3. Time to stitch Stitch along the pinned sides – leaving 0.5cm seam allowance all the way around the edges – starting at the top right corner, pivoting around the point, then continuing up to the left-hand corner.
Rhetoric about "pivoting" and "rebalancing" towards Asia was meant to reassure America's allies; instead it fed Chinese paranoia.
All the best new British buildings that have critics in raptures seem to be going up in the north.Last weekend, the great and the good in British architecture decamped northwards to celebrate the award of the Stirling Prize, Britain's Oscar for building design, to Wilkinson Eyre Architects for their curving and pivoting footbridge across the Tyne.
In the words of David Riesman, an American sociologist, their minds work like radar, taking in signals from near and far, not like a gyroscope, pivoting on a point.
Instead of pivoting to the economy, he has wasted much of his precious turn in the limelight by returning to the culture wars.
Where you sit in the world decides, to no small extent, how much impact you have on it.The trouble is that, to work out which the truly pivotal states are, it is necessary to know what big powers they may be pivoting between.
To use a famous metaphor, the mind of the peer-group-directed person is a gyroscope, pivoting on a single point; that of the other-directed person works like radar, taking in signals from near and far.Research based on opinion polls documents the differences between middle-class and working-class attitudes.
That, after all, is what swing voters care most about, and the area in which they are most unhappy with the president's performance.It's not just the economy, stupidThe hitch is that "pivoting to the centre", as the election jargon has it, is an especially awkward manoeuvre for Mr Romney.
In pivoting to the big-picture, elephant-in-the-courtroom fact of Mr Hall's over three-and-a-half decade wait on death row, the pair of justices caught Florida's solicitor-general a little off guard.
This will be anathema to some, but in the start-up arena it has become so common for young firms to reinvent themselves that venture capitalists refer to the phenomenon as "pivoting".
Similarly, Sri Lanka is also pivoting back to take a friendlier position towards the West (Mr Samarweera is keen to emphasise there will be no hostility towards China) so the opportunity is ripe for stronger co-operation there.
