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The Grandview Bag Tutorial Part 2 - el fin
Ok, so when we left off, we had finished the first pleat and first ruffle. Lets keep going.
Grab your next strip. While lifting the ruffle away from the bag, pin your strip at the top left edge of the main body piece, and begin pleating. Continue this pleating until you reach the other side of the bag.You want to pin your pleats so the finished edge will be hidden by the ruffle just above it.
You can pin these pleats directly to the body of the bag, as we are going to sew them down from the top, rather than from underneath like the previous pleat. Once you've pleated all the way around, topstitch the pleats to your bag.
TIP: Stitch in the direction that your pleats are pointing so that your presser foot is flattening the pleats rather than lifting them. This may seem obvious, but it's easy to forget!
Now, stitch down the bottom of the pleat.
Now your bag should look something like this:
Ok, we're almost done with the embellishment! Grab that last strip of fabric and ruffle it the same way you did the other ruffle. Pin it to the bag so that it covers the bottom finished edge of the pleat above it.
Stitch in place, following the gathering stitch down the center.
YAY! The front of your bag is done! From here on out, it is pretty basic bag construction. If you want pictures, or if it doesn't make sense, let me know, but I'm just going to outline the rest of the process.
1. With right sides together, stitch the outer body pieces together with a 3/8 inch seam allowance along the bottom curve. TIP: When I construct bags that don't have a flat bottom (so, the weight of the bag contents will be on the seam), I sometimes put a strip of fusible interfacing OVER the seam inside the bag. This just gives that seam extra reinforcement. Totally optional step.
2. Grab your lining pieces. If you want a pocket, make it and attach it to the lining body. Now is also the time to install your magnetic snap if you want one. Craft Apple has a great tutorial for installing the snap.
3. Sew the lining pieces together with right sides facing, being sure to leave AT LEAST 3 or 4 inches for turning the bag right side out.
4. Grab your strap that you made earlier and make a "strap sandwich". Place the outer body of your bag inside the lining with right sides facing. Pin the strap to the side seams of the bag, and make sure it is INSIDE the bag. SOMEONE here may have accidentally sewed a strap so that it ended up inside the lining once or twice without noticing it. So, don't be me.
5. Sew all the way around the top of your bag witha 3/8 inch seam allowance. MAKE SURE THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BODY OF YOUR BAG FACES YOUR BOBBIN. Huh? Did that make sense to you? If not, leave a comment and I'll try to explain better. Basically, you want to have the flatest surface possible to sew your main bag and lining together, and if the poofy part is facing down, toward the bobbin, it is really bumpy sewing. So you want your ruffles facing UP when you sew. Make sense?
Also, I found it helpful to use my narrowest presser foot while sewing the outer bag to the lining. You want to be able to sew as close to that top pleat as you can WITHOUT SEWING OVER IT. I found a zipper foot worked best, but you can use whatever you've got on hand.
6. Turn your bag right side out and stitch your lining shut, either by hand or by machine.
7. Press the heck out of the top edge of your bag. I don't topstitch this bag around the top. I just didn't like the way it looked when I tried it. You should feel free to do so though if you like. If you were going to topstitch, I would go from underneath one ruffle all the way around the back and stop underneath the other side of the ruffle - no topstitching over the ruffles and pleats.
8. Post pictures of your bag in the flickr group. This step is mandatory.
You should have something that looks like this:
If any part of this is confusing or needs further explanation, just let me know! I'm happy to give more instruction. Also, it's 1:30 in the morning, so I'm not entirely sure that everything I've written is crystal clear. If it's not, leave a comment or send me an email.
Happy bag-making!
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Amazing! You made it look so simple :) ThanksReplyDelete
Super , Super CUTE!! Fabulous job and did I say REALLY, REALLY C-U-T-E!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration!
Love this purse!! Hopefully I'll get the nerve to try it sometime soon! Thanks so much for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
YEA! I'll for sure make a post about this today or tomorow to let people know you are finished with the tutorial! Thanks for doing one--it looks fabulous. LOVE the velvet fabric--I think that just made the bag that much better.ReplyDelete
Yes the tutorial is up thank you so much for making one i can wait to try it!ReplyDelete
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Ohhhhh I love this so much! I love the fabric you used as the lining. This is going on my to-do list. :)ReplyDelete
I have one question. Do you think this bag would work with different fabric types? My sister wants a printed bag, and I have a black and white cotton picked out, but I'm not sure it would work. Let me know what you think! (my email's attached to my profile!) :) Thanks!ReplyDelete
This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
This is beautiful. Maybe I can convince my sister to sew it for me!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting this!!! My 10 year old step daughter and I love to sew together, this will be a perfect project for us! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I will be making one of these in the near future!ReplyDelete
thanks for linking to my saturday soiree! i'm featuring this tomorrow! i love it :)ReplyDelete
I just made your bag last week. I am loving it. Thanks so much for the pattern. I posted a picture on flickr. I haven't ever done it before so I hope I did it right. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Part 2 end pictures? I am new, and I don't want to mess it up. These would make great Christmas gifts... Let me know and THANK YOU for the free pattern!ReplyDelete
Hi Emily! I just found your blog and it is awesome! I am one of those bitter peoples with no serger! hehe. But, I love this purse so much that I might give it a try anyways hehe. Thanks so much for sharing it. I'll be following you. :DReplyDelete
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Amazing! I see these bags for $198 and...sad face!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to curse my way through one!
This is so beautiful! And it looks "designer." I have a pattern for a hobo bag with a zipper on top (I need a zipper because I'm clumsy and I'd spill everything in my purse if I didn't have a zipper!) but I'd love to do this embellishment on the front!ReplyDelete
HOLY CRAP I LOVE RUFFLES! I have 3 boys too, maybe it makes us like the girly stuff that much more. Anyhow great job on this purse. I love the colors. Maybe I'll attempt one once my slipcovers slow down for the holiday season.ReplyDelete
I just finished! Yay! The instructions were great. The only thing I did differently was pleat and sew as I went. I still need to attach the strap because I'm sewing it on top and making it adjustable and haven't quite figured it out. Will post pictures on flikr soon! Thanks again!ReplyDelete
I saw a picture of the bag from my friend's blog (customslipcoversbyshelley.blogspot.com) and fell in love! I just made one at 60% the size 'cause I wanted a smaller bag with the same awesome look. I posted the pictures on the flickr page. I love it! I did it out of gray corduroy and couldn't be happier. I've never, ever made a purse with a lining before and this tutorial was awesome. Thank you for all the tips and tricks. I loved the tip about how to sew the strap in, and LOVED that you had messed it up a few times. It made me feel like I could do it too. Thanks so much the free pattern. You are talented. :)ReplyDelete
I made one! Now... about posting a picture, how do I do that?ReplyDelete
Really difficult once I get to sewing the lining to the bag. I'm going to look for other tutorials on how to do this. I've already done and undone it twice. Arg.ReplyDelete
so excited to try this! I was looking for fashionable, modern bag to make for my friend's birthday and this is just right!!ReplyDelete
Love it. THanks for sharingReplyDelete
i don't quite get the pattern pieces some help with that would be great (:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Oh my goodness! You're just wonderful!ReplyDelete
LOVE the bag!! I made one from my husband's ACUs for my niece.ReplyDelete
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- Renee DuffieldFebruary 13, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to document the process and write out a tutorial. I'm so grateful. I saw this on pinterest and had to make it immediately. I had this suede from a skirt I bought from goodwill. Yay, no serging! I got a serger this year, but for many years felt just how you described. Anyway, this bag cost me 85 cents! http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff227/joelrenee/Jolennspurse.jpgReplyDelete
Love it. Wish I could make it!ReplyDelete
Thanks for this nice tutorialReplyDelete
I really don't understand the strap sandwich/lining part. I guess I'll have to wait for mom (seamstress extraordinaire) to come here so I can finish. But what I have so far looks GREAT! :DReplyDelete
That is one lovely bag!! Thanks for sharing this tutorial:):) So excited to try it:)ReplyDelete
I cannot sew, but would love to buy the one you have pictured! Any way that's possible?! ;)ReplyDelete
Love it and wanna make it...but I can only find Part 2 of the tute. Where can I find the beginning and pattern? Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Where is Part l???ReplyDelete
Came here to get this part of the tutorial and seen the giveaway! Oh I would love to win! KMFX!ReplyDelete
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Where is part one...???ReplyDelete
Oh I cant wait to make one of these! Ive been wanting a really cute purse to sew and whatnot. I just have to wait till I can find a bobbin case for my machine as the lady who gave it to me is missing itReplyDelete
Ok, I'm clueless when it comes to the strap sandwich part. Can you explain in more detail? I don't have any idea how to attach the strap and finish the bag.ReplyDelete
Where is this flickr group? I just finished my bag! (PS, your bag is way cuter than the $600 anthro bag. Just say'n)ReplyDelete
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Jonnie Williams, CEO of medical supplement maker Star Scientific, made two loans to a company co-owned by McDonnell and to McDonnell's wife totaling more than $120,000.
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Unfortunately for Fitz, and for Fantasy Football owners everywhere, the numbers on the stat sheet wouldn't change for the remainder of the game. Three catches, 31 yards. In the Cardinals' last two games, Fitzgerald has just four catches for 42 yards, and the six-time Pro Bowler has just one 100-yard game this season.
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Fitzgerald is tied for sixth in the NFL with 113 targets through 11 games. But his 55 catches rank tied for 15th in the league, so something is wrong.
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"On one sack, we had Larry running wide open down the field and we made a mistake in the line and Ryan had to slide to his left and actually ended up taking a sack on first and ten," Whisenhunt explained. "You look at that play and it's something you work to set up and Larry's behind everybody and that's where Ryan's going to go with it, but we have a breakdown.
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by 93 Escort Wagon (326346) on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:19AM (#42963097)
I can't say I've ever compared my typing speed against that of my IT compadres, nor does it seem like typing speed would be particularly relevant to most IT folks - hopefully there's at least a little thought going on during the coding process.
Yeah, secretaries do type, but that's hardly their main job this century, and it really wasn't their job during the 90s either except for a few who had old-fogey bosses (of whatever age.) Secretaries keep track of stuff for bosses, keep and negotiate schedules better than MS Outlook, and that kind of thing.
On typing speed, I don't spend a lot of time typing unless I'm doing documentation. I'd say that my typing is somewhat faster than one of my officemates and slower than the other, and a lot more accurat
>>Yeah, secretaries do type, but that's hardly their main job this century, and it really wasn't their job during the 90s either except for a few who had old-fogey bosses (of whatever age.)
Funny you should mention old-fogey bosses. I find, as a attorney, that a vast number of older lawyers* still have their secretaries print out their email so they can read it, and then they dictate a response. It's both amusing and creepy at the same time.
*"older" can mean anywhere from 50s to 90s in this context. On
Very few mentions of RSI. That is the proof that you really type fast -- bouts of RSI. That is my limiter, anyway.
i have to agree with you (mostly perl & shell coding for me). true if it is something small (checking if a module works in so far untested way), then coding is mostly faster, but anything more than, more time is taken in thinking what to do in next few lines then typing. as for me, quite sometime is also wasted on thinking what to call a variable! so comparing is mostly useless unless LoC is really a metric!
but as far as simple commands on bash goes, well, it quick (followed by a jerkish enter) unless i
Actually my peers noticed it before I did. I work in Graphics and have had a long technical background where a lot of them come from art backgrounds. They were peering (no pun intended(...Ok, maybe partially)) over my shoulder and were amazed with how fast I was typing. That's when I started noticing how slow they were. Of course they're faster than me at certain other tasks.
Different backgrounds different skill-set.
"Is there a significant secretarial presence here?"
Wow-- you mean that there are still some places left where they have secretaries who do your typing for you?
I thought that went out with the "Mad Men" era.
hopefully there's at least a little thought going on during the coding process.
For almost any creative process, the limiting factor will usually be your ability to come up with something worth typing rather than the speed you can type it- at least over the long haul. I can type at something like 50 wpm, which is OK but nothing special, but it's still 120,000 words for a 40 hour week if I could keep it up. That's enough for a decent-sized novel every week or two, and somebody faster than me could do someth
In answer to the question in the subject, no , but I DID take an Adult School typing class (probably similar to the high school course that was aimed at future secretaries) that upgraded me from a two finger typist, constantly looking for the next key then at the screen to make sure that I hit the right key, to a nine fingered (left pinky still more likely to hit the caps lock than the "a" key) typist who only looks once in a while. Just being able to type at 12 wpm properly, or 24 wpm shifting gaze as nee
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I don't have any peers because I'm retired. Still, back when I was working, I probably typed faster than most of them, and was fairly accurate as well. Now, who cares? Fast typing only matters when your time is worth money, and mine hasn't been for years.
Mine is loud. People, especially my co(lleagues/workers) say I type fast and loud like a machine gun on clicky keyboards (not even Model M!). Some of the gals complained about it. http://aqfl.net/node/5825 [aqfl.net] for the details.
I'm a lot faster and more accurate on a keyboard with mechanical keys. Noise is fun.
Do people, especially with females, get annoyed from your loud typings?
Some people here at the office are fond of noise too.
I don't like noise, and (as beeing the owner of the company) suggested a couple keyboard changes.
Doesn't help.
Some guys that probably have never worked on, or maybe even seen a mechanical typewriter still seem to think that if they hit the keys harder (and max only use 4 fingers and 2 thumbs) the computers understands it better.
Don't think that is the way it works, but hey, I use other methods to irritate my minions.
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can anyone in here actually touch type, or is that reserved for secretaries with long fingernails and cigarettes? I can't touch type but I'm pretty fast notwithstanding.
I've never been able to correctly touchtype. As far as I can see it's never been a disadvantage.
I don't see many programmers or admins in the UNIX or Windows worlds touch typing correctly either.
I can, and it's a pretty useful skill for someone who lives in a cubicle all workweek. I've been surprised at people who've spent 20+ years in front of computers and never learned to type without staring at the keyboard and pecking with one or two fingers. Like my father who learned drafting in college where I learned CAD, and the always in front of your own computer thing showed up during his career. It doesn't take long to learn, but apparently you do have to try to learn.
Yes. From what I've seen, most programmers can.
Due to forced typing class in high school, I can touch type, but I'm still a slow typist. I've done programming and technical writing, and I understand why some programmers don't touch type, syntax is a bitch.
Touch typing is very helpful as a skill, an especially, when you learn how to incorporate short cut keys in your touch typing for faster editing.
As for a comparison with my
Re:touch-typing? (Score:5, Interesting)by Nethemas the Great (909900) on Thursday February 21, 2013 @05:21PM (#42972237)I'm confused. Where they hell are all the geeks? Correctly or otherwise touch typing (not looking at the damn keyboard) seems like a skill inseparable from effective usage of a PC in a professional IT setting. I'd find it quite impossible to take anyone that constantly bounces their eyes back and forth from keyboard to screen seriously.
Among the software developers I work with about a third (including myself) touch type. I have not noticed that the touch typists produce code faster, or better. It seems to be an entirely independent variable. I think I may have noticed a slight correlation between those who hunt and peck and their fondness for graphical software creation (UML etc.). Using the mouse to make that parameter const instead of typing it drives me insane, but if you can't touch type, perhaps it takes the same amount of time.
I've been trying to learn to touch type for years. Problem is, having never learned to do it early on, after 20 odd years of doing it 'wrong', I'd developed a 'psychic hover' 4 finger method (though roughly 80% of the keyboard was covered by my dominant hand) where I only needed to look down to reset my hand position when I made an error, maybe once every three sentences or so - I just had muscle memory of where the keys were. Even so, I typed faster than pretty much everyone I know, bar professional typist
I touch-type. I learned it with QWERTY back in high school, although to improve my accuracy and achieve my highest speeds I "cheated" by doing things like looking down (hey, at high speeds my hands are flying around all over the place, it's the most efficient way to re-align my hands; the bumps on F and J are worthless...) and simplified things by using the left shift key exclusively (the right was just too hard to reach and use fast and accurately...).
I have switched to Dvorak last December and have been
I learned to touch-type in junior high school, on a MANUAL typewriter, around the same time that Liquid Paper was invented. And yes, I'm male.
Speed matters. I've never been afraid of using meaningful variable names or typing longer comments.
Billy Joel can play piano while singing directly to the audience; at the very least any proficient keyboard jockey should be able to do the same.
It would seem, from the poll results thus far, that a significant portion of the respondents are natives of the mythical Lake Woebegone. It probably has something to do with the general fragility of the human psyche. Possibly it could be conditioning from overt praise for mediocre accomplishment intended to bolster self esteem in order to pre-emptively mitigate the former which ironically has made them more defensive as a
Ohhhhhh where's my bottle of fuckitol as if I could really give a rats a
Disagree - I think it's because all of these polls are self-selecting. People who can type are curious; people who know they can't type probably ignored this.
by jtownatpunk.net (245670) on Thursday February 21, 2013 @07:58AM (#42965265)
Thanks to Infocom and their early parsers that required typing out full words. Open gate. Through gate. Close gate.
Open gate. Through gate. Close gate.
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As of writing this comment 53% of voters think they're faster than their peers....
As of writing this comment 53% of voters think they're faster than their peers....
Just wait a bit. The slower typists will cast their vote when they can.
Re:More than half are faster... ?? (Score:4, Informative)
That's because of the Dunning-Kreuger Effect. In a similar vein, approximately 93% of Americans think they're above-average drivers.
The hell they are. 93% of Americans are bloody retarded drivers.
The local broadsheet has a daily section called "Odd Spot" which contains some trivia item or funny news. Today's item was about a man in the UK who had failed his drivers licence test 107 times. From the UK press [dailymail.co.uk].
Considering that at my office, only 2 members of the team regularly read slashdot, 53% isn't all that bad.
As of writing this comment 53% of voters think they're faster than their peers....
Clearly, only the fast typists have enough free time to check out Slashdot at work.
More than half are faster... ??
Without drawing too many conclusions I'd assume that the demographic frequenting slashdot is above average computer interested even among their peers, double that if your set of immediate peers are a mixed bunch of people not so heavily into IT. For example at the education I took I would say 100% of the students were better than the average student, try wrapping your head around that one.
Age or Keyboard? (Score:5, Interesting)by Nishi-no-wan (146508) on Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:32AM (#42965887) Homepage Journal
I've found that I do have more errors that I used to as I type. And my speed is not nearly what it used to be. However, I easily out-type news reporter friends of mine while chatting (both on computers - not mobile). They write a couple of articles a day. Shouldn't they have more key presses than a coder?
I'm blaming the newer keyboards for a lot of the increased errors that I feel that I'm hitting. Keyboards from the 1980s just felt a lot better. You had to have intent to hit a key. That doesn't seem to be the case any more.
You might like the USB cherry keyboards. They have a nice old school feel to them, plus they are pretty cheap.
I used to repair photocopiers, and one of our accounts was the New England Patriots. During games, they needed a tech right there in the press box in case the copier broke down. Anyway, I couldn't believe how bad the sports reporters were at typing on their laptops.. every one of them was hunting and pecking with their index fingers. I figured they'd be faster.
Is this like that 'everyone thinks they are a better than average driver' thing?
In part - and the results seem to show that.
I went for "about the same", as the only people typing ever around me are fellow software engineers, and are also pretty nifty. Compared to the average in the population, we could all shit on them but that wasn't what was asked. Perhaps people just misinterpreted the question?
It depends on how narrowly you want to define "your peers". I'm male, software developer, age 32. If I went to court, and was in front of a jury of my peers, I wouldn't expect all the jurors to be 27-37 year old male software developers. Peers doesn't necessarily mean people who do the same profession as you, or even people you come in contact with on a daily basis.
Starcraft and growing up in the 90's (Score:3, Informative)by peon_a-z,A-Z,0-9$_+! (2743031) on Thursday February 21, 2013 @10:28AM (#42966493)
I, for one, tell people that my large amount of PC gaming (according to my parent's) on our dial-up internet connection is the primary reason that I can type both "fast" (80-100 wpm sustained depending on the application) and free of errors.
When all you have is a dial-up connection and the family computer, you can't communicate via any other method than typing really fast. Having the ability to quickly and accurately tell my friend he's battlefield information was a priceless skill.
The red fox jumps over the lazy dog. The red fox jumps over the lazy dog. The red fox jumps over the lazy dog.
( I wanted to show how much of that sentence I could put down in a minute, but apparently I violated their compression filter. So much for using repetition to make a point!)
Whoops, I just remembered that it was supposed to be "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud! (It's shorter).
Or, for a perfect pangram: J Q Schwartz flung D V Pike my box.
(From Wikipedia: Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks.. I didn't know 'fink', an American term for strikebreaker, spy or informer.)
Faster than CowboyNeal but slower than CmdrTaco (or vice versa)
For the off-topic secretarial digs that say typing speed isn't important to IT, ummm, where do you work because the faster I can get email responses out to people the better, and the fewer errors the better. If you're in IT and NOT typing I want your job!
As usual, a majority of people believe that they are above average.
That would only be relevant if the poll was "Compared to other slashdot readers, my typing:"
It is entirely possible that ~52% (as it now stands) of people who visit this site and respond to polls are in fact better typists than their peers. I responded that I'm both faster and less error prone not because I think I'm particularly skilled at typing, but rather that my peers as a group average just above hunt and peck speeds. Actually, I would consider my typing to be below average by most standards.
I never lerned to touch type so my typing method is known as "pick, peck, cuss."
Given that I'm not a touch typist, I don't do too badly on speed or number of errors. My observation is that typing code seems to be hard for most touch typists due to all of the non-alphanumerics.
...7th grade typing. I learned to touch type as a 12-year-old and I'm typing 100 wpm to this day. It has made my job immeasurably easier and more pleasant.
The fact that significant typing classes are not required for students but cursive still is baffles me.
on the lack of typing skill these days. I was trying to reproduce an error report on a laptop where it would drop characters when typing. My typing was just not really fast enough to reproduce the error, and the person reporting was off site. I went around most of the office looking for fast typists. I only found two people who even thought they might be fast. I have never managed to learn to touch type, (Poor hand eye coordination.) but was still far faster than anyone else in the office.
I finally reprod
As expected, over 90% of the people are above-average typists.
As expected, over 90% of the people are above-average typists.
To be fair, it's not exactly a random sample.
I can certainly believe slashdotters are better typists than non-slashdotters. I'd expect most people here to be above-average typists.
In my case, we actually had an office competition to find the fastest typist (the winner would get a keyboard that was being coveted by many). I therefore have actual evidence I'm faster and type with less errors than my immediate peers. That said, it was pretty close all around, I didn't smoke them or anything.
My buddy types so fast it sounds like buzzsaw. i have never in my life heard or seen someone type so fast. He blames muds. i don't disagree.
I can't seem to stop making the it's / its error. That one in particular show s up at the same rate in my typing regardless of how fast I type. As for spelling errors or other important matters, I would say my error rate is no worse than anyone else.
Also, where is the "faster, but the same rate of error" option? This seems like an obvious choice.
I'm a software engineer. I've been doing this for years. It always amazes me how many of my coworkers can't touch type. (I mean they've used keyboards for years, why the hell wouldn't you touch type? It makes coding a far more enjoyable experience when you don't have to take your attention away from the problem you need to solve so you can find the 'a' key.)
I don't know if I really type faster than my coworkers, but they lose significant speed using the mouse. E.g. when I copy and paste 3 words, I select them with 3x Ctrl-Shift-Left, then copy with Ctrl-C, then change windows with Alt-Tab and paste with Ctrl-V. Who doesn't? It takes 2 seconds at most.
My nearest coworker over whose shoulder I sometimes peek for fun, never fails to surprise me by actions like using Copy from Menu bar -> Edit in the middle of typing, or by trying to find the previously focused
Everybody thinks they are above average so I predict that most people will say that they are faster and more accurate than their peers. Their peers will also vote the same way.
I type so fast ... (Score:4, Funny)
Fast with a lot of mistakes.
I have a Das Keyboard ultimate (completely black keys, no letter marks at all) and every time a colleague works with me and wants to type, I love seeing their reaction. I can type for half an hour sitting next to them and they would _not_ notice that the keys are black, so they're just baffled when they try and use it
(I do keep a "guest" keyboard and mouse stashed away, but connected to the same PC, but always wait before pulling them out
On the other hand (hehehe) my son's speed on a smart phone is amazing.
I know it says not to complain about missing options but jeez this has a _lot_ of missing options... Suppose you type at a similar speed but either with more errors or fewer.
85 words per minute seems to be about my limit if I don't want to make a bunch of mistakes. Surprisingly, it's only about 10 words per minute faster than I typed on a manual typewriter in Grade 10 over 30 years ago. On the bright side, I haven't slowed down.


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Now it's all about NYU students, quirky shops, cheap food, raucous pubs, and sleek little bars. There's still a little edge left to the East Village. St. Marks Place, for example, has its share of freaks. Traces of the neighborhood's Ukrainian community remain, there's a cluster of back-to-back Indian restaurants, and quite a few eateries catering to Japanese expats.
History buffs should check out McSorley's, New York's oldest pub, and Cooper Union, the design college where Abraham Lincoln delivered an important anti-slavery speech in 1860.
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Address 2 St. Marks Place (at Third Avenue) (East Village)
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EuroCheapo Review: The Gem Hotel - SoHo, located on the border of the East Village and the Lower East Side, is clean, comfortable, and reliable.... read review
Address 7 East 27th Street (Midtown E-Murray Hill)
EuroCheapo Review: The 150-room Gershwin is a well-executed hotel thriving on the crazy energy of 1970s New York.... read review
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EuroCheapo Review: Located in the hear of Times Square, the Milford offers 1,331 recently renovated and reasonably priced rooms. (Note: The hotel is still undergoing renovations.)... read review
Address 159 Grand Street (Soho & Tribeca)
EuroCheapo Review: The 42-room Solita Soho Hotel, a surprisingly pleasant addition to the Chinatown area, is a self-described "boutique-style hotel."... read review
Address 109 West 45th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
EuroCheapo Review: The small and simple Hotel St. James offers basic accommdations and some of the best rates in the area around Times Square.... read review
Address 204 W. 23rd St. (at Seventh Avenue) (Chelsea)
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EuroCheapo Review: The Michael NY, set in a gorgeous historically registered corner of upper (upper) Manhattan is a sweet and simple family-run guesthouse.... read review
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Address 59 West 46th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
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Address 157 West 47th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
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Address 414 West 46 Street (Hell's Kitchen)
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Address 242 W. 76th St. (between Broadway and West End Avenue) (Upper West Side to Harlem)
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Address 317 West 14th Street (Chelsea)
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Address 129 West 46th St (Times Square-Theater District)
EuroCheapo Review: The 79-room Broadway @ Times Square Hotel eschews the bright lights and and blaring marquees of nearby Times Square in favor of more traditional décor.... read review
Address 230 West 54th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
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Address 234 West 48th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
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Address 870 7th Avenue at 56th Street (Central Park South)
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Address 356 West 58th Street (Central Park South)
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Address 102 West 118th Street (Upper West Side to Harlem)
EuroCheapo Review: Located on a quiet Harlem side-street in a gorgeous brownstone, 102 Brownstone's six rooms comprise a homey Uptown nest.... read review
Address 110 Ave. C (between Seventh and Eighth Streets) (East Village)
EuroCheapo Review: The ethos is communal, funky, and friendly. There are bikes, umbrellas, and museum passes on offer, all free for guests.... read review
Address 502 E. 81st St. (between York and East End Avenue) (Upper East Side)
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Address 242 W. 123rd St. (between Frederick Douglas and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevards) (Upper West Side to Harlem)
EuroCheapo Review: The Harlem Flophouse is a rare bird of a guesthouse, offering four simple, eclectic guest guestrooms in a stunning Harlem brownstone.... read review
Address 123 E. 15th St. (at Irving Place) (Union Square-Gramercy)
EuroCheapo Review: Run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church as a sanctuary for sailors, the Seafarers and International House is a real budget-friendly find.... read review
Address 27 W. 11th St. (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) (Greenwich Village & West Village)
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Address 251 West 20th Street,NY 10011 (Chelsea)
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Address 318 West 22nd Street (Chelsea)
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Address 302 West 47th Street (Hell's Kitchen)
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Address 242 West 49th Street (Times Square-Theater District)
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HIGH POINT, N.C. - Pfeiffer University's Johannes Tisell (9-3-0 overall, 5-1-0 conf.) has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas men's soccer Player of the Week during week number seven in the 2009 season. This is the second-straight week a Falcon has taken home player of the week honors, third overall this season.
A freshman defender, Tisell paced Pfeiffer University to a 2-0 record this week, pushing the Falcons to their sixth-straight win, with a pair of goals and three assists. On Tuesday vs. Barton, Tisell assisted on the Falcons second goal of the day before putting home his first goal of the week in the 50th minute during a 4-0 win against the Bulldogs. In a non-conference tilt at Chowan on Saturday, Tisell started the rout of the Hawks with a goal just five minutes in while assisting on the team's second and seventh goals during an 8-0 victory.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. Pfeiffer University senior Sara McCormack (Charlotte, NC) scored her second career goal, both in Conference Carolinas tournament play, during the 11th minute on Thursday night to send the third-seeded Lady Falcons into the championship game on Saturday with a 1-0 win over second-seeded Queens. Pfeiffer, improving to 13-5-1 overall, will head to top-seeded Belmont Abbey for the title tilt at 1:00 p.m. while the Royals ended their season at 10-8.
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Cliff Stering shows how he screwed extra lids on the bottom of plastic bottles in order to link them together to make a birdbath post. The 88-year-old Edmonds man has got a thing for fudge bars, sparkling ice and making bird feeder posts from the wrappers and containers while watching TV in his living room. He has lost 20 pounds doing so, and his bird baths have become a hot item.
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Cliff Stering, 88, has found a way to have a low-cal fudge bar each day and make use of its shiny wrapper as well.
Dan Bates / The Herald
Cliff Stering, 88, has found a way to enjoy a flavored water drink and a low-cal fudge bar each day and even make use of the bottles and shiny wrappers. He turns them into posts for his birdbaths.
It wasn't news the 88-year-old retired mechanic wanted to hear, but he wanted to live to be 90, so he obeyed.
To get his sweet fix, he indulged in Cascade Ice sparkling water and Healthy Choice Fudge Bars.
Stering, who doesn't like to let his hands idle, fiddled with the labels, twisting the shiny paper into tiny balls to fill the empty plastic pop bottles.
"I decided I'll just make something to look at before it gets thrown away," he said. "Well, it didn't get thrown away. I thought, 'There's gotta be another use for it.'"
Sure enough, he found one. A use only a man with his ingenuity could find. "My daughter's husband had died, and she needed a post for an old birdhouse that he made years ago."
Stering fastened the ball-filled bottles together as a stand for the birdhouse, using pitchfork prongs as an anchor.
The outcome was artsy, sustainable and functional.
Best of all, it was a good excuse to eat more fudge bars.
"Every time somebody comes I talk them into having an ice cream bar," he said. "Would you like to have an ice cream bar? They're good. They're not fattening."
Stering has lost 20 pounds since turning his consumption into a hobby.
He advanced to making birdbaths, cleverly engineered so the top comes off for easy cleaning.
"It's gone gangbusters. I can't keep up with the orders. The grandkids say, 'Grandpa, I'm next,'" he said. "It takes a good week to do a bottle. It takes eight of them for a birdbath. I'm thinking about making lamps out of them next."
His daughter-in-law, Sandy, said the creations give him a sense of purpose.
"When he wakes up in the morning, he has a goal," she said. "It keeps his mind going."
The Herald learned about Stering in an email she sent: "I feel this reflects how many senior citizens still want to be recognized and feel that they have value for the rest of their remaining time with us," she wrote.
"He not only recycled waste, but he was able to design and create something useful from scratch and to feel value and self-worth again. His days and nights are long with the TV being his main form of entertainment."
Stering still drives but has limited mobility by foot and is tethered to an oxygen canister. He has been a widower for about 30 years and lives in the house he built in 1948.
Though he has a doting family, much of the time he has only the TV (favorite show: "Big Bang Theory") for company. His little dog, Trudy, died a few months ago. She never lectured him when they'd make runs to McDonald's for an Egg McMuffin. After all, a guy's gotta eat.
The birdbaths are a crafty path for Stering, who flew planes, raced motorcycles and repaired fleets of cars.
He and wife Charlene raised three children. She knew what she was getting into from the get-go.
"I told her before we got married that if motorcycles were going to be a barrier I guess we couldn't get married," said Stering, who raced Harleys and did stunts on the Seattle Cossacks motorcycle drill team. "I could go down the road 50 miles an hour and ride on the seat backwards."
Charlene accepted her husband's daredevil tendencies and appreciated his tinkering skills. He made a grill from a water tank. "You could put a whole cow on it. It was that big," he said. "You could cook about 80 chickens on it. It was for parties here when the wife was alive. There'd be 200 people. People driving by the road would stop in. We met a lot of people every year."
More people meant more plumbing. Stering was up to the task. "I built an outhouse and put it over my RV drain," he said. "I put a toilet in there and a mirror, for the ladies."
His wife of 43 years died of breast cancer in 1985. He retired in 1986.
Stering's new hobby may not stop cars, but it keeps his hands moving and his days and empty bottles filled.
"It's better than doing nothing," he said. "It kind of pacifies the time somewhat."
What do the birds think?
"The first one I put out, a bird went to the bathroom on it," he said.
Andrea Brown; 425-339-3443; firstname.lastname@example.com.
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