From owner-sewing@eniac.yak.net Mon Feb 2 05:11:52 1998 Received: (from majordom@localhost) (fnord) by eniac.yak.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id FAA03880 for sewing-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 05:11:51 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: stick.netcomi.com: eric owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 23:11:16 -0600 (CST) From: Eric Burgess To: StinKyKiwi@aol.com cc: sewing@footbag.org Subject: Re: [sewing] Bag sizes In-Reply-To: <31372bbd.34d2813c@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-sewing@footbag.org did you download the GIF or PostScript version of the patterns? the GIF version *does not* preserve the size of the original image. this means that depending on what model of printer you have, and what settings you have for it, the image could come out any size. the PostScript version is guaranteed to come out the right size, but it's a pain to find a program that will do it. i have had success with the GIF version by using the copier at work. there is a line on the pattern that says "1 inch"...so i measured that, figured out what percentage it was off, then set the copier to magnify by that amount. there's probably an easier way, but that's what i did. eric On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 StinKyKiwi@aol.com wrote: > Has anyone tried sewing a bag with one of the 32 and 26 panel patterns that > you get off the footbag.org site? I sewed two bags today and both of them > turned out marble size (exageration). I am sewing as close to the edge of the > panels as possible to try to make them bigger. Does this happen to anyone > else? Should I just make the pattern bigger? > > Matt Avery > From owner-sewing@eniac.yak.net Mon Feb 2 18:00:54 1998 Received: (from majordom@localhost) (fnord) by eniac.yak.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA01520 for sewing-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:00:52 GMT From: Casey Zacek Message-Id: <199802021200.GAA21085@gravy.netcomi.com> Subject: Re: [sewing] Bag sizes To: sewing@footbag.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 06:00:46 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL37 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sewing@footbag.org Eric Burgess spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > did you download the GIF or PostScript version of the patterns? the GIF > version *does not* preserve the size of the original image. this means > that depending on what model of printer you have, and what settings you > have for it, the image could come out any size. the PostScript version is > guaranteed to come out the right size, but it's a pain to find a program > that will do it. i have had success with the GIF version by using the > copier at work. there is a line on the pattern that says "1 inch"...so i > measured that, figured out what percentage it was off, then set the copier > to magnify by that amount. there's probably an easier way, but that's > what i did. The postscript version is definitely the way to go. If you are using MS Windows, you can use GSView to print .ps files, and they will be sized correctly. You can get GSView from this site: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.html I don't know about Mac software for .ps files, but GSView works well for me on Windows, and Ghostview works for XWindows/UNIX machines, or, if you have a printer that supports postscript, you can just print the file as-is (Windows: drag the file to the printer; UNIX: lpr ). -- Casey Zacek Sr. Systems Administrator * Programmer NETCOM Interactive From owner-sewing@eniac.yak.net Mon Feb 2 22:06:36 1998 Received: (from majordom@localhost) (fnord) by eniac.yak.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA03539 for sewing-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:06:26 GMT From: StinKyKiwi@aol.com Message-ID: <5cd2d3fc.34d64214@aol.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:00:49 EST To: sewing@footbag.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [sewing] stiches Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 Sender: owner-sewing@footbag.org I have made my 3rd bag now...but it has two problems.. 1. The stiches can be seen if the pannels are pulled apart. 2. The pannels don't pop out. I have uses small stiches and pulled the string so the pannel edges pop out when I am finished doing that particular side. Thanks for your help, Matt Avery From owner-sewing@eniac.yak.net Thu Feb 26 01:58:03 1998 Received: (from majordom@localhost) (fnord) by eniac.yak.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA05607 for sewing-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 01:57:56 GMT From: StinKyKiwi@aol.com Message-ID: <96dc1521.34f4cc21@aol.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:57:51 EST To: sewing@footbag.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [sewing] question Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 64 Sender: owner-sewing@footbag.org I have been sewing bags for about a month...and I've noticed that on 32 panel bags...my pentagons actually nip corners. On other bags like a juice, the corners of the triangles are sewn together some way....so that the pents. regularly don't touch. Am I doing something wrong? Ive tried sewing the corners together....but it just doesnt turn out right.....Im really in need for some motivation....thanks a lot:) Matt Avery