Darts add shape and a more fitted line to garments that use them. While many patterns come with the darts pre-printed, how do you add darts when you're sewing without a pattern? This tutorial shows you how to add your own darts by hand.
You can buy a pre made corset pattern from a manufacturer, or, if you really want to start from scratch, you can draft your own pattern. This tutorial shows you how to take your measurements and translate that into a custom fit corset pattern.
Want to install Preware on your Palm smartphone? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this mobile phone hacker's guide can present a complete overview of the process in about five minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look!
If you don't want to buy your links pre-made, you can coil your own links. You'll need wire (sixteen gauge is the most common), metal dowel rods in the diameter you want, variable speed drills, wire cutters and at least two pair of pliers.
This tutorial is aimed at a specific larp, but you can use this tutorial for any dark elf or svartaelf costume. You will need charcoal powder, whic you can buy from Ben Nye, and some pre-painted elf ear tips you can apply with spirit gum.
Make a super easy Fred and Wilma Flintstone costume for Halloween! This easy to follow tutorial shows you how to make your own costumes, without needing a pattern, and for significantly less money than you'd spend on a pre made costume.
This craft is for pre-K children, and is useful if you want to teach them about shapes. By using circles, you can craft them to make a cute little baby carriage. All you need is some glue and scissors, and maybe some stickers or other decorations.
Turn craft time into an educational experience! Using one paper triangle for the cone, you can use other paper circles to represent scoops of ice cream to teach your child about different shapes. This is a fun and easy craft for young children and their parents to do together.
Included with the Adobe Dreamweaver website creation software are several default layouts you can use to customize your project. This tutorial shows you how to use these prebuilt layouts for your own website, and set up a few useful templates and CSS styles.
The color picker component in Adobe Flash Creative Suite 3 will let visitors to your website choose their own color from a pre-selected palette and apply it to your specially indicated dynamic objects. Useful for paper-doll programs or other similar applications!
In this clip, you'll learn how to generate a basic MySQL database for use with Celtx. Whether you're new to the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language or are a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in this free video programming lesson. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
In this tutorial, learn how to use a pencil design transfer technique to emblazon the Cullen Crest on your Twilight cake. This unique cake is shaped like a chess piece and is perfect for celebrating the brand new movie! So, why not host a pre-movie party and serve this deliciously beautiful cake? This cake is also great for any Twi-hard's birthday bash. Beautiful and irresistible - just like Edward!
In this video, you will learn how to make your own custom icons in Windows XP. This will help you customize your desktop and stay organized.
If you own a Japanese maple tree, you need to know that there are three different methods for pruning bonsai. One is creation pruning, maintenance pruning, and pruning for show. In this video tutorials, you'll find out how to perform a creation pruning that is promoting branch development and growth. So good luck and enjoy!
Challenge yourself with this swimming video, which teaches you a pre-swim exercise called the Dragon. As fiery and monstrous a move as its name suggests, it involves lifting a set of heavy (10-30 pound weights) from your hip to over your head and then jumping as the weights go up.
Starting a film? A storyboard is a great way to visualize a motion picture or animation through a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence. Learn how to go about creating a storyboard in pre-production with help from this free video from EOS Lighting.
Wizard is back, and manages to outdo himself in this virutouso display of graffiti skills. In this video he turns his tremendous skills to drawing a clown head, but ups the ante by eschewing his usual technique of pre-drawing in pencil and going straight to permanent inks (sharpie and fabric pen). Rembrandt would be proud.
Ubuntu comes with pre-installed tools that can help solve problems you may encounter when using Ubuntu Linux. This video tutorial shows how to identify and address common problems in Ubuntu Linux. Such tools discussed include the system monitor, the log file viewer and the network tools.
Get the word out on that cool party, or classy soiree by advertising your events on Facebook. The events option on Facebook lets users post details about social events, business meetings, and more. It saves time and paper, and acts as a cool and informative online pre-party before the main event.
Learn how to ensure that your towels feel new, clean and fluffy after every wash. Using a Soda Crystal Pre-wash technique and adding white vinegar to your wash, you can easily make towels fluffy and absorbent again. Watch this video tutorial to learn all about it!
Ex-Pro keepers show how to warm up before a match. This specific to keepers. This is a light warm-up for early high school players. It is not rigorous by any means and is made to get goalkeepers using their finger tips and getting loose on their toes.
The Microsoft Office Access 2007 relational database manager enables information workers to quickly track and report information with ease thanks to its interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge. In this Microsoft Access video tutorial, you'll learn how to add and modifying fields to a pre-existing table, and applying these changes to an associated form. To get started adding and modifying fields, tables and forms in Access, take a look!
In this Boris Continuum Complete 5 plug-in tutorial you will learn how to create animated video backgrounds in Final Cut Pro. Save money on pre-made video backgrounds! Quickly design and animate your own unique video backgrounds by combining Boris Continuum Complete 5's Prism filter with your favorite Apple Final Cut Pro Generator.
Try a quilting experiment to make a radical change to your hand crafted quilt. In this video, the original quilt was much larger, and has been cut down to groups of 9 blocks. See how a different swath of fabric is sewn right through the center of the quilt.
Announce your arrival home in style by stepping in via a brand new door. Whether you're tired of your old one or it "fell" off during a particularly heated argument, installing a new door helps to instantly update a room.
A "voice changer" can be rewired so that you can play a pre-amped instrument through it like an effects pedal. It makes some relatively freakish sounds and is much more interesting this way. You can still use a microphone to talk through it but now you can rock out through it as well. Watch this video circuitry tutorial and learn how to modify a voice transformer into an effects pedal for musical instruments.
Yoga not only helps with body strength and flexibility but it can also help easy pre-menstral syndrome. In this fitness how to video SELF Magazine features yoga positions for PMS. Watch and learn how to decrease the bloating and cramps with seated twists, wind pose, cat pose, bow pose, reclining angle, crocodile pose, bridge, thunderbolt, half shoulder stand, rag doll, modified cobra pose and finally child's pose.
Offer this quick and healthy snack when the kids come home from school. Prepare a frozen grape slushy with a bag of pre-frozen fruit. This is an easy treat that kids can make for themselves in a blender. Don't forget to close the lid!
Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to use the move tool in Google SketchUp. The move tool is actually several tools combined into one. The move tool functions as an auto fold and an array tool as well. This tutorial covers how move is an auto-selecting tool, how to pre-select objects for more control, moving objects with precision, and some common problems.
This Apple software tutorial shows you how to import an audio file into GarageBand. Learn how to add pre-recoded audio files to your project, and use GarageBand's tools to make an arrangement.
Daniel Pak, shows you how to do a Pre-delivery Inspection (PDI) and routine maintenance on a Il Bello scooter. PDI's are done on new scooters and should be done before buying a used scooter.
When a thick piece of wood is treated the treatment doesn't soak into the center of the wood. If you are using the wood for a fence post you need to treat the bottom of the wood so that the ground moisture doesn't damage it. In this how to video, home improvement expert Danny Lipford gives a great way to treat the bottom of your pre-treated wood.
Check out this tutorial and learn how to get up to speed with the latest installment of Mircosoft Access 2007. Microsoft Office Access 2007 brings you a new look and new features designed to help you get your work done more easily than ever. You'll see differences right away, starting with the Getting Started with Microsoft Office Access page where you can open a blank or existing database, download a pre-built database template, and check out the offerings on Microsoft Office Online.
Interested in golf? Before you start swinging your club, there are a few things a golfer needs to know. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to determine aim, alignment, and how to prep your pre-routine.
2 in 1 hand and tennis juggling patterns are pre-requisites for learning how to do the Takeouts and Burke's Barrage moves. Watch this juggling how-to video and start practicing to juggle like a pro!
Instead of using pre-made mixes or sweet and sour, this drink-making video tutorial shows how to mix up a traditional margarita. Learn the original recipe and how to make a margarita like they did back in the day.
Want to gross out your friends with a magic trick that makes it look like you pierced your chin with a drinking straw? Well, here goes. This is a really simple prop trick. You need a pre cut straw.
Ellsworth's Ron Sawiki explains what to do before you go on a mountain bike ride, including lubing your chain and checking pressure.
Sometimes you build the perfect scene in Bryce, but you want to include a model you built in Rhino or 3DS or Poser -- or whatever. Or you may decide to insert a pre-made model that you downloaded. This is a basic tutorial in doing that with Bryce.
Learn some warm up drills for the whole basketball team before a game.
