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• One Size Fits All

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Art Design, Image, Seam, Carving, For, Content Aware, Resizing

  a new process that performs seam carving for content-aware image resizing. For those of you who are not total dorks, such as my self, what that means is taking an image and changing its overall size without changing the size of individual elements inside the image. For example, say you have a picture that is a landscape including a house and a

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• Machine Quilting Accurate Seams

  Published: May 8, 2008, 7:44 am

  Tags: Learning To Quilt, Quarter Inch Seam, Quilt Piecing, Quilting An Accurate Seam

  When these pieces are seamed together, the result is called piecing or piecework. The most common piecework seam width is a quarter of an inch, and training yourself to sew an accurate quarter inch seam is one of the three critical skills you need to learn in quilting. The good news is that your sewing machine can often help you. Find a

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• Refine Your Seaming Technique: Quarter Inch Seams Rule

  Published: May 9, 2008, 9:13 am

  Tags: Practicing A Quarter Inch Seam, Quarter Inch Seam, Sewing, Sewing Machine Practice, Tips For A Perfect Quarter Inch Seam

  a reliable quarter inch seam. Use any thread that’s in your machine now, and try sewing two pieces of scrap fabric together. Be sure to pick two scraps that have at least 12 inches of straight edge, and line them up as evenly as you can. Before you start to sew, make sure you are using a straight stitch, pull the bobbin thread up and

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