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Regulations Hobble Protestant Churches
Reclassifying buildings as places of worship nearly impossible.
12/15/08 Turkey (Compass Direct News) – In the city of Samsun on the north coast of Turkey, the beleaguered congregation of the Agape Church Association struggles against local Islamic hostility toward its presence.
In the last three years Agape church members have endured false allegations and verbal abuse from Muslim and nationalist locals. Their pastor has received death threats, and their building has been vandalized, all in an attempt to stop the 30 or so Christians from meeting.
Local authorities have also had their part in opposition to the church, threatening it with legal action based on spurious charges. Despite being an "association," an official status that provides some legal protections and that the government encourages Christian congregations to obtain, the church was threatened with a lawsuit because members had hung verses of Scripture and a cross on the walls. The Provincial Directorate of Associations inspected the building and told them to remove the offending articles because their rented rooms looked too much like a church.
"We didn't change the decorations, because having a cross or verses in a building is not a crime," said Orhan Picaklar, pastor of the church. "If it were, then Muslim associations would have to take down their decorations: verses from the Quran, prayers of blessings and images of the Kaaba in Mecca. We didn't change a thing."
It was this sort of harassment that led the Alliance of Protestant Churches of Turkey (TEK) to write its latest report, published last month. TEK, established in 1989, represents 34 churches throughout Turkey and acts as a support and advocacy group.
The report focuses on the unfounded obstacles and challenges facing Christian congregations wishing to construct or reclassify church buildings. Authors of the report told Compass that congregations in principle should not have to meet under the pretext of an association, since the law in theory provides for the establishment of "places of worship." They said the push on the side of authorities to form associations is in essence discriminatory.
"A place of worship for religious groups is crucially important; they need places of worship in order to survive and develop," said a member of the TEK's legal committee. "The process of becoming a place of worship, although legally possible, is in practice almost impossible. Because of that, we feel the need to put this issue on the agenda. We wanted to bring this issue to the attention of local and international bodies."
In 2003 Public Works Statute 3194, which regulates the construction of religious buildings, was amended in response to pressure from the European Union. The revised regulation now uses the phrase "places of worship" rather than "mosques." This has prompted Christians to apply for legal status changes for the "offices," "residences" and "warehouses" in which they had been meeting.
This change in the law paved the way for Christian meeting places to be "rezoned" and legally registered as churches; applications for status change thus far, however, have been rejected by local municipalities on various grounds.
The Besiktas Protestant Church is awaiting a decision on its application to have its premises rezoned. No church has ever succeeded in such a quest.
"All the documents have been there for the last two years; it's just been kept from coming," said a member of the Besiktas church. "They don't want to make a decision. That a group can take a non-church building and get it rezoned is not a precedent that they really want to see."
Another step towards obtaining credence came from a change of law in 2005 that removed previous restrictions on forming associations. At least nine churches have submitted applications to their local authorities to register as such.
"The government is recommending that – they want churches to become associations," said the Besiktas church member. "We may well do that."
Although this is a major step forward in Turkish churches' struggle to gain legitimacy, registering as associations has not always kept them from harassment and maltreatment.
"Being organized as an association does not rezone your building," said the Besiktas church member. Only gaining legal status as a "place of worship" would make holding church services legal. "You're holding church services in a place that's set aside for that."
Along with the Besiktas church, the TEK report cites the cases of four other congregations that are facing closure based on charges of violating zoning laws. It is this sort of harassment that congregations hope to prevent by changing the classification of their buildings.
Four further congregations have had requests to build "places of worship" rejected; in each case, authorities told them that no suitable location was available.
The report outlines three main problems facing congregations wishing to build their own premises.
The first is the size requirement for any new building site. The allocation criteria stipulate that a plot cannot be fewer than 2,500 square meters, an excessive and overly expensive amount of land for a congregation of 30-40, the average Turkish Protestant congregation.
The Samsun church is a case in point. It has met in rented apartments since its inception and been forced to move on numerous occasions.
"The place we use now is a rental, and if the owner wants to kick us out, we'll be forced to change our church's location," said Picaklar. "They [authorities] stipulate that the land be 2,500 square meters. This is impossible for us, because to buy that big of a plot we would need 700,000 to 800,000 U.S. dollars."
The second issue the report cites is the vagueness of the permission criteria by which civil administration is to award or reject applications. The report suggests that "there is much room for arbitrary discretionary decisions."
Thirdly, the report berates the unfairness of application denials based on lack of resident Christian population in areas for proposed worship buildings.
The report points out that it is unlikely that the Turkish Protestant community, with a ratio of one member per 20,000 people, would ever have the requisite presence in a single locale to justify the construction of a church building.
Proposed Solutions
The TEK report concludes with suggested solutions to the challenges that have dogged its member congregations. It first urges that the national government do a better job of educating and overseeing local authorities.
"The ministries of the Interior and of Justice should not only inform their local offices of the rights of non-Muslim groups but should also adequately train their civil servants and make every effort to prevent rights violations," the report states.
The report also urges that regulations governing plot and building size be relaxed.
"Communities should be given the chance to buy and build places of worship according to their own needs and resources," it states. "Christians should be allowed to have small places of worship just like the Muslim masjid [privately owned mosque]."


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Size:About 26" long.
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HEARTS(Make 4)
With White, ch 2, (sc, hdc, dc, 2 tr, ch 2, sl st, ch 2, 2 tr, dc, hdc, sc) in 2nd ch from hook, ch 2; join with sl st to first sc. Finish off and weave in ends.
Join Red to sl st between 2 curves of heart, ch 10, sl st in next heart, ch 90, sl st in next heart, ch 10, sl st in next heart, working back along ch, sl st through both lps of each ch across. Finish off and weave in ends.

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Thanksgiving came and went but there is really no time to rest! Christmas is around the corner and everyone is feeling merry. At least I hope everyone is. Although I really like Thanksgiving, Christmas to me has something magical about it.
Be it the wonderful lit up windows in the snow covered houses, or the spicy fragrance that fill the streets of the Christmas market or simply the gleaming eyes of enchanted children, enamored by the "ho! ho! ho!" of Santa Claus, or even listening to Wham!'s "Last Christmas" for the trillionth time on the radio, Christmas time brings on a special cheer and spirit in me.
I really enjoy the entire December month. Because as soon as December 1st comes along, I know it's time to bake, cook and decorate. OK I do this all year round but during the weeks counting up to Christmas the entire house looks warm and cosy with dimmed candle lights, decorated with mistletoe and berries and the sweet scent of cinnamon, cardamom and vanilla lingers in the entire house.
It's also the time of month where friends will drop in for Advent tea or after a nice long winter walk we spontaneously invite friends to stay for supper. So it's always good to have cookies, cakes and quick snacks around the house.
Although I always add a lot of affection and care into my cooking and baking, somehow during the Christmas weeks I feel especially close to my kitchen. The dishes, cakes, desserts and cookies I create during this time carries more thought and care, peppered with a little more feeling and spiced with slightly more love. Maybe in my crazy mind I hope that the people I share my creations with might get infected with my merriness. Tis the season to be merry - after all.
So, I hope a tart like this will spread more warmth, joy and affection among everyone I share this with. Layered with the sweetness of pumpkin and topped off with a crumbling of salty feta cheese, which offers the perfect counterpoint to the pumpkin. Vegetarians would leave it as it is but for the bacon lovers among you, adding a handful of cubed crispy bacon pieces enhances the flavor, giving a new dimension to the tart.
It's perfect on it's own for a lovely supper with friends and a glass of wine, but it also makes an extraordinary side to your grand Christmas turkey or it would look elegantly at home on the New Year's buffet. This type of flexibility makes it the ideal dish for entertaining with friends and feasts, using produce fresh from the Farmer's Market.
Come join me for a Traditional Feast this month. Bring along your favorite dish to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanuka or Diwali.
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Printable version here.
Makes 2 tarts for tart forms of 22 cm diameter each.
300 g + additional handful all-purpose flour
150 g soft butter
A pinch of salt
50 ml milk
1 kg Hokkaido pumpkin - cut in thin slices
300 g sour cream
100 g Crème fraiche
5 eggs
200 g feta cheese - cubed
Salt and pepper
Grated fresh nutmeg
Dried thyme
Quickly combine flour, butter, pinch of salt and milk into a homogeneous dough. You can use your food processor or your kitchen machine for this. Form the dough into a large ball, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter your tart or spring forms. On a floured surface roll out the dough and spread the dough out into the forms. Spread the pumpkin slices on to the dough.
In a bowl whisk together the crème fraiche, sour cream and eggs. Season generously with salt, pepper and nutmeg, then pour the mixture over the pumpkin. Spread the feta cheese over the top and sprinkle with some dried thyme. Place in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 40-50 minutes.
If the top starts to darken simply place a sheet of baking paper over the top of the tart.
Optional: Add about 200 g of bacon cubes with the feta cheese to the tart for a fantastic smoky flavor.
A fantastic harmony of flavors are combined to give a irresistible tart. We enjoyed this with chilled white wine and I think I was really able to spread the merry and joyous sentiment around our dinner table.
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Feb 23, 2016 | Carpet One Floor & Home
By Maria Killam, Design Blogger and Color Expert
White is the buzzword in interior color trends, but this is not news. White has been a huge trend for at least 5 years, and is still going strong. I'm not talking about purist white on white minimalism here, in fact I would say that kind of look is waning, it only ever looked good in glossy photos anyway. The white/fresh trend is evolving to embrace more eclectic and collected vibes with vintage, global and organic elements balancing its purity. The other neutrals and colors are getting paler, closer to white. These barely- there super-pales are softer than white and more forgiving, like grey.
Because of its versatility, the grey/fresh trend is not going away anytime soon, either, and with white as a popular classic right now, these super pale neutrals and pastels complete the current range. They are all backdrops for fresh, crisp and airy, whether paired with fresh brights, grounding organics, or contrasty darks. I've been saying it for a while now, these are the neutrals that offset color, and there is a lot of bold color in interiors right now.
On the flipside of the pale trend, dark moody rooms in hunter green, plum and peacock are still hot. What's losing ground are those murky mid-tone greys, tans, greyed out blues and greens that have been the conservative staples of the last couple of decades. Indigo and blues in general will still be going strong in 2016. This color manages to be both fresh and clean and deep and moody, and is easy and fun to work with. It adds depth to otherwise white or neutral spaces or creates a rich backdrop or compliment for other on trend colors such as soft warm pinks, jewel tones and analogous blues and greens.
Pink is huge and will continue to be in 2016. It is being freed of its excessively feminine connotations and making appearances everywhere as a modern and sophisticated palette staple. One subtle shift I have been seeing is towards warmer, richer, even earthier colors in decorating.
Olive greens, seventies golds and russets are being combined in fresh and inventive ways with cool blues, whites, greys and pastels. What's different about the new iteration of earth tones is that they are here to ground all of the cool, clean and crisp elements we have been installing in our fresh modern white and grey spaces. This trend is closely related to our recent fascination with brass and gold metals, warms to balance cools. No longer would you combine brown or olive walls with gold or rust accents as we would have in the Tuscan trend, now you would pair an olive velvet settee with pale blue grey walls and brass side tables or pumpkin orange dining chairs with a white oak dining table and pale creamy walls. The overall feel is fresh with some old world stability.
Cognac leather is a new classic and is a part of this new way of using earth tones. As is the use of other organic materials such as sisal, grass cloth, hide, unvarnished wood and stone. Rattan furniture and lamp shades, cozy luxurious organic textures and knits place an emphasis on craftsmanship and the handmade. Modern is no longer limited to harsh lines, shiny surfaces and minimalism. Of course there will continue to be those that push to the outer limits of the cool and fresh trend. For these adventurous souls, blues will get cooler more towards periwinkle and yellows will trend towards lemon again.
One of the most exciting things about this moment in color trends for decorating is that color is here to stay for a while so mix up your favorites, embrace contrast, texture and drama, bold is the way to go.
Maria Killam is an internationally sought after color expert, design blogger, author, trainer, decorator and stylist. She is passionate about all things color and design, subjects she writes about extensively on her blog, Colour Me Happy. Nominated for the 2015 WithIt Education Award, Maria has recently been published in Style at Home, Canadian Living, Better Homes and Gardens and Dabble. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Apartment Therapy, HGTV and House Beautiful among other publications. Her work won the best of Houzz awards for design and service in 2014 & 2015. Maria is also the author of the best-selling eBook, How To Choose Paint Colors - It's All in the Undertones and the soon-to-be released eBook, White is Complicated - A Decorator's Guide to Choosing the Right White Every Time.
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With all the zucchini that I have had this summer one of my favorite quick and easy ways to enjoy it has been simple zucchini fritters or cakes. Zucchini fritters are pretty just grated zucchini that is mixed up to form a batter and then it is fried in a pan until golden brown, rather like a pancake. Other than being easy to make, one of the things that I like so much about them is the fact that you can play around with the flavours in them and you can serve them with various condiments so you can have something new each time. Recently I have made texmex zucchini fritters with salsa and Greek style zucchini fritters with tzatziki . The next version that I wanted to try was Thai curried zucchini fritters with a spicy peanut sauce.
I thought I would keep it simple and I mixed some home made Thai curry paste into the zucchini batter along with some Thai inspired herbs and a birds eye chili for some extra heat. I used my favorite spicy Thai peanut sauce recipe and I served the zucchini cakes smothered in it. The Thai curried zucchini fritters turned out great! They were nice and crispy on the outside and warm and moist on the inside and just packed full of flavour. These zucchini cakes were easily tasty enough to eat by themselves or with a simple fish sauce based dipping sauce but they were great with the savoury peanut sauce. That peanut sauce is so addictive and I just can't seem to get enough of it! Now I am off to think of new ways to enjoy the zucchini that I have left.
Thai Curried Zucchini Fritters with Spicy Peanut Sauce
- 2 cup zucchini (grated and squeezed to drain)
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons green curry paste (or red curry paste)
- 1 green onion (chopped)
- 1 handful cilantro (chopped)
- 1 birds eye chili (thinly sliced)
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1/4 cup Thai spicy peanut sauce
- Mix the zucchini, flour, egg, curry paste, green onion, cilantro, chili, fish sauce and lime juice in a bowl.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Spoon the zucchini mixture into the pan to form patties and cook until golden brown on both sides, about 2-4 minutes per side.
- Serve with spicy peanut sauce.
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These are the most moist, yummy rolls ever.
And, they are ready to eat in 40 minutes!
Amazing :)
The recipe is adapted from another hamburger roll recipe on my blog. I created this version when I went to make rolls a few weeks ago without any eggs! I wasn't sure how they would turn out -- but they were fantastic. So, this weekend, I tried to see if I could re-create these rolls again, and I did with success.
The key to these rolls... don't over bake them! They have a nice chewy texture that I love.
100% Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls - Adapted from Lynn's Kitchen Adventure
{Print Recipe}
1 1/2 T yeast
1 C + 1 T warm water
1/3 C oil
1/4 C sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 C White Whole Wheat Flour
Begin by dissolving the yeast in the water. Let sit for 3-5 minutes until yeast is foamy.
Add in the oil, sugar and salt.
Then, add in the flour, 1 C at a time {I did this in my kitchen aid} stirring until incorporated.
Knead the dough for 3-5 minutes, until the dough is well formed and easy to work with. Add additional flour as needed to get the dough to become workable.
Divide the dough into 9-12 sections and roll into balls. {9 if you'd like larger rolls, 12 if you'd like smaller ones}.
Place the rolls on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Cover with a tea towel.
Set in a warm place and allow the dough to rise/rest for ~20 minutes.
Then, bake at 425 for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.
Cool on a wire cooling rack for 5ish minutes.
Then, transfer to a bread basket until you're ready to eat!
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Aivar has already begun to sweat. His last hit of "China white" was yesterday evening. Shortly his limbs will begin to ache, and if he doesn't get a fix soon he will vomit what little food and water he's had since waking up two hours earlier.
He is at a needle exchange in the center of Estonia's capital Tallinn and is using the opportunity to reflect on the deaths of his closest friends and the four overdoses he has suffered since he started injecting drugs 14 years ago. The 32-year-old understands how easily he could add to the statistic. One day the defibrillators will not work, he says. Still he can't stop. Neither can so many other Estonians.
Estonia has the highest number of per capita drug fatalities anywhere in Europe. The reason is fentanyl. Colloquially it is called China white, Persian white or Afghan. But they're misnomers — glamorous tags attached to a powder, prosaically synthesized in clandestine labs across the border in Russia. It arrived in 2002 during a heroin drought. It never went away. These days it is the drug of choice for the many thousands of dedicated injectors in Tallinn. And, according to government chemists at the sparkling new labs in the capital's Estonian Forensic Science Institute, it is anywhere between 100 and a thousand times stronger than the scag it replaced.
(MORE: It Ain't All Snow: Swiss Cities Have Some of the Highest Cocaine Use in Europe)
The effectiveness of the drug makes it easy to smuggle. The largest single police bust last year was a batch of 1.5 kg — small enough to fit in a knapsack, but enough for almost 40,000 doses of the drug on the street. Uncut, it is hardly detectable at all.
The tiny brown-powder doses carried around by addicts in fingernail-size sachets of aluminum foil have to be cut with whey powder or glucose to make them "safe" for humans. Typically, says Aime Riikoja, chief chemist at the Estonian Forensic Science Institute, the purity level is from 5% to 10%. Tragically, the drug gangs' amateur chemists can bungle the ratios. "In 2009 there were batches which were 13% to 14% pure," says Peep Rauseberg, a forensic chemist at the institute. "Many people died."
Sometimes the dealers know the drug is dangerously pure and warn their customers to be careful. Sometimes they can be carrying hits from several different batches at the same time and don't know themselves what is and what is not safe. "It has happened that we bought two doses at the same time from the same guy," recalls Aivar, who used to shoot up with his childhood friend in the alleyways of Tallinn. "When I woke up, my friend was already dead." One of five friends who started injecting together in their late teens, Aivar is the only one still alive.
In 2011 there were 123 drug deaths in Estonia, making this country of just 1.3 million, easily the overdose capital of Europe. The 2012 figures for the rest of the E.U. are not yet available. But Estonia's 160 deaths will see it top the table again. The injecting-drug scourge is also connected with Estonia's other public-health epidemic: Aivar is one of the 1.2% of Estonian adults diagnosed with HIV. The European country in second place is next-door-neighbor Latvia with just 0.7%.
Despite topping these twin E.U. leagues of infamy, Estonia is, in many ways, the standout European success story of the past 20 years.
As a part of the Soviet Union until 1991, the country is often lumped in with its more sluggish Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Lithuania. But with its Finnic language, modern supermarkets and burgeoning information economy, the country feels more Nordic, orienting itself politically and culturally westward to its main trading partners, Germany, Finland and Sweden rather than to Russia on its eastern border.
The country is also pulling away economically. After becoming one of the first East European states to join the euro at the beginning of 2011, self-confident Estonian politicians now lobby the E.U. to make Latvia and Lithuania members of the currency union too. And despite savage contraction in the wake of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, Estonia has now resumed its gangbuster growth, expanding 8.3% in 2011, compared with an E.U. average of 1.5%, and 2.5% in 2012, even while the rest of the E.U. shrank.
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Aljona Kurbatova, head of infectious-disease prevention at the Ministry of Health, however, believes the breakneck growth has come at a price, with many young people left behind in the murky backwash of the economic ocean liner. "The 1990s were a time of great change. A lot of Estonians felt like they had to excel. But a lot of young people have not been able to keep up, and they have turned to these drugs." The pockets of social deprivation where jobless young people with weak social networks have been allowed to fester, has helped to create the conditions where fentanyl has thrived.
"It is a social problem," says Risto Kasemae, a major at the National Criminal Police. "The police can only do so much. We are not a police state. We need to deal with the underlying social problems as well."
One of the many tragedies associated with fentanyl in Estonia is the youthful complexion of its users. It predominates among a marginalized group of mainly ethnic Russian men aged between 16 and 24. The drug's victims also die wretchedly young: 28, on average, for women and 31 for men. In the U.K., where its few users tend to extract the drug from painkillers prescribed to cancer patients, the statistics are 47 for women and 39 for men.
In a November survey the E.U.'s drugs watchdog, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, suggested, among a series of measures proposed to limit the use of fentanyl, an information blitz for vulnerable people. But users in Estonia are already morbidly aware of the dangers. In the spirit of stoic black humor, some refer to the drug simply as "flatline."
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Friday, July 27, 2012
A Few Thoughts on Grainlines and Pattern Changes
Hi readers! Yesterday in my post I mentioned that I had taken ease out of the bottom center front of my bodice, and tapered up to the neckline, creating a new center front. (Edit: I should mention again that the reason I took out excess at the waistline this way was that I found wearing a corset required special fitting at the waist. Taking out from the side seams--which should be your first option for removing waistline excess--only caused horizontal pulls.) Of course, this created a new grainline. A commenter asked, "How much do you think you can take out of the CF and not effect the grain line of the bodice?"
Well, that's an interesting question that has a complicated answer. I'll give you my thoughts and you can let me know if you think I'm an idiot. (I know some of you aren't shy about that!)
First, you are definitely affecting the grainline anytime you alter center front like this. Hence, you have to re-establish the grainline. Your new line becomes the new straight-of-grain. It's not unusual to have to re-establish the grainline after making pattern alterations.
What you have to consider is whether or not you're skewing the rest of the pattern by re-establishing center front. For instance, in my change, pivoting the pattern causes the shoulder to move further outward. (Just imagine, if you were laying the bodice front out on fabric to cut, how you would have to turn the pattern to make the change I made.) This, in turn, caused some gaping at the neckline. My first thought was to fix the gaping by moving that excess into the neckline dart. However! The smarter thing to do would be to move the shoulder in by the amount that I took out at center front. (Thanks to commenter Mrs. C who pointed this out!) So my next change would look like this:
So! I guess my answer to the question is that you can take out however much you want at center front (within reason), as long as you consider the effects in other parts of the bodice and adjust accordingly.
An aside: Another way to re-establish the grainline anytime is to fold the side edges of the bodice piece together and crease at the fold. The fold is your new grainline. I learned that at FIT, so it's totally legit, I swear.
Readers, what do you think?
42 comments:
If you take in the shoulders, how would that affect the measurement at the waist? You tapered the CF to take in the waist, not the top. I'm confused.
ReplyDeleteRepliesIt's because that move at the waist shifts the bottom of the pattern to the right, which makes the top of the pattern (shoulder) swing out to the left in a pivoting motion. If you try this with a pattern piece on the center fold of a piece of fabric, you'll see what I mean. :)
Delete- AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM
It appears that your pattern has a bust dart (separate from the waist dart.) It might have two bust darts, one in the shoulder and one in the side. Why not just take in the waist dart the amount you have tilted the CF at the waist. That way, you don't change the grainline, but you still take in the waist to fit your corset. Wouldn't that work?
I think if I were making this adjustment, I would have tapered the sides in and moved the darts if needed. Or maybe I would have just made the darts a bit bigger, depending on how the bust was fitting.
The rather bold move of taking the difference out of the center means the bottom of the front will have a slight "V" to it, and the neckline will have a bit of a peak at the center. Very small issues, but you may want to consider them along with the shoulder adjustment.
I rather envy you attending FIT. Makes me want to move to New York, just a bit.RepliesI would normally do that too but I found that doesn't work well on a corseted waistline. The corset creates excess fabric at cf for some reason and taking in the sides causes horizontal pulls.
DeleteInteresting. Maybe your next book will be about lingerie. With patterns and discussions on how different foundations affect the garments that go with them. No pressure though, just a suggestion. ;}
May I expound on your last statement? (I just finished Patternmaking II at FIT and can confirm that it is totally legit).... For pattern pieces where the CB/CF is placed on the fold the principle is the same (fold side edges of the bodice piece together and crease at the fold), however you don't fold the pattern piece because it is a half pattern piece and will be cut with the CF/CB on the fold of the fabric, which should be on grain.
Also worth noting.... in class my dress form was a size 14 (bossomy!) and my bodice draft had a LOT of bias in the one of my vertical dart legs. My professor advised me to always pattern some sort of princess seam or additinal dart shaping to eliminate torque/drag in the dart seams. Whenever I made a two piece bodice front with a princess seam I used the fold method to re-establish the grainline of the side front piece.RepliesThanks for this! How did you like patternmaking II? I took the first one, but haven't gotten around to taking the second!
DeleteI liked it alot but two days a week for 7 weeks was very intense! Professor L Pascal is really great, I highly recommend her. I posted a bunch of photos of my muslins on my instagram.
Question (sorry!): I get the shifting the shoulder/neckline.. but I don't understand (or I cannot picture in my mind) this..
Quote: "An aside: Another way to re-establish the grainline anytime is to fold the side edges of the bodice piece together and crease at the fold. The fold is your new grainline." unquoteRepliesSorry that was unclear! Basically you're just folding a piece of paper in half and making a crease on the fold. So fold the bodice piece in half so that the center front and the side seam meet perfectly. Make sure you get a good crease line on the fold. Open the pattern piece back up and use a ruler to draw a line along the crease. That's your grainline.
Did that help or did I make it worse? :)Hi there dearest Gertie,
Phew..............I was not picturing the FIT aside that you wrote.
Posted on your FB page, saying I am being silly/thick and then came here.
I get it now, so thank you so much for the explanation.I am so relieved and will write this one down. Thank you so much for the great tip.
Ok, I try to be a silent bystander, but I need to put my two cents in about pattern corrections that I am hearing in the above comments. As long as you analyze the problem it is really, just a lot of common sense, rather than skills (well, for the most part). Pattern alterations should not discourage you from taking on certain projects or expanding your knowledge. Give it a try and go with it. Try it out and see if it works for you.
Gertie, I don't think you are an idiot (I wouldn't read your blog if I did). More like brave to post something that will make all of the "experts" come out of the woodwork. Truth be told for every pattern alteration there are numerous outcomes to achieve the same goal. There is no definite right way, and if someone proclaims to know as such I would run very far away.
That said here's my "expert :)" opinion on the grainline- Unless you are styling stripes or working with bias, keep the grainline parallel to the CF and make adjustments as necessary.Replies"Unless you are styling stripes or working with bias, keep the grainline parallel to the CF and make adjustments as necessary."
-This made this whole thing click for me. Thanks!Well said! There are so many different ways to achieve certain results that it comes down to what you are most comfortable with. If it works for you, you did it right. I have my ways of doing things, but I am always open to hearing about possibly more efficient or more intuitive ways of doing things.
I think one should bear in mind that a too drastic change of the grainline can produce unwanted effects. Here this is not the case because the change is not so great, but let me try to give an example: If you had a piece that is cut on the bias, took the "... you can take out however much you want at center front (within reason) ..." literally (picky as I am :-) ) and took A LOT out of the top center front because of a REALLY gaping neckline, the piece would shift on the grainline so much that it finally would be cut straight. In the end, the stretchy bias would be no more existent - and reversely, a straight cut might turn stretchy.
ReplyDeleteHi Gertie, you inspire readers from New Zealland, and your blog is inspiring, as is your Craftsy classes. Sometimes the best fix on your pattern works for what you are trying to achieve, for your body or for your corset in this case! I would normally work with the dart, rather than CF, but what you are saying makes absolute sense in this case! Keep blogging!
ReplyDeleteI agree, both to your adjustment and to your reasoning, things are never as black and white as many pattern books suggest with their 'thou shalt always' instructions. Well done !
My two cents worth is that adjustments need to consider the fabric properties, how much skew or bias movement each fabric has as well. The adjustment for a firm stable weave woven would not work on a softer and more supple looser weave where the warp and weft yarns move I. Relation to each other.
I like the idea of retaining the relationship of shoulder angle to centre front and believe that the grain can be anywhere that gives you the effect you want - or at least that is what I teach my students.Fantastico!! :) It's going to be sooo preety!! :) And it does make so much sense to change the CF with a corset like you have, as the corset will be making your CF waist taper in a little more than usual, and so to get the flat fabric to sit flat around the new 'inverted cone' the adjustments need to be spaced out over the width of the front - CF, dart and side. Sometimes working on the flat pattern with the usual adjustments, it's easy to forget we are very 3-D, and not made of flat surfaces like an origami person! hehehe
ReplyDelete- ShannonJuly 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Reading this caused me to have a, "well, duh!" moment. Of course you would have to move the center front and reestablish the grain line.
However, this is also why my garments will always have that "homemade" look to them. I would have nipped in the side seams and then wondered why the center front was still all bunched up, after all, hadn't I fixed the excess material problem?
The more I learn, the more I realize all that I don't know but you give me confidence to keep trying! Thanks G! - ClaireJuly 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM
In my limited pattern making experience I would say what you have done it just fine. Every body is different and adjustments are therefore very individual. I use any pattern alteration book as a guide but in the end the best fit for you can only be made by sewind a toile.
And for all those beginners out there don't be scared. It's actually eadier than you think. Make the toile then put it on your body and pin exactly where tbe changes need to be make. After transfering tje changes to you paper pattern if you are still worried do another toile. The best lessons I always learnt about pattern alterations were through trial and error.
Thank you again Gertie for sharing your process! - KimsterJuly 27, 2012 at 7:15 PM
I have not much experience in pattern drafting or fitting patterns, but I wonder if the grainline matters when you cut the pattern piece on the fold? While cutting the pattern piece on the fold it is already on grain, isn't it?
ReplyDelete I have always understood that you maintain the grain of fabric when altering a pattern and that it is necessary to "true-up" the original grain if your alteration changed any part of it. The lengthwise grain is the strongest and should run perpendicular to the body. However, if you decided to use a striped or plaid fabric in an interesting way, you could cu those pieces on the crosswise or true-bias grains either by using a gridded ruler or by folding the pattern piece in half, so that the grainline arrows are on top of each other, creasing the fold, and the foldline is your new crosswise grain. Using a gridded ruler, you can then draw a 45-degree line through the center and create the true-bias grainline. (I don't know if this is the tip from FIT that you were explaining) The changes you have made to the center front grain shift that entire bodice to a slightly bias grain which will affect the way the bodice drapes and the shaping and easing of the neckline, armscye etc. The shoulder alteration is a separate issue, unrelated to the waistline. My suggestion would be to evenly take-out the excess fabric through the CF darts and the side seams.
ReplyDelete- CarinaJuly 30, 2012 at 4:07 AM
Hi Gertie, thank you for your brilliant blog. Did you consider adding an extra dart between sideseam and original dart, plus making orginal dart a little wider (1 cm or so) at waist? That would take care of the excess width while maintaining original grainline. The disadvantage is another sewing line on the bodice which you may want to avoid working with lace or for aestethic reasons.../ Carina, Sweden
ReplyDelete I've just found your amazing blog and I've started reading it from the beginning! I fell in love with the Burda Skirt Pattern 8155 and went to my local fabric shop this morning to buy it. Not only was it in stock, today was also the start of their 45% off discount period for Burda patterns. I think I am meant to make the skirt!
I have your book on pre order from Amazon and can't wait to read it.
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The family into which I was born is, to put it mildly, informal.
You know those holiday commercials that show gleaming, symmetrical groups of soft-spoken kin around a mahogany dinner table, with the paterfamilias doling out a turkey without getting grease on his necktie? We were not that family. We had as much in common with that family as we did with nomadic Mongolians and those tribes in the Amazon that didn't see white people until the 60s, or whenever it was. Come think of it, we probably have more in common with the Amazonians.
As a child, this drove me nuts.
I was thoroughly convinced by age six that I was a changeling. My "father" and "mother" were satisfactory for all practical purposes. They kept me clothed and fed. But they could not possibly be my real parents. My real parents would not eat off paper plates, or hang around the house on Saturdays in jeans and t-shirts. My real parents threw cocktail parties, dressed for dinner, and–the height of glamour to my infant mind–would take me to Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Princess for my birthday.
A lot of little kids try to run away from home. Not me. I parked myself on the curb in front of the house, with Raggedy Ann under one arm and a book under the other, and waited for my real parents to drive by in their limousine and pick me up.
It embarrasses me now that this way of thinking didn't fade as I grew older, it just morphed into a desperate need to claw my way to the top of a society that, I have since learned, really only ever existed in my head.
When I arrived at Harvard as a freshman, determined to make myself over into the second coming of Oliver Barrett, my obsession with etiquette began. Having heard that proper manners were the ticket into elevated circles, I set about to acquire them.
I missed.
My parents, I have since realized, had already taught me manners. What I learned at Harvard was etiquette. Extremely formal etiquette. Antiquated etiquette. Etiquette of a sort that only the people who hang around with Queen Liz need to know. Etiquette of a sort that helped change me, for a time, from a dizzy but not unpleasant person into a crashing, boring snob.
Have you ever met a 17-year-old whose fondest desire is engraved stationery and visiting cards? Who issues formal invitations to a Christmas party in his dorm room? And requires equally formal, written RSVPs? Who is so concerned with questions of precedent when introducing a mixed company of ladies and gentlemen of various ages that he nearly passes out from the strain? Who flies home for winter break in a coat and tie because he feels people ought to wear traveling clothes?
Through the grace of God, I have since calmed down. Mostly. I still want the stationery and the cards.*
The remant of this bizarre fascination is my collection of etiquette books and domestic manuals. Below is a small section of the shelf.
Even at this small size, you will doubtless note that they're mostly, ahem, slightly out of date. But that's one of the reasons I love them so. When I read them now, it's not so much for reference as to immerse myself in a world that, if it ever existed, is now long gone.
Take, for example, the 1920s edition of Emily Post. It's the fat blue book just to the right of Manners for Women. Just for one day, I would like to trade problems Mrs. Worldly, who is to my mind Miss Post's most enduring contribution to English literature.
Mrs. Worldly, a hefty dame who perches at the top of the social pyramid in a fur coat, would appear to live a life of perfect ease. But no. Daily, nightly, she wrestles with:
- How to survive a "camping trip" to the Adirondacks without her maid, because she cannot do her own hair.**
- Housemaids who noisily stack dinner plates one atop the other when clearing the table.
- Changing clothes four times a day when in Newport.
- Remembering the different hours appropriate for making social calls in Newport, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
- Properly addressing members of the royal family when visiting England.
In the years since college, I've come to appreciate my freewheeling parents and my goofy family. I've learned that something Birdfarm once said to me, which at the time made me grit my teeth, was quite true: "It's really just about being nice to people."
On the other hand, if you need to know how to Properly Cross a Ballroom Floor Without an Escort, I'm your man.
*And I still believe firmly in the importance of not only good manners, but of a certain level of practical etiquette. Humans are unpredictible, and their interactions are fraught with the possibility of conflict. When you give those interactions a framework, it helps keep things civil. It's a good thing, if you don't take it too far and use it to shut people out.
**She ultimately solves the problem by wearing a fur hat the entire time. I would never have thought of that.


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"I feel like my heart broke telling my children," Michelle told People. "They have all been so excited about this baby and looking forward to April coming around and having a new little one in our arms. That was the most difficult. The Lord is the giver of life and he can choose when that life is ready to go on and be with Him."
When they find out the gender, the family will choose a name and then conduct a funeral service. The last time Michelle miscarried was after the arrival of Josh and before twins Jana and John-David were born.
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During the past academic year LTU hosted 18 students from Brazil who have scholarships to study in the United States through the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program. Under the new agreement, if a Brazilian student can't take advantage of that program, LTU will provide a $10,000 scholarship for one year.
"The demand from Brazilian students who want international exposure is growing," explained IMT Dean of Engineering Marcello Nitz during a recent visit to Lawrence Tech. "We have been looking for reputable universities in the United States, and I've heard from the Brazilian students that they like it [at LTU]."
LTU and IMT previously had an umbrella agreement to increase cooperation. The new agreement sets in motion plans to develop summer exchange programs at both universities in mechanical engineering and civil engineering, and a shared graduate program in renewable energy.
Nitz said his university wants to bring LTU students to Brazil. "We want to see what the needs are [for LTU students] so that we can develop a program that is attractive to them," he said.
Dean of Engineering Nabil Grace signed the agreement for LTU. "The global economy often requires engineers to cooperate across international borders, so we continue to expand our interaction with universities in other countries," he said.
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Miss Emilia would like to introduce you all to her baby brother, Mister Jasper, who arrived last night at 9:16pm.
After very narrowly escaping being born at the side of the road.
Their bad mother, who is happy but nonetheless shell-shocked from what was - no exaggeration - a somewhat traumatic birth experience, needs to recover for a day or two before sharing that story. In the meantime, accept this photo and a weakly blown virtual kiss as both birth announcement and thank-you (for your amazing support during this crazy pregnancy) card.
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Of Oxen and Olives
05 Dec 2013
"Beco, ooooh Beco. Good Beco!" As our little tractor makes its sputtering way through the tangle of thistles and brambles, the otherwise-silent Polje plain is flooded with the still-warm sun of the dying summer. On the horizon, a long white strip of chalky pebbles gives way to the shimmering glitter of the Adriatic, barely rippled by a puff of the bora wind.
Our attention, however, is quickly captured by the imposing physicality of the bull who is calmly grazing just a few steps away from us. Surrounded by a small harem of cows and calves, with his muscular 1,200 kilos, Beco is a proud, awe-inspiring example of the giant Istrian ox, or boscarin, native to the Istrian peninsula and once commonly found as far away as Friuli.
"We brought Beco to Unije in 2011, along with five cows and five calves. These last two years have convinced us that the gamble of bringing this extraordinary animal back to the island will pay off." As he speaks, Robert Nikolic confidently strokes the massive head of the bull, who has approached the trailer, curious, in search of a tasty treat.
Robert's face is broad, his expression jovial, his eyes shining like the Adriatic. After years spent as a deep-sea captain and skipper, Robert decided some time ago to return to his island. Today he is a representative of the local administration, but also the guiding spirit behind Slow Food in Unije (mailto: [email protected]), the westernmost island of the Cres-Lošinj archipelago, the natural gateway to the Kvarner Gulf, lying opposite the southernmost point of the Istrian peninsula.
That the island has been inhabited since at least the Bronze Age is clear from the presence of mysterious "uroboros," arcane stone carvings showing a serpent eating its tail, a symbol of the cyclical nature of things. Though rich in charm, Unije lacks many resources, with little fresh water and no safe natural harbor. Although surrounded by the sea, for centuries its inhabitants were mostly farmers, thanks to the fertile Polje plain and the calcareous hills terraced for the cultivation of olive trees.
The boscarin used to be indispensable, not only as providers of milk and meat, but also as the main method of working the fields. "There are countless legends about the intelligence and hardiness of these animals. Some farmers swore they had oxen so wise that they could even wink on command," says Robert with a smile.
The reintroduction of the boscarin after long decades of absence from the island is at the heart of Robert's strategy, aimed at sustainably reviving the resources that Unije has always offered to its inhabitants. "For their farming to be self-sustaining, we need around 30 animals. With the production of hay, essential for the hottest, driest months, we have already closed the productive cycle. And perhaps we'll soon get a cowherd from Pozega, on the Croatian mainland, who can take care of the animals full time."
As a first sign of success, meat from the cattle farmed on Unije is being served in restaurants in Lošinj, the area's main tourism destination, a few miles from Unije. The objective, however, is more ambitious: to sell the beef directly on the island.
We return to the island's only village, also called Unije. The sun-filled streets wind upwards from the sea, past morning glory vines, rosemary bushes, fig trees and the odd palm tree. The houses, high on the slopes of the island, under the tall belltower of the Sant'Andrea church, are almost entirely encircled by small courtyards, in turn surrounded by drystone walls.
Just 85 people live in Unije today, compared to 783 in 1921. Economic migration, often overseas, has emptied the island, but so too have the painful and complicated political events that for the entire 20th century have marked the land along the northeastern Adriatic, contested by opposing national projects.
Even tourism, which has become a huge economic resource along the Croatian coast, has had a more limited impact here. There are barely 200 beds on all of Unije, with the few tourism facilities concentrated on the shore facing the small harbor: two small inns (Kod Joze and Kod Barba Ive), a holiday farm and a small seasonal ice cream shop.
At the same time, the island offers the ideal situation for focusing on development that picks up the components of the traditional economy and adapts them to the new economic and cultural context. "The other pillar on which Unije's delicate equilibrium used to be balanced was olive growing," explains Robert. There are no cars on the island, so we are walking up the stony slopes of Kalk, the 138-meter-high hill that dominates the southern area of Unije.
"We have over 15,000 trees, mostly of the two varieties best suited to our climate, Starovjerka and Slatka, but they've all been abandoned," he says. Once carefully tended, Unije's olive trees were grown on the terraces so typical of much of the Mediterranean. "We've tidied up around 500 trees, which will soon start producing again. It's a small but important step towards relaunching an ancient tradition that risked disappearing forever."
The bora wind picks up, and we can hear the waves breaking against the white cliffs that we can glimpse below us through the dark branches of the olive trees. The sea gets rougher, making its presence known, reminding us that autumn is approaching. With autumn comes the fishing season for squid (lignje in Croatian).
Every November 30 for the past seven years, in honor of the patron saint's day, the local Slow Food team has organized the Lignjada, a squid-fishing competition for local boats as well as guests from nearby Slovenia and Italy.
"The playing field is the western coast of Unije. One year, the participants managed to catch 60 kilos of squid in six hours, which were then eaten after the competition finished." Robert smiles, perhaps already thinking about hot soup after a day of fishing, about the cobalt sky that meets the metallic blue of the Adriatic on the horizon. "But the Lignjada is much more than a simple fishing competition. For us it's a chance to remember the connection with our sea, with our island. But also the delicate equilibrium that has held the destiny of our small community together for centuries, and still supports it."
Francesco Martino, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
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