I’ve spoken about how to make an easy rectangle skirt in the past, but would like to introduce you all to a different type of skirt today: the circle skirt.
(Image source) [ID: a black and white chequered circle skirt modelled on a dress form and worn with a petticoat to show off its shape.]
How to make a circle skirt:
Making a circle skirt is a step up from the rectangle skirt, but still makes for a beginner-friendly project. The basic pattern’s easy: it’s just a circle with a hole at the centre for your waist.
(Image source) [ID: instructions on how to draft a full circle skirt pattern (one piece) based on your waist measurement, by The Creative Curator.]
Variations:
There’s plenty of different options when it comes to waistbands: zippers, exposed elastic, cased elastic, half elastic, ties, buttons, shirring,… And don’t forget to add pockets, too! If you can’t cut your circle out in one piece, you can easily hide them in your side seams.
Need a lining? Just add a second circle beneath your outer one.
(Image source) [ID: instructions on how to make a chiffon maxi circle skirt (by Bunny Baubles). Two halves of a circle are cut out of fabric, then sewn together. The resulting circle is gathered at the waist thanks to an elastic folded waistband.]
(Image source) [ID: circle skirt sewing tutorial by Merricksart.com. A full circle is cut from a piece of fabric, along with a rectangle for the waistband. A slit is cut at the side of the circle to insert a zipper once the waistband has been attached.]
You don’t have to stick to a full circle if you don’t want to: a circle is the standard pattern, but this skirt allows for a lot of variation when it comes to fullness, length, and styles. For example, if you have a limited amount of fabric you could make a ¼ circle skirt. If you want a skirt with maximum twirliness, go for a double circle skirt!
(Image source) [ID: five circle skirt patterns and a photo of the corresponding skirt: ¼ circle skirt, half circle skirt, ¾ circle skirt, full circle skirt, and double circle skirt.]
You can do a lot of fun variations to get different skirt types, like pleats, panels, godets, a high-low hem,… Just to give you a few ideas.
(Image source) [ID: half circle skirt divided into panels by dividing the hemline into identical sections. Godets can be added in-between panels. www.theshapeoffabric.com.]
(Image source) [ID: instructions on how to draft a pattern for a pair of circular shorts, written in Chinese.]
Conclusion:
Thecircle skirt is a good addition to your arsenal of patternsif you enjoy wearing skirts. It’s easyto make, allows for a lot of variation, and can be made in any size.
this site definitely doesn’t allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.
This is another info graphic I did advocating for snakes. When spring comes around snakes start to come out of hibernation and sometimes will end up in people’s backyards. Snakes around this time are killed left and right, whether it is completely harmless or venomous. I want to urge people to learn about snakes and also to leave snakes alone!
nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enterTerms of Service, Didn’t Read:a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
does anyone else have that issue of not knowing when you’re pushing yourself too hard or when you’re just pushing yourself a little outside of your usual limits? i only ask because one will inevitably lead to burn out and the other i feel is much more of a conditioning thing? i cannot make this sound any better phrased
I know from years of accidentally abusing myself that I set goals too high. I gauge by cutting my goal in half. I want to study languages every day of the week? Cut it down to 3. I want to practice 30 mins a day? Cut it down to 15. I want to write 1000 words? Cut it down to 500. Set lower, attainable goals. If they’re TOO easy, I raise them a tiny bit. 4 days. 20 minutes. 600 words. And I try not to raise them too drastically or frequently each time. I also try to take breaks whenever my day is having an unusually high “this isn’t fun” response. Reluctance is okay, but feeling depressed/anxious/stressed/angry isn’t.
Well folks I’ve been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?
you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author’s works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice. if there are multiple pages, the script will page through results for you until there are no more fics to download
you can check your fanfic-savin’ folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters. you can also check for new fics in series!
if you’re a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3
don’t worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won’t let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it’s quite safe
I’ve been working on this for about two years and it’s finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn’t breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.
note: this is a standalone desktop app that DOES NOT DO ANYTHING aside from automate clicking on buttons on the ao3 website. Everything this script does, can be done by hand using ao3’s regular features. It is just a utility to facilitate personal backups for offline reading - there’s no website or server, I have no access to or indeed interest in the fics other people download using this. No plagiarism is happening here, please don’t come after me.
edit: some kind individuals have kicked me a few bucks on ko-fi as thanks for this, for which I am deeply honored and thankful. I’ve been pondering for a while what I wanted to do with the money, as I felt that given the source, I should put it towards something fandom-related. now with tumblr blaze I feel that I have the perfect answer - use the money to promote the script to more people who might like it! I’m about to put in the blaze application now. As ever, I hope that my efforts can be of some use to you, the fandom community. And if not, I hope I haven’t taken up too much of your time!
THE NINE CHOIRS OF HEAVEN. An info-graphic for my editorial class and god am I thankful it’s done. Way too much went into this than what I had time for, but hey… I actually kind of like it?
Now excuse me, I must return to my fashion major lifestyle and go sew a coat u_u
… Looking for some blank dvd:s I instead unearthed this gem, deep in the bookshelf. A publication by “Kurt Saxon” - friend of the people, and friend of everyone’s goddamn right to build their own sub-machine gun and cook up some sulphuric acid in the bathtub. A true freedom fighter. …
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I love that Sims 4 Studio automatically orders swatches. Its a handy feature that saves a lot of time when you have to do it manually. However, I found a shortcoming of the method used to organise object swatches. The method used is to alter the last 2 digits of the instance number for the object catalogue and definition resources. Although this works perfectly for a small number of swatches, but if you are like me who adds a lot of styles to an object, you may notice things get a little out of order when more then 30 styles are added. I messed around and found a solution to the issue, and I am going to share with any people encountering a similar problem.
This method of swatch ordering is much like the way CAS items are ordered. We are editing the SwatchColorSortPriority value within the Object Catalog resource. By filtering the warehouse resources by instance putting the swatches in the correct order they should show up in-game, then editing the value for the SwatchColorSortPriority, the game will then show the swatches in the desired order, no matter the number of styles an object has. By changing the value in the first Object Catalog resource to 0 then every one after that with a value one greater then the resource before, its a simple, though tedious process that works around the game’s limitations when referencing instance numbers for swatch order.
Note: This tutorial orders the swatches as Maxis displays them, from right to left, top to bottom. You can choose to display the swatches from the left to right, just start at the last swatch instead of the first.
Hopefully this helps someone who like me likes a lot of styles and is bugged by out-of-order swatches. Probably not many of you, but I rather share the information in case it helps someone with the problem in the present or future.
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3
Here are some scientific facts about blood loss for all you psychopaths writers out there.
This is actually very nice. I like the soda bottles as reference. (I remember when I was writing ‘Wizards of Ceres’ how I had to do a similar soda-bottle conversion to try to work out how much blood Fai could drink from Kurogane without killing him.)
On the topic of vampires incidentally, this basically means that there is no reason why feeding from someone should necessitate killing them, unless the vamp can chug two soda bottles worth of liquid in one go or carelessly leaves the bottle open when they’re done
@fieldofclover thought this might come in handy for, you know, vampirey things
Ooh, I like this! The bottles as a reference makes it quite easy to picture mentally - especially since, having previously experienced just how much mess a litre-bottle spilt on the floor actually makes, it gives a better idea of volume etc.
Incidentally, as a frequent blood donor myself (thank you, haemochromatosis), and thus being more aware of the volume of blood donated at each session (the average appears to be 450ml, or 0.45 litres per blood bag filled) and needing to know how long it takes red blood cells and plasma to recover after donation–
about 24 hours for plasma, and up to 8 weeks for red blood cells themselves, which is why the average length between donations is 12 weeks, to ensure the body is well recovered by the next donation (which is also why I was so fucking tired after having to donate once a month for the first three months of my treatment)
– I ended up doing a bit of reading re: blood loss, but this really is the best imagery for it I’ve seen without bogging down into too much science stuff.
Other crucially important facts relevant to vampire porn I have learned:
yes, you can get an erection after donating blood, as the body generally maintains blood pressure equilibrium even if the volume of red blood cells per liquid ml is lower, though if you lose anything more than half a litre you’re probably gonna find it a bit difficult;
erythropoietin is a funky chemical involved in converting stem cells to red blood cells which your body produces when you need more of ‘em, so if we’re going with the standard ‘vampire saliva is an anticoagulant and narcotic stimulant, and/or induces arousal’ conceit, it probably makes sense that said saliva introduces a similar compound into the human blood stream in the post-feeding stage to encourage their food to recover quickly for a repeat feeding, usually while licking the wounds left behind;
your vamp is probably gonna have a reallyfull belly if they try and drink more than the average 450ml or so in one sitting. Blood is quite a bit thicker than water or soft drink; it’s more like drinking a hearty broth or soup. Can you imagine attempting to chug a litre of pressurised soup as it squirts into your mouth with considerable force? No thanks!
tl;dr the science behind blood loss is fascinating, especially in a vampire context, and the government agencies monitoring my search history probably think I’m a serial killer
@audreycritter was it you who was looking this up for a fic last week?
if your vampire’s killing folks, it’s because they left a couple of great big spurting holes in a jugular, not because they actually drank all their blood. we gotta stop having the scene where the detective says the victim was ‘completely drained of blood’ unless there were like 5 vamps involved.
or if your vamp goes waddling away with a bloated tummy like a milk-drunk kitten, that could work too.
So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.
But specifically… I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one’s own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!
This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between “things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)” (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and “things on the web” (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).
Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I’m interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!
If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!
Specific programs can access the internet; that’s fine. But my OS’s functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.
i haven’t used this myself but i’ll be looking into it
Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.
the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is “Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing” it’s at the very bottom under misc.
There are 2 programs that will turn Windows 10 from an advertising riddled, bloated mess into a useful tool.
With one click, this will remove ALL THE BLOATWARE Windows comes with. Seriously, you need NONE OF THESE apps, and if you do, you can just uninstall all the ones you don’t need individually.
This program will give you almost complete control over Windows 10’s behavior. Disabling the web search in the start menu, op rightfully complained about, is just one of the many things this thing can do
For example, with a single setting you can turn off any ads from microsoft, system-wide
It is a powerful tool, but it can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily every single setting comes with an explanation about what it actually does, and most settings can be easily reversed.
Let’s talk about perspective and how to put characters into perspective.
Use your vanishing and parallel lines as measurement tools! The Horizon line can help, but I find using the vanishing lines way more helpful and practical, especially when it comes to different perspectives.
