Autumn Zebra

Please answer this question for me in the comments (which you can do by clicking at the bottom of this post on whatever it says there that has to do with comments). When you do/did exams with a length of 1.5 hours or more (eg. up to 3 hours because that's the longest I've done) with a majority of written answers, did your arm start to hurt? And if so, was it sufficient for you to leave the exam early, attempt to write with your left hand or waste time sitting there not writing in an attempt to have the pain dissipate? Something I read today made me think that perhaps this is not normal. If you answer yes, please also say whether your writing is/was considered messy or illegible (although, everyone says their writing is messy, so I'm not sure this is a useful piece of information).

There were two fish in a tank . One fish said to the other fish , "How do you drive this thing?" That is all. :D

This quiz wasn't as fun as the other one, and I'm not entirely sure I agree? You are a Spatial Thinker Spatial Thinkers: Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the physical world. Think well in three dimensions Have a flair for working with objects Like other spatial thinkers, Leonardo had a talent for designing buildings and machinery. He also invented a new style of map making Other Spatial Thinkers include Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, Isambard Kingdom Brunel Careers which suit Spatial Thinkers include Mechanic, Photographer, Artist, Architect, Engineer, Builder, Set designer Thinker Quiz link I shall have to think about the results of the thinker quiz and see what I think.

I think this will probably be mostly pictures of the finished item, but I shall try to write some details. Earlier in the process, I had made a black rectangle and put darts in it at the top to form the base for the bustle - the darts help make it fit better to a butt. I just did this on the dress dummy, but if you didn't have one, just chuck in the same darts as in a fitted skirt, or make it up. Then, I tried to calculate how big the stuffed channels should be which you can do by getting some material and pinning it on how you think it should go and then taking it off and measuring the material. Or you could make it up. I also wanted the material to be gathered horizontally, because this makes it curve as the gathered bit is longer than the base material it is sewn onto. I thought if it curved by itself that would be good as I wouldn't have to think about how to create a curved shape. Once again, either try some gathering or just make it up to work out how wide to make the mat...

The description of the bustel I decided to make, said it had a cushion in it that could be used separately as smaller bustle pad as well. So I made a cushion. It's stuffed with scraps of material. I put buttons on the back of it, which will attach it to the main bustle and also to a waistband I made to wear it by itself, as mentioned. To make it, I had already cut a piece of material to be the base of the main bustle, and I had that pinned on the dress dummy and bascially thought, hmmm, how big should the cushion be as compared to that? The yellow bit in the next picture is the waistband with flap to attach the cushion to. This is it without the 3 buttonholes. And that's that. It actually works really really well on its own. Even though it is ugly and boring and silly to look at :(. It is bigger and better than that other white one I made ages ago and restuffed recently, so far more suitable for my existing costume. The old one would be ok however for the middle Victorian more ...

I wanted to make a larger bustle for Victorian dresses requiring more of a "bum". I got lots of pictures of those available from the pattern companies and a few I found on online auction websites. I am going to make a wired one at some point, but I thought it might be quicker to go with this one first: (The image is from this great page comparing the different bustle patterns from various companies .) G remarked that the bustles in general looked like caterpillars crawling over someone's bum! To me this obviously meant that I should try and make MY bustles look like caterpillars. I did a bit of caterpillar research. (Click on the image for a fascinating larger image) There were a few that I liked - well actually I liked all those pictured which is why I drew them- but I thought the easiest one that adapted best to the medium was simply the striped one in the lower left corner. I have noted there that the orange is really more yellow :). This page contains a picture of bo...