Denim World Championship - SuFu Division

[summ3rhays]

Nice job mpukas!  Looks like a lot of fun.

 

Here is a little Last Man Standing update.  The MBB's still have a lot of life after 2 years.

 

[Broark]

Finally getting around to uploading some pictures from my trip to DC. (Apologies for the crappy iPhone camera quality!)

Shot of the jeans while we were waiting for the flight to board from Austin.

One of the first stops was the National Gallery of Art, probably our favorite museum overall. Just a massive collection of art, very impressive! You can easily spend all day here.

Beautiful marble fountain just inside the National Gallery of Art, during the holidays it's surrounded by holly and a big Christmas tree.

The Washington Monument, always present when you're on the mall. Last time I was here it was closed for renovation. We didn't go up to the top because the queue was too long...

World War II memorial and Lincoln Memorial in the distance. The next day there was a WWII airplane flyover to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the war. Really awesome to walk around the city and see some history buzzing around overhead. Wish I could've gotten pictures of the planes.

This is about as close as you can get to the White House these days, a bit of a bummer but my sister and her husband were telling us about how some guy recently made an attempt to run into the White House and actually made it pretty far since one of the doors to the East Room was unlocked! So they've stopped letting anyone get even remotely close.

Lincoln Memorial and the reflecting pool, which was a little murky.

[Broark]

Continued...

The next night we went to a Braves vs Nationals game. Sadly my Bravos lost, but we had a good time. I love going to baseball games, wish we had an MLB team here in Austin.

Local brewery DC Brau makes for a much better option than Bud Light or some other big brewery trash!

Next afternoon we walked around downtown and visited the National Portrait Gallery and went out to Mount Vernon with my sister and her husband. Couldn't ask for better weather.

And that's about it, we had a great time and walked around 25 miles in just a couple of days! The jeans got a lot of wear and saw a bunch of sights. I'm planning on washing them at two months and will post more pictures of them then.

[Blue Nemo]

Great trip, Broark! 

[Broark]

Thanks Blue Nemo, now I just have to post them all to the DWC board!

[Max Power]

Thanks Blue Nemo, now I just have to post them all to the DWC board!

 

I Need to do this too but forgot my Password (and still find it complicated).

[itschrisb]

Nizzle your Tux is looking proper!

[Max Power]

About 6 weeks in both - WH 800 & IHx VS Type I

[tigerstrom]

Looking great max power!

[straightxedge]

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Edited May 21, 2015 by straightxedge

[straightxedge]

Hi guys,

it´s been a while since the last post, but now I want to give you the next sight in the making of the Ruttloff Garments - Artisan Challenge jeans.

The first step of the making were the pocket bags. We use a 9 oz indigo overdyed selvage denim printed with a nice Katagami. You can read more aubout this in my last post.

 

The printed fabric

 

Drawing the cutting pattern

 

Cutting the pieces for the pocket bags

 

Done

 

Mr. Ruttloff has a special way to reinforce the pocket bags.

He use a extra layer of the fabric in the bottom area of the pocket bags, to make them more durable.

The reinforcement has an accent hemstitch done by a Singer from the 1920´s.

 

 

Sewing all pieces together with a Dürkopp and a Union Special-single chainstitch

 

 

Back and front together, hemstitch and selvage detail

 

[Max Power]

^wonderful fabric & pictures!

[Blue Nemo]

I Need to do this too but forgot my Password (and still find it complicated).

 

 

hm, you realy don't need to post that a lot pictures into the DWC forum         its enough on one board 

[Megatron1505]

^ Says who? 

 

Guys, if you use the photo guide in the info thread it is really not hard to upload pictures. I would be shocked and dismayed if people start to decide that they only want to share here rather than in the contest because it takes a couple of clicks more to post a picture.

[nizzel55]

d51

[Blue Nemo]

^ Says who? 

 

Guys, if you use the photo guide in the info thread it is really not hard to upload pictures. I would be shocked and dismayed if people start to decide that they only want to share here rather than in the contest because it takes a couple of clicks more to post a picture.

 

me, obviously....

 

but guys, I was playing a bad version of prince charming and I sincerely hoped, that the amount of emoticons I used would show by themselves it wasn't meant thaaaaat serious!

 

I will not further discuss this already dead beaten topic, but uploading pictures in the DWC forum is still a pain in the ass (that hasn't changed and we all know about this guide...), especially when you want to upload 30 or 40 pictures as florian does, repeatedly.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Blue Nemo

[Max Power]

Well yes, I didn't have time to edit all the direct links and upload each picture one by one. I hope I find time to do so soon, but so far I will keep track with the main updates there and post more here.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Max Power

[Megatron1505]

Blue Nemo, it's a different link code and 2 extra mouse clicks. You're making a big deal out of an extra 2 seconds work.

Excuse my sensitivity, but when you've worked as long and as hard as I have on this, to have an employee of one of the contest sponsors telling people to post their pics only on another forum rattles my cage a little.

[Lukenstein]

I post more Pics in the dwc , and sometimes bring a slightly watered down version to this thread!

[pudaspriest]

I post more pics in my thread over there as well. Once you figure it out it is only a little harder than uploading pics in here.

Edited May 22, 2015 by pudaspriest

[Broark]

You can use the same links as here, it's not too much of a hassle at all.

The only thing I want to know is if there's a way to change the red font on the DWC forums? It's a little hard for me to read personally.

[nizzel55]

I agree on the red font. Also finding it a bit hard to read. I host my pictures on my own webpage. So I am not finding it troublesome to post pictures.

I do find it a bit annoying that I can not edit old posts. For example I noticed I spelled two pictures incorrect. I changed them and the link broke on the forum. Only way forward was to repost the pictures in a new post.

[chicote]

Posting pictures in the DWC forum hasn't been much of a hassle, but I agree with nizzel that not being able to edit posts can be very limiting. For the time being, I'm only able to post from my phone, and it's rare to be able to type out a long post without either making an error (in the picture codes, spelling, etc) or having more things to add later on. That being said, I really appreciate the effort put into having a dedicated DWC forum, and I enjoy getting to communicate with members of other denim communities in the process... thanks!!

Edited May 23, 2015 by chicote

[Megatron1505]

I have asked the questions about text colour and post editing, as I fully agree that these are annoyances.

 

What needs to be kept in mind is that this forum was set up on a stringent budget. Forums like this one (Superfuture) have a team of technical staff, and a much larger budget through continued sponsorship and advertising payments which generate a healthy monthly income.

 

Whilst the DWC obviously does charge a small entry fee, and we were helped with set up costs by some very generous sponsors, I do not think that the entire sum of generated funds equals even a small percentage of what a place like this generates in a month.

 

The DWC forum is not perfect, it isn't as immediately user friendly as Superfuture or the IHF, but it serves the purpose of gathering all submissions together and bring more order to proceedings than we have had in the past. Plus, I genuinely like it, I like being able to see updates and go back through the submissions of that same person, and I think as the contest progresses that this will be even more fun to see.

[MileHighEvertonian]

Not much happening with my Railcar x021s just yet, and even less excitement happening in my day to day life (I teach at a university, and it's the tail end of the academic year, which means lots of grading and managing student anxiety). All the same, I tried to capture a few subtle changes taking place. My camera just isn't capable of real macro shots, but I was pleasantly surprised by the last shot of the single-felled inseam on the thigh. Looking at that little ribbon of wear along the seam is like looking into the future.

 

 

For what it's worth, I found that if you open up your original post on sufu as if you were going to edit it, you can select all, copy, and then paste right into a new post on the DWC site. The only glitch is that you need to edit the text as a few strands of code for font & size show up. It took me 20 seconds or less to copy, paste and edit this post in my DWC thread.

Edited May 23, 2015 by MileHighEvertonian

[Blue Nemo]

regarding the upload: "fine, fine" to all the fellas above

 

 

Blue Nemo, it's a different link code and 2 extra mouse clicks. You're making a big deal out of an extra 2 seconds work.

Excuse my sensitivity, but when you've worked as long and as hard as I have on this, to have an employee of one of the contest sponsors telling people to post their pics only on another forum rattles my cage a little.

 

I get your point, Megatron. I already explained my intentions ones and thought this was crystal clear.

[mp201]

~50 wears in- it's summer!

[Blue Nemo]

amazing what you can get with 50 days only, especially when you compare it to the pair you wear in that picture!

seems like you're spending a lot of your time on your knees also!

[unders]

Quick fit pic.

 

 

Just updated my thread on the DWC site. Uploading photos is piss easy.

[Megatron1505]

Good news guys, text colour is now changed to dark blue, and edit post function is enabled.