Featured Ancient Fun at CICF 2016

I made one business trip to Chicago. I did not make a coin show. I did schedule the trip to make a meeting of the Chicago Coin Club. I also had time to look at and buy a few coins at Harlan Berk's store. I had been collecting ancient coins for a few months only. They were helpful. The club made me feel at home.
This trip is noteworthy for the highest parking charge, $35 for 15 minutes! The total was only $40 something, so the rate went down.

http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/index.html#Monthly Meetings
We meet monthly in downtown Chicago on the second Wednesday of every month at 6:45 pm.

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I love that place. Went last year........then walked down to HJB to buy a couple coins (listed in another post.)

EVERYONE should visit at some point in their life.

 

Thanks! I've wanted to try my hand at making men's ties. Maybe I'll give it a whirl. If I am able to make some that don't look like a high school HomeEc project, I'll let you know .

I love the Art Institute but didn't visit it during this trip. Next time!

Wow!! That's harsh.

Two years ago when I went to ANA WFOM, I rented a car and drove to the Art Institute. Traffic was harrowing . Parking was weird. I went online and through some parking service prepaid for a rather expensive spot but it was only two blocks from the museum. Finding the building wasn't too difficult. It was a small-- no, tiny-- garage in the basement of an office building. I entered by holding my phone to a reader (bar coded receipt). The garage was just a single level, one circuit around a little island. Every single spot was filled and there were some "stack in" spots, also filled. Whaaaaat?! I had paid to ensure a reserved spot! There weren't any attendants around. I circled and circled (a lap taking only a few seconds). After a few minutes some guy appeared. He had no official badge or tags that I could see but he said he was the attendant.

By then I was very anxious and confused. I showed him my receipt. He said to just leave the car with him and he'd park it.

With great reluctance I did. I felt stupid, imaging the scene later as I reported my stolen rental car: "Yes, officer. I willingly gave the keys to a complete stranger with no visible signs of authority."

Fortunately, when I returned the car was in the garage. Now getting out of the garage... that was even worse. My bar code didn't work. By then everyone was leaving and there was a line of cars behind me waiting to leave. They were furious, honking, yelling, etc, but I couldn't get the gate to open. Eventually a different attendant arrived and manually opened the exit gate.

I didn't rent a car for CICF

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I had enough CrackEmOut fabric left to make one size large men's t-shirt. Yesterday I downloaded a pattern and sewed it up. It turned out pretty good. Now I'm waiting on more fabric.




Hem detail (just like a store-bought t-shirt with stretchable double-row seam:

 

Hey TIF, love the idea, but something about the shirt looks feminine to me. Perhaps the color or perhaps the style.

 

Probably the combination of color and fabric pattern. Men's t-shirts don't often have a repeating pattern like that. The cut is pure (plain) men's T-shirt.

 

Bing, If the shirt is too feminine, just pretend you are a retired world class decathlete. The color matches my grandson's soccer team color => I can wear it there.

 

The shirt looks great! I'd wear it - with the tie as a bandanna.

 

Shirt looks great!

 

Excellent BEACH SHIRT, Dudette!!! I will definitely wear it to a Coin Show...

 

Okay, I'm outnumbered here (But it still looks like my PJs when I was 9 years old).

 

The shirt looks like something fancy you'd buy in Milan.

 

I love the Tshirt, but wouldn't wear it other than at home or a coin show either.

Q

 

Bing => a real man could pull-off that look ...

Errr, ummm, but I'm still waiting for the one-piece jumper!! (go big, or go home)

 

Nice t-shirt! Looks professionally made, you are a good seamstress!

 

It needs a TIF label

 

For the men - make the background black and cross the hammers with the cracked slab in the center - like a skull and crossbones. One large image on the front. I would wear it all the time. Like my Danzig shirt.

 

There are numerous shirt shops online which can screen on your graphic (an image of a slabbed ancient with crossed circle for example) and put on any shirt you like. Cheaply too. So, if Tiff's look feminine, one can get a regular shirt made.

 

https://www.samhober.com/necktie/howtomakeanecktie.htm

http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/06/how-to-sew-a-tie/

 

A man makes anything worn by that man manly. For an example, check out this man wearing an over-sized turtleneck in such a way that he appears to be ready to fight the 1984 version of the T800:

 

I designed an embroidery pattern very much like that and embroidered it on a shirt for a coin friend, so I probably won't repeat that exact pattern. A variation, perhaps