Grandfather School: Sewing Club

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
07/01/2020 at 21:45 • Filed to: None

This is a child I do priva te math coaching with and she lives about five doors down. She wanted to install elastic with buttons into some new breeches she’d ordered on Amazon. She’d also ordered the elastic with button holes in it. I asked her if she’d like some help, and she enthusiastically said she would, so we had a sewing club this morning. Priceless.

DISCUSSION (18)

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 22:11

Nice!

My wife wanted to sew us up a few things this last weekend so I pulled the machine out of the basement. The bobbin winder didn’t work so I spent Saturday taking the machine apart and fixing it. It needed a new o-ring on the gear that spins the winder which I didn’t have but a box of rubber grommets got me one close enough to work.

The machine had to come apart and go back together several times for adjustments or to fix things I broke the last time I was in there...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer
07/01/2020 at 22:15

You are truly a renaissance man.

XJDano > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 22:18

My mom and her mom were great at sewing. They’d do all kinds of stuff. I regret never asking to be shown how.

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 22:36

I’ll very much admit my first response was ‘we bought this machine 15 years ago - you want a new one?’ Then found out sewing machines were sold out absolutely everywhere and then said ‘I’ll see if I can fix it’

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 22:41

Awesome. Here in the Hot Zone, I’m proudly wearing the mask you made me.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 22:47

Good job! I learned to hand sew when I was a kid, but I never really learned much about the machines. I was dissuaded when a girl in our school sewed her thumb to something in the home economics class. It’s one skill I wish my mom had passed along.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer
07/01/2020 at 23:17

I’ve been able to improve my sewing skills by sewing masks. My sewing I like to think of as fabricating using a sewing machine.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
07/01/2020 at 23:18

Hand wash so that the wire doesn’t get worn out and it’s good to trim one of the disposable blue surgical masks and tuck the filter inside between the two layers of the cloth mask. Blue side out.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck
07/01/2020 at 23:20

My mom didn’t want to let me use her machine, but once I began, I was in.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/01/2020 at 23:49

Awesome :)

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/02/2020 at 00:09

It’s pretty hard to breathe through it as it is. I’m playing an outdoor gig on Saturday, and I’ll wear my N94 to go to that one. Of course, You can’t wear a mask while you play.

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/02/2020 at 00:10

That’s awesome, my wife is going to do the same as the stock we had was running low.

I used to be a decent seamstress as my mother was a big quilter so I helped a lot growing up and used to be well versed with cutting patterns and sewing but it’s been a while since I touched either.

It’s a skill I wish I had maintained

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
07/02/2020 at 00:37

Is your N95 mask valved? The ones with the flapper valves do not filter cooties coming out, defeating the greater purpose of wearing masks. Takes some time to get used to having the mask on.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/02/2020 at 00:39

Not valved.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer
07/02/2020 at 11:10

My 1080 is not putting out the points it was putting out when I first set it up. I was initially getting 1.5M PPD and now I’m only getting 1.1 or 1.2M. Could the procs on the T7400 be slowing me down? Am I getting weak work units?

Kinja'd!!!

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/02/2020 at 13:37

Are you folding on the CPU too? That actually seems to decrease the daily points total.

There is also definitely some luck in it with some days being better than others in the quality of work units. 2-300k is a fairly normal swing from day to day in a card that sized too.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer
07/02/2020 at 13:49

No CPU slots. So it sounds like my mine is performing as it should?

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/02/2020 at 15:34

I think so, unless it stays low for long. You install the latest Nvidia driver and not the one MSFT did right?