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Sheepy Weekend
I had a great weekend at Shepherds Harvest Festival! If you are here and looking for where you can order the Little Loom Kits, hop over to my etsy shop and you can pre-order them with free shipping right now. So sorry I sold out! Shepherds Harvest was the debut for the looms and they were more popular than I expected. Thank you! The new looms should be ready about June 1.
Photoshop Tips: Curves
I originally wrote up this post for another reason and it didn’t get posted. So I thought I would share it here with you. This is one of my favorite tips for touching up your photos for posting in your Etsy shop or many other purposes. Enjoy!
Fixing Grey and Gloomy with the Curves Tool in Photoshop
Curves is probably my favorite Photoshop “touch-up” tool. I shoot a lot of my photos against a white background because I like the way [read more…]
In place of a shuttle launch
Some fascinating reading. At least to sewing geeks.
NASA’s standards pushed the very limits of the equipment used by ILC, as well as the very limits of the seamstress’s own technique. The tolerances allowed — less than a sixty-fourth of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping the Singer’s operation, fired one stitch [read more…]
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