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Interesting story of the tin can, including video of making one from scratch. (A prepping step too far for me)0
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OOh Jersey sounds good to me too - I long to see the Zoo there as Gerald Durrell was my childhood idol. All that fertiliser for free too. Mar would love it as its such good weather there and we could always ban the production of Kale under a CRAPROLLZ directive.
Well thats me not sleeping tonight, I will be too busy planning our invasion
Was telling Hubby about GQ's tiny flat and how she disguises water storage as side tables and makes roller trays for under bed storage and he has offered to help me make the underbed trays as my pantry is getting full -apparently we haz castors. My bed is frame is secondhand of course and about 60 years old so its quite high so will fit an awful lot of tins under and if it does finally collapse (its really creaky and worries me) I will just drop onto the tins and roll down the stairs on the mattress - bet you all saw it in your minds eye didnt you :rotfl:Clearing the junk to travel light
Saving every single penny.
I will get my caravan0 -
My OH is a mechanic, who can also..brick lay, do electrics, plumbing, roofing, drive a tractor and shed build, best of all he makes me smile every day Awww:P
And he is the putter together of all the lovely shelves I love and have carefully and slowly filled over the last few years!
Ginnyknit - at least the stuff under the bed will hold you up! Just don't keep bags of flour under there! Squeak, creak *!!!!!!* and you'd look like a ghost!2013 NSD 100. CC2014CC- £31.50/£1352014 NSD 86 so far - May 20/212014 G/C spend £741.55 so far May £107.99/£91Debt Free - 30.05.13 Emergency tin - £1000June 23 - 9NSD0 -
thriftwizard, try to get your hands on Metric Pattern Cutting by Winifred Aldridge, one of the mid-eighties or beyond editons is best.
This is the 'bible' of pattern cutting and is in use by all the design colleges to teach their students.
I've been trained to pattern-cut though I'm very rusty, but I do keep my copy of the above book and can refer to it in a hurry if necessary.
Once you've ingested the basics, you should be able to make a set of blocks to your own unique shape. A block is a shape made out of thin cardboard which you use as a starting point for pattern cutting.
A typical block would be half a torso, a sleeve, a skirt, a trouser leg. Fashion students work from block size 12 blocks, or at least they did in the 1980s when I worked alongside them for pattern cutting lessons.
If a block was traced and made into a textile, it would fit you like a second skin; the neckline would be right on the base of your throat, the armhole would be right up inside your armpit etc.
You pattern-cut from blocks by laying them out of thin paper and then tracing, dropping armholes and necklines, adding extra fabric to achieve certain results. There's also throwing a block which means to use one part of it as a pivot and spin the rest out and retracing a new line. If you're good at it, you can make anything your little heart desires.
For best results as a homemaker of clothes you really do need a dressmaker's dummy in (or alterable to) your own size. I just wish I had room for one.............Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »I think us preppers should all pool our resources and buy an island, declare independence making sure that we have our own sustainable forest and real seeds to grow food with a communal farm for milk and meat, have wood burning agas, a water turbine for electrickery (catweazle), no tv licence have our own like minded farmer butcher, doctor, nurse, plumber, electrician, engineer etc, you know useful peoples..........No banksters or politicians allowed and shut the world out!
wadja think girlies and gentlemensies?
:j Can I come, canIcanIcanI plleeeeeeeeeeeezzze? I can change a plug/tyre/spark plug, unblock sinks & loos, look after kiddiewinks & have watched all sorts of medical shows & done first aid, so I know how to drill into people's skulls & can bandage it up once I've polly-fillered it up again. I've got Ewan Dees on speed dial; took a bit of time to track him down, what with him living in Effby Seas, & think he'd like the chance to get away from everyone else shouting for him.
I enjoy conundrums & finding alternative ways to solve problems, & don't wear make-up--by choice--& couldn't if I wanted to cuz it makes me itch! My dad used to say I should have been born a tea-pot (with a spout..of the male persuasion!) because I've never been mistaken for someone even remotely resembling ladylike!
A good day's shopping is finding something that will "probably be a workable solution" for whatever I'm in need of, at a lot less outlay than the proper item would have costeg..needed little bags for The Offsprings PE kit, solution: cut the legs off old jeans their father couldn't wear anymore, embroidered name, stitched in a circle of material at one end to make a base & used the deep hem as the other end, to thread some remnants of cord through to pull it tight.
Full time Carer for Mum; harassed mother of three;loving & loved by two 4-legged babies.
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:wave:Hello all! (Waves to latest faces)
I'm in - got 1st aid cert's, gardening skills for growing fruit and vegies, yearnings for keeping livestock especially chickens, wouldn't mind bees too, and crazy dog who has the mindset of a hunter, but the eyesight of, well, let's just say she's visually challenged, and an OH who likes building and fixing virtually anything. He never watches the box, unless it's snooker, although I am too much of a square eyes, even I am finding it boring, unless its a bake off, sewing bee or gardening thing...
Quite fancy the Isle of Wight though...
BBBMy dog: Ears as high ranging in frequency as a bat. Nose as sensitive as a bloodhound. Eyes as accurate as Mr. Magoo's!
Prepper and saver: novice level. :A #81 Save 12k in 2013! £3.009.00/£12,000
#50 C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z. HairyGardenTwineWrangler & MAW OH: SpadeSplatterer. DDog:Hairy hotwater bottle and seat warmer!0 -
Morning all.
Hey, ginny, just had a thought (and me with only half a cuppa down my neck, whodathunkit possible).
Depending on the clearance between the siderails of your bedstead andthe floor (mine being only 10 inches, hence the trollies) why limit yourself? Is the bed high enough to allow those two drawer filing cabinets on casters under there?
They turn up second hand. I wants one but I have nowhere to out one.
Today has dawned bright and fine and I am planning an early morning flit to the chazzer to get summat I saw that Mum would like (a proper flanellette sheet, really old stylee, still in its original packaging). No good for me as single sheet but she has one single bed at her house so I asked if she was interested. Hope it isn't gone.
Breakfast is calling...............have a good day, all. GQ xxEvery increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Please can we come too BB? He Who Knows is an allottmenteer and was a Research Chemist in a previous life and he's very good at digging, growing edibles,making cider, chopping wood, and growing rhubarb!!! The Lurcher is very good at being waggy and licking people and playing ballie (but not very good at bringing it back!) an his Mumi is quite practical in the kitchen, foraging and general backwoodsiness department, Mumi sez plese kan shey oney ware Jeeniziz anna owd Teeaieshurt koz sheyz stiw fektid bya kloves yestidy? I appear to have been taken over by that dratted hound again, I'm sorry, I'll bring my library with me and Fatima the OzPig to get us off th a good start, don't mind which Island we go to, I'm told Capri is nice???????? Cheers Lyn xxx.0
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Bermuda. With a sweetie shop.0
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