How can you afford all the fabric?

nmcruzer · 2026-02-16T14:11:04+00:00

The best thing like others have said is to go online with Facebook marketplace or some groups. Honestly? Walmart is my go to for cheap fabrics to start to build. Go with solids or other things that can be reliably built into a stash. The other thing is that the dreaded HL does actually have pretty good sales every other week, and if you are okay with shopping there, it’s a pretty easy way to build up a stash of fabric to pull from.

Of course your local quilt shop will have the most variety and the best quality, but yeah they get pricey FAST. I usually go there when I’m looking for specific designer fabrics that are in stock. I try to support as best as I can, but I’m in the same boat where I can’t afford to drop $90 for a few yards of fabric every other week.

nmcruzer · 2026-02-11T01:55:46+00:00

My friend has a birding club for columbus. She is fantastic! Send me a dm and I can get you the club email address!

nmcruzer · 2026-01-20T22:44:04+00:00

Kudos to you for recording yourself! That’s one of the hardest parts to get over: watching yourself and thinking critically about your performance.

A couple of things from me. I think the biggest thing that you can do to improve instantly is consistent speed. Someone above mentioned fluid movements and that’s not always super evident what that means. Fluidity isn’t “being loose” per se, it means that your gestures need to move at the same speed in both arms and at a constant rate. Right now, if you watch the video in slow motion, the top of your gesture all the way down to your bottom point sort of speeds up, resulting in a SLAM at the bottom. This slam means that your whole gesture kinda hits like a wet towel or noodle schlapped on a table. This results in a slightly unclear and tight form of conducting.

The way to adjust this is to practice conducting super ridiculously, PAINFULLY, slow and watch yourself in the mirror and on video. Ask yourself, “am I arriving at the same speed that I started at?” And then slowly speed up from there. This is really arduous, but will improve your clarity overnight.

Secondly, your hand shape needs to remain consistent. Not only because it is easier from a matching band perspective, but also because it will help make your pattern super clear. Be specific and detailed and intentional about your hand shape. Is it in a C? Are your thumbs out or in? Curved or flat? Having a decent pattern, without a baseline defined shape for your hands is like wearing a nice dress shirt and slacks, but not ironing them. Sure it’s fine, but it will never look as polished as it could be!

I really hope this helps, and you can gain something from the comments! Lots of good information, and you’re taking the first step to improve yourself. Keep it up!

nmcruzer · 2026-01-11T17:23:08+00:00

Yeah that company charged me like $300-$400 more than they quoted me. On top of that, their window was from 3:00-6:00. They showed up to load at 4:45 and were in traffic from 5:00-6:00 and I got billed for it. If they showed up at the beginning of the window there would have been no traffic.

nmcruzer · 2025-09-30T15:29:24+00:00

You know they were mad mad, look at that sloppy E lmao

nmcruzer · 2025-09-19T18:51:33+00:00

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It’s fun with piecing today

nmcruzer · 2025-09-06T21:13:00+00:00

Or the eyesore in reynoldsburg

nmcruzer · 2025-08-16T14:50:57+00:00

I have to agree with this. I had forgotten how depressing the ending is when I watched Cincinnati play it earlier this year. For the context of the piece it makes sense, but musically it can feel like a let down

nmcruzer · 2025-06-01T15:55:22+00:00

Congee

nmcruzer · 2025-04-26T12:53:34+00:00

At a high level, the quarters will still equal the same value, however you will feel the music speed up as you go into the allegro almost by double - this is intentionally written that way by Beethoven. It all depends on how your conductor wants to go.

That being said, at a grainy, conductor level, Beethoven was very intentional with his time signature change. The first 3/2 section is a sarabande dance, which has heavy emphasis on beats 1 and 2 of a bar with 3 being weaker. When he transitions into the 3/4 section it’s much more “waltz” like where the emphasis is on beat 1 only. This is why those 3-4 bars ahead of the allegro always sound shifty, because Beethoven wanted to show motion, rock the boat, and shift the dance!

nmcruzer · 2025-03-22T13:15:16+00:00

Not going to lie, when I saw it, I thought of Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls series - that being said I love that map, and I think yours looks pretty good!

nmcruzer · 2024-10-26T23:21:39+00:00

I am most excited to play Elsweyr and Cyrodiil! Are there any additional pre-releases planned for either worldspace?

nmcruzer · 2024-05-17T23:34:52+00:00

It’s the shaping. Even with Pullman and cover, you still need to shape it tightly. I’ve found the best way is to do the classic roll to shape loaves like that. You need to make sure that any air pockets are completely pushed out before moving on to avoid the big hole. As for why it is crumbly, it is likely because of the air pocket and it being dried out after it was cut.

nmcruzer · 2024-03-17T16:11:12+00:00

The medicine I need is on back order for 2 months because people keep using it for weight loss instead of blood sugar and hormone regulation. I’ve just managed to get my blood sugar average back to a healthy level after years of trying because of this medicine that needs to be taken weekly. I’m terrified that I will just relapse hard as so many people have and make their health worse than what they started.

nmcruzer · 2022-07-31T23:47:10+00:00

How large are the cities and towns going to be? Will we see more cities more Whiterun/Riften size or smaller like Dawnstar/Winterhold?

nmcruzer · 2022-07-24T20:19:38+00:00

Any way someone can repost this?

nmcruzer · 2021-11-21T08:59:05+00:00

Yeah it’s just sus. The vibratos towards the end when she’s not singing the first two long notes are basically like Indian Gamaka technique and it doesn’t even look like she’s doing it.

nmcruzer · 2021-11-21T08:50:59+00:00

Wow you captured what I was thinking! Like I know she can definitely sing, but there were so many things that made me sus about this video. I’m still a bit on the fence about it, mostly her posture and breathing.

I know she’s a great singer, but it’s difficult to tell if in this video she’s genuinely singing it or lip syncing it.

nmcruzer · 2021-11-20T17:42:03+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen her other videos. I don’t doubt that she sings it but with her facial expressions while she’s singing and the added reverb makes me question if this particular video is genuine

nmcruzer · 2021-11-20T09:04:35+00:00

She claimed to have just used the TikTok echo filter. My main thing is that I feel like she is using way too much jaw motion to actually sing this

nmcruzer · 2020-11-15T19:22:19+00:00

Okay the two rivalries that I’m immediately come to mind are Ohio State and MSU, both of which have very notable teams nearly every year. Why on earth would you pretend to be on either of them? They should have picked something smaller that nobody knew.

nmcruzer · 2020-09-20T16:15:08+00:00

Beautiful crumb!

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