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Vicky North - thanks for adding the links as I could only see other videos on resin by other people on the you tube scroll thingy on the bottom and not the rest of this series. I've watched all three parts and found it very informative and helpful.

I've had problems finding a place around here that isn't less than 62 miles away to fix my Brother sewing/embroidery machine sooooo I bought a Bernina Activa 210. I bought some twin needles - one that is smaller that I could zig zag with and one that is larger that I can do straight stitching with. The mastery guide classes I took for the machine showed me (I specifically asked about twin needles and brought mine to class to have the teacher show me and give me tips) that we can feed cording through the hole in the needle plate and it will go under the fabric between the stitches so you don't have to do that by hand later. But I think the hole in the needle plate is only so big and won't do too large of a cording size.

The typed description is right but the illustration has the lengthwise and crosswise grain line arrows in the wrong spots (they need to be switched with each other).....unless I'm just totally looking at it cross eyed.

Thanks so much for the quick reply Shannon. Your ideas make sense and would totally work so I'm off to shop around in my own sewing stash.

This is only a good idea if you are still using a CRT monitor - you know the big boxy old ones with the glass front. If you have a wide or flat screen LCD monitor NEVER do this, don't even press your finger on it because you can severly mess it up. You may be able to do this with an old boxy tv that has a glass front as well since it's bigger but do not do this on the new flat screen hd tvs. Just stick to trying this on a window or a sliding glass door, even against the window of your car. I realize that there are still a lot of people out there who have antiquated computer equipment but this is just not a good tip to have floating out there since those types of monitors aren't sold anymore and lots of people have moved away from CRTs.

Sorry, my mistake, I blame my IE security settings.

"Watch this great pressing video" - there is no link to this video.

Super tip! I can't wait to try it.

Very informative, however, it seems as though the video was cut off at the 9:13 time period when the resin materials were being gathered together (cups, sticks, alcohol, etc). The video seemed a little long and several minutes of glueing the images down could have been cut out (the sped up bits were fine though) as they were too many times repetitive. I would have liked to see the end of the vid though.

Great idea. This is a great project to use with those tiny floss samples the dentist gives out .... small enough to keep in your sewing box so you always have it on hand, plus it's not mint flavored like the big one in the bathroom.

Very cute. Love that there was a pattern with this tutorial. Even the picture of the back in step number 6 looked cool.

I would love to be able to have the twin needle capability on my sewing machine because this looks so cool. My machine does zig zag but when I looked up accessory feet and needles, etc. on the Brother website they didn't have twin needles for my machine (PE-400D). I'm wondering if it would be a waste of money, and might damage my machine, to buy generic twin needles somewhere. Any ideas on this anyone?

So glad to see a bag made out of plastic bags that doesn't require you to crochet them. I've been wanting to make a few but do not know how to knit or crochet and that's all I see out there made with plastic bags. Did you cut the bags into strips or just used whole bags? How did you weave them - stuck down on a board first? Was it difficult to sew the fabric to the plastic bags? Any more detailed info on construction would be wonderful for us non-crocheters.

Buying products locally not only saves on fuel but helps keep up our economy, makes more jobs which helps reduce the number of homeless, and also keeps businesses from closing down and laying off thousands just because it's cheaper in labor costs to move stuff out of the country where they don't have so many human rights, and quality and safety regulations.

I'm very keen on making my own bags to use. However, I need quite a few bags and they all also must be strong enough to hold three 2 liter bottles of soda. I'm wondering if it's more a question of sewing seams well and not so much material (although a non-flimsy material is best I'm sure).

Wow. Great instructions and love all the detailed pictures. I'm definitely going to try this. The hardest part will be the stitches.

Thanks! I had never heard of the wing needle until now. I'm still looking for a good and safe way to discard old needles...any suggestions anyone?

Great tutorial! All the pictures helped. There is a flickr group devoted to using ties called Sewing With Neckties. There are tons of great things to be made with neckties. http://www.flickr.com/groups/34628626@N00/