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clevermanka) wrote2012-05-16 09:13 am
clevermanka) wrote2012-05-16 09:13 am
Let's stand back and re-evaluate this
Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the software issue yesterday. I might have a reprieve, since a kind soul offered to put together a poster for me. If that pans out, it'll give me a chance to test out some different types of software later this summer before buying one.
Random link:Like we needed more proof that spot-training isn't as effective as compound, integrated movements.
In an effort to squeeze more time out of my day, I'm going to the 4:30 WODs during the summer since the office closes at 4:00. This means I beat feet home, change into workout clothes, and hightail it to CrossFit so as not to be late. The penalties for showing up late to a WOD are unpleasant.
Because I don't want to waste time washing off my makeup, I'll be coming to the office bare-faced on MWF for the summer. I haven't come to work with no makeup (I mean nothing, not even a dusting of powder) since...I don't know when. Since years ago? And man, under these lights I look like death warmed over. Well, not even that. I look like death half-warmed up in the microwave before you changed your mind and put him back in the fridge, then pulled him out after another two days and realized he'd gone moldy.
Last night I hit another wall with Sherlock. My final prototype of the coat fit me great when I was wearing just a button-down shirt. However, when I put on the suit jacket I'll be wearing under the coat for the Masquerade, the the back pulled horribly, and the armholes were a teensy bit snug. I adjusted the shoulder seam for a broader, more square shoulder, but now the armholes are way too tight (which I should have thought about, but I'm getting a little brain dead on this project). I don't know how to open up the armsyce and make sure that the sleeve still fits. It's already a close thing, with hardly any ease in the front of the sleeve at all. Making the curve of the armhole bigger is going to cause the sleeve not to fit. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to do this last fitting adjustment for my Sherlock coat? I'm having no luck with my own searches, and I feel like this is something I can't really fudge (like I did with the collar *ahem*). I'm about sick to tears of this project, and at this point wish I'd never seen the damn show.
STUPID BBC AND YOUR AMAZING WARDROBE DEPARTMENT.
Random link:Like we needed more proof that spot-training isn't as effective as compound, integrated movements.
In an effort to squeeze more time out of my day, I'm going to the 4:30 WODs during the summer since the office closes at 4:00. This means I beat feet home, change into workout clothes, and hightail it to CrossFit so as not to be late. The penalties for showing up late to a WOD are unpleasant.
Because I don't want to waste time washing off my makeup, I'll be coming to the office bare-faced on MWF for the summer. I haven't come to work with no makeup (I mean nothing, not even a dusting of powder) since...I don't know when. Since years ago? And man, under these lights I look like death warmed over. Well, not even that. I look like death half-warmed up in the microwave before you changed your mind and put him back in the fridge, then pulled him out after another two days and realized he'd gone moldy.
Last night I hit another wall with Sherlock. My final prototype of the coat fit me great when I was wearing just a button-down shirt. However, when I put on the suit jacket I'll be wearing under the coat for the Masquerade, the the back pulled horribly, and the armholes were a teensy bit snug. I adjusted the shoulder seam for a broader, more square shoulder, but now the armholes are way too tight (which I should have thought about, but I'm getting a little brain dead on this project). I don't know how to open up the armsyce and make sure that the sleeve still fits. It's already a close thing, with hardly any ease in the front of the sleeve at all. Making the curve of the armhole bigger is going to cause the sleeve not to fit. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to do this last fitting adjustment for my Sherlock coat? I'm having no luck with my own searches, and I feel like this is something I can't really fudge (like I did with the collar *ahem*). I'm about sick to tears of this project, and at this point wish I'd never seen the damn show.
STUPID BBC AND YOUR AMAZING WARDROBE DEPARTMENT.
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You looked amazing without make-up on Saturday, but I know what you mean about office lighting.
Would a small gusset work in the armhole?
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A gusset would work as a practical element, but not as a design one since I want to keep this a strictly tailored jacket. I've already altered enough design elements. I'd like to avoid straying farther from the original than I already have.
Hey, you wouldn't have a French curve, would you? They didn't have one at Hancock's. WTF.
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Ugh, sorry I don't. I've never been one for tailoring, it's way too fiddly for me. Yosa, maybe?
I can search the Threads disc to see if there's a tutorial there... you need to open the armscye, right? Not lower it, per se, but just get more ease across the back?
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Thank you for looking!
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Well, with an archive of ten years on the disc and my google fu, if it's there, I'll find it.
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While true it is based on a serious misapprehension.
The only reason anyone should be doing isolation exercises is as a supplement to improve weaknesses in their major lifts, or to recover from an injury.
So much training stuff has been published out of context, and so many Gym Bros™have riffed off of it, that its seems normal to think one would do a bunch of isolation stuff at the gym.
Advanced bodybuilders who have been in the gym like 15 years are often at the stage where they do get more out of weird isolation exercises, but even they rarely neglect the big stuff. I know at least three power lifters who swear by the squat as the best ab exercise... of course one of them swears by the squat as the best breakfast food. When you see someone stabilizing 585 on their back you see why the might say that.
I think 1 arm snatches are the best breakfast food.