How To: Seam together two carpets
This video shows you how to seam together two carpets. The tools required are carpets, seaming knife, blade, iron for pressing, and seaming tape.
This video shows you how to seam together two carpets. The tools required are carpets, seaming knife, blade, iron for pressing, and seaming tape.
1) First mark your intended cut lines - in this case follow a circular/spiral pattern. All cutting should be done with something like a pumpkin carver.
Here are instructions on how to create a rainbow manicure 1. Apply a base coat to nails to protect them
To neatly cut into a pomegranate, you are going to need a paring knife. First, score through the flesh around the top, middle, and bottom. Next, take the edge of your knife and peel the skin upwards and off the fruit. Remove the white pith. Repeat with the bottom. Next, score a line going from the top to the bottom and peel the pomegranate into two halves. Peel from the last score and open. Keep making cuts to open up the pomegranate until you have four pieces. Now enjoy.
In this episode of Growing Wisdom, Dave Epstein and fiber sculptor Susan Barrett Merrill discuss how to spin wool. Barrett Merrill demonstrates the spinning wheel and explains how wool is transformed into yarn. She also shows some of her own work and explains her artistic process.
Your driveway can make a big difference in the appearance of your house. As nice as it would be to have a brick, slate or cobblestone driveway, those are expensive options that not everybody can afford. In this episode of Growing Wisdom, you'll learn how to use a comparatively inexpensive process called street printing to really class up your driveway by creating the illusion of brick and other textures.
Every day, the average American throws away about four pounds of trash. But a lot of your daily trash could actually be very useful in the garden, as composting. In this episode of Growing Wisdom, Dave Epstein shows you how to use a three-bin composting system.
If you've grown tomatoes from seed, perhaps you've wondered how the seed company extracts those seeds. In this episode of Growing Wisdom, Dave Epstein walks you through a process known as sluicing. Using sluicing, you can extract vegetable seeds yourself.
When you head to your neighborhood gardening center to find a shade tree for your garden, the variety of choices can be pretty overwhelming. There are so many kinds of trees, and each of those trees has its own varieties. In this clip, Dave Epstein from Growing Wisdom will help find the best shade tree for you.
A soil block maker is a cool device for starting your seeds. All you do is fill a container with soil and use the block maker like a cookie cutter. Then you'll have little blocks of soil to plant your seeds in, and you can easily transfer the block to your garden. Now stand back and watch your plants grow!
The vinca, or periwinkle, is a hearty flower that adds a lot to any garden. It comes in a variety of colors, and grows in the sun as well as the shade. But they're so hearty that you have to watch them, or they'll start springing up where they're not supposed to. In this video, Dave Epstein from Growing Wisdom walks you through using periwinkles in your garden.
With low garden tunnels you can protect your plants from frost and insects, and you can overwinter your crops. In this episode of Growing Wisdom, host Dave Epstein will look at how to build a garden low tunnel. He'll focus on using the Quick Hoops Bender for the project.
Everyone loves a great LBD, but sometimes we get a bit stymied on how to best accessorize it. Fashion Expert Sharon Haver of FocusOnStyle.com shares women's fashion tips for how to accessorize a little black cocktail dress. Learn some great tips on accessorizing that black dress and put more mileage in your fashionable wardrobe.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Your car needs care and maintenance to run properly. Let Firestone Complete Auto Care teach you the basics about keeping you automobile running smoothly. Check out this video tutorial for some helpful hints on maintaining the belts and hoses in your vehicle.
If you've decided that you want to scrape the tint off of your vehicle's windows, you're going to want to watch this video tutorial. In order to strip the tin from the windows, you'll need a single-edged razor, a cleaning rag and an all-purpose spray cleaner. Scrape at the corner of the tint film with the razor and peel it off. Spray the cleaner on the glass , then put back the film onto your automobile's window. Wait about twenty minutes and pull it of again. Now, spray off more cleaner and ...
Bruges Lace, shown in this how-to video, can be twisted and turned in an endless amount of shapes. You can join a few chains, many chains or none. It can be used alone or as an edging.
An important part of surgery is knowing the various types of closures to perform. This medical how-to video demonstrates a vertical mattress suturing technique. The vertical mattress suturing technique is especially good for laceration repair or wound closure in the operating room when you want to ever the edges. It is an excellent technique for incorporating a large amount of tissue for greater tensile strength. Follow along and learn how it is done.
Fear is the mind killer! Check out this instructional wakeboarding video by one of the UK's top Wakeboard coaches. This tutorial shows you how to do a backroll. Before you progress to a heelside backroll you have to be sure of your heel side edge and your heelside wake jumps. The bigger and better you can get on those, the more chance you have of mastering the heelside back roll. Learn how to do a heel side back roll with this tutorial.
This bar trick can easily be turned into a bet to win you some free drinks. Place a bill on the edge of a glass and top with coins. Follow along with this how-to video to find out how to pull out the bill without knocking the coins over. Other people can try, but they won't know how the trick is done. Watch this video magic tutorial and learn how to do this simple bar trick for some free drinks.
Watch this instructional knitting video to knit a long tail cast on. Long tail cast ons are probably the most common knitting cast on that give your edge a nice, smooth finish. Make sure you have plenty of yarn for your cast on. Your knitting will be as wide as your cast on row if you do not apply any shaping, such as increasing or decreasing. The long tail cast on is probably the most common knitting cast on method.
Salon Secrets 301 shows you professional techniques to get big, bouncy curls from any flat iron with curved plate edges in this how-to video. You've seen videos that show you how use a flat iron to get professional hair styles at home. Now, learn how to flat iron hair the way the pros do it - the Salon Secrets at Home video series walks you through different flat iron techniques, demonstrated by a licensed cosmetologist. Finally, learn the REAL way to get that professional salon finish at hom...
Learn how to mix an Ebola cocktail from a hot girl in this instructional bartending video! Ingredients:
MAC's Cult of Cherry is the basis for the alluring eye makeup look demonstrated in this how-to video. Use MAC's bare canvas paint, tempting quad: next to nothing e/s, tempting e/s, sharp e/s, dark edge e/s, Rimmel professional brow pencil and cork e/s - for eyebrows, Anastasia eyelights in pink, stubborn brown pencil, Revlon colorstay liquid liner in black brown, model 21 false lashes, select moisture concealer in NW37, Pur Minerals foundation in med dark, msf natural in dark, Pur Minerals bl...
WordPress is a free, open source blog tool and publishing platform, popular for its customizability. This customizability, however, can be a double-edged sword for, while set up process is easy, intermediate users might get themselves into trouble when, looking to change particular setting, they seemingly find themselves lost in a veritable sea of tweakable parameters. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the WP-Ustream WordPress plug-in, which will allow you to easily embed your U...
Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to bunny hop with your bicycle onto any obstacle. To perform this trick, you'll want to crack to the gears one or two rotations to gain sufficient speed. Then, shift your weight backwards until your front wheel is in a high position but relatively short so you don't fall off. Then jump; keep in mind that the front of your bike won't be any higher than it has been just yet. Next, lift up your bike with your arms onto the obstacle and spread...
Get an edge on your paintball opponents. Learn how to become a better paintball player in this free paintball lesson from a paintball expert.
This video tutorial shows how to make a cool beer glass out of a beer bottle. This is also a great trick for cutting the bottle; forget the glass cutter or tricks with string and acetone. Just pour oil up to the level where you want the bottle cut off and place a red-hot piece of metal into it. Because of the great heat conductivity of oil and at the poor heat conductivity of glass, it will expand at the edge of the oil surface, cracking in a nice even line. Watch this instructional video and...
Craftsperson Ceal Pedersen, from Heirloom Puzzles, shows you how to make wooden jigsaw puzzles with her own creative touches, geared towards kids.
Do you want to learn how to build cabinets? Watch this five-part video tutorial for the basics of cabinet making using wood. Part one demonstrates the basics of making cabinet boxes from sheet goods while part two goes over how to cut the deck and stretchers for European-style frame less cabinets. Part three shows all the tools and some of the techniques you can use to apply edge banding. Finally, parts four and five demonstrates how to assemble to the cabinet carcass.
Check out this two-part 3ds Max video tutorial which exploits a little known capability of Max to create a head. You'll find this technique easier than box modeling for heads since your topology and edge flow are there from the beginning. With box modeling, there's a lot of division, connecting, turning, etc. to get basic topology in place.
This is a tutorial that shows you how to view and control your computer screen from your iPhone/iPod Touch. But this method is for people who have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch. This works on Edge and Wifi. If you are having problems connecting try going to control panel then security center then turn your firewall off. Also try turning off anything like virus protection.
Cast on? What's that? At first, it might sound like a fishing phrase, but any good crafster would know that casting on is a knitting technique, which can be difficult for new knitters to comprehend. But if you're one of those knitting newbies, don't worry—this video outlines the thumb method for casting on a stitch, and it's easy and gives you a really tight edge on your knitting projects. So, grab your needles and yarn and follow along to become a cast-on pro.
This tutorial shows you how to sculpt a battle axe in Zbrush 3.0. Learn some sculpting techniques and hard edge base modeling.
This is a basic tutorial on using the Cube Explorer computer software to create your own custom algorithms for different 3x3 Rubik's Cube patterns. And just when you thought the Rubik's Cube couldn't get any more fun!
The Tesla CD Turbine (the little turbine made from recycled CD's and magnets) is used as a magnetic test bed for this SinkScience experiment. Here, six 3/16 inch diameter neodymium ball magnets are placed in a plastic bowl above the CD Turbine.