I'm going to ask my expanded posse two things. First, how do you insert an image so that the text wraps around on side or the other? Second, how do you insert a small version of an image that links to a larger one? Are you people typing out manual HTML code and uploading multiple images, is it a Blogspot function I'm unaware of, or are you using a more sophisticated image host than Photobucket?
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Yesterday I achieved something which I didn't think was possible so early in my career. I constructed the ugliest W Class Cushion possible.
My god, what was I thinking? I found the black print at Rathdowne Remnants* for $10 a metre (and saw it today for $22) and thought I'd take a stab at making a 'nighttime' tram. I've done another one where I cut the print at a different spot and it looks alright, with more gold than black. But this is just awful. Take a closer look at the fabrics I chose with both my eyes open:
The green damask print was my starting point. I picked it up at Spotlight for $15 a metre. The print is frustratingly crooked but I worked around it. I couldn't find a yellow damask print to suit so chose the gold-flecked Robert Kaufmann print, which I also like. But the cream and tan roof with the black and gold windows is simply awful. Bad Jennie!
Of course I've searched my local fabric shops from top to bottom looking for suitable prints, so knew it wasn't worth going back. This morning I hit the Yellow Pages and found Patchwork House in Hawthorn. It's a lovely country-style shop packed to the rafters with fabrics. I would guess the range has been selected to appeal for the more mature quilter, and they've got a lot of 1930s reproduction prints. Happily I found exactly what I need to fix my ugly tram.
This cream and white damask print is just what I had in mind, and is similar to the cream and white I used in my paisley trams. I think this is the safest colourway to rely on. The roof I'm undecided if I'm going to change - the tan and cream isn't so bad with the light windows, but I'll definitely have to use the darker, simpler print for the tram with the non-ugly dark windows.
* I laughed aloud when I watched Project Runway Australia and they referred to the shop as 'Rathdowne Fabrics'. But I do love them.
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After my three unsuccessful phonecalls to NAB regarding my wrongly charged overdrawn fee I followed Choice's advice and sent a copy of their free unfair bank penalty fees letter. I posted it on Monday and it would have reached them on Tuesday. I checked my bank balance before going shopping today and the fee had been reversed. I expect that as soon as they read the first paragraph of a Choice form letter they simply chuck it in the pile marked 'Refund' and think no more about it.
I heartily encourage you to follow Choice's advice and use their form letter. They even have a list of the person at each financial institution to address your letter to, so there's no chance of your bank claiming they didn't receive it. Now I'm headed back to the Choice website to tell them of my success.
1 comments:
I think it's great when crafters show their mishaps as well as their successes. Not that I'd call this a mishap! I actually quite like it, although yeah, probably a less-gold-more-black print would be better but man there are not a lot of nice black prints out there. I've looked.
I know with Flickr (www.flickr.com) you can upload your image as a giant size, and in your Flickr portfolio it will be displayed shrunk down to about 500px wide by default. But above your photo it will say "all sizes" and it has small, medium, large, original (or something similar) so people can go look at it jumbo sized if they really want.
As for wrap-around text, your guess is as good as mine.
~Holly
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