If I like a thing I drew, I put it on the dashboard of my motor home for awhile until someone buys it or I give it away. But I'm keeping this one. I love my sassy little Dutch bunny.
Medium: Posca paint markers on sanded pine.
In our process, we're taking a design, we offset a path a little bit to create a cut line, and then cutting stuff out on laser equipment. HOWEVER. The offset needs to be smooth. Illustrator is creating small, jagged strips which create burn marks and this is unacceptable in the final product.
The error is reproduceable and I have reproduced it in an .ai file. The effect we're using is Path -> Offset Path. It happens when two points are too close together for Illustrator's liking. It'd be redundant and expensive to hire a separate designer to measure out the offset and hand draw cut lines with the pen tool all day when all we really need is to take the whole design and offset it a little bit. Are there any suggestions?
I really would like a few custom tank tops. I'm especially hard to fit, so I see this as a great opportunity to either make or alter some tops out of knits or stretch, to look nicer when worn under the blouses I've made out of wovens on my antique sewing machine.
So, is a tank top a good beginning serger project, or maybe panties?
I spoke with one of the librarians who said it's a good one to learn on if I've never used a serger before. She used it to make leggings and had never used one before, either.
When I was growing up in the 1970s, and yes I'm very old, my mother would take leftovers of whatever she had cooked during the week and pop them into the freezer. A chicken piece that didn't get served, an extra porkchop, a spoonful of sloppy joe, some mashed taters, a blob of this or that vegetable. Mom would chop it up and drop it all in one of those big old square Tupperwares and put it in the freezer. On Friday, she would throw the whole collection into a pot, add stuff if we needed it like tomato sauce or a potato, and turn it into soup. It was always so delicious and low effort. And it was basically free.
We just called it the Friday soup and the whole family loved it with fresh hot rolls from the oven. I still do it with my family. My current container for this week has some sloppy joe and spaghetti with meatballs. I'm planning a tomato base because of that. Last week we had a lot of leftover fried chicken, stuffing and some pot pie so I made a cream of chicken type base. We ate every morsel and raved over it.
Does anyone else do the weekly stone soup thing to get more mileage out of the leftovers?
I was miserable last summer with the mosquito netting I bought, so this year I'm cutting it up and making some panels that we can magnet to the windows of the bus. This design should let in more air. I found out last year that floppy mosquito nets don't allow as much air circulation (and they took up too much room anyway and my rabbit nibbled on them).
About the coffee filters: My 191 was complaining about the project, so I was trying everything to coax her through the seams, including coffee filters to stop her from eating her own threads. I finally found a needle, a different thread, and a tension setting that we could all live with, and finished the panel after some difficulty. I may bust out the 500 and try a walking foot and see if that one chews through it a little easier. Betty's a good daily driver but she gets confused with mixed or weird fabrics.
I'm also sort of regretting buying a 14 window flatnose because SO. MANY. WINDOWS. to sew treatments for.