Illustrated Sewing Definitions: Seam Allowance

Nov 29

See the wikipedia entry for seam allowance. Seam allowance is the area between the outer edge of the fabric and where you stitch the seam in the...

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Sewing Definitions With Pictures

Nov 29

It’s funny, but I am not finding many nice reference sites for sewing. There are tons of sites with descriptions and pictures of clothing, but trying to find definitions with images seems impossible. I am going to start putting together exactly that. Sewing is a topic where a picture is worth two thousand words. In the end you are just trying to learn a...

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What’s Wrong With Idealist

Nov 23

I was reading The Long Tail by and I ran across a quote he uses when discussing the Pro-Am movement (professional and amateur). Karl Marx was perhaps the original prophet of the Pro-Am economy. As Demos notes, “In The German Ideology, written between 1845 and 1847, Marx maintained that labor-forced, unspontaneous and waged work-would be superseded by...

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is working way, way too late. …

Nov 18

is working way, way too late. Seriously.

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