#taladraco

Rules: In a textpost list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card The Crystal Cave Trilogy - Mary Stewart Phantom - Susan Kay The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury Imzadi - Peter David A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman Hamlet - William Shakespeare The Entropy Effect - Vonda McIntyre Trask - Don Berry

Star Trek novels and Shakespeare, deal with it.

I had an ask from a follower about how to avoid constant jamming of thread! It got a bit lengthy and I figured I may as well share with the class :P

Before you even get sewing, check your manual, or google your machine type, to look up what the actual number setting of your Thread Tension is meant to be.

1. Re-thread your bobbin into the bobbin-case so that the trail of thread is going the correct way *as stated in the manual*. In my machine, the bobbin with thread hanging off should look like the letter "P" when it's correct.

2. Always always always use matching brand/fiber content thread on your top and bottom threads. Mismatching synthetics with naturals, or button threads with embroidery, etc--- it's just asking for trouble unless you're doing it for a specific reason.

3. When you start sewing! Literally every time you begin a stitch, hand wheel the needle into the fabric to "take a bite" before you start up with the foot pedal. This will help a lot. also, be sure to swipe away hanging thread before you really get going, especially if you're doing something that has the stitch joining back up with itself .

4. CLIP YOUR THREADS CONSTANTLY. I cannot stress this enough so I'll say it again:

5. CLIP YOUR THREADS CONSTANTLY.

Bonus tip! If you have to do a lot of gathering, there are a few ways to go about it- and its definitely the easiest way to jam your machine if you're doing it poorly. My favorite way is well suited to making a typical 1:3 ratio gather in a woven fabric:

Set your stitch on a wide  zig-zag 

Place a sturdy thread, like button thread, or waxed thread under your presser foot with a four or five inch "tail"

Zig-zag over the sturdy thread, taking care to not catch it in the stitches.

Pull the thread to gather!

Right there with you

I mean, hot fudge sauce beats well-constructed sentences and characters and stuff, doesn't it?

I was tagged by theonceandfuturemom

1. have you ever cheated on your partner? Yes, many many years ago. One of my few regrets.

2. If you met The Doctor today, would you chuck everything and just go? (thoughtful answer, please) I would. There's very little in my day to day life that I would miss. Tumblr. lol.

3. Would you cheat in school? The last time I cheated in school was in 5th grade and I got caught and I've never cheated since because I felt way guilty.

4. have you lied to your parents about something important? Not really, unless you count lies of omission

5. Would you be willing to wait until you got married to have sex? I nearly did. My husband was my first (part of what lead to answer 1)

6. Would you have sex with someone famous just because they’re famous? Possibly. Only if I found them really attractive.

7. Have you ever had a gay experience or a straight experience, if you’re gay)? One time, I liked it

8. What is the nastiest thing you’ve ever eaten? Calf fries. It's deep fried calf balls in gravy :)

9. what do you want to be when you grow up? I'm still trying to figure that out. A writer.

10. What makes you proud of you? When someone really likes my writing. My produst moment was probably graduating boot camp.

11. what is your all time favorite movie? probably the Muppet movie.

ASK:

If you could only pick one, which fictional universe would you live in?

Why did you pick your tumblr name?

What is your earliest memory?

Sonic screwdriver or magic wand?

Favorite piece of art?

If you got handed a million dollars with no strings, what would you do?

If you could have five people to dinner from any time in history, who would you have? What would the conversation be like? 

tea, coffee or soda?

What phrases or quotes do you use all the time?

Fanfiction rec?

1. The meaning behind my URL 

  taldraco, or Tala Draco, means Wolf Dragon. It's a name I chose way back in the day (like 1999). It was my own search to find something unique that hadn't been used 100 million times already but also something that held meaning to me. At the time, I was very into wolves (still am) and when I saw the name Tala (it means wolf), I knew I had it. Almost definitely if you see the name taladraco online, it's me.

10. Biggest turn on(s)

me: I can't find my Sam sticker from the con! Sammy is missing!

her: Sam's on a hunting trip, he hasn't been home in a few days.