This is where problems can develop. The grain in a slab will affect the clay’s shrinkage. The slab will shrink more along the width, across the grain, than it will along its length, or with the grain. If pieces are assembled so that the grains aren’t aligned in the same direction, the pot can pull itself apart during drying and firing. To flip a large slab, you will need two pieces of canvas, larger than the slab will be....

Fabric Choices Choosing your fabric is one of the first steps to sewing your own curtains. There are other things to look for aside from the color you want, including fabric weight, thickness, and grain. Learn about sewing fabric before you go shopping so you know what to look for besides a pretty color or print. Fabric 101 Everything you need to understand fabric grain and grainline Fabric characteristics: nap, wovens and knits, one-way designs, plaids, diagonal prints and stripes, and fabric choices for first-time sewing...

The tips will guide you on how to prevent the ad units from page load delays for a better user experience. After all, when it comes to ranking a website or a blog, page load time is one of the most important factors. The faster your website loads the more page views and more the revenue from your blog or website. When a site loads faster, it becomes easier to navigate, thereby improving the user experience....

Ideal Stones When out looking for rocks to paint, you do not have to be constrained to any one type of rock. Think about what you might like to paint as you are collecting, or collect all different shapes so that you have some on hand for multiple projects. You can even use bricks and pavers, and other landscaping hardscape materials. As you get more practice, you may get more creative and start imagining ways to add on to rocks or glue rocks together....

What You Need for a DIY Indiana Jones Costume Here’s what you’ll need to pull off the look: The Hat: Take yourself over to the thrift store and pick up any fabric hat that has a brim. Don’t worry if the hat you find is the wrong color. You can pick up an inexpensive brown dye for a cheap fix. Because the hat is instrumental to the look, start looking for the hat first, in case you need to visit more than one thrift shop....

This is especially useful if you have been assigned a task to create a video for an assignment. Or maybe you are an employee wanting to create an informative video for your colleague. All of this is possible when you make YouTube channel private. By making your channel private you agree to keep your channel hidden from the public eye. Your content and channel will not appear on searches and neither can anyone view anything on your channel unless you have invited them....

Open the Cabinet The first step to changing your band saw blade is to disconnect the unit from power. The last thing you want to happen is for the unit to accidentally turn on while you’re changing the blade.Once you’ve disconnected the power, open up the top and bottom cabinets, revealing the two tires between which the band saw blade is tightened. Clean out any excessive sawdust or chips, to make the job of changing the blade easier....

Circular needles can be a little trickier. If the needle is not part of an interchangeable set, the size is usually printed on the needle near the point where the needle part joins the circular part. If it’s part of a set, your storage case will have spaces marked for each size, but the needles themselves won’t indicate what size they are. Handmade needles, double-pointed needles, antique needles and other needles made of specialty materials might not have a size marking....

How to Report Someone of Facebook? Both mobile phone and desktop users can report people on Facebook through some steps that have been instructed below. 1. Go to the profile you want to report. 2. Press the three dotted icon below the message button and tap on ‘Find support or report profile’ option. 3. Select the reason for reporting that person. Please make sure that your reason for reporting someone on Facebook is genuine and not to fulfil a personal vendetta against the person....

There are many songs for you to listen to on Spotify. You can like the songs to listen to those songs later. However, Spotify does not directly allow you to share those songs. You can share each song but not all at once directly. We will give you suggestions on how to do it as well. You may want others to listen to your favorite songs sometimes. In such cases, you can share liked songs on Spotify....

Facebook notifications are a great method through which the app alerts us of the messages, comments, likes, calls, and many more activities that take place on our account. But, these constant notifications can also cause a lot of disturbance, distraction, and annoyance which can be problematic. So, it’s a relief to know that Facebook actually allows us the option to turn off Facebook notifications. If you are unaware of how to turn off Facebook notifications, worry no more because, with this article, we have you covered....

A color wheel is a chart that helps us understand the relationship between colors to help guide you to logical fabrics when you’re unsure which colors to choose. Forget about all the rules you’ve heard about colors that do and do not match because any color will work with any other color when we experiment with different variations of each. One glance at scrap quilts and a look at string quilts are proof of that....