that program: that’s where a lot of the digitizing work happens and the settings are chosen. They then export a more limited basic file to the machines themselves. Those machine files are more per brand than per machine. The Brother machines take a .pes file and it doesn’t matter if you have the $18k top of the home line machine or their $300 model that file will work for either. Oh, well it seems like that tool will give you the machine specific files for a range of brands. It even has a gui to help the design. Unfortunately it kinda looks like it's not under active development any more due to the death of the main developer, but it's worth trying out. Worst case, just get a regular machine that does embroidery-style zigzag and just sew the patterns you need manually.
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# ? Dec 5, 2018 00:20 |
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Sagebrush, can you give more information about your specs and use case, please? That may help us give better recommendations.
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Embroidery machine chat: What there wolf said about skill is accurate, but custom stuff isn't completely out of casual reach. I only have an incredibly limited knowledge of conductive thread, but working with it with an embroidery machine seems kind of complicated. You'd want to make sure someone can really understand how to use whatever software you get because I think a lot of defaults would work fine for regular thread, but would be terrible for conductive. For example by default all of my lines of running stitches are repeated 3 times on top of each other, auto digitized designs might have gaps or cross over in a way that wouldn't let conductive thread work. Some machines can also be pretty specific about the weight/thickness of the thread used. A cursory googling gave me the idea that it might be better to run the conductive thread from the bobbin rather than the top thread. The top thread goes through more tension discs so there might be fewer issues with thread weight. I got started with embroidery for making stuffed animals as a hobby so my experience tends towards the cheap and somewhat specific. I use a program called Stitch Era Universal because when I was getting started it was free and pretty decent. It's since moved to subscription based and a website change or two and they have different tiers, I have a hard time finding it even though I know what I'm looking for. http://www.sierra-software.com/Sites/Products/SEU/StitchEraUniversal.aspx The downside is that it's Windows only, and last I checked was so Windows only that I couldn't run it in a virtual machine like VMWare, but I am running it on a Macbook via dedicated bootcamp partition. There's a demo version available that should let you check some things out, worst case the subscriptions are relatively cheap. I'm in a facebook group for other plush makers that would also be in the custom embroidery situation and I see a few other programs mentioned but I don't have experience with them: I think there are a few that use Embrilliance and Embird. Then there are some using a program called Sophie Sew because it's free, but it sounds crash prone. Hardware wise that group seems to favor the entry level Brother models the SE400 and the PE700 (I think there's new similar models that are probably just as good), people have said Singers can be a bit more finicky. You can also check in with a Sewing Machine dealer if you've got one of those, mine is more oriented to the older women hobbyist. They might be good if you want to test your thread in a machine, maybe a design you've created if you're lucky. The thing about my local dealer is that they seem to ignore the existence of those entry level Brothers and start at $1000ish machines that don't seem to have any better features that you'd use, but you'll pay more for the Disney branded designs. I started with a PE770 and I really only upgraded because I wanted the larger hoop size. Oh and fun warning about hoop sizes, Brother kinda works on an *ish scale, if you make a design thats 5x7 and try to sew it in one of their machines with a max size of 5x7 it might be too big, because really they mean close to that size - I think it might be a metric system thing. Comrade Quack fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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WrenP-Complete posted:Sagebrush, can you give more information about your specs and use case, please? That may help us give better recommendations. Well, it's pretty much what I mentioned: sewing patches of conductive thread onto fabric to behave as electrical inputs. Imagine something like a jacket with little ipod controls embroidered on the cuff that you could tap to trigger behaviors in your phone. The electrical part of it shouldn't be an issue, as long as the thread conducts some small amount of current all the way back up the sleeve (or about that distance). We want to be able to make them arbitrary shapes (e.g. shaped like play icons or volume controls or whatever) and wrap them into the best orientations for ease of use.
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# ? Dec 5, 2018 05:05 |
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Brace yourselves, it’s Pantone’s colour of the year time, this is the colour that will be in all the new fabrics in 2019... https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/dec/06/living-coral-pantone-colour-of-the-year-2019
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 10:34 |
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Picture looks like a backdrop in a cheap vintage science fiction movie. The color...it's an "eh" for me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 12:57 |
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I just realised where I have seen that before. My old lady shopping trolly
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 13:05 |
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That color combo has been pretty in this year so it makes sense. I'm amused because I've been thinking of painting my dining room coral.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 14:25 |
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Sagebrush posted:Has anyone in here got experience with automatic machine embroidery? I think you're looking for something like Sew Art (~$70)? I use it to embroider-ize logos and names from SVGs and other image formats. I do this "for fun" for my rec sports teams. Draw up custom names/logos in an image editor (I use Illustrator), save as TIF/JPG/SVG/BMP most major file formats, open in SewArt, make a few adjustments (they have a wizard for it), save as PES file (Brother embroidery format) on USB drive, plug in USB drive to Brother SE-600, hoop the material, and embroider. There's probably a more professional way to do this, but for my own personal use, it's good enough.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 16:04 |
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learnincurve posted:I just realised where I have seen that before. It's fitting; no matter our age, we are all too old for this poo poo.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 21:04 |
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I continue to make weird underwear, it seems to be finding me a niche audience and I get more commission requests than I ever have before, wow. Linked for just barely not quite :nsfw: Gift Wrapped set for the Holidays https://imgur.com/1NaXykZ https://imgur.com/JY6mIHM Angel Set because....I love weird angel poo poo. https://imgur.com/ei3Q1SZ https://imgur.com/xnx8r4n I'm back to cosplay for the moment though, working on Chrom Fire Emblem at the moment.
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Goldaline posted:I continue to make weird underwear, it seems to be finding me a niche audience and I get more commission requests than I ever have before, wow. Awesome as always. Btw, your makeup kicks rear end. How'd you get the leggings to stay up? Is that a spandex band?
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