Archive for November, 2006
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This is day 3 of 4 whole days off work and home with the husband. Wow! I don’t remember ever doing 4 days home together in the past 16 years of marriage.
I’d love to go to The Stitchery, finish his shirt, and move back to the knitting machines but if I do he will go [...]
Don’t Cut Vinyl With A Laser Cutter
As a public service and in response to a googled search that hit on this blog entry The Other Industrial Machines with the question of, “Is It Dangerous to Cut Vinyl With a Laser Cutter?” my technical source says, reprinted with his approval:
Dave @ CNC says:
yes, releases chlorine gas, not good for the workers or
environment, [...]
Pro-Woven Fusible Interfacing~SewExciting!
This is Pro-Woven Fusible interfacing from Pam Erny of http://sewexciting.blogspot.com, and also http://Off-the-Cuff-Style.blogspot.com. If you are making tailored dress shirts you need to give this source a serious test.
The shiny side is the adhesive. The adhesive is rolled on so the adhesive solidly covers the fabric. No bumps, and no prewashing necessary.
When you [...]
Fat Placket-Still Searching for the Perfect Interfacing
Man’s dress shirt, again.
I am ripping out the plackets on this new shirt. The interfacing I used was the only available in the stash and I thought I could live with the results. But noooo!
I used a separate placket piece for both the left and right sides and fully interfaced each of the placket pieces [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )The Other Industrial Machines
This past week I’ve been given a new job: production manager for our woodworking company. So, I’d like to share some of the other machines in my life.
Panel saw on the left and planer on the right
CNC router, left and molder, right
Laser Cutter
While this machine is primarily busy cutting wood and plastics, it is the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 14 so far )A Bit of Commercial Embroidery
There’s been some talk on sewing boards lately about folks wanting to buy a commercial embroidery machine. I’ll share what I did yesterday, for most of the afternoon.
It reads, “Casa Di Mir”, a school’s name. This stitchout is 1 9/16″, or 4 cm, wide by 1/4″, or 7 mm high. It is [...]
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