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After you secure your last thread with a quilter's knot, you're done the binding! It should leave you with hexagon-ish edges and should be invisibly secured to the back of the quilt.
more step 15: final shape of the dorsal groove
you don't *have* to put anything on your crab's back if you don't want to, but i think it looks too plain otherwise.
step 16: sew the neck & bottom edges like you did for the front
step 14: here's the total finished front of the female blue crab's belly. in our reference photo, there may be more than 3 horizontal lines, but i didn't want it to get all busy.
One could ask, "When do you know when a cigar is finished?" The best answer is, it'll let you know. There are signs: The cigar begins getting soft, the wrapper begins wilting like a leaf in fall, the billowing smoke becomes a stream, and the flame is no longer burning as strong as it once was.
When the cigar reaches completion, its best not to attempt to keep it going, no matter as tempting as that may be. And you should NEVER try to relight it if it goes out at that point.
Also, you should never extinguish a cigar; let it go out on its own volition. A cigar is like a woman: After receiving so much pleasure, just let her sleep (I hope my wife doesn't mind this analogy).
TurningTurning has a nice tutorial on using ladder stitch for securing binding invisibly. This is pretty much what I did to secure my blue hexagon binding to the back of the quilt.
I typically secured both my starting thread and knotting off of a thread with a quilter's knot, using the same process that is typically used during the quilting.
Since you only prepped about ~15 blue hexagons in Step 3, when you run out of hexagons to secure, go back to Step 3 and do ~15 more!
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Right: Ezybox 60 with 580EX
Top: Ezybox 80 with 580EXII + Power Pack
Triggered with PocketWizard TT5's (and TT1 on camera + AC3 controller to control light output)
At $20 for six wine charms retail, I decided to try to make my own. These are made with hoop earrings, two metal beads and swarovsky crystals. All materials purchased at the Bead Gallery in Ann Arbor, www.beadgalleryannarbor.com
Using some pins, secure the binding in place so there isn't any puckering or bunching. I like to only pin about 8 hexagons at a time. Then I pin the next 8 when I get to them.
1. Optional: Pierce every egg on its end (with a thumbtack or other device). This prevents the eggs from cracking.
2. Place the eggs in a pot with a tight-fitting lid, and cover eggs with cold water. You may also add a dash of vinegar to prevent egg from escaping the shell and oozing into the water if you pricked them.
3. Place on stove and bring to boil.
4. After eggs have reached a good (not too forceful but a definite) boil, put the lid on the pan and remove from heat. Let pan sit for 7-15 minutes. (You may want to experiment in your locale with your preferred eggs as I found that occasionally 7 minutes leaves runny yolks.) I usually do about 12-13 minutes.
5. After letting eggs sit for desired time, remove lid and drain water, and chill in a big ice bath for a few minutes before peeling. Sometimes I also crack the shells a little before I drop them in the cold water -- it makes peeling a little easier.
Works for me!
I'm going to make some egg salad after my 3 PM class. Mmmmm.
As I build new stuff with Legos I use this plate as a color reference. Hard to believe all my Legos simplify into just these colors. I think I will add the transparent colors to make it complete.
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As discovered via Fatwallet, BestBuy has interesting "Back to School" coupon booklets at their stores. It's interesting because they appear to give you random sets of discounts. Someone found a way to identify the one that give you the 30% off coupon.
Basically, I've confirmed two ways to quickly spot the ones that have the bigger discounts:
1. As you'll see in the photos, the 30% off ones have slightly different copyright text than the lower (10% 5% 15%) booklets. If you get one with a 29528_1 to the left of the copyright symbol on the back cover, you have a lower one. If there's no text to the left of the the copyright symbol, you've got the 30% off!
2. I found the "Back-to-School" booklets next to the customer service counters. Since there were sales people there, I couldn't afford to stand around and sort through stacks of booklets. A quick way to find the ones with the bigger discounts is to look from the top side of the stack (i.e. spine of the booklet fold). The 30% off ones will be less yellowish in print, probably because of a difference in printing or folding batch.
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