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Well done you! You did a load of stuff and you conquered the math! ( i’m also terrible at math, pictures and sketches work so much better for me)
Thanks!
I really have to do the quilting part of the assembly of those panels, at least, so I can bring them and put them up in the yurt when I go out next weekend. I gotta do it. But it keeps being hot. My time grows short. I need a big glittery animated gif of self-motivation to loop at myself for a while.
Pictures work better for me too, but I can’t eyeball something that big and have it work. Poor Dude, though, spent FOREVER working out the measurement of the sides of the trapezoid, and I finally looked at it and said, “but that literally doesn’t matter?” and he was astonished by this. But I said, look, I measure the top, I measure the bottom, I cut in a straight line between them. I have a yardstick, I can extrapolate either a straight or a curved line. i’m not worried about it. So it literally doesn’t matter what the measurement is of the side of the trapezoid.
He’d been doing shit with the Pythagorean Theorem and shit like that to work it out. But– provided I connect the top and the bottom, that line is just going to be however long it is, and it doesn’t matter unless I curve it real bad. Which I won’t. I’m no artist, but I can freehand straight lines and curves and all like nobody’s business. (I’d be a great signpainter. I’m a craftsperson, okay. Not an artist. Art is for… fancy people.)
My other big thing when I sew is that I never do math to halve things. I just have a measuring tape and I fold it in half and read off that number, and that’s how I divide things in half. Most people would probably find it easier to do the math in their head, but not me. So I just fold the tape.
Well done you! You did a load of stuff and you conquered the math! ( i’m also terrible at math, pictures and sketches work so much better for me)
Thanks!
I really have to do the quilting part of the assembly of those panels, at least, so I can bring them and put them up in the yurt when I go out next weekend. I gotta do it. But it keeps being hot. My time grows short. I need a big glittery animated gif of self-motivation to loop at myself for a while.
Pictures work better for me too, but I can’t eyeball something that big and have it work. Poor Dude, though, spent FOREVER working out the measurement of the sides of the trapezoid, and I finally looked at it and said, “but that literally doesn’t matter?” and he was astonished by this. But I said, look, I measure the top, I measure the bottom, I cut in a straight line between them. I have a yardstick, I can extrapolate either a straight or a curved line. i’m not worried about it. So it literally doesn’t matter what the measurement is of the side of the trapezoid.
He’d been doing shit with the Pythagorean Theorem and shit like that to work it out. But– provided I connect the top and the bottom, that line is just going to be however long it is, and it doesn’t matter unless I curve it real bad. Which I won’t. I’m no artist, but I can freehand straight lines and curves and all like nobody’s business. (I’d be a great signpainter. I’m a craftsperson, okay. Not an artist. Art is for… fancy people.)
My other big thing when I sew is that I never do math to halve things. I just have a measuring tape and I fold it in half and read off that number, and that’s how I divide things in half. Most people would probably find it easier to do the math in their head, but not me. So I just fold the tape.
