Creating Quarter-Circles in Adobe Illustrator
Here’s a quick way to draw a quarter-circle in Adobe Illustrator. It involves using just one tool: the arc tool. These instructions will work in Adobe Illustrator from CS–CS5. How to create a quarter-circle (or quarter-ellipse) in Illustrator Select the arc tool. (Click and hold the straight-line–segment tool to bring up the sub-menu of additional … Continue reading … Continue reading How to Schedule Planned Maintenance Using RewriteEngine
… or how I set my sites up to go black tomorrow in protest of SOPA and PIPA. You might not see this prior to that blackout, but it has useful applications for other things—essentially any time you want to do a redirect that has a specific schedule. If you are running your sites on … Continue reading … Continue reading
A Discovery of Witches
by Deborah E. Harkness Book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy Viking Adult, 2011 Rating: 5/5 Maybe the fact that I’ve been reading little else but trashy romance novels lately has cleansed my witchy reading palette (or reduced my reading IQ to the point where I like anything with a decent, well-written plot), but A … Continue reading … Continue reading When to Use Events vs. Pageviews for Google Analytics
How to set up a schema for tracking certain things on a website is a polarizing topic. I’ve seen numerous schema that rely solely on pageviews to track everything—outbound link clicks, downloads, modal dialogs, etc—and the creator is dogmatic about the approach. But, semantically speaking, one of those three actions is a legitimate pageview; two … Continue reading … Continue reading How to Check If Google Analytics Click Tracking is Triggered
When I add new Event or PageView tracking code that is bound to click events, I want to be sure that the tracking code is fired without waiting for a site visitor to trigger it (or in some cases before the code is even on a live page). Because my own traffic is filtered out … Continue reading … Continue reading Sartorial Stitchery Becomes raevenfea: Simply Stitchery
Just a heads up out there: Sartorial Stitchery has moved to its own domain. raevenfea.com For those of you who don’t follow my stitchery adventures, nothing has changed in your world. For those of you who subscribe to the Omnibus RSS feed and do like reading about my sewing stuff, unfortunately you’re going to have … Continue reading … Continue reading Books and Plans
This week has been full of great arrivals. Sunday, we were at our local Barnes and Noble, which normally doesn’t have any fashion books at all, and not only did I get a chance to flip through 100 Dresses (henceforth filed under “nice to have, but won’t spend my own money on it”), I found … Continue reading … Continue reading I Wish I’d Known About Waxing
…thread, that is. See, most of my life, I’ve despised sewing by hand. The thread tangles up into a ball of uselessness, it knots itself and pretty soon I just want to scream and run away. Not to mention my hand cramps up, I poke myself accidentally and I start getting needle indentations on the … Continue reading … Continue reading Piecing the Backing
Now that the front of the bargello quilt is complete with borders, it is time to think about the back. Quilt backs can be simple—small ones can even be just a width of fabric—or complex. The most common form of backing is simply taking yardage and using it as-is (if wide enough) or sewing widths … Continue reading … Continue reading Squaring and Bordering the Bargello
Now that the main section of the quilt is complete, it’s time to square it and add borders. This is the center of the quilt before borders. You can see how uneven the bottom is. Squaring My quilt top was badly out of square. It’s kind of demoralizing it’s so badly out of square. Make … Continue reading … Continue reading 
