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MacRumors is the only forum I frequent where I haven't met the other participants at least once, or otherwise know them. On Thursday of this week I actually joined my first email based "conversation group", that should be fun. Didn't really expect those to exist anymore.
But to answer the question, as far as public forums go, MacRumors is pretty much the only one I come back to frequently.
But to answer the question, as far as public forums go, MacRumors is pretty much the only one I come back to frequently.
I go to the Apple Support Communities forum when I am looking for help on Apple products or issues. I've found it to be very helpful on occasion.
noooooooooo....
seriously did not realize could be one of those but on 2nd thought why not.
My own other forums are mostly out there in real life and mostly to do with quilter's fabrics -- , pursuing their acquisition, cutting and sewing and trading them, salvaging them after doing stupid pet tricks with them like spilling tea on them or cutting a hole into something when only meaning to snip a loose thread.
We're all vying for same prize, apparently: "Whoever dies with the most fabrics wins."
I should also belong to a gym but hey... life gets shorter the longer you live so I traded in my gym card for more trips up and downstairs maintaining my fabrics inventory.
Frequent trips to the virtual edition of my local public library for ebooks, most of them not about anything to do with fabrics, just to switch it up so I never get bored.
And then there's PRSI,
a whole other critter from the rest of MacRumors.noooooooooo....
seriously did not realize could be one of those but on 2nd thought why not.
My own other forums are mostly out there in real life and mostly to do with quilter's fabrics -- , pursuing their acquisition, cutting and sewing and trading them, salvaging them after doing stupid pet tricks with them like spilling tea on them or cutting a hole into something when only meaning to snip a loose thread.
We're all vying for same prize, apparently: "Whoever dies with the most fabrics wins."
I should also belong to a gym but hey... life gets shorter the longer you live so I traded in my gym card for more trips up and downstairs maintaining my fabrics inventory.
Frequent trips to the virtual edition of my local public library for ebooks, most of them not about anything to do with fabrics, just to switch it up so I never get bored.
And then there's PRSI,
kool, fabrics sounds like a fun hobbie. i wish i knew how to sew so i can fix my own shirts when they get a hole lol. yeah Toy collecting can be expensive plus im not rich, im just an average joe. i guess im a Nostalgic addict
sideNote: what does PRSI mean?
You can learn how to sew. Scroll down in this and it even shows how to make different stitches.
Here is a link to a slideshow on how to repair a hole in a shirt by hand.
That hole-patching process works but it might not be where I'd start if I knew nothing of hand sewing. The point is, it's not that complicated and it doesn't take much learning curve first: just some experimenting with a needle, thread, scissors and a few scraps of cloth, and then a tutorial like the one above is more useful. Like anything else involving manual dexterity, practice with the tools is the main thing.
And, to keep on the thread topic here, there are also online forums where people trade solutions to common problems encountered in any kind of sewing. Same as car forums where people talk about how the heck to get that new accelerator cable reattached to the pedal... the nitty gritty stuff.
Some mending can be done by hand, other jobs work best if machined. For the latter, at first forget about videos and such, head for a retail fabrics supply place that also sells sewing machines and sign up for a beginner's class even if you have no intention of buying a machine from them. Sometimes there's a relatively small fee for materials, sometimes it's free. They know you might become a customer someday, so they're willing to teach you how to make your way around their demo machines. Much of that info is transferable to any machine.
For hand sewing, videos online can be more useful, you just need an inexpensive pair of scissors, a packet of general sewing needles, some plain thread you can get in the craft section of any big box store, and a few scraps of fabric -- buy a few quarter-yard or half-yard pieces of plain 100% muslin or solid color fabrics while you're buying the sewing needles and thread. Or maybe you have a dress shirt totally ruined somehow and still sitting useless in your closet. You can cut some pieces off that to experiment with. After all, it's not like you're actually using the shirt for anything, right?
For hand sewing, videos online can be more useful, you just need an inexpensive pair of scissors, a packet of general sewing needles, some plain thread you can get in the craft section of any big box store, and a few scraps of fabric -- buy a few quarter-yard or half-yard pieces of plain 100% muslin or solid color fabrics while you're buying the sewing needles and thread. Or maybe you have a dress shirt totally ruined somehow and still sitting useless in your closet. You can cut some pieces off that to experiment with. After all, it's not like you're actually using the shirt for anything, right?
Once you get a grip on (very) basic sewing, there are lots of resources online and no further away than a couple of search queries.
Mending? try https://www.dummies.com/crafts/sewing/mending-holes-and-rips-in-your-clothes/
And there are forums about general and specialty sewing and mending as well.
There are lots of guys who are into quilting or clothing construction now and lots of them run blogs or YouTube channels. I glance in now and then at a blog called Taylor Tailor run by a guy who started his sewing adventures by commandeering his wife's sewing machine one day thinking to make himself a pair of jeans... he discovered there were a few other things he needed to figure out first lol, probably including how to thread the needle on a sewing machine... but never mind, he got on with it and has been having a lot of fun ever since.
Most who sew, like that guy Taylor, eventually get into sidebar topics like how to dye or overdye fabrics, how to select the right scissors for a cutting job, how to do decorative stitching... I fell into an interest in the ancient Japanese stitchery called sashiko one day as a tangential hop from having gone online meaning to add to my small collection of indigo fabrics. My house is thus now littered with sashiko experiments on dishtowels that I wouldn't have on display if expecting guests.
Most who sew, like that guy Taylor, eventually get into sidebar topics like how to dye or overdye fabrics, how to select the right scissors for a cutting job, how to do decorative stitching... I fell into an interest in the ancient Japanese stitchery called sashiko one day as a tangential hop from having gone online meaning to add to my small collection of indigo fabrics. My house is thus now littered with sashiko experiments on dishtowels that I wouldn't have on display if expecting guests.
Certainly no one who sews is perfect at first. The Amish believe no one but God's perfect so if they haven't made a mistake in piecing a quilt by time it's almost done, they introduce an error, like set a block 90º off from how it should go (I have never had to resort to such tactics to end up suitably humble about my talents but sometimes will add a feature like that for the fun of it and call it my "sosumi -- so sue me-- block.)
Partly from nostalgia -- or here let's say respect for the craft of others-- have arisen some fascinating collections of very utilitarian things that together become a veritable art installation. Making something out of things other people have made takes a certain mindset and devotion --even a couple hours a week-- over decades. It doesn't have to cost a lot of money, or at least not all at once.
Johanna Rose is renowned for a collection of over 1300 old (some very, very old) quilts. As a birthday present to her in 2011, her husband arranged to rent the Park Avenue Armory space in NYC for a completely stunning display of all 651 of her red-and-white quilts. (admittedly he's a wealthy dude)
There was even a made-for-iPad application constructed to preserve that display electronically; it permits zooming in to see each quilt down to block level with stitching details, and zooming out to see the 3D arrangement of those quilts as they were exhibited in the space. Martha Stewart did a TV segment on it and published a write up of it with photos:
There was even a made-for-iPad application constructed to preserve that display electronically; it permits zooming in to see each quilt down to block level with stitching details, and zooming out to see the 3D arrangement of those quilts as they were exhibited in the space. Martha Stewart did a TV segment on it and published a write up of it with photos:
The urge to collect may be partly wired into humans, and it's a characteristic of some other species as well. The males of all 20 species of bowerbirds collect small objects and use them to decorate the area around their ground-level nests as part of courtship behavior.
In and around the bower, the male places a variety of brightly colored objects he has collected. These objects – usually different among each species – may include hundreds of shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items, coins, nails, rifle shells, or pieces of glass. The males spend hours arranging this collection. Bowers within a species share a general form but do show significant variation, and the collection of objects reflects the biases of males of each species and its ability to procure items from the habitat, often stealing them from neighboring bowers. Several studies of different species have shown that colors of decorations males use on their bowers match the preferences of females.
Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
In my studio now I have a open-shelved case made out of light oak wood that someone made for my great-grandmother. It has maybe eight shelves in it, each one a little narrower than the one below it. I use it to hold different sized squares of fabrics ready for further use in constructing scrap quilts or wallhangings.
She used it to display a collection of unique cut glass salt dishes, the type people used to keep in their kitchens or put at table along with a pepper grinder. When she grew tired of that collecting effort, she used the case to display results of her next collector's obsession: tiny to medium-sized cream pitchers.
The funny thing about my use of that case today is I'm sure my great grandma would have approved, since she too was a quilter. She made over a hundred quilts in her lifetime and many of them were assembled from scraps of cotton saved from clothing-making projects. Back then no one had enough quilting fabric lying around to be cutting the leftovers on spec into little squares of any size. Sometimes in old quilts you can look closely and see more than a few blocks where "square" pieces are really a couple of odd-shaped smaller pieces patched together before being trimmed into a square shape for sewing into a block.
She used it to display a collection of unique cut glass salt dishes, the type people used to keep in their kitchens or put at table along with a pepper grinder. When she grew tired of that collecting effort, she used the case to display results of her next collector's obsession: tiny to medium-sized cream pitchers.
The funny thing about my use of that case today is I'm sure my great grandma would have approved, since she too was a quilter. She made over a hundred quilts in her lifetime and many of them were assembled from scraps of cotton saved from clothing-making projects. Back then no one had enough quilting fabric lying around to be cutting the leftovers on spec into little squares of any size. Sometimes in old quilts you can look closely and see more than a few blocks where "square" pieces are really a couple of odd-shaped smaller pieces patched together before being trimmed into a square shape for sewing into a block.
Yes PRSI is Politics, Religion, Social Issues subforum of MacRumors. LOL have fun, but my advice is don't lose your temper while you're in there, and don't ever go there without your barn boots on.
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I like reddit though.
Not use it re tech stuff much. But theres friendly knowledgable departments that I use frequently.
Not seen any down voting there. Guess it's openminded enough.
Forums can be closed to a certain mindset. Reddit have so many direction.
I certainly prefer even PRSI in here to under-moderated or unmoderated commentary attached to online newspaper articles. And while I use Twitter, mostly to pick up info from media outlet to which I subscribe, I quickly learned not to spend much time delving into replies attached to tweets that those outlets or its reporters may have retweeted.
wow, thanks for the links and through info on sewing. im gonna look into this cause im also picky with my pants, i like them a certain length. i hate pants that have that fabric build up on the botton (pet peeve actually). i always take my new pants to the tailor so they can do the Hem.thats true, liitte by little i create the collection i want. i even look for deals and loose figures. which is cheaper than brand new figures.
actually my current blanket on my bed is a Quilt, its made by Nautica. i bought at bed bath and beyond, first time i saw it i liked it. it has multiple colors and really pops. its a thin quilt and that was what i was looking for since i live in florida and it gets hot down here.
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I am a member of Resetera.com, a video game forum. It has a rather interesting history of how it started....not really that active, mostly just lurking on there. Apart from that, I visit reddit.com pretty often.
Along with MR, I also hang out at NikonCafe and DPreview (DPR), and in the past, other forums which eventually faded away.