My friend Andrea (not her real name) sends a link to What China Should Learn From Hong Kong’s Luxury Malls and I know you’re thinking, “so what does that have to do with me?”. A lot -particularly in the context of a recent post from Iconoculture called Fury Over Fakes.…
I’ve been busy this week, hosting my co-blogger Stu who is here visiting from Portland. It’s been a real learning experience having someone around who is too much like me. Case in point, he wanted to see how the grading machines worked.…
Context: I encourage members to add me to their email marketing lists so I’m indirectly (impersonally) updated as to their progress. I read emails and usually delete them and then go on about my day. I changed that policy over the past year.…
When you are checking a pattern, particularly a complex one, it’s easy to get lost in the process. Sometimes you forget whether you walked whichever seam with another and so on. To help you stay on track, here is a technique I teach in my classes.…
Very heartening that we had several useful responses to Rita’s challenge. Refreshing your memory, she asked how you could split the overlap on a draft without tracing one side onto the next. First out of the chute was Heidi who said:
You cut into the overlapping that it looks like a shark bite .
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