It's been a busy few days, my grandson Max turned three on Wednesday and I have been working with my volunteer editor from BC (this lady has asked me to her name keep confidential).
We now have completed a few things for the web page etc and the presentation that I will be doing for my town council on the 22. (I will share this with you as it is completed.)
Today I need to pre-cut and catalog 50 pieces of banner material for the Gala that is to be held in Ontario.
At this point, I'm still doing this and working on my own, the for cutting the material has been a bit labor intensive, but I now have it down pat.
Here are the steps that I'm using to get a Kilometer of material done in my community.
I just took these pictures for you this morning. (I hope this information will help those that want to meet or beat my challenge to do 1 Kilometer )
The first step I took was to design a pattern and then I ordered a kilometer of pre-cut material (Then geeeezzz -as you can see the material was cut in different widths - because of this I now have to make changes to the pattern size and instructions)
At this point I'm beginning to wonder "What else can go wrong?" and I'm beginning to feel more then a little foolish because the instructions have all ready been posted in the National News Letter for the CTA!
Then I think - "Oh well, we just have to keep trucking!" After this I speak with my head volunteer and good friend Claudette and she suggests that we take e excess material and make quilts for the needy....(O.K. this makes me feel better and now we move on.)
This isn't the order that I posted this
but this darn program has a mind of it's own..
But, I'm not going to fight with it anymore -
I know that you will get the gist of things...-
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| # 2 I cut holes in a box to make rolling out of fabric easier. |
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# 3
So that I could have an accurate measurement
I went to one of our local glass shops and
had a temp plate made from Plexiglas
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| #7 a rotary blade helps to speed things along. |
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# 8
After temp plate is on I take my rotary blade and
cut my material to the proper measurement.
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A top view of my production line - a line of one :-)
As you can see I have a hillbilly set up
But it works for me
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#5
I then set my cutting mat down and
place the material on the edges that I have taped on the mat
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#4
I set up my table and then
stick a broom handle inside the role of fabric
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| # 1 - Kilometer of material ordered |
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| #9 I set my temp plate down on the material and I am now ready to cut my material to the right length |
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| #10 - a I cut the left side |
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| #10 - b I then cut the right side Since I am taking the pictures myself I had to take the picture in this manner - what I do normally is start from the bottom and work my way up. |
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| # 11 - b |
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#12
I place the pattern on top of my pre-cut material and
mark the stitching lines
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#11 -a
I made a pattern to be able to mark accurate stitching lines
This pattern is made out of construction paper.
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I place the pattern down to mark the stitching edges.
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| # 17 Some of my materials - paints brushes-temp plate etc.
Now for step #2
The material has been cut and the stitchings edges are marked.
(I did this with a felt marker and as usual I find out
that if I don't move quickly that the paint bleeds and darn it -
I did it again!!)
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#14
After marking the stitching edges
I start documentation of the banner material
This is the World's Longest Banner - piece # 455
I write this number in the book
After this it is ready for distribution.
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# 15
These are some of the paints that I use for the edges of the banner to prevent fraying of the fabric.
I sometimes use gold fabric paint or
I will use an acrylic paint that has been premixed with a medium
this transforms the acrylic paint into a fabric paint.
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| # 16 I now paint the edges with gold paint |
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| # 13 This are cutting instructions This picture is for those of you that are working on smaller pieces of material |
So now that I have completed this task - I will start cutting material for the up and coming 25th anniversary Gala's in Calgary and Ontario.
Ontario would like to have 50 pieces of pre-cut material sent out asap
Therefore I better get my butt off this computer and get it in gear for cutting material.
I'll need to have the material ready to mail out today, so that it will be ready on time for thier Gala.
Hopefully - Since mailing out material can get pretty costly for me - things will take a turn for the better soon and we'll have some brave souls that will take on this challenge and order their own material.
God bless - Take care and have a great day.
Maria
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