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Luckily, the internet has changed all of this and there are several active knitting communities online where you can discuss every aspect of a life filled with yarn. While you may be most familiar with websites like Ravelry, there is another little forum that you will also want to visit. The website is called Knitting Paradise and it is a very basic message board where knitters from all over-communicate....

This project is quick and easy to knit in an organic cotton yarn. The dropped stitches are decorative, and they also give the soap suds a handy way to escape during use. The sachet’s cord is also functional and decorative, making sure your soap hangs in the shower in a pretty style. Materials Needed 25 yards worsted weight organic cotton yarn such as Lion Brand Organic Cotton Size 6 US needlesScissorsYarn needle...

What Is Bulky Yarn? For the purposes of this discussion, bulky yarn is anything that’s larger than worsted or medium weight yarn. In the yarn classification system that’s actually three categories: the two known as bulky and super bulky yarn, and one of the newer weights, known as jumbo. Jumbo is a special case that’s mostly made for arm knitting. This yarn is so chunky that you’re not really supposed to knit it with knitting needles, though you can....

Learn more about a number of different examples of leg styles developed in both Europe and the United States from the Renaissance period to the Empire period. Links within each description lead to more information on styles, periods, and types of antique furniture. When used with Chippendale furniture, the cabriole leg commonly terminates with a ball and claw foot. In Queen Anne examples, the pad foot was popular, but other foot styles were used with these legs as well....

Let’s look at this picture. It shows a one-point perspective view. All of the lines that are parallel to the horizon (at right angles to the direction of our gaze) such as the railway sleepers and fence posts—go straight across or straight up and down. If they were longer, they’d keep going straight across, or straight up and down. These lines will always stay the same distance apart and never meet each other....

Examples decorated with transfers simulate hand painting but can be detected upon close inspection. They are generally not as valuable as those that are hand decorated unless the painting is very poorly executed. This can be present with some pieces that were decorated by amateur porcelain painters rather than the factory or more proficient artists. Of course, if an item decorated with transfers is extremely rare, then it can still be quite valuable....

There are two basic types of machine quilting that can easily be accomplished on most sewing machines—straight line and free motion. Straight line quilting is the easier of the two techniques but both require a bit of practice. Straight Line Machine Quilting Straight line machine quilting is best accomplished by replacing a regular presser foot with a walking foot, often called an even-feed foot. A walking foot is a specialized pressure foot that grips the top of the quilt sandwich, advancing it through the machine at the same rate as the quilt’s back, which touches and is moved along by the sewing machine’s feed dogs....

Before you start making a particular type of palm, study the shape of its fronds, as well as how the fronds come off the trunk, and the relative size of the fronds. For most scale miniatures, generic palm fronds should be about the size of a doorway or the height of a person in the same scale. This will create palms that appear to be in scale outdoors. Indoor palms only have trunks in conservatories....

Related Links Spotlight: Volcanoes!Volcanoes of the World External Links Volcanoes.comVolcano World: Mt. Saint Helens After a fissure appeared along the north side of the mountain, a great portion of the rock facing fell, followed by a blast of stone, ash, and poison gas from the mountain. Landslides ensued, covering local forestation and carrying debris nearly 20 mi (32 km). The disaster took 57 lives, wiped out substantial populations of elk, deer, bear, and coyote, and destroyed miles of vegetation....

The Creator Enid Collins was a clever milliner from Medina. Texas began producing fanciful handbags in 1959. She continued to take credit for her designs until 1970 when she sold her business to the Tandy Leather Corporation. Identifying Bags When Collins was doing her own designing, the canvas bucket bags and box purses she produced were signed with “EC” or “c.” on the side of each one. They were colorfully decorated with paint, sequins, rhinestones, and other unique embellishments....

What Is Lacquer? Because of the similarity of the names, lacquer is often confused with shellac. The confusion often comes from the fact that shellac comes from the lac beetle, but lacquer does not. Instead, lacquer is derived from the resin of a specific tree commonly referred to as a varnish tree. This resin is harvested from the tree’s sap and is then refined and mixed with lacquer thinner to create the common woodworking finish....

Because a worksheet is massive –the software makers have built-in a logic that it should print only the area that contains data. Print area is by default set to cover all the cells that have some data. If data there is a lot of data Excel will cover it all in print. If you give print command –it will print all the cells. At times you may not need printout of all this....