 |
| Tape Measure Growth Chart. |
This Tape Measure Growth Chart is available as a free download from Just Something I Made.
I found it last week and downloaded it. I am so excited about the fun things that people are doing with tape measures!! Cathie, the smart cookie at JSIM first did one in inches, and then later added a metric measure for the rest of the world, and I'm so glad that she did.
There were a few small challenges that I encountered. The first was that the PDF is made to be printed on foolscap sized paper, so the printer was scaling the image to fit on an A4. This made the measurements wrong. While it still would have been ok as a record of growth, I wasn't happy enough, so I opened the files in Gimp, and cropped and printed my heart out, until I had everything printing the correct size.
My second 'problem' is that have no coloured ink in my printer. The colour cartridge ran dry about 1.5 years ago, and I suspect that re-filling is not an option anymore. So, unless I spend frivolous amounts of cash on a new cartridge, I'm a grayscale default, kind of girl. Back in the day, when I was growing up, we didn't have computers to play on, the internet was unheard of, printers were dot matrix and we used these things called pencils. I still have some.
 |
| My poo-coloured* Faber-Castell, which when used over the metal clip part gives it a nice brassy look. |
The third thing that I had to troubleshoot, was just how to give it some longevity. I ended up just covering it with clear contact. The contact that I have is very low adhesive, and thus does not 'contact' very well. To fix this, after I had contacted it [one long 190cm piece of contact!] I ironed it on a low heat, to hopefully give it a bit of extra stick. I seriously contemplated putting it through my laminator [with the contact] but I'm sure that would have ended in tears!
Isn't it lovely? It now lives on our bedroom door, and I'm hoping that it stays in our house a very long time, and becomes absolutely covered in names and dates!
*I'm quite sure that Faber-Castell have not officially given this colour the label "poo", but it does look much like the colour of Addie's pre-solids nappies.
Oh! i like starting Addie off at sewing at a young age! looks a great color poo
ReplyDeleteThat pencil worked wonders. It looks like a real oversized tapemeasure. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of the term foolscrap before. Is that our "Legal" size here? I'm so sorry you had to work so hard to print it out making adjustments. I LOVE how you modified it with the colored pencil and contact paper! Brilliant!! Thanks so much for sharing your fabulous version of my little project. You rocked it!
ReplyDelete-Cathe
Katie - you bet, she'll be sewing as soon as she can thread beads onto wool! Theres actually some great"starters" for kinder aged kids.
ReplyDeleteKel, why thank you!
Cathie- I had assumed that legal was the same size as foolscap, but it turns out that legal is 1 inch longer. It still would have printed on foolscap, but I haven't seen either in plain paper anyway. It was well worth modifying, and was only a little extra work.
I'm thinking that this would be a great baby shower gift.
*shakes head in wonderment* (is that a word?)
ReplyDeleteIs there no end to what you can do?
Poo coloured .. the 'term' creates a visual image that transcends cultures, religions & craft-challenged folk.