6/1/2023 0 Comments Slapdash sewostI think that all 4 women who graduated would have bought them. I shoulda made and sold "I survived" t-shirts for our Math commencement. And, perhaps, it will help you understand why I love Mathematics enough to major in it (even at a famously "user surly" university for undergraduate Math students). You don't have to understand it all, but you will have new respect for dressmaking. If I don't sew up the center back seam first, I can use Trena's much easier method or another method I learned from Threads. It does sound like gymnastics, doesn't it. Lastly, I sew the side dress and facing seams in one continuous seam. Next, I sew the last bit of the neck and armhole curves near the shoulder seam. Then I sew the shoulder seams on the dress and as much of the facing as I can handle. Unlike the example in Kathleen's tutorial, I sewed the facing and the dress at the neck and armholes only to about 1" below the shoulder seam. I do the zipper first, the way Kathleen showed in her centered zipper tutorial. She appears to insert the zipper after attaching the lining at the armhole and neck. Trena over at Slapdash Sewist explained her method of lining a dress today. It seems like there have been a flurry of blog mentions of dressmaking topology. ![]() If you like this article, may I suggest you buy his book, From Here to Infinity? I read it in grad school and remember it fondly. Sadly, Martin Gardiner's columns for SciAm were republished, but Ian Stewart's have not (to my knowledge). Click on the images to read the very amusing article, The Topological Dressmaker by Ian Stewart. This copy of Scientific American from July 1993 is crumbling, so I scanned it in at high-res. Send us feedback about these examples.Speaking of "sewing gymnastics", I dug out this article about the topology of sewing. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'slapdash.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 The creation of the first (elven) Witcher comes out of nowhere and seems slapdash and vague rather than some extensive, dangerous trial and error process that to this day is still absurdly risky. 2023 The whole thing is simultaneously campy and straight-facedly earnest, coming together with the goofy, heartfelt energy of a slapdash community theater production, albeit one put on by some of the most famous actors in the world. Jack Mccordick, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023 Trump tasked the group with producing a rejoinder to The New York Times’ 1619 Project during the final months of his term, and the commission released its slapdash attempt in January 2021. Leah Greenblatt, Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2011 The honeymoon ends fast, alas, in her latest union, a slapdash action comedy too silly and frantic to really be fun. 2023 This does not mean that all of the criticisms in the Slate piece are invalid, but there was a slapdash throw-the-kitchen-sink feel to it all. ![]() Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2023 The sudden reversal was characteristic of the slapdash and chaotic manner in which Twitter is being run under its new owner, billionaire Elon Musk. 2022 Much of this slapdash street advertising isn’t for the big chain pharmacies, but for the smaller ones - the independent and mom-and-pop shops. Recent Examples on the Web Trump was lucky last August to find a judge who was willing to embrace his self-serving, slapdash theories of special presidential immunity.
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