Comments on: Nifty thread consumption tool

By: Raquel Sosa

Raquel Sosa — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:58:12 +0000

Thank you so much for this!!!

By: Daljeet Kaur

Daljeet Kaur — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:13:06 +0000

I love it when you say ‘in the olden days’. My father says it a lot and I’ve been saying it quite a bit too in the last 8 years or so (and also ‘what crappy music these kids listen to’)!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:11:05 +0000

I have a number of thread data pdfs that I can’t find the links to on the current incarnation of the site. (google knows they exist, and will find them if I put the file name into a google search.)

I have exactly the same problem and resort to the same solution with the A&E site.

I tell you, site continuity is going to be an even greater problem in the future for legacy sites. I have the same issues, it is so much work to manually correct it all.

By: David S.

David S. — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:20:20 +0000

@Alison, I may well be. The wayback machine tells me that in 2008, which is about when I started going through the archives, there was a link from the page kathleen linked to (http://web.archive.org/web/20080216233719/http://www.amefird.com/estimating_consumption.htm) to ANECALC. It’s not there in 2005, when Kathleen wrote the post.

I agree that A&E website is not the easiest to navigate. In particular, I have a number of thread data pdfs that I can’t find the links to on the current incarnation of the site. (google knows they exist, and will find them if I put the file name into a google search.)

The wayback macine, at http://archive.org , is wonderfully useful tool for reading through things like blog archives. There are often links that point to things that no longer exist, or which are clearly not the same thing as the blog is referering to, and you can often figure out what they did mean to point you to.

By: Dara

Dara — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:35:07 +0000

I love A and E. They are about an hour away and fabulous! Everyone here loves them.

By: Cary Pragdin

Cary Pragdin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:20:46 +0000

Wonderful, informative post Kathleen, many thanks. Hope it’s just the effects of Spring being in the air, and not the ‘flu after all!

By: kay

kay — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:30:37 +0000

I don’t personally know of any tool for calculating thread consumption for those of us who sew for ourselves. But I will say that I’ve referred a lot of people to the A&E site because of the wealth of practical information it contains in the “Technical Tools” section. The “thread logic” section helped clarify a lot of things for me in terms of selecting threads to work with: http://www.amefird.com/technical-tools/thread-education/thread-logic/

By: Samina

Samina — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:43:48 +0000

David & Kathleen, thank you for responding to my question. I’m planning to be a regular visitor to the A & E site from now on.

By: Sarah_H.

Sarah_H. — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:19:48 +0000

What a great tool for the industry! Kudos to A&E and to Kathleen for making it known!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:30:26 +0000

David: I’ve linked to A&E quite a few times (as you know). I dimly recall seeing a mention of the topics I posted about now but I don’t remember that I followed through. The A&E site is rather enigmatic with respect to navigation; page (link) titles explaining the value of given content being the biggest problem imo. Humor me by pretending I don’t live in a glass house…