{"id":50577,"date":"2020-09-18T07:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=50577"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:38:59","slug":"various-sundry-2020-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/various-sundry-2020-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry 2020 #13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n

I updated the HRT pag<\/a>e with a new tutorial and some new rulers.<\/p>\n

NQR Products & Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

You need pandemic patches<\/a> for your friends and family for when you don’t know what else to give them.<\/p>\n

Fabric, Notions, Supplies, Books & Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with all of Omnigrid’s specialty rulers, take a look at their page of options<\/a>. Links are provided to their standard rulers and non-slip rulers as well.<\/p>\n

A new group of fabric<\/a> builds on the National  Park line from last year. I don’t want to add to my fabric store, but I might not be able to resist the San Francisco panel. It would be great for a back.<\/p>\n

I never realized that Hawthorne Threads had Michael Miller’s Cotton Couture<\/a>. I just used a piece the other day and was marveling at what nice fabric it was. I almost bought some Peacock<\/a> and Peony<\/a>, but stopped myself.  Berry<\/a> and Azure<\/a> are pretty nice, too. That 100 yards is in reach. Also, if I started putting fabrics in my cart, I might not be able to stop. They do have a color card<\/a>, which I seriously might need.<\/p>\n

I never bought anything from The Sewing Loft (the online one, not the Seattle brick & Mortar store), but I saw she had a free bat pattern, so I went to download it. I also saw that she has tons of blocks to make holiday themed items (I have table runners on the mind) and offers an All Access Pass<\/a> to the blocks.<\/p>\n

Zippers<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went on a little zipper expedition when one of the patterns I was working on needed a #4.5 zipper. I got a little angry, because 1) I didn’t know what that was; 2) I didn’t have a chart of zipper sizes and 3) I felt like everyone else must know what that meant, but me. I asked Mary and she sent me straight  to the Noodlehead site, where Anna wrote a post about the Anatomy of a Zipper<\/a>. There were some good things about the post including how to measure a zipper with examples of what the different sizes look like. Helpful, but not the chart based information for which I was looking. Thank the stars for the Internet. I did a quick search, then a couple of more refined searches and found some interesting information on zippers.<\/p>\n

First, the Do It Better Yourself Club site has an explanation<\/a> of the parts of a zipper. It also goes into tools for working with zippers and says a regular sewing machine foot will force the teeth away from needle.I have been blase about switching out the foot, but maybe I shouldn’t be. This information was not exactly what I was looking for, but helpful.<\/p>\n

Second, Sailrite has a list of zipper sizes<\/a> and their uses. It is limited to the sizes most commonly used on a sailboat.<\/p>\n

Third, Fibre2Fashion has the best chart<\/a> I saw, though if it had images, it would have been awesome.<\/p>\n

Other info I found:<\/p>\n