Recommended links for December 27th:
- One Hour Tote Bag – Sew a bag in one hour.
- Custom Paper Toys – Build your own toys out of paper.
- Creek Running North — Trinity – A thousand feet of gray. A thousand feet of pallid gray and mist. We watch the sky and fret. A minor squall or three-day-blow? No way to tell.
- Shifting Mind — Postalicious – Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog.
- The Chaff — God, Save Us from Merit Pay for Teachers! – It does seem intuitive until you consider that the teacher’s pay depends on the students’ performance. And since teachers do not have the direct control over students that, say, department managers do, it is very, very difficult to hold them accountable.
We should have a sewing club, then we can get these shirts.
My first tote bags were made with this tutorial.
Tote bags are pretty easy. I usually use two layers of different fabric for the body, to give it a more solid feel and a nice contrasty inside; or use canvas for the inside, which really makes it strong. But beware: sewing canvas on an everyday machine can be trying because of the thickness. I’ve broken more than one needle.
OK, can you explain for us dinosaurs (I programmed in Fortran! On a teletype!) what delicious bookmarks are for and why we’d want to postalicious them?
They’re just things I bookmark that I want to save and share or look at later. I’ve had this del.icio.us account forever and just discovered the plug-in for WordPress. This is a trial run.