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Last weekend Pim helped me sanding the rest of the table top. He did most of the work. After removing all of the varnish, he sanded it with a finer grit and no vacuum cleaner, and I picked up as much of the sawdust as possible. Then I mixed it with white glue and filled in cracks. I am still not finished doing this.


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I finished two more t-shirts.


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I needed some instant gratification. To start something and finish it.


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I've started working on the dining table again. I don't think I ever posted here about it? We started to sand it some months ago, the varnish was quite hard and difficult to sand off. I didn't want to use a varnish remover ( Read more... )

I've been working on this yesterday and today. Yesterday I soldered the rings and finished soldering the "walls" which still had some holes ( Read more... )

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Still home on sick leave. I worked a little on the corset, but nothing too exciting. Stitching the other half boning channels. Previous half was a little crappy, so I tried to find a way to make the lines straighter and in the right place. First I tried tape, I hated it.
Then I took the edge stitcher and saw that it is perfect as a guide:


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I am home on sick leave. Couldn't do much because I fall asleep (and I must, too ;P)

Today I basted the rest of the boning casings (for one half of the corset) ironed them to adapt to the curves, and stitched. My stitching is not straight. I think I could use one of those quilting guides because I find it difficult to keep the distance even, with ( Read more... )

Today I ripped the boning casing I sew over the weekend, because it was 3 cm wide and too narrow. Today I tried 3.5 cm which worked very well, so I ironed the rest of the strips at 3.5 cm. I am now basting more strips, but running out of time already, so I don't know if I will have time to do much more.


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