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Jeep Wrangler Rock Krawler 3.5" X Factor Mid Arm System w/o Shocks (2007-2017 JK) Review & Install - Duration: 11:43.
I'm Ryan from extremeterrain.com and this is my review and installation of the Rock
Krawler Max Travel Lift Kit System, fitting your two door, 2007 and up, JK.
Today we're gonna talk through the installation of this lift kit, which is going to be getting
two out of three wrench install and a strong two out of three wrenches at that.
There are quite a few different components to install with this lift kit.
You can certainly do this in your driveway in probably around four hours.
But if you're not comfortable ripping your entire suspension apart, then it would be
a good idea to take this to a shop and have it installed.
However, we'll talk more about the installation in a minute.
We're also gonna talk through the construction and a few of the features of this kit.
This lift kit is for those of you looking to add three and a half inches of lift to
your JK, to be able to run a 35 or even a 37-inch tire, especially with flat fenders,
and are looking for a kit that is very well built, that is very complete, and you have
the budget for it.
This kit is gonna be around $2,100 without shocks and you are going to need new shocks
for a three and a half inch lift.
But, this kit is also going to give you excellent ride and handling characteristics on the road,
as well as a ton of articulation and a ton of performance off-road.
This is also going to be built from components that are going to hold up incredibly well
with on-road and off-road.
So, if you have the budget for it, if you're looking for a very complete kit and you want
that performance, I think this is going to be a great kit to take a look at.
However, if you're on the flip side of that coin, you just wanna run a 35-inch tire, you're
staying on the road, doing some real mild off-roading and you don't need or want the
performance that this kit offers, there are going to be some less expensive kits that
I would steer you toward.
But if you want, what in my opinion is one of the most complete and one of the best-built
kits available, I think that you're looking in the right place.
So again, this is the X-Factor system from Rock Krawler, which is their most complete
kit.
This is going to include all eight control arms, it's going to include both front and
rear track bars as well as the rest of the components you need to lift your jeep.
If you're looking for a kit that includes a few less components, but is still very high-quality
components and is still very functional on and off-road, you can look at the Max Travel
Kit.
That kit can always be upgraded to this kit by adding those additional components.
But if you want something that right out of the box has everything you could want to add
into your suspension, other than full axle assemblies, this is going to be an excellent
option to look at.
Now, right over here you start with your springs.
Again, these are going to provide three and a half inches of lift and this is going to
be a progressive rate spring.
And what that allows is for a very tall, uncompressed length which is going to ensure that all the
way through this suspension travel and all the way through your articulation, you're
still going to have some spring left.
You're not gonna run out of spring, you're still gonna have weight pushing on the spring,
which is pushing on the tire and giving you traction.
If you have a shorter spring as you articulate, there's no more weight pushing on that axle
and therefore, no more traction coming from that tire.
So these springs are very tall and compressed length and they're going to give you a ton
of off-road performance, as well as a comfortable on-road handling.
These springs aren't going to be a piece of your handling, it's mostly your shocks, but
again, because you are getting a progressive rate, you're going to get a bit of a softer
spring rate when you're on the road, which is going to give a nice comfortable ride.
Now, moving over to the control arms.
As I mentioned, this kit includes all eight control arms, all replacements, these are
all going to be adjustable control arms that you can dial in your pinion and your castor
in the front and your pinion angle in the rear.
And these are also going to be spherical joints on your control arms, which means that you're
not going to have that rubber bushing that can bind as you're trying to articulate off-road,
these are going to give you a ton of articulation.
These spherical joints are all rebuildable, they're all greaseable, and these are very
strong heavy duty control arms.
So as you're dragging them over the rocks, as you're dropping off of ledges, these are
going to hold up to any abuse that you can throw at them.
Now, getting back to the pinion and the castor angle, you don't need all eight control arms
in order to adjust your pinion and your castor angle.
And the Max Travel Kit has sort of the bare bones that you would want in order to adjust
those angles.
You're gonna want to get your pinion angle in front and rear back to a factory-like spec
so that you don't have any dry line vibrations or prematurely wear out your driveline components.
And you're gonna want to get the castor angle up front set properly, so you don't have that
flighty feel when you're driving down the highway so that your steering wheel wants
to recenter.
Having all eight control arms is, of course, beneficial, though, because as I mentioned
before, you're getting spherical joints on all of these control arms.
You're going to get the maximum amount of articulation and suspension travel with having
these control arms installed.
Moving on to what we have back here, which are going to be both your front and your rear
track bars.
Now, the Max Travel Kit just includes your rear.
With this X-Factor, you're also getting a very beefy front track bar that is of course,
adjustable.
These also have spherical joints on both ends so they're not going to bind up or limit your
suspension, travel, or articulation.
And outback, you're also going to get a very beefy track bar bracket.
This bracket is going to move the mounting location to more of a factory mounting location,
it's going to flatten out your track bar angle a little bit, help with your roll center.
It's going to give you back some of that factory handling characteristic that you would otherwise
lose by adding a big lift onto your jeep.
And this track bar bracket mounts in quite a few different locations.
It's going to mount to the factory track bar location.
It's going to u-bolt around the axle and it mounts in one other spot, so you're not going
to have any sway in the back of the jeep.
Sometimes when you raise the track bar mounting location, if the bracket's not really solid,
it can actually move a little bit and you can feel that going down the road.
This is a very well built, very solid track bar bracket.
You're not going to have that sway from this system.
And again, having the adjustable track bars in front and rear, ensures that you're going
to get your axles perfectly centered in both the front and the rear of the jeep.
Over here, you have an adjustable front sway bar end link, which is also a quick disconnect.
So you have all these spherical joints, and all these control arms, and all these track
bars, everything is going to be able to move really nice off-road.
But if you have your sway bars connected, that's going to be your limiting factor.
So, this is going to be an adjustable end link that will allow you to get your sway
bar angles proper, and you can also very easily disconnect them when you go off-road, taking
advantage of all of the articulation and travel that you get from the rest of these components.
This also comes with this nylon strap that you'll mount to the jeep, so when you have
that sway bar end link disconnected, you can swing it up out of the way, strap it so it's
not gonna fall down and bind or get bent in the suspension as you're off-roading.
This kit, the X-Factor, also comes with an adjustable rear sway bar end link, not quick
disconnect because you wouldn't want it to do that when you're off-road.
You can get a really unstable feel in your JK.
So you're gonna want to leave the rear's connected, which is why these aren't quick disconnect.
But again, they are adjustable so you can get that sway bar angle dialed in exactly
where you want it so that it doesn't become an issue when you are off-road.
Finally, this kit is going to include all four soft brake lines.
Now, there are kits on the market that will just include a bracket to move where the hard
line is mounted on the frame, so you can get away with using the factory soft lines.
I don't like that, especially on the front of the jeep, because in order to use those
brackets, you often have to straighten out the factory bends in the factory hard lines,
which I'd just rather not do.
So having a new set of lines like this, is something I really like.
I feel like it's the right way to modify your brake system so that it works with your new
taller suspension.
Now, it does add a little bit to the cost of the lift kit and it also adds a little
bit to the install because now you're breaking open the hydraulic system, you have to then
bleed out the brake system to make sure that everything is going to work properly again.
But, as I said, I think that that's the right way to do it, so I like that these are included
in this kit.
As I said, this kit includes a lot of components, pretty much everything that you would want
to add to your suspension if you're going with a standard control arm length suspension
setup.
And not only does it include a ton of components, they're all very, very high-quality components.
These are gonna last, they're gonna handle abuse on-road and off-road, they're gonna
give you a great ride and performance both on-road and off-road, and it's just a very
nice, very well put together kit.
As I said before, the install for this kit is going to be a two out of three wrenches.
You're gonna wanna give yourself around four hours to get it bolted up.
If you're not somebody who's comfortable with suspensions, with lift kits, you've never
done one before, you can still do this in your driveway, but just know it's probably
gonna take you a few additional hours.
You are gonna have to take every tool you have out of your toolbox to get this done.
It is fairly involved and there's no shame if you're not comfortable with doing this
and taking your jeep to a shop and having them install your lift kit for you.
Now the first step in the install is, of course, jacking up the jeep, support it by the frame
so you can lower or disconnect everything that keeps the axles from completely sagging
down.
That's going to be your track bars, your sway bar end links, your brake line brackets, and
of course, your shocks.
Once all of those components are removed or loosened, you can sag the axles down, pull
the coils out, reinstall your new, taller coils.
Now, before you put weight back on the axles, that's the time that you're going to wanna
install all of your control arms.
First, your going to wanna adjust those for length based on the parameters that Rock Krawler
gives you, then remove your factory control arms one or two at a time, and go ahead and
put your new control arms in place.
At the same time, while there's no load on the axle, that's when you'll swap out your
track bars and of course, install your track arm bracket.
And then, once there is a load on the suspension again, you'll go ahead and install your sway
bar end links.
At that point, you can also install your new brake lines and go through all of your proper
brake bleeding procedures.
So, you really are going to be touching about every piece of your suspension component by
installing this kit.
So you are going to need every tool at your disposal and quite a few hours, four or more,
to get this installed.
This lift kit comes in at right around $2,100 without shocks and you are going to have to
add shocks because this is a three and a half inch lift kit.
So, this is one of the more expensive kits that we offer.
It's also, as I've said over and over again, one of the most complete kits and it is built
with very high-quality components.
So I feel like I might be over-selling this, but at the same time, I don't think I am.
This is a very well-built kit that's very complete.
If you have the budget for it and you want a kit that's gonna perform on-road and off-road,
I would definitely recommend considering this lift kit.
So if you're looking to add a lift onto your JK to run a larger tire, but you also want
a kit that's going to perform very, very well on-road and off-road, and that's made up of
components that are very well-built and are gonna take some abuse, this is going to be
a really nice kit to take a look at, although you are going to have to have the budget for
it.
So, that's my review of the Rock Krawler X-Factor Lift Kit System, fitting all 2007 and up JKs,
that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.
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Shocking Bible Code Matrix Contains The Exact Day And Year That David Rockefeller Would Die - Duration: 7:37.
Shocking Bible Code Matrix Contains The Exact Day And Year That David Rockefeller Would
Die
Did someone know in advance that David Rockefeller would die on March 20th, 2017?
What I am about to share with you is absolutely astounding.
Bible code researcher Kara Pickering has found an incredible Bible code matrix that contains
the phrase �Rockefeller dies� along with the terms �Chase�, �Manhattan�, �2017�
and the specific date on the Hebrew calendar (Adar 22) when he actually died.
Of course David Rockefeller served as the CEO of Chase Manhattan for over a decade,
and he was widely considered to be one of the strongest proponents of a �New World
Order�.
When my wife and I first received this Bible code matrix from Kara Pickering we were completely
floored, and she has given us permission to share it with all of you.
As you can see, the specific details that it contains about Rockefeller are quite stunning
These are just some of the key terms that Kara Pickering was able to discover in this
amazing matrix�
-�Rockefeller dies�
-�David� appears five times
-�Chase�
-�Manhattan�
-�2017� appears five times
-�Adar� appears twice
-�22nd� appears three times (Adar 22nd is March 20th on our calendar)
-�At 101� (the age Rockefeller was when he died)
You can view the original Bible code matrix created by Kara Pickering right here.
In the chart above, you can see that �hell� shows up five times, but she told us that
it is actually in there quite a few more times.
Is it just some sort of extremely bizarre coincidence that all of these phrases can
be found in a single matrix?
Of course other researchers have been making extraordinary Bible code discoveries for many
years.
It truly does appear that information about our future was encoded within the pages of
Scripture thousands of years ago, and this is something that skeptics have a very hard
time dealing with.
If you are not familiar with the Bible code phenomenon, the following is a pretty good
summary from Wikipedia�
The Bible code (Hebrew: ????? ???�????, hatzofen hatanachi), also known as the Torah code,
is a purported set of secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah.
This hidden code has been described as a method by which specific letters from the text can
be selected to reveal an otherwise obscured message.
Although Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has
been popularized in modern times by Michael Drosnin�s book The Bible Code and the movie
The Omega Code.
Many examples have been documented in the past.
One cited example is that by taking every 50th letter of the Book of Genesis starting
with the first taw, the Hebrew word �torah� is spelled out.
The same happens in the Book of Exodus.
Modern computers have been used to search for similar patterns and more complex variants,
as well as quantifying its statistical likelihood.
God knew who David Rockefeller would become before he was born, and God also knew the
day he would die.
Big corporate news outlets such as the New York Times are greatly praising Rockefeller
for his �contributions� to American society, but others remember him as a master manipulator
that was always trying to influence the direction of U.S. politics from behind the scenes.
The following comes from an excellent piece by Whitney Webb�
No one person encapsulates the enduring legacy of the �robber barons� of the Industrial
Age quite like David Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, who died yesterday at the age of 101, was the last surviving grandson of
John D. Rockefeller, the oil tycoon who became America�s first billionaire and the patriarch
of what would become one of the most powerful and wealthiest families in American history.
David Rockefeller, an undeniable product of American nobility, lived his entire life in
the echelons of U.S. society, becoming symbolic of the elite who often direct public policy
to a much greater extent than many realize, albeit often from the shadows.
Rockefeller made it clear that he preferred to operate out of public view despite his
great influence in American � and international � politics.
Due to his birthright, Rockefeller served as an advisor to every president since Eisenhower,
but when offered powerful positions such as Federal Reserve chairman and Secretary of
the Treasury � he declined, preferring �a private role.�
In particular, Rockefeller is often criticized for his role in trying to integrate the United
States into a �New World Order�.
In his autobiography, Rockefeller stated that he was quite proud of what he had accomplished
in this regard�
�Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against
the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as �internationalists�
and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political
and economic structure�one world, if you will.
If that�s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.�
Another thing that Rockefeller is often criticized for was his involvement with the Bilderberg
Group.
At the 1991 meeting, he reportedly made the following infamous statement�
�We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other
great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of
discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject
to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable
to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.�
For Rockefeller, death caught up with him before he ever got to see the fulfillment
of his New World Order dream.
No matter how much money one might have, the truth is that all of our mortal bodies wear
out eventually.
Instead of focusing on temporal matters and the things of this world, perhaps Rockefeller
should have spent more time focusing on the things that are eternal.
There is a God, and He is speaking to us in a multitude of ways.
My hope is that this Rockefeller Bible code matrix that Kara Pickering has discovered
will wake many people up and will cause them to starting thinking about the things that
really matter.
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Moonlight | Who Is You? - Duration: 7:18.
With Moonlight, Barry Jenkins tells a story of a lifetime with three, clear, succinct
acts all documenting the tender nature of Chiron.
The clever direction of the story allows the audience to piece together the external events
that shape him into a man. It's not a three-hour gangster epic or a harsh
look into the socio-economic problems of Miami, it's a narrative that focuses on the dichotomy
of nature versus nurture; a look inside an individual
whose repressed feelings torment his way of life.
Even though the film is set in a world of drug dealers and people in poverty, Jenkins
rarely exploits these conditions to engage you emotionally.
The script's beauty comes in its minimalism. It's a a study into one's place in a world
full of hostile beings. Whether its Little in the first act, Chiron
in the second act or Black in the third, Jenkins cast the trio just from the look in their
eyes. They reveal their fragility with just a stare.
Each actor brilliantly displays a fragmented identity to the so called "strangers" in their
surroundings. This builds Chiron with the complexities we
experience during different periods of our life. Chiron's identity mixes with other people,
it shapes him to a person that conforms to societal norms.
The need to put on a suit of muscle and gold really shows the influences that leave him
isolated and unfulfilled. Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton
decided on filming each section with a different type of film stock, to reinforce the state
of mind Chiron is in. The second act is shot on Afga film stock,
which is known for adding cyan highlights with a hint of green.
With Jenkins placing some emphasis on colour symbolism, the colour blue symbolises Chiron's
true self. It's the parts where he recognizes that his
homosexuality is part of who he is. The beach scene where Chiron and Kevin embrace marks
his first physical acknowledgment of his homosexuality,
under the warm blueish hue of the moonlight. Perhaps the blue flashes during the transition
from Little to Chiron reflect how close he gets to becoming his true self.
The colour red is most noteworthy around Chiron's mother. Being the controlling figure in his
life, she emanates love and hostility at the same time.
The red flashes we see during the transition to Black represents how he represses his sexuality
and becomes a hardened drug dealer, essentially moving away from his "true-self" in the blue
light and towards a new facade in the red. Environment
nurtured him to be this bully, to be this so called "hardened, masculine brute" that
everyone expects. It's important to mention that blue and red
are usually seen as the antithesis of one another, with one defining his pure nature
while the other exudes his falsehood. Showcasing the inherent vulnerability while
building the sexual tension between each other in the 3rd act allows Chiron to reach catharsis
in the end. The camera movement in each act conveys the
mind state of Chiron. In the first act, the camera is unsure, scared and unsteady when
following Little, perfectly illustrating his feeble persona.
The camera is usually tight and intimate, to bring us into his world. The camera does
settle momentarily when he is with Juan, a caring father figure, which conveys a sense
of understanding that he doesn't attain from
his mother. The camera during the swimming scene is purposefully placed on the water's
surface to make us feel the struggle of Chiron keeping himself afloat, literally
in the ocean and metaphorically in society. In the second act, the camera has calmed somewhat,
there is a bit of structure in his life after all these years with Juan. The camera
glides gracefully as he walks with a bit of freedom and openness a teenager needs to have.
Finally, in the third act, the camera is grounded and locked in. Black is in control here, and
the remainder of the film is shot in more traditional and fixed movements.
It's also the subtleties in the framing that help contextualize Chiron's place in the world.
The way this film handles the vast expanses of time is done with excellency, as we, the
audience, are made to use our critical thinking to piece together what's happened to him and
his environment. We take aspects from Chiron's life and build
this character to someone we can all relate to. Jenkin's, in my eyes, doesn't give a straight
forward answer to the underlying theme of identity.
Chiron goes through a process of trying to find his inner self, while destroying his
natural persona. The final scene juxtaposes the warm cuddle
between Black and Kevin with little Chiron alone on the beach, awash with strong blues,
showing that who Chiron exactly is lies somewhere in between, and ends without a resolution.
It touches on the impossibility of grasping a concrete idea of identity, and the fact
that a harmless soul like Chiron happens to have been born in this environment.
A great drama doesn't need the firing of a loaded gun. Instead, it can bathe us in awe
and beauty with minimalist images that illustrate a bevy of emotions.
It can be the locked gaze of two men at a cafe table, or a child juts brimming with
curiosity. We can see the clear love, passion and effort Jenkin's imbued in writing these
characters, alongside lush cinematography, a thought provoking script
and performances that pull us deep below that surface with their soulful naturalism.
Moonlight was a film that was timely, but also, timeless.
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His History Revealed: A Dr. Robotnik Biography - Duration: 32:39.
Well, if it isn't Eggman!
Yup. That's me.
You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
His History Revealed: A Dr. Robotnik Biography
Growing Up
It all started back when I was born…
My mother, Ruth Franklin,
was around the Bikini Atoll in 1946, and the nuclear fallout made her infertile.
My father, Harold Robotnik, didn't want her to keep trying to conceive, but she was insistent.
Eventually she did manage to bear a child.
She...
she didn't actually get to see me;
she died during the birthing process.
My father was distant from me.
He didn't want to raise a child because he wanted to focus on science.
I think he also blamed me for killing her,
and that never really left how he talked to me.
The Vanity's Fair
It wasn't until later that I tried to get closer to him by learning science and trying to be of use to him.
In the second grade, I got into the Science Fair to impress my father.
He hated my idea of animal-powered electricity and expressed doubts of it fully functioning a motor.
However, the judges loved the use of my own pet hamster to power a simple motor
and commended my advanced understanding of electronics.
It was then when my father finally started to notice my potential.
He rewarded me with a trip to the local carnival.
The local carnival was, for its time, truly remarkable.
The hard-sheet-music organ,
the basic roller coaster,
the teacup ride;
it was the most fun I have ever had in my life.
It ingrained in me a splendor and desire to create my own amusement park,
and it's been my dream ever since.
I never wanted to leave
and when I finally had to, I begged my father for us to return.
He promised me that we would go back…
(sigh)
We never got that chance.
I immediately dove into designing machines that were based on moving parts,
safe contraptions for excitement, and even early animatronics.
My father saw my sketches and thought it was a waste of my true potential.
He discouraged me from continuing it.
I didn't want to lose the ground I made with my father, so I stored the sketches away on the shelf.
The Myth, The Legend
During the summer after the Science Fair, my father took me to see my grandfather, Gerald Robotnik.
He was currently working in New Mexico for the government.
We had to sign some Non-Disclosure Agreements, but we were allowed into the facilities.
It is an understatement to say that Gerald was a genius.
He was excited to show me his glories,
such as limb renewal based on amphibian processes,
unearthing an ancient robot,
and his blueprints of his recently-launched Space Colony ARK.
His thesis on the lost Fourth Great Civilization was way beyond my comprehension
but it is a wonderful piece of historical non-fiction.
I was amazed and filled with renewed vigor for mechanical engineering
that could benefit all of humanity just like my grandfather.
Gerald recounted to me his encounter many years ago with otherworldly beings.
He witnessed a large, metallic ship crash-landing near the base.
The being was able to communicate with the scientists and military, and they began a mutualistic relationship.
The alien shared some information with the government,
and they, in turn, did all they could to keep it alive in our harsh environment.
It perished shortly afterward but not before it confided in Gerald the location of another being;
the alien believed they would gain much from each other.
The government blacked out all files pertaining to this incident and almost let it slip into the public's grasp.
Gerald managed to contact the other being, and he teamed up with it on a secret project involving the alien's technology with Gerald's advancements in medical engineering.
They utilized seven unique gemstones as a power source,
which, at the time, sounded like complete fiction to me.
I was very young at the time, and I didn't realize what was going on until I was older.
We left New Mexico, and I immediately started brainstorming ideas
using my grandfather's works as inspiration.
My father was back to approving of the direction I would go as I returned to school.
The Great Divide
I got to see my grandfather that winter when he invited himself and my cousin, Maria, over for Christmas.
He gifted me a pure, white puppy with whom I immediately fell in love.
Its fur was gentle and smooth, and I called him "Eggy."
I played with Eggy long into the evening,
and I nearly missed the conversation my grandfather was having with my father.
Gerald told us how Maria had contracted a serious condition that put her health in jeopardy
...which I would later understand is why he brought her to see us.
He told my dad of the team that would be on the ARK and how he'd be going up there with Maria to work on a cure.
Harold ridiculed him and chastised my grandfather's beliefs in those seven gemstones
calling them "homeopathic garbage rocks" and spitting on geology.
Harold went on a long spiel about how technology couldn't save anyone.
I'll never forget he said,
"Technology couldn't save my wife; what makes you think it can save your granddaughter?"
The argument got very heated,
and it ended with my grandfather standing up, saying his last goodbyes to me and Eggy,
and leaving with Maria. I was sure I'd never see them again.
I didn't understand the deep background behind the argument, but I felt my dad had offended Gerald for no reason.
I yelled at him for making him send grandfather away, and he went into a rage.
He screamed about how geology is a useless science and how it will never contribute anything to forwarding progress.
He threw several fragile items at the walls during the tirade,
and warned me to never pursue a stupid legend about some colored rocks.
I hid in my room for the rest of the week.
The Firefly's Light
In order to keep a decent relationship with my father,
I kept making several trinkets and doodads to keep his favor.
I withheld myself from my true passions just to be close to him.
I would later understand just how insecure he was…
It wasn't long until my dad became more reclusive and distant.
I tried to show him my latest creations, but he didn't have any time for it
and spent his evenings locked in the garage.
I longed for his sealed-away attention.
I didn't know how much I would regret it until he came back to me.
I came back from school to be greeted by his long-gone, warm greeting to me.
I could immediately tell he was back, and I rushed to his arms.
He had a spark in his eye
which I hadn't seen in my memory.
He whispered, "Hey, let's go to the carnival."
My eyes opened like window blinds on a bright, spring morning.
I hurriedly got in the car, and we took off to the highway to reach the land of my dreams.
He had a wide smile on his face the entire way
and I didn't think to question it;
I was just happy to have him back.
My thoughts were occupied by the new rides I heard other kids talking about and which I would try first.
I still feel the giddiness of that exact moment.
My father hit the highway at a decent pace.
I don't remember going this fast before, but I enjoyed the thrill as if it was a roller coaster.
The adrenaline...
The adrenaline!
The flushing of my face!
the wind on my skin; it was all there.
That's when the car started to rapidly decelerate.
My father's lofty demeanor was replaced by a confused, shocked countenance.
He swore several times and frantically worked on troubleshooting the problem.
He pulled over to the side, and we came to a halt.
We both got out and he popped the hood.
He waved away the rising steam as he tried to inspect the malfunctioning engine.
He found the source of the problem, and, as he did, he told me to stay back.
My suspicions were too great to be held back,
and I watched as he opened a cylinder near the engine.
Inside the cylinder was a pool of crimson liquid with a floating, white patch of fluff.
(sigh)
I watched as my father inserted a gloved hand and lifted the lump by its scruff
revealing a limp head of a poor pup.
I instantly knew the face
and screamed in a blind frenzy.
I wailed and pummeled my dad's leg to no avail.
Tears burst from my squinted eyes as I learned how to mourn.
His hands shook as he held me back...
maybe from fear of the situation.
I cried for what felt like the whole evening until he managed to flag down a bus.
The ride home was blurred.
I can't remember what happened on the bus.
Anything he said to me to cheer me up was muffled and deafened by my horror.
I struggled to cope with why he did such a thing to my dearly-loved Eggy.
I'll never be able to pet that face again…
never be unconditionally greeted by such a warm smile…
never be loved again…
My heart tore and ripped itself asunder that day
and it steered itself against affections for things that are ultimately stolen from us.
When we got home, he felt he could finally explain himself.
He said he was inspired by my science fair project and wanted to tweak and amplify the power produced.
He worked on the prototype for a while and came up with a working model.
The power stemmed from the animal's blood, and it worked with a tested squirrel to start the car.
He was so certain it would work with anything and keep it going.
What went wrong was the demand for blood as the machine requires more power.
the circulation must have been too fast for the arteries and veins to handle
and they probably burst inside of him.
As I imagined Eggy dying from blood flooding his insides, he added
"You were what inspired me, Ivo
and the intentions were noble.
So it's really on you for such a flawed concept."
I shook in righteous indignation at such a fool.
His words were evasive as he tried to hide from failure.
This pathetic excuse for a person hurt my eyes to look at
so I said nothing and locked myself in my room.
The Way to Fall
Harold's love was not worth my effort.
I abandoned science and just got by with my education.
My education was miserable
and I found no joy in any pursuit.
Arts were without emotion...
the core curriculum was a joke...
and I didn't care for anything.
Harold turned to the bottle and never let the sauce run dry.
It was toward the end of high school that he began to show signs of true illness.
I imagine it was his liver finally catching up with him...
I believe the mortician identified the cirrhosis.
The last conversation I had with the waste was the fall of 1970
It had me at my usual, expressionless face
and him yelling at me about how it was my fault my mother died.
I watched as he collapsed from exhaustion and as the light left his eyes.
His breathing was shallow.
And I saw the last beat of his heart as he came to a new stillness.
His yellowed eyeballs grew cloudier,
and I imagined his insides leaking inside of him.
I felt a sense of calm as justice was finally administered to Harold.
I sat down on the floor and stared up into the night sky for an hour before I called for an ambulance.
I remember sleeping well that night and waking up refreshed.
I still had to finish high school, so I forged checks in Harold's name and withdrew from his account.
I managed to keep the rent and food for a while, but the money wasn't a huge surplus.
the constant boozing he did drained the account quite a bit.
I wasn't able make rent for a couple months...
even considering the circumstances, the loan officers repossessed the property.
I managed to take my things with me, but I was ultimately homeless.
I tried to go to school for a while, but I got arrested for loitering and trespassing several times.
I wasn't able to graduate.
The Road (I)
I bounced around from place to place, living off peoples' goodwill.
I ate disgusting, cheap items just to survive.
I never had enough to afford getting a decent change of clothes or making a job application for myself.
I was just about at the end of my rope 6 months into it.
Fortune somehow managed to reach out to me with a Bohemian hand.
A group of traveling hippies took me into their fold and cared for me.
There was warm food, warm blankets, and warm bodies that loved each other for no other reason but to love.
This roaming, ever-growing group took out some of the screws steeling my heart.
I was distant at first since I couldn't really be sure if I could trust them or trust being close to them.
The first to get me to open up named herself Clover Field.
She was a bit older than me, and she looked like she had early-onset Parkinson's.
She was still caring and held me close when I would shiver at night.
I grew truly fond of her, and I simply loved her.
She got me to tell her my past and all the pain attached to it.
There was no judgment; only a warm, tight embrace at the end.
I felt so liberated, so free, and I wanted to start anew.
She encouraged me to re-invent myself.
I took on the title of "The Walrus", and I felt a vigor surge through me.
It was the summer of 1971 when I lost my virginity to Clover in the back of the group's Volkswagen Transporter.
1971's autumn was a bit more hectic.
After a long summer of frolicking, concerts, and parties, we went to the post office to get our bi-monthly mail visit.
There was nothing for me,
but Timmy Aquarius shook as he read his single letter.
He had been drafted.
We told him we'd just ignore it and hike up to Canada
but he freaked about being jailed and getting thrown into the Vietnamese jungles.
The whole group felt the unease, and I felt at a loss as to how to help him.
Something compelled me to stand up, take his letter, and tell him I was going instead.
The whole group didn't understand
and I explained that since we were fairly similar in appearance that I'd manage to pass as him.
I took his ID against the group's cries for me to stop.
I was hardened and resolved in this altruistic deed.
I thanked the group one last time as I headed off to the nearest bus stop.
I dared not look back as I left their ranks and joined the Man.
The Road (II)
I had no idea what I was doing.
I'd never fought anyone.
I'd never shot a gun.
My actions were so illogical, but they somehow felt right.
Just as I thought, I passed the impersonation of Timmy, and I was soon headed to Basic Training.
The drill period was brief because they were desperate for bodies on the frontlines.
Overall, basic training wasn't bad.
I didn't mind the shaved head; my hippie hair was kind of oily.
However, I did find the concept of unarmored infantry somewhat backwards
but I was a dog for the government.
The harsh jungles of Vietnam were a madhouse.
Our platoons ran for our lives, living in constant fear of ambushes and night-battles.
We managed to liberate a village, but they somehow convinced the natives to sell us out to them.
The Charlies set fire to the houses while we were inside them, and we scrambled to regroup and survive.
I got pinned down behind one of the flaming houses
and I was forced to use the charred, still-aflame body of a dead comrade as a distraction.
I grabbed his searing body with my hands and tossed him to my left as I dashed off to the right.
They insulted him more by riddling his body with rounds.
Only me and 2 others lived through that night.
We hiked through the jungles until we met with an arriving platoon that brought us in with them.
I didn't want to go back, but I didn't really have a choice.
The blood was pounding in my ears, and I wasn't going to not go back alive.
I only slept 7 hours in my new 14-day campaign.
My night-watches were always alert and kept our entire group alive.
I could no longer tell people in need of liberation from foe.
I often kept a knife pinned to the throat of each person we'd keep.
My suspicions were right 80% of the time, and I confirmed my bias as I found each in talks with the enemy and popped both of them.
We didn't shower or bathe for the entire campaign
and I came back caked in blood and burns.
The government didn't know how to handle people coming back from war.
Their advice was to "shake it off and gradually come back, so here's some money and go away."
There is no gradual course when you've been scarred for life.
I couldn't hold the handles on my luggage without causing my hands to writhe in pain.
I eventually bought some gloves as a barrier from the wounds, and they worked until the nerves died.
I bought a motorcycle and I tried to reach out to the hippie group I came from
but they never responded to my letters and they never were at their usual locations.
I gave up and lived in an apartment on a V-F-W stipend.
One day when I went to get groceries, I saw a burst of flame come from the deli section.
I dashed in, grabbed the worker,
and threw them down to the ground with me as I tried to hide us from the incoming flash point.
The worker freaked and hit me to release them.
I didn't realize they were just setting up the barbecue...
The Journey Back
I spent my days sitting in my living room in fear.
I was struggling to cope with the indignity of the whole ordeal.
How can you just send frail organisms out to fight each other?
Has humanity really evolved only to reduce themselves to low beasts?
It's not even for food.
It's because a bigger beast commanded you to hunt a rival pack.
Disgusting. All of it.
I prayed for a way to help the poor fools damned to go out and either not come back or return broken.
It wasn't fair…
Then it hit me.
Could you accomplish the same thing without loss of life?
What would be the way to protect that which we held most sacred?
The obvious solution is armor.
The Medieval period had even that basic knowledge.
Hell, there had to be a way to be able to guarantee a safe send-out and a safe return.
However, I was scared by the idea.
If I wanted to do anything to help anyone, I'd have to go back to that which I discarded long ago...
Science.
I wasn't entirely committed to the idea.
It wasn't until I was going through my mail and reading the paper that my drive kicked in.
In the fallout of the tragedy that was Vietnam, the government finally
decided to release several documents about blacklisted projects to the public to earn their favor again.
One of the projects caught my eye: one involving Space Colony ARK.
The actual briefing was mostly blacked, but the causality list wasn't…
Sorry.
Maria Robotnik was among those listed as dead.
She had died before any breakthrough could be made.
The Guardian Units of Nations, a global PMC, was held responsible.
What pieces of shit… I can only imagine what my grandfather felt about it…
The Arrival
It was three weeks after that when a knock came to my door.
Two suited men asked if I was Ivo Robotnik.
I cautiously said I was, and, after they introduced themselves as government agents
they escorted me to their van.
I wasn't told where I was going, but they assured me it wasn't an arrest.
We arrived at a distant house with a large garage; I had no idea where I was.
They marched me inside and instructed me to unlock the mechanism to Gerald Robotnik's lab.
How should I know? I've never been here, and they want the projects?
It was then I asked why
and they told me Gerald requested these items for his further research at a different, far-removed location.
As I approached the door, I could see why they needed me.
T door felt reinforced and maybe six inches thick.
The door had a keyboard next to it, and it was obvious a password needed to be entered.
I searched my brain until it ached.
The password of a genius? It could be anything!
He had his hand in so many things that anything could be a solution.
I tried a couple of his project names and the name of the otherworldly beings he met, and none worked.
What could this man's root be?!
Then it hit all at once.
What was the thing driving him more than anything?
M-A-R-I-A.
"Maria."
The door dinged and slid open.
I couldn't believe it actually worked.
The agents quickly poured in and began loading their two vans with the lab's contents.
I had to caution them to be careful with the vats of liquid and the mechanical automata.
These were all his things that were off the grid.
I bet these guys didn't know what any of it did.
I saw each piece and knew its exact purpose, each memory flooding back into my brain.
I felt my face's expression crack a rusty smile.
I was then taken with them to care for these objects.
I was excited to see my grandfather's new lab.
What could be better than the Space Colony he designed?!
My anticipation was quite giddy.
Could it even be a utopia? Oh, what lofty dreams I imagined his new landscape to be.
The truth revealed itself to me, and I was instantly both surprised and afraid of what was ahead.
We were now on a boat headed for Prison Island.
What is something you cherish?
Can you hold it? Can you imagine it?
Cradle it in your arms in your mind's eye.
Let it feel your heartbeat.
Let it know you care for it.
Let it know you cherish it and would gladly sell the world for it.
Now actually be faced with that choice, and sell the world for it.
Now, after all that, it is stripped from you, and you are powerless against the force of it.
Watch it break to shreds in front of you.
Now face the knowledge of never getting that back.
Are you trembling? Has your worldview been shattered?
Can you blame someone who had this happen for anything?
This is the fate of my grandfather, Gerald Robotnik.
He came back to Earth and had a fair life working on more government projects.
It wasn't until he learned of Maria's fate that he snapped and was damned to this life on this secluded rock.
As we brought in the plethora of equipment and projects, he paid us no mind as he paced back and forth.
I tried to talk to him, but he never looked up nor stopped mumbling to himself.
This was not the same man I knew from my childhood.
This is not the same hero I aspired to be.
Did he fall from grace...?
Or had grace abandoned the Fallen?
My god did not last long on Prison Island.
He died not long after that visit.
I spent at least several years confronted with me now being truly alone with nothing to live for.
Family,
friends,
and the government had all been severed from my grasp.
My depression finally let loose the horrible black cloud it was holding back.
I didn't feel I had anywhere to escape to.
The Embers
For months on years did I eat nothing but garbage to appease my depression.
Nothing tasted good, nothing felt good, nothing was right.
I hated the sunlight filtering in through the blinds, but I couldn't motivate myself to close them more.
Futility was my answer to everything.
Working out? Futile.
Learning something? Futile.
Eating something other than trash? Futile.
Going outside? Why bring about your PTSD you idiot?!
Trying? Why bother…
This was my life.
Call it stars aligning, call it a spark of inspiration, call it whatever you want.
One day, I had enough.
I was tired of being tired.
I slapped myself hard enough to bring blood to my mouth.
Without so much as a word to myself,
I grabbed my notes and my grandfather's notes I secretly took from his lab.
And I started working.
I designed ridiculous things, things that didn't work, countless ideas.
My brain was everywhere at once
and eventually it focused in on my dream:
an amusement park.
The worst realization wasn't the scope or the design or the safety.
The worst realization was the capital required for such a venture.
I was desperate for quick solutions, and I knew lotteries wouldn't do it.
I went to the library and rented several books on economics and business.
That's when I knew I'd have to risk the stock market.
It's honestly fairly safe if you know what to look for in trends.
I took out a loan and took the surplus from each V-F-W check and invested it in stocks.
I traded like crazy.
I got tired of the caffeine driven, hectic days
so I wrote a program that could track trends, analyze data, and automatically invest in something that would profit.
It wasn't long until I'd amassed a small fortune to fund my ventures.
The Rekindling
I managed to acquire location after location.
Land wasn't hard, but construction was harder.
All the human hands I employed were slow and tired so easily.
It took large machines just to lift things they couldn't.
"Then why even bother using them?" I thought.
Well... there's not really a reason.
I could design people better than people!
A mechanical exoskeleton was easy to conceptualize, but power was still an issue...
especially trying to remove the human component.
A sudden fear burst into my chest.
Would I have to tread in the bloodied waters of Harold's work?
The fear shook me hard.
How could I even entertain the thought of his work?!
It disgusted me!
However, I did remember the image of his failed prototype.
Things were in place, but his energy module was faulty
and the returns were failures too.
He just couldn't get my idea…
MY idea...
That's right...!
It was MY idea from the start!
Animals could power machines at their own pace.
They'd be willing to do it, too
if the reward system were in place and plenty of sustenance were available.
Hmmm... it could work.
The revelation sparked me to the sketchboard again.
I designed machine after machine,
each with a special purpose and each with the same power source:
animals converting their kinetic energy through a wheel to a machine.
I optimized the energy flows and allowed them to run on virtually nothing.
And my land was quite near places of lush vegetation, so it all worked out.
As long as the animals felt your unconditional love, they'd do anything for you.
It took some work for me to get back to opening myself to furry critters
but, with practice and time, I started to stitch my heart back onto my sleeve.
My constructions and guard robots were put together through my sweat and blood.
My first test park wasn't bad at all,
and I even allowed slot machines to permit humans to give me more capital to invest and use.
I continued my efforts to help the animal population, particularly strays and the easily preyed upon.
The robot shells protected the animals from harm
but I refused the many government contracts for their deployment in war operations.
With all these wonderful accolades, what could cause such calamity as this?
My guess is a misunderstanding.
I don't know where this blue, anthropomorphic hedgehog came from
but I don't think it gets it.
It sees my robots powered by my friends and smashes them to utter pieces in the name of "Freedom Fighting"
...whatever that is.
It doesn't see the value, the virtue in it.
On a utilitarian level I felt I must stop it.
But… I can't...
I'm powerless against this… this foe?
Is that right word?
You know, the people you feel have the same drive but you are destined to be perpendicular from them?
I think this is that.
So, this is where I'm at.
What's left for me?
Well, maybe I'll dig some more into my grandfather's research and finish some of the things he couldn't.
Who knows: maybe I'll even go on a quest to find those seven, magical gemstones?
All I hope is that I don't fall into the same darkness my father, Harold Robotnik, did.
Maybe I should up the defense on the animals' protective, robotic exoskeletons?
This way the hedgehog entity that addresses me as "Eggman"
and keeps assaulting my machinery will think twice about interfering.
This is best for the environment, after all.
This is best for my dream of having my own amusement park to come to fruition.
The tentative title?
"Robotnikland."
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Fit, fashion, knits: those words describe this
Sewing with Nancy series.
Here to share her fitting techniques that flatter real
figures, and to show knit sewing techniques
is designer Pamela Leggett.
Welcome, Pamela, to Sewing With Nancy.
Hi, Nancy.
It's a pleasure to be here!
I'm real excited to share my knit tips for sewing
a perfect T-shirt.
We'll work with the flattering Tee style that gives the option
of several neckline shapes.
Most importantly, I'll share tips for fitting problems that
are shared by many shapes and sizes.
"Sew a perfect T-shirt."
That's what's coming up next on Sewing with Nancy.
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To make the perfect Tee, you need some great fabric.
We're going to start by showing you the good
and the bad of fabric.
You want to make sure that a knit
fabric is worthy of the time that you put into sewing it.
This fabric, when I stretch it does not go back
to its original shape.
This is definitely one I wouldn't use.
Fabrics that have a little bit of Spandex will pop back
to their original shape.
This is a Ponte knit which is very popular for T-shirts.
It's a heavier weight.
This one would be a lighter weight.
It's called and I-T-Y, and their usually
either a poly and Spandex or rayon and Spandex.
Now, I-T-Y is kind of the new term
for jersey knits or single knits.
As my son would say, "That would be so '90s!"
if we called it single knits.
So, I-T-Y, that's where you go.
Yes, and then also there's some beautiful sweater
knit selections in a variety of weights.
And they all have that tension so you're
going to stretch the crosswise grain.
You're going to have a pattern piece.
Pattern pieces are only three:
front, back, and sleeve.
Plus, we'll show you how to do a great binding technique
around the neckline.
Now, we have to first start with getting the right size.
Choosing too large a pattern is a very common mistake.
Yes, so, you take one measurement.
And instead of measuring the bust area, measure the high bust
under the shoulder blades up against the armhole
and above the bust.
This is going to measure your bone structure
and not the fluff.
Then, we will measure the full bust, which would be
around the fullest part here.
If there is more than a 3" difference, you can opt to use
a front pattern piece that already has the dart in it.
You can see here that this one has holes coming in from the
armhole which just says that this pattern
is asking for a dart.
It's begging for one!
We have two fronts that showcase
exactly what Pamela is talking about.
When you show the difference, I like this explanation
or this demonstration.
What happens when you have a dart added?
You actually are adding more width, but also more length
to go around and over the bust line.
When you have a new pattern that has been
made with a dart, you don't have so many options.
Right.
Or you don't have as many issues.
You want to show them what happens?
Yes, so this is another T-shirt that already has the bust
adjustment built in.
There we go!
You can see now that this right here now doesn't have that pleat
right here in the armhole because it's fitting better.
This dart is a little bit low, and we're going to show you how
to take care of that.
Sure. Very good!
We'll have a couple of fittings during this first go-around so
then you can use your pattern over and over again.
But you may also have some little tweakings to work with.
One of the common ones is the length or the depth
of the armhole.
Yes.
So, for that, you can draw two lines right above
the notch area.
This would be in the
front, the back, and the sleeve area.
You would be adjusting all three of them.
You would cut along the bottom line.
and move it to the top line.
And the reason, just explain this one more time, the reason
for shortening this depth.
Well, if you have an armhole that comes up close to your body
then you have a lot more range of motion.
Sure.
And it feels a lot more comfortable.
Otherwise, you're kind of... you can't--
Move your arms up and down.
Here we have all three pieces:
front, back, and sleeve.
And they have that tuck, taking out that length.
Because knits are a little forgiving, too.
You wouldn't do that same amount on wovens.
No, you wouldn't.
This is for the perfect Tee, right?
Yes.
As we look at the front and back,
through the armhole-area,
it doesn't line up exactly.
Yeah, so you have a little bit of a jog there.
You can use a nice curved ruler.
Line it up in the curve area, and then just move it over.
There we go.
I'm lining it up at the under-arm, at the shoulder
and then, cut that off.
Another two quick alterations would be to change the waist.
Now, I like this pattern shape.
because it has what Pamela calls "essence of waist."
So, it has a little shape in the middle.
rather than going straight up and down.
But, if you need width in that area, easy to change.
Yes, if you are fuller through the waist area,
you can just straighten it out
from hem to armhole and that will give you
almost an extra 4 inches through the waist area.
Do the same on the back piece.
Then this shows, if you would like just a little extra
in the the hip-line.
We've added about one inch on each side.
You'd add this to the front and back.
Pin it to your pattern.
And you'd have some easy modifications.
So, we've chosen fabric
the right-size pattern, plus a few easy pattern changes.
The next step is to mark your fabric and
also add stabilization.
Marking is pretty simple because
there are only very few areas to mark.
Yes, so, marking a dart if you're using the darted front,
would mean just clipping the dart legs right here.
Then, the point of the dart you could mark with
either a pin or some chalk.
Done on the wrong side of the fabric,
it's so simple, fast.
Now, next is stabilization.
Stabilizers, fusibles-- you don't think about that
when you're making a knit top, but there's a reason.
Yes, the fabrics today are much thinner than they used to be.
The fashion industry is trying to convince us that
this is fashionable, and that we all want these thin knits,
but it is very hard to work with the sewing.
Especially when you're putting a binding on
or a finish around the neckline.
You can get kind of a wavy effect,
so we're borrowing tips from "Ready To Wear"
and using stabilizers, a stay tape.
This is woven.
It's very light weight.
Fusible on one side.
This you use for the shoulders.
Yes.
Then, the knit fusible tape is used around the neckline
in both front and back.
Now, we have one cut for the shoulder.
Your just going to put a stabilization in the shoulder
of just one piece.
Either the back or the front.
Obviously, we have the front piece here.
So, you would just want to fuse this down
close to the edge because these are 1/4" seam allowances
for this pattern.
Then, the neck one will bend, so you can just take
the tip of your iron and bend this around.
Then, when you get it on most of the way, you'll be able
to take a press cloth, lay it over, and press it
so it will fuse all the way.
So, the first tip is to work with the tip of the iron
and then give it a firm press with a press cloth.
Here, you can see the shaping.
So, on the back piece, you would add the shaping
around the neckline.
Then, you're ready to do the sewing.
The actual sewing couldn't be easier
when working with a T-top.
We'll show you two options.
Serging, or using your sewing machine.
Pam, serging is really the fastest way.
Yes, and makes a beautiful seam on knits.
You want to first start with a high-quality
polyester cone thread, or you could use
a high-quality regular thread, as well.
I have the machine
set for a 1/4" stitch.
On this machine, the 'M' on the dial indicates a nice 1/4" seam.
The stitch length, I have at 3, which is a great go-to stitch
length for a 1/4" seam allowance.
On the side here, is a differential feed.
I'm going to start by just having it at normal
so that you can see what it would look like
just set in its default position.
Now, you're using four-thread overlock stitch
which is what we recommend.
Yes, most four-thread stitches now have
a great deal of stretch.
When I sew a 1/4" seam I actually want to trim
just a little bit off as I go.
[machine sewing]
Just to make sure that I've caught all of the fabric...
...and trimmed-off any whiskers.
What you'll see is a lot of times the knits will
stretch out of shape, causing elongated seams.
I really don't need any more scallops on my side,
so I want to get rid of that.
That would be done by increasing the
differential feed to a higher number.
As you increase to a higher number, what it does is it
speeds up the front feed dogs
so that the fabric will be feeding
faster into the back feed dogs.
It makes a dramatic difference.
So, we have to do a little testing
from a scrap of fabric.
On most sergers today, differential feed is standard.
Whereas, years ago, it was an option.
You can see how much smoother and flatter that seam is.
Now, pressing is next.
We like to look at pressing as if you would
happen to have the seam kind
of waver a little bit,
have some waviness to it, on the crosswise stretch
of the fabric, if you steam it, you will kind of have--
the fabric will retract, and you'll get rid of
some of that wavering, so...
make sure that you give it a nice steam.
You can pat the seam open, which we'll show
a little bit later in the series,
but steam and knits are friends.
If you have a traditional sewing machine,
we like a wobble stitch,
which we've used so often on Sewing with Nancy.
A 1-width and a 2.5 length.
and it gives built-in stretch.
It's just a great
stitch to use.
With a 1/4" seam, you'll see that I tend to
in working with knits, pin parallel to the seam
so that I can just sew right along.
This would be a long seam in this top.
Not the shoulder seams, but when I get this done,
you'll see that it goes pretty fast.
It has a lot of great stretch to it.
Now on your sewing machine, you may find a knit stitch.
I'd like to call this now a decorative stitch.
It's too much thread
in a seam.
This is kind of one of those you want to use for decoration
but for actual seaming on knits
the wobble stitch is your best choice.
Pamela and I just showed you a lot of serging and sewing
but you just do a little bit of serging or sewing
before you do the first fitting.
Yes, so the first fitting
you would serge the shoulder seams or sew them.
Just pin in the darts, and then you would try this on.
I'm going to try it on this
dress form that has been padded
to look more like a real woman's figure.
With all the fluffs and scallops.
So, you put this on.
Line up the shoulders.
Two things that we want to check here.
We want to see how the shoulder is lining up.
We want the seam to come right at the end of the shoulder bone.
So, if it extends more than 1/4", you would be trimming off
just that little amount there.
Then, the other thing that we want to do is to check
the placement of the dart and see if it is
pointing right to the apex.
And if it's not, we can move this in the fabric
for the first one and change the pattern for the second one.
Pamela's idea to make your master pattern,
doing these first and second fittings so that you have
the same change made on your pattern
as your going to do on your top, comes next.
Yes, so, you take your pattern,
line up the front and back right together.
It only has to match
from the shoulder down to about the notch-area.
You don't have to worry about the rest
of the pattern matching because it won't.
So, I have the front and back
pinned together at these points.
And then...
Pamela is going to fold the fabric
to look like the pattern.
Fold it in half, then fold it again.
Quartering it, and then lining it up.
This is pretty fascinating to me.
I've never thought of doing this in the process.
This is so that you can get the adjustment made
in the fabric and the pattern all at the same time,
and everything is super-accurate.
So, just like the pattern was lined up, I lined up just this
area of the shirt with the pattern underneath.
Because I'm going to move this, Pamela.
I'm doing a little pinning, so that you can see how
this is lined up along this edge.
Then you're going to use a straight edge.
You don't have to worry about anything that's down here.
Just from the notch up.
I like to use this ruler here, and I'm going to just say we're
taking 1/4" off of this shoulder line.
You keep it the same at the notch here, and move it
in the amount you need.
Then, I would just use a rotary cutter, and trim just that area
down to the notch.
You can see you've trimmed your fabric and your pattern
all at once.
At the same time-- great idea!
Now if you have to raise or lower the dart, you can change
the dart point and re-pin it.
But for future reference just kind of mark a box
around the dart-- and we were using this small size--so we'll
continue to cut this out, and then, if you'd like to
lower it by 1/2", you do so at this point.
Lower it, and then you'll have to pin it into place
and straighten out the side seams.
Your adjustments are recorded.
There are three common shapes for Tees, around the neckline.
There's the standard jewel,
as you see in this sweater knit Tee-Top,
as well as a scoop neck,
which I'm wearing and also that you see here with the red top.
Then, the third is a
V-neck, very attractive framing of the
face-type of neckline.
On your pattern piece
often there are different shapes that you can choose from.
This shows the jewel.
Here you can see the scoop neck.
And then, here is the V-neck, with stay stitching
to reinforce that V of the neck.
On the sample, Pamela and I are going to show you how to
add trim, French trim around the neckline.
Pamela has stay stitched in this area.
Pam, we make sure that we clip to that stay stitching line.
Right there.
Yes, don't be a "chicken clipper!"
Yes, I like your little saying there!
You've got to clip right to that stitching.
Now, the French trim that
we have around the edge the dimensions.
The band is cut across the stretch
on the crosswise grain.
2 1/2" by about 1 1/2" less than the finished neckline.
This is a generous 2 1/2 inches, right here.
Yes.
2 1/2 inches and then the circumference is
1 1/2" to 2" less.
Then, we have quartered, after sewing the band into a circle,
we've divided into four parts.
Put pins at each quarter mark, and did the same
with the neckline.
Here we have three of the four quarters lined up.
I'll just match the last quarter.
When you're sewing the V-neck, Pamela will show you that you
stretch open the V-neckline so that you'll be able to sew
continuously around the neckline.
And you have a sample of that.
Yes, so here you can see
where the V-neck has been stretched.
It just sews like any circle or any straight edge
when you straighten it.
No problem.
Now when you stitch this, and
we're working with a stretch needle versus a ballpoint needle
it will work a little bit better
you can have different widths of seams.
Yes, and the width of the seam that you choose
for stitching on the binding
is going to determine the finished width
of the binding because the seam allowance gets pushed towards
the binding, and then wrapped, snuggly, around this area,
pinning it in the ditch.
When you do this around the V-neck...
...like this, it will just straighten out,
just like when you're sewing it.
You want to make sure that there is no airspace in between the
top of the seam allowance and the fold of the binding.
So, you make it snug.
Make it real snug.
While Pamela is finishing doing the pinning, I'm going to show
you a foot that we like to use for the next step.
It's an edge-joining
edge-stitching foot.
You may have something that looks like this
on your sewing machine,
so that the guideline guide of the foot
can go right down the center.
Pamela is going to do stitching in the ditch,
that invisible seaming.
So, that flange will fit right down
into the well of the seam.
It will put the stitching right next to it.
So, you're stitching in the ditch.
Right now, I'm going right along that V-neck,
which just straightens out beautifully.
Nancy's going to show you how to form the V-neck.
After sewing all around the edges, you can trim off the
excess fabric that you have at the neckline
close to the stitching.
The fabric at the center front has been folded.
You can see this little extra extension,
just a tiny little extension.
You sew just within that fold.
When we go over to the finished shirt, you'll see
the little tuck and a perfect finish to the neck line.
♪ ♪
When my guest left her career in Operations Management
several years ago,
she knew that the corporate world wasn't for her.
Looking for a next chapter in life, she took time for
soul-searching and time to sew.
The result of her downtime was a plan to open a creative place
for people to reconnect.
Welcome, Sara Meyer
owner of the Sewcial Lounge.
Sara, thank you for joining us on Sewing with Nancy.
Thank you for having me.
You know, you're a
young career woman who had a masters degree,
in the corporate world, and now you have a sewing shop.
Fabrics, sewing machines and you specialize in
teaching young women to sew.
We do.
What led you this path?
I think that this is a fascinating change
of going off the beaten path.
I had always sewn, and been creative,
and loved doing crafty projects when I was a kid.
When I was in graduate school, and I was also working fulltime,
I really, really got back into sewing.
It was a way for me to not be stressed out,
enjoy something fun,
and be creative at the same time, which I really wasn't
getting through school and work.
So, I got back into it.
I thought, "This is great!"
I would love to have a shop that really
helps beginners get started.
Now, when Sara works with beginners:
you're not working with a lot of beginners.
Right.
That's what I think is interesting
about your Sewcial Lounge,
S-E-W Lounge,
because you work with four at a time.
We do.
All of our classes have a maximum
of four students in them.
Some of our clubs, we do six.
In general, you'll find four people in each class.
Why do people your age and younger and older
mainly come to your store?
I think just for the ease of knowing that
it is a fun inviting environment.
We really want to make sure that people enjoy what they're doing.
We focus more on having fun and getting our projects done.
Speaking of getting projects done
you just brought two of your simple projects
that you have them create in a three-hour class.
This is.
This is our simple tote bag class.
It's one of our most popular.
We complete the bag in three hours.
You mentioned that if they don't complete it then...
they probably never will.
Yeah.
We do try to help them along, and make sure that
they're able to get their project done.
They come back time after time?
They do.
We have customers who have taken our classes
sometimes more than once.
It's a good reason to come back and get a project done
in an afternoon.
You were telling me when we were
getting ready for this interview
that today one of your jobs is to develop a new class.
What criteria do you look for?
We really take customer feedback.
We want to find out what the customers
are interested in doing.
Most of what we're doing is asking them what kind of classes
they would like to see.
You mentioned that you have some friendship-building
that goes on at your Sew-cial Lounge.
We do. Yes.
We have some individuals that
have become friends just from coming to classes together,
and then they plan them.
This is another quick project.
People of all ages make these.
It's interesting that this is what works for you.
Yes.
The zipper pouches are also one of our most popular classes.
People are really intimidated by zippers and so we just help them
make two little zipper pouches in one class.
You know, zippers....
I think it's the name.
It is.
It's just straight stitching, right?
You don't have to be intimidated by that.
So, you made a business out of starting a store from scratch,
and you work full--you're the only employee?
I am. Yes. Wow!
Is it a challenge?
It is a challenge.
I do have two instructors that work for me, also.
But, yes, I do own and operate the store by myself.
It's definitely a challenge, but one I love.
Well, thanks for
stepping up to the plate
and striking out on a business of your own.
I wish you continued success, Sara.
Thank you!
Thanks for being with us.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for joining us on this first program
of Sew the Perfect Tee.
Pamela Leggett will be back with us next time
to show us how to finish that Tee,
make some changes to a dress-- a classic Tee dress, as well.
If you'd like to see this program again,
see the interview again, with Sara,
you can go to NancyZieman.com.
There are four seasons of TV shows
that you can stream online.
Also, connect with us on social media.
Thanks for joining us. Bye for now.
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as a reference for the T-shirt techniques featured
on this program.
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