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Water, Lemon Juice, Vinegar, or Nothing: Should You Even Bother Rinsing Chicken?


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How to Roll Sushi — The Ultimate Guide


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How to Tell if Your 'Expired' Eggs Are Still Good to Eat

Hi! New to this site, still trying to figure it out. Please let me know if I've bungled something.

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CROCODILE HEAD how to make a crocodile head for a pantomime


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Corset Making This is the first corset I have made for my daughter, in the pre boning pre lacing stage.

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Costuming a Wedding First off, I'm so sorry it's taken over a month to get this uploaded! The only pictures I knew the location of were on my dad's network an hour and a half away or on Facebook, and none of those were ones I wanted to show off. A lot of "Ooh, pretty! *click*" that didn't really look good with flash and low light, etc.


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Fabric Mart Discount prices for designer apparel fabric. Seriously... Shetland Wool for $7.99/yd!??!


Nothing sucks more than when you discover your thread is feeding incorrectly, or your machine just isn't working properly.

The one thing that's first to be saved when a fire threatens your sewing room.

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Costume Update The costume I mentioned in my last post is taking longer than I thought it would be, but it's almost done! I'm hoping to finish it either this evening or tomorrow. All the little mods I've added have taken up more time than I thought... but isn't that always the way it goes? It seems like every time I plan out a project, it always takes me at least an hour or so more than I originally planned, usually more.


Just an FYI that a plethora of awesome corset tutorials have been added to the main WonderHowTo site. I'll corkboard a few of them - check them out, they're really good!

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Post your best costume! This is the thread where you can post your favorite costume that you've made, assembled, acquired or otherwise worn.

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Places to wear costumes What are your favorite places or events which encourage costuming?

So after I wrote my post yesterday, I got sent two links in response, both some pretty awesome and in-depth analysis of the costumes in Rapunzel. It's pretty awesome, I think, to see such detailed costumes in an animated movie - right down to the patch on Flynn's bag and the embellishments on Rapunzel's bodice.

Now, I've already had the experience where I go to a Renaissance Faire and can identify the patterns used by various fairegoers to make their costumes. But I had an experience last week that I'm still wondering about.


So I totally blanked on taking pictures of my last project so I could share it, mea culpa. Instead, I figured I'd write a post on all the different ways you can sew a pouch.

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Currently working on... Right now, my current project is actually a small accessory I'm making for a gift exchange. I'm going to try and use Simplicity 5320 to make a sling pouch. It's intended to be a water bottle sling made out of fat quarters, but I'm going to try and make it out of some scraps of black suedecloth I have laying around. I might also try and make the strap adjustable, since this is getting made for someone who's pretty tall.
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I love this software. It's currently in development by a friend of mine, and is a great utility to keep all your patterns organized. Tag them, note where they're stored and included a brief description or sewing notes. The best part is that new features are being added all the time!

I admit it, I'm lucky - I currently live about an hour away from the Fabric District in LA, and was recently just about ten miles down Pico Boulevard from it. So I'm incredibly spoiled - I'm used to being able to find crushed panne velvet for four dollars a yard, or a rich brocade for six dollars a yard. A friend and I once found some faux fur for about fifty dollars a yard - which sounds expensive until I say that the pile was about two and a half inches long, a rich brown color and 60" wide.

Personally, I'm a larper (live action roleplayer), so a strict attention to historical detail is not as important as making something look good. I like the leeway larping costumes give me, but I certainly understand the allure of historical reconstructionists.


