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Also OP i would like you to do a tutorial on a circle skirt both pattern and sewing.

Thanks

marylandcakes:
You will have to start from the very basics,

Taking measurements then learn how to transfer these figures onto paper to make patterns. If you watch professional designers they always use pattern paper even after that they will draft with muslin before cutting into the final fabric. You will need a lot of patience.
I will suggest you get yourself an exercise book and start from there. You don't need to buy too many materials all you need for now is a tape measure, ruler a good scissors. You can use any paper as your pattern paper. Some people use news paper the only disadvantage is that you can't see you markings clearly.

You will also need marking tools like tailors chalk and a marking pen.

Very useful advice for the novice. At what point do we have to purchase the dummy?

Ammy5565:
Oh dear, I don't even know. Pls can u show me a pic of both.

Both are shown in this picture.

Ammy5565:
Thanks dear
Lemme see.
But ermm, do u sew well now using drafting?
And pls wat s the name of the graph board?

I can make a gather dress, a skirt and I learnt it all from this thread, I'm still trying to perfect the sleeves.

If you mean the green cutting board then its a craft cutting board. or did you mean the pattern paper?

Ammy5565:
Hi Marylandcakes, nice job u are doing here. God bless u much. I recently picked interest in sewing and have been learning on youtube. pls I really need to ask, some videos I see don't really use this graph like stuff and all the markings here and there (forgive me I hate math). I just go ahead and fold into four, mark the measurements and cut. Pls can I go on like this or I must learn pattern drafting? Looks complicated. Pls just explain. Thanks.

From the little I've learnt from this thread I was a complete novice so you have a much better chance than myself. I will suggest you start from the beginning of this thread and watch the basic bodice video by the op.

Creating an Environment for Happy Property Investing

A happy life is in the mind. If your mind is happy, you will have a happy and fulfilling life. Only part of this is accumulating material assets of course. What has this got to do with property investing you might be thinking? Property investing is about two things:


1. Making money – either cashflow and/or capital value increase
2. Doing something that is fulfilling and energises you – makes you feel happy

Firstly, making money is normally a very happy and uplifting experience. When you invest £50,000 and create something worth £100,000 that generates monthly cashflow of say £1000, that’s an uplifting experience. It’s also a liberating experience. It will make you more confident, improve your self-esteem, give you better control and more control of your life and it will be fun. The challenge – the goals – the outcomes – if successful – will be uplifting.


Males: If you are male, and have a partner – one of the key things to consider – this might sound rather old-fashioned, is that “women back winners” – they don’t back losers. In your quest to gain material assets and income – positive cashflow – she/he will almost certainly admire you and respect you for this. She might grumble about you taking risks, but the outcome will be something that will satisfy both yourself and her.


Females: If you are female – creating material property assets and income will be liberating and uplifting – and give you better financial control of your life. You will have your own income, your own assets and not have to play second fiddle to anyone. You can share these assets, pass the to your kids etc – all uplifting experiences, even give them to charities. It’s really fun making money and its also really fun giving it way.
Now let’s go back to “a happy life is all in the mind”. This is a rather a holistic expression. When it comes down to it – if you are not in any pain – and your mind is active and happy – then you will have a happy life. In life in industrial societies – the trick is to have enough stress to create excitement – and relieve boredom – stimulate your adrenaline – but not enough to make you very worried, stressed out, burnt out, paranoid and delusional. It’s a fine balance.


Exercise: What helps to relieve high stress levels is exercise – this flushes the system out of toxins, stimulate endorphins – a natural highly relaxing feeling. When you exercise, toxins that have built up will be processed by your muscles also giving a further positive feeling. Building and toning your muscles also means your metabolism rises – meaning that you burn more calories at rest – meaning you lose weight even when you are not exercising – even when you are asleep. You can eat more and “get away with it”. This indirectly also improves your self esteem – feeling good about yourself and your physical looks. This might sound superficial but its true for most people. These are the key reasons to exercise – it will make your mind feel more positive and it will improve your looks, strength and chances of living a long life on top of it all. You will also become more attractive to the opposite sex (or the same sex if this is what you desire).


Non Creative Destruction: This brings us onto – how to destroy your life – and lose control of it. There are 3-4 main things you can do to self-destruct leading to an early grave, depression and disturbed mind – hence not enjoying life – all dreadful for property investing of course:


Alcohol: Drinking heavily leads not only to weight gain, psychological problems, delusional-paranoid thinking – but you might end up losing your job, your partner and all your assets. Name one alcoholic that is a very successful business person – it just does not existing. Alcoholics – or people that need to drink every day of their lives – tend to have poor motivation, cannot focus and make poor decisions. They normally fall out with friends and family in arguments and get argumentative, over-emotional and even violent. They will end up doing strange things to get their next fix of alcohol – being dishonest or hiding their problem and hoping no-one spots them. If you need to drink every day, by definition you are an alcoholic and you need to seek help. If you can cut out drink for 2-3 days a week, you should be able to convince yourself you are not an alcoholic – albeit you might still be a binge drinker, which can also be very bad for your health and motivation levels. Drinking also wastes huge amounts of time – recovering from hang-overs while the rest of the world moves on with life.


Drugs: These are the fastest way to achieve an early death. Make no mistake – you are stealing pleasure from the future, into the present and because of it the future will never be as nice as the present. You will end up being depressed, paranoid, psychologically damaged and extremely demotivated and down in life. You will also drag down all your family and friends with you. Whether they are prescription anti-depressants drugs or recreational drugs – make no mistake – they are extremely high risk, dangerous and almost guaranteed to lead to an early death and depression. If you are depressed – it’s better to seek advice from a counsellor about the underlying issue than risking getting hooked on anti-depressants. When your brain realises its hooked on drugs, and it does not get more of it – it will be depressed then it will be the end of a happy life. Never take no prescribed drugs. Drugs and property investment or any other business venture or happiness just don’t go well together. Ever met a really happy drug addict?


Divorce: Probably the quickest way to ruin a good property portfolio is to get divorced. If you are male, you will lose well over half your assets – you may also have to start a fire sale. It will destroy most of your business. If you are a female – it’s not much better. The distraction and legal costs – plus banks jumping in once they get wind of a divorce– wanting their money back – it’s something to try and avoid like the plague. Not to mention the damage it does to kids, families and friendships. This naturally brings us on to “cheating”. If you cheat on your partner – expect one outcome – divorce. They will never forgive you – don’t be delusional and think they would or could. One cheating event will destroy your property investment portfolio and make you very miserable with it. Ever heard of someone that cheated – than said they were really pleased and happy that they had – that it had been an excellent decision? No. It’s stupid, lacks financial discipline and is plainly wrong and dishonest – and if you cheat you should feel ashamed of yourself – and expect to get divorced and see the kids a maximum of half the time henceforth if you are male, with possibility of never seeing them.


So for a successful property investor that is happy in his or her life, then you need to:


Exercise
Don’t drink to excess
Don’t take drugs
Avoid divorce – don’t cheat


Financial Success: If you do the above – your chances of making serious money will sky-rocket and it will be so much more sustainable. You will be managing your business risks. You will feel good about yourself, have a hugely higher chance of enjoying life, and get a real buzz out of working on properties and making deals. Your partner will also be impressed with the gains and this should also cement your relationship even further. It’s not rocket science. It’s just choices in life. Too many people choose no exercise, drink, take drugs, cheat and hence get divorced. They are all traits of a person with a losing mentality that ultimately will likely lead to an early death.


Winners: Be a winner by successfully property investing, not drink, no drugs, staying married, not cheating and thoroughly enjoying life – looking to the future and not stealing pleasure (drink-drugs) from the future into the present in an ultra-short term “in the now-moment selfish expression of insanity”.

Future Thinking: Instead you should be planning for future gains, looking forward to the future and living well in the present in a sustainable way, putting bad experiences behind you – forgetting them as much as possible – looking forwards to the future rather than fearing it as drug addicts do.


Social Media: Finally – one of the new threats in society is stress and worry from the media – particularly with the advent of 24/7 social media and all the hype around this – Facebook, Twitter, streaming news flows. Trump with his Twitter feeds is just one example of how we are being controlled by this. The constant barrage of people posting photos of holidays they never invited you to – how brilliant their Facebook like is – it’s just superficial and often designed to make someone look far better than they actually are. It’s better to be comfortable within yourself and not have to rely on such means to promote yourself, or demonstrate your worth in society.


Property investors need to spend as little time as possible reading negative news stories on terror, natural disasters, ego-maniac politician and threats of war. These are designed by media-journalists and politicians to control us – part of the control society.


Focus Should Not Be On Media: Its far better to relieve your stress and enjoy life in the moment – whilst operating at a more functional level by developing your property portfolio – putting your time, efforts, focus and attention into this. The gains will be huge – and you will make serious money whilst everyone else is Tweeting and getting themselves all worked up about the most minute thing – life Wayne Rooney being caught drinking under the influence of alcohol for instance, or Liam Payne being caught smoking tobacco again. Yes, read articles on property investment, house prices etc – but its best to avoid anything that can seriously impede your progress to your goals – and we would make the case that spending hours a week watching TV and following news flows is one of those impediment to financial progress and success. Remember there are 7 billion people in this world and if someone has a an accident, the other 6,999,999,999 should not stop their lives to ponder the ins and outs of this. It will destroy huge amounts of value – both fun in life and financial value. There is probably a pretty strong negative correlation between the amount of social media and TV usage and net worth.

Let me know when you open your sewing school , I will be your first student

marylandcakes:
Thanks for your support

You are welcome always.

Human aggression doesn’t have much going for it. Every war, bar brawl or playground smackdown ever fought has resulted from our habit of lashing out first and talking it through only later. But if aggression has one virtue, it’s that it’s unambiguous. It’s hard to misunderstand the meaning of a missile launch or a punch in the nose.

But passive-aggression — regular aggression’s sneaky little cousin? That’s a whole other thing. Passive-aggression is there but it’s not, you see it and you don’t. It’s aggression as steam — hard to frame, impossible grasp. You see it in the competitive colleague who would never confront you directly but accidentally leaves your name off an email about an important meeting. It’s the spouse who’s usually punctual but takes forever to get out of the house when it’s your turn to choose the movie. Sometimes there’s an innocent explanation, but often there’s not — and the passive-aggressors themselves might not even know which is which.

Either way, passive-aggression is more than just the nettlesome habit of a few maddeningly indirect people. Clinicians differ on whether it qualifies as a full-blown personality disorder like, say, narcissism or paranoia, but they agree on the symptoms: deliberate inefficiency, an avoidance of responsibility, a refusal to state needs or concerns directly.

Passive-aggressiveness comes in varying degrees, which can make it tricky to know if you work, live or socialize with a passive-aggressor — or if you’re one yourself. The behavior is practically defined by its plausible deniability. So we’ve compiled seven of the most commonly reported ways passive-aggressive character traits can show up in your life:

1 Leaving things undone. Passive-aggressors are champions of the almost complete job: the room that’s painted except for the molding; the laundry that’s washed but doesn’t get folded; the dishwasher that’s loaded except for the utensils, because really, who needs clean utensils when we can always spear our food with sharpened sticks or the fondue forks we’ve had in the back of the closet since 1997! (Not that I’ve ever experienced this at home.) It’s a nifty strategy, signaling resentment at having to do the job and leaving just little enough undone that you’d feel picky criticizing it and will ultimately decide just to do it yourself for, like, the twelve billionth time. (Not that I’ve ever experienced that either.)

2 Running late. If you’re a passive-aggressor you live in an Einsteinian universe of eternally elastic time, where a few minutes can turn into a few hours. Actually, all of us live there — which is why we have watches. To passive-aggressors, a watch is a bother. If they don’t want to go to a dinner party but feel obligated to be there? No worries. They’ll just accept the invitation and then — oopsies! — only vaguely remember the time it starts so they don’t show up till the middle of the soup course. The same is true when they resent having to attend a meeting so they wander in 20 minutes late with a mystified expression that says you’re all here already? The behavior is occasionally deliberate, more commonly unconscious — and always infuriatingly effective.

3 The non-compliment. Compliments are easy. Compliments can even be fun. Here are some nice compliments: “Great haircut!” or “Terrific soup!” Here are some less nice compliments: “Great haircut — I used to get the same one in college,” or “Terrific soup — I didn’t even taste all that cilantro.” It’s no secret which kind of compliment the passive-aggressor goes for — usually out of competitiveness. If you’re not sure which kind of compliment you’ve gotten, pay attention to your own responses: If you feel like saying “thank you,” you’ve probably gotten a good one. If you feel like running screaming from the room, not so much.

4 Silence. Shhh… Hear that? No? Exactly. That’s the sound of a passive-aggressive person who’s cheesed off about something. If you were upset with something a friend or family member did, you might say — and we’re just spitballing ideas here — “I’m upset with something you did.” A passive-aggressive person would instead say: [insert your favorite cricket sounds here]. Silence is always a go-to strategy for passive-aggressors and it’s not hard to see why. It says nothing at all and yet says volumes. It ostensibly avoids a conflict but in fact provokes one—with the very lack of communication serving as a taunt and a goad. It’s thus passive, and yet, um, aggressive. Hey! We might be onto something.

5 Wistful wishing. You know what I wish? I wish passive-aggressive people wouldn’t dreamily announce something they want and then immediately conclude — always out loud — that it’s probably not going to happen. But I guess that’s too much to ask. See what I did there? Annoying, right? I could have said, “Hey! Passive-aggressive people! Knock off that out-loud wishing.” But instead I came at it sideways. If that sounds like things you’ve heard in your life — “It would be great if you could get the project done by Wednesday, but I guess it’ll have to wait till Friday” — it’s a pretty safe bet there are passive-aggressors in your circle. The objective, of course, is to get an idea out there, then immediately disown it — thus putting the burden of getting it done or not done on you.

6 Sabotage. It’s not hard to tell the bad guy in a movie. He’s the one who’s always tampering with the brakes in the hero’s car or sneaking the bad lines of code into a computer. Passive-aggressors might not go that far, but you can see where they get their inspiration. That deadline your colleague forgot to tell you about until it was just a day away? Those work clothes your spouse tossed in with the dry-cleaning the day before you went off on that business trip you’d been arguing about? As with lateness, this is sometimes deliberate but usually not. Either way the point has been made — and yet not made too.

7 The disguised insult. The social contract under which the rest of us live has a special provision passive-aggressors have added just for themselves. It typically comes in the form of a “but” clause, like, “I don’t want to sound mean, but…” “I hope you don’t think I’m insensitive, but…” “Not to be judgmental, but…” after which they say something mean, insensitive or judgmental — and sometimes all three at once. An uncharacteristically honest variation on this disguised insult is the “You’re going to hate this, but…” which at least has the virtue of being true, because you will inevitably hate it down to your very last strand of DNA. This is as close to pure aggression as the passive-aggressor gets. Feel free to hold up a hand and halt the conversation before any passive-aggressors in your life get past the comma that ends the clause — but don’t be surprised if they drive right through that stop sign.

If you’re a victim of passive-aggression, there are a few basic coping strategies. For starters, remember that you’re not nuts. If you see a pattern it’s probably real. So respond — and know that it’s OK to draw sharp boundaries. The chronically late dinner guest can be invited once more on the proviso that the start time of the evening is honored. After that? It’s Chipotle for you, bub.

And what if you’re the passive aggressor? Well, the knock-it-off suggestion is a good place to start. That’s not always easy, and it can take work and even the help of a good therapist to determine why directness is so hard for you. It’s a lot better than indirectness, however—and it’s a whole lot less work.

This article was originally published on TIME.com

Lampert505:
thanks for dat MA,

You have not answered the question that the OP asked. Don't you want your query to be answered?

marylandcakes:
For those of you that requested an 8 piece skirt pattern. It's above. Sorry for the delay.

You are forgiven, better late than never.

Trustworthiness:
So, someone like me residing in ikorodu and working close to Ajah, living my home between 6:20am and 6:30am everyday and getting to work before 8 am is not safe and lost my job?

I think you have a big problem. You are proberbly living and have your business in Lekki and Ajah axis. Ladies living in area like that sees others living in other areas of Lagos as second class human being.

It is even much easier if you truely own you business yourself.

I agree with you. Too many people jumping on the band wagon of how horrible Ikorodu is. Unfortunately not all of us can afford to live in the overprice getto of lekki or banana Island. We cut our clothes according to our cloth and we want to own our own house and business. Also they are a lot of middle class people living in Ikorodu. Many people that don't know the area and have never been there just come on the internet and spread loads of rubbish. Most parts of Lagos are dangerous , just living is a big risk.

marylandcakes:
You wouldn't believe this is my very first time of using an airbrushing machine I'm happy with the results.

So you should be, well-done

marylandcakes:
Also the more projects I do the much better I become , I am trying to get a stencil cutter so I can do more airbrushing projects.

If you go on Amazon you will get some decent ones but watch out for the plugs /AV etc.

marylandcakes:
How to make an 8 piece mermaid skirt pattern


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrYbFfz2Zo

I think this is one of your best sewing tutorials yet. The explanations are very clear that even a novice like me understands the technic. I used to wonder about all those mermaid skirts but now it is very clear. Thanks a lot

Crazy people

I just had to go online and watch this episode as I didn't want you guys to spoil it for me.

Did any of you guys notice the swagger of the night walker walking on the ice, when he noticed the ice was strong enough to hold his weigh?

marylandcakes:
The basics of cake airbrushing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3TFHfUFbuo

This is very good . so all you do is cover all your cakes in white fondant and airbrush the colour you want on. great!

bloody hell

Stegomiah:
I agree with all you said above especially at the bolded

The first thing i said when she burnt the tarlys generation was why the double standard

Because they refused to bend the knee
But I remember John Snow is yet to bend the knee and never will

But she didn't punish him..... In fact she's in love with him
And she had this kinda mixed/ambivalent feeling when john was patting drogon

But Jon Snow didn't try to kill her.

TheKingIsHere:
The problem with you guys is that you don't read people's comments properly before jumping to conclusions.

Now this is my post:

1. The Lannister's soldiers are a bunch of sissies. After watching dickon tarley and his father get burnt alive by drogon, they quickly bent a knee. Some were ready to prostrate sef. Lol.

Didnt you see me say after dickon and his father got burnt? I guess not. You should be the one that should try and say something reasonable.

Even the Dothrakis told Tyrion that his people cant fight, Jamie also told Cercei that their fighting looked more like a sport.

Gbola5:
That's the Hightower. It's a lighthouse. Sam didn't torch anything.

That's what I thought I saw a light house and Sam is not that vindictive.

raumdeuter:
Was Joffrey and Cersei planning to keep them alive? Actually they sent a party to kill Arya immediately Lord Stark was killed and Sansa was walking a tight rope to be killed anytime at the slightest offence

By Killing the Lord Stark they already declared war on the Starks, Robbs failure to realize that was the weak move

They definitely wanted to keep Sansa alive to breed a Lanister, Why do you think they married her off to the imp?

raumdeuter:
Thats naive thinking, Someone who already killed your husband will now release your children? That move made Lannisters conclude that Starks are weak, it made other Lords supporting STarks back out knowing they had a weak leader

And it cost Robb and Mother Stark their head

Ok maybe they wont release them but at least they will be alive. How is that then?

Also what cost mother and son is Rob not honouring his promise to the house of frell and also the beheading of you know who?

agrovick:
Maybe I saw what's not there, but statements like He is doing what he THINKS is best & that look of resignation indicates vulnerability & doesn't show support to Jon's cause; just whisper some convincing arguments about why Jon should be ditched and she might capitulate.

Me too I'm beginning to doubt Sansa's loyalty to Jon.

raumdeuter:
Thats why they are learners, In that situation Someone already killed their father and head of the house. You now think they will release 2 young kids?

Thats naive thinking

Lady Stark was hoping to exchange Jamie for her daughters . Remember? her Husband was already dead by then. Jamie was her bargaining tool.

raumdeuter:
There are several of Cersei's actions that were horrible blowing up the Sept is not one of them

If as a highborn I was paraded naked around the city, subjected to humiliation and those horrible things, I will do exactly the same.

In those times and even now people only respect strength and decisiveness. Thats why my most hated people in the Show till date are Robb Stark and Mother Stark for not killing Jamie when they had the chance thus deserved their death. I like Jamie but letting him escape made Robb lose respect of his followers

Its kill or get killed

The reason they didn't kill Jamie was because The Lanisters had their daughters. No mother will want to take that risk.

TheKingIsHere:
The Lannister's soldiers have always been a bunch of sissies who fight for cersei out of fear. You don't need to bully them with dragons, atleast cersei didn't.

As for Jamie, It is obvious you watched the nollywood version. why don't you show us or better still explain how Jamie was happy that his sister was pregnant. If he was happy, I don't think that he will be asking cersei who the father was. (check @ 45 Mins 40secs his expression if he was happy with glee )

As for Sam, someone has pointed it out so am good with it.


Yeah, and that's my own opinion/summary as I don't see anything from you on it apart from coming out of nowhere and disappearing back to nowhere without telling us what you you got from it.



It is obvious you just wanna talk. Now, I can say that beric purpose is to help Jon snow to fight the white walkers and retrieve one so that Jon can present it to cersei and even dany.

What can you tell us about beric purpose about helping the hound in this episode? do tell us.

And finally, thekingishere so you can bend a knee now.

Jamie knows he is the father and he was only asking who Cerci will tell is the father because they are twins of course ( incest)

TheKingIsHere:
You Sansa fans are really funny.

When sansa wanted to kill children and the entire family of karstark and the other one, you all hailed her and even said she is getting smart and learning from cersei. Now, the table have turned and you have changed mouth yet again claiming that she did the right thing. For real?
One thing you have to know is that Arya is not aware about the night king, so her defending Jon is 100% legit.

Infact, Arya confirmed all what I have been saying all these while that Sansa is jealous and looking for a way to oust Jon. Before you comment and start defending, Arya knows Sansa very well, hence she read her like a book and stated the obvious.

I hate to agree with you but you are right.

TheKingIsHere:
This episode was superb. No action but highly enjoyable. Here are my thoughts so far:

1. The Lannister's soldiers are a bunch of sissies. After watching dickon tarley and his father get burnt alive by drogon, they quickly bent a knee. Some were ready to prostrate sef. Lol.

2. Cersei is pregnant for Jamie once again and Jamie doesn't seem too happy about it.

3. Did the night king dispersed bran's warg from those raven? That's is awesome and powerful. This guy is currently unstoppable as it stands.

4. It is confirmed, Jon snow is a targeyrian as drogon the dragon acknowledges Jon's targeyrian heritage. Dany was even surprised. I expect to see Jon as king of the north and of all kingdom ride the dragon in season 8. This is bad news for Sansa and her fans.

5. Sansa is a jealous witch and even Arya noticed that. Sansa watched and kept quiet as other lords complained about Jon's absence without her putting them in order.
In Arya's words "You always liked nice things, it made you feel better than everyone." This is an indirect mockery of Sansa. Then Arya hits the nail on the head saying "And if Jon doesn't come back, you will need their support to get you what you truly want". This shows that Arya, Sansa's own sister knows that the useless one is trying to oust Jon indirectly so she can get full control.

6. Ser Davos is one of the best diplomats in game of thrones. I love the way he handled those lannisters guards with easy and bribed them to think all is well. Too bad Tyrion showed at the wrong time and those soldiers ended up dying for it.

7. Is good to see ser jorah looking fresh and clean again. But he has to accept that dany has friend zoned him.

8. Sam finally got some balls, stole some important books and set the rest on fire. The best part was when he rode of feeling all badass.

9. Little finger my man, this is one guy that everyone underrates in the show. He is very smart, cunny and tactical in his dealings. Loved the ways he watched Arya from the shadows, that will always give you the creeps. I believe that he is trying to set up a Sansa vs Arya fight but it might be exposed and he will likely pay for it with his life.

10. Beric meets with Jon snow. This is one of the plans the Lord of light has for him and Jon. Nero. Sold purpose is to help Jon, once that is accomplished, he will die finally.

Very good summary except no 8. I must have missed it, I didn't see where Sam set fire to the rest of the books. I need to watch it again.

AryaSand:
But if we talk too much now they will say we Hate Sansa, what's not to Hate about her sef?

Also the argument was that she was stupid and useless. but I think in these last episode you can see that she too is playing a game. It takes a very clever person to play the game of thrones.