Comments on: Reverse engineering standard work pt.5

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:06:31 +0000

I do mine just like this, except bind manually because I am too lazy to go to the ironing board, which I always end up cursing because it would have been quicker by the time I unpick my asymmetrical peak!
Also I make the width of the binding underneath 2mm narrower than the upper. I know it’s just a styling thing and there is no right or wrong but I thought I would mention it, as then it is the same width as the triangle when you stitch across the top. (That must have been what the sample I unpicked was like!)

By: Eric H

Eric H — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:15:12 +0000

Kermit's comment is hilarious. Reminds me of something one of my college professors had on his door, in which the Disciples kept interrupting the Sermon on the Mount with questions like, "Will this be on the exam?", "Could you do another example?" and so on (something like the article 2/3 of the way down this site). Students want a limitless number of worked examples so that they don't have to learn the thought process, they just have a Book of All Possible Combinations and Permutations of Worked Problems. Unfortunately, that means ~~they would have to develop~~ the professor would have to supply them with an amazing indexing and cross-referencing system. By my quick count, there are over 40 photographs in this tutorial. Perhaps you could print them all out and make a flip-chart out of them? That way, it would be more like video, or you could try Ritalin. Wanna ride bikes?

By: kathleen

kathleen — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:42:15 +0000

Hi Kermit, this is but one tutorial in this particular nine part series. It's too bad you decided to get personal about it rather than sticking to the points at issue. This particular entry is generally recognized as the best tutorial on the web for this operation (which is not to say it couldn't be improved). I invite you to find a better one, in print or on video on the web or real life for ANY price (free or otherwise) and educate the rest of us but I doubt that will happen. See Unskilled and Unaware of it; How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (pdf). Having an opinion does not imply (that if one is unskilled or in a position to recognize competence), that the opinion is valid. And as far as your statement

it seems like little more than you trying to solidify your technique in your own head

Did you read any of this? I'll settle for your just having read the title. The title is "Reverse engineering ..." So yes, oops, you caught me. You are absolutely right, I am pulling step by step from the example because it is not solidified in my head. The purpose of this entire tutorial series is to teach people how to teach themselves (and to not need me) by doing what I did step by step via reverse engineering -which again, is not just in the title of this tutorial series but in the first two words of the title. If there were a way to make it any more blatantly obvious, I do not know it. If I were intellectually stingy or dishonest and worthy of your disrespect and personal attacks, I wouldn't teach people how to do this for themselves and instead, would force them to rely upon me for a set fee. To call me a terrible person for suggesting a donation from visitors for constructing an in depth ten part series requiring a great deal of effort and application on my part, is disingenuous because it presumes you think it's okay for you to realize a profit or gain from my generosity but I am not.

By: kermit@tamucc.edu

kermit@tamucc.edu — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:02:35 +0000

I’d donate, but its going to take more than this random thoughts thrown onto digital paper tutorial to make me do so. Formulate your ideas a bit better, put together a video explaining your steps, give more than one example. If your threatening to charge for your ’service’, you may want to think about making your service worth charging for. As for your current tutorial, it seems like little more than you trying to solidify your technique in your own head.

“Compensate me for my generosity.” ….. how generous of you. Terrible lady…

By: Lol B

Lol B — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:32:05 +0000

Kathleen ,

I found this tutorial very useful, as I do all of your tutorials.

I have purchased your book and your Dvd.

I sincerely hope you don’t have to start charging for these posts as I find your intellectual generosity a wonderful thing.

I understand your reasons though, this post must have been very time consuming.

Perhaps you could charge a nominal fee for this stuff and have it as a members only area.I would not object to that.

I am hoping that you will write another book one day on pattern making for production , you could count me as one of your first customers !