ten. weeks. of. pink!
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/18t…
(this is the first week)
18th century pinks: the 1700s - The Dreamstress
What shades of pink were worn in the first decade of the 18th century? Let's take a look at portraits and extant textiles from 1700-1709!The Dreamstress
Somebody(TM) should make #Ansible - branded espresso cups with the tagline “the coffee break generator”
(the tagline is not mine, it's from my sysadmin boss, who drinks espresso coffee instead of tea like a civilized person :D )
/me, browsing my rss feed while drinking my breakfast tea and quietly seeing this
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/rat…
and then there were the lines
It’s so ’70s!And actually ’70s.
no keyboard was harmed. barely.
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un po' come l'altezza per i maschi per fare il militare.
@severino ma all'epoca si era regnicoli (non cittadini!) senza troppi problemi
diritto di voto. adesso, calma. il diritto di voto solo per gli uomini e solo se soddisfano i requisiti economici, mica si voleva che votassero *tutti*
@severino comunque quel re in particolare era significativo perché essendo di *quella* Torino la sua lingua natale era il francese
non ho idea se parlasse anche piemontese, e di sicuro ci sono le lettere private in cui scriveva in italiano, ma un po' sgrammaticato, perché l'aveva imparato come seconda lingua
Filed under: maybe not the best idea ever, but it worked
I was wearing a cartridge pleated skirt with 4+ m of hem, of course over a corded petticoat, and heeled boots
of course the car was parked in such a way that the driver's side wasn't accessible, so I had to get on it from the passenger's side
and when I finally managed to get myself and all of my skirts in the driver's seat, I realized I had forgotten my glasses, and had to get out and in again.
(but it was easier than I expected when I found myself in front of the car and had a uh-oh moment)
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Mh.
last update of #archlinux defaults to #GTK4 #GSK #Vulcan Renderer:
(note: here I'm defining
GDK_BACKEND=wayland because the terminal is in VSCode, which runs on XWayland and define GDK_BACKEND=x11. In VSCode because gnome console was a black rectangle too)Yes, that white rectangle is the window.
I had to set GSK_RENDERER=ngl in .config/environment.d/gtk4.conf
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I may have done a new #hexagon?
it's not very legible (but better than the previous attempts), but the font I've used is appropriate to the topic, so I'm not 100% sure
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Leggevo l' "Opuscolo Informativo Della Votazione Per Il Referendum".
Noto che l'argomentazione più usata per il no è "potrebbe essere peggio"..
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Mario non sa fare il lavoro, Paolo sí.
Paolo con il macchinario di Mario potrebbe fare il grosso e poi fare gli aggiustamenti di fino che é in grado di fare con l'esperienza.
Io uso da due anni e mi ha velocizzato molte fasi del lavoro noiose senza impattare sul risultato finale, anzi a volte ho visto approci nuovi e interessanti facendo crescere le mie conoscenze di tubarolo.
É il vibe piping che é una 💩
(comic) What do you do for a living?
Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.Work Chronicles
And after years and years of on-and-off playing it
I
have
finished
the Empirean Campaign in #Flare.
(with just a tiiiiiny bit of cheating with certain spike traps)
E dopo anni e anni in cui di tanto in tanto ci giocavo
ho
finito
Empirean Campaign in #Flare
(barando solo un pochettino su delle certe trappole a spuntoni)
I've just started handsewing a backpack, so I don't really need another handsewing project, right?
well…
the backpack is at a stage where I have to think, and today I'm not really able to think, and also it's somewhat heavy sewing, and sometimes I'd prefer to do something lighter, so my plan was to have a second project to alternate it with.
something quick and easy, right? of course not :D
what about dealing with 4.5 meters of lightweight fabric, hemming all of it and then bringing it down to 36ish cm? That's more like it :D
I've decided to make a shirt by following the instructions for a 16th century hemd, except in cotton voile, and a bit shorter so that I can tuck it into my jeans if I want.
katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…
Current stage: hemming all of the top edge.
#sewing #handsewing #historyBounding
16th century German – hemd / chemise
So I have spoken about my new 16th century German chemise/shirt, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of …katafalk.wordpress.com
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this afternoon I was too tired to think, so instead of working on the backpack I kept hemming the neck edge, and I'm past the two thirds point.
The next step should be marking the points for the neck gathering, but depending on how the backpack is going I may start to sew the bottom of the side seams so that I can also hem the bottom edge any time my brain wants to remain off.
oggi pomeriggio ero troppo stanca per pensare, quindi anziché lavorare sullo zaino sono andata avanti a orlare il collo, e ho superato i due terzi.
In teoria il prossimo passo sarebbe segnare i punti per arricciare il collo, ma a seconda di come va con lo zaino potrei iniziare a cucire la parte in basso dei fianchi, in modo da poter fare anche l'orlo in fondo nel caso in cui il mio cervello abbia bisogno di rimanere spento.
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Honeycomb shirt
Posted on May 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear, GNU Terry Pratchett
After cartridge pleating, the next fabric manipulation technique I wanted to try was smocking, of the honeycombing variety, on a shirt.
My current go-to pattern for shirts is the 1880 menswear oneI have on my website: I love the fact that most of the fabric is still cut as big rectangles, but the shaped yoke and armscyes make it significantly more comfortable than the earlier style where most of the shaping at the neck was done with gathers into a straight collar.
In my stash I had a cut of purple-blue hopefully cotton [#cotton] I had bought for a cheap price and used for my first attempt at anhistorically accurate pirate / vampire shirt that has now become by official summer vaccine jab / blood test shirt (because it has the long sleeves I need, but they are pretty easy to roll up to give access to my arm.
That shirt tends to get out of the washing machine pretty wearable even without ironing, which made me think it could be a good fabric for something that may be somewhat hard to iron (but also made me suspicious about the actual composition of the fabric, even if it feels nice enough even when worn in the summer).
Of course I wanted some honeycombing on the front, but I was afraid that the slit in the middle of it would interfere with the honeycombing and gape, so I decided to have the shirt open in an horizontal line at the yoke.
I added instructions to the pattern pagefor how I changed the opening in the front, basically it involved finishing the front edge of the yoke, and sewing the honeycombed yoke to a piece of tape with snaps.
Another change from the pattern is that I used plain rectangles for the sleeves, and a square gusset, rather than the new style tapered sleeve , because I wanted to have more fabric to gather at the wrist. I did the side and sleeve seams with a hem + whipstitch method rather than a felled seam, which may have helped, but the sleeves went into the fitted armscyes with no issue.
I think that if (yeah, right. when) I’ll make another sleeve in this style I’ll sew it into the side seam starting 2-3 cm lower than the place I’ve marked on the pattern for the original sleeve.
I also used a row of honeycombing on the back and two on the upper part of the sleeves, instead of the gathering, and of course some rows to gather the cuffs.
The honeycombing on the back was a bit too far away from the edge, so it’s a bit of an odd combination of honeycombing and pleating that I don’t hate, but don’t love either. It’s on the back, so I don’t mind. On the sleeves I’ve done the honeycombing closer to the edge and I’ve decided to sew the sleeve as if it was a cartridge pleated sleeve, and that worked better.
Because circumstances are still making access to my sewing machine more of a hassle than I’d want it to be, this was completely sewn by hand, and at a bit more than a month I have to admit that near the end it felt like it had been taken forever. I’m not sure whether it was the actual sewing being slow, some interruptions that happened when I had little time to work on it, or the fact that I’ve just gone through a time when my brain kept throwing new projects at me, and I kept thinking of how to make those. Thanks brain.
Even when on a hurry to finish it, however, it was still enjoyable sewing, and I think I’ll want to do more honeycombing in the future.
Anyway, it’s done! And it’s going straight into my daily garment rotation, because the weather is getting hot, and that means it’s definitely shirt time.
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I moderni usano elefanti pesantissimi
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anyway, 2019 journal from the CGIL/FISAC union (workers of insurance companies) 1, fancy moleskine notebook from the insurance company 0
no feathering, almost no see-through (and the paper isn't too thick), nice to write on
compared to “lol, use a pencil, ok”
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comunque, agenda 2019 CGIL/FISAC (assicurativi) 1, quaderno fighetto moleskine dell'assicurazione 0
niente spiumaggio, sul retro non si vede quasi niente (e la carta non è troppo spessa), piacevole scriverci
confrontato a “lol, usa una matita, ok”
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I think I'm officially insane, but
new project started: a new backpack, completely sewn by hand,
because I have the fabric (off white coated cotton canvas), and I do have some thread suitable for sewing backpacks by machine, but it's black (and afaik they don't make it in any other colour), or I have some sturdy linen thread in the right colour, but it doesn't go in the machine.
Fabric has been cut, I'll finish this herbal tea and then I'll try to sew it and see how it will work.
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@Kermode I don't think I've ever seen how that would look like, but for a backpack it may also be a reasonable look?
I guess it's pretty sturdy, right?
@Kermode usually it's considered quite important to match the strength of the thread to the strength of the fabric, and if a precise match isn't possible to have thread that is *weaker* than the fabric, so that it won't tear it (resewing when thread breaks is always easier than having to mend / patch the fabric *and* resewing it)
of course if the fabric is some kind of abrasion resistant work-clothing synthetic, I see no reason not to use fishing line (other than possibly hand health issues for the seamstress)
e durante la cena è stata citata la parola intorno (in contesto generico)
e @Diego Roversi ha pronunciato le parole “per ogni”
e adesso una voce nella mia mente sta canticchiando
“per ogni epsilon, esiste un delta
per ogni ypsilon¹, minor di delta
eeeeffffeee di ypsilon minor di eepsiiilon”
(sapete su che musica, vero?)
(e adesso ce l'avete in testa anche voi, vero?)
¹ y anziché x per ragioni di metrica
Dinner this evening was chicken breast with yogurt sauce in pita bread
followed by cleaning every leftover of yogurt sauce with another piece of pita bread
followed by “I still had some pita bread, I could put some raspberry jam on it, right?”
I may have eaten too much pita bread
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@LaVi potrei
ma tutto sommato dopo aver fatto quattro passi (40 minuti :D ) non mi sentivo neanche troppo appesantita :D
I may have done another hexagon
source svg at git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s…
clipart of the pattern at openclipart.org/detail/351608/…
font used: Latin Modern Mono (of course)
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Today I have been wondering whether there are mechanical pencils (for 2 mm leads) in the shape of a carpenter pencil, and apparently if they exist they aren't easy to find online.
And now I wonder how hard it would be to take something cheap like eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , take the mechanism out (that's the easy part, I've just checked on mine and it's easy), and then either 3d-print or machine a carpenter pencil-shaped case for it.
(Not that I'd *need* it. I probably would have no use for it. But it would be cool if somebody did it :D )
Oggi mi son chiesta se esistano dei portamine (per le mine da 2 mm) a forma di matita da muratore / falegname, e a quanto pare se anche esistono non si trovano facilmente online.
E adesso mi sto chiedendo quanto complicato sia prendere qualcosa di economico tipo eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , tirar fuori il meccanismo (questa è la parte facile, ci ho appena provato con la mia ed è banale) e poi stampare 3d o lavorare nel metallo un nuovo corpo di forma piatta.
(Non che mi serva. Non me ne farei niente. Ma sarebbe bello se qualcuno lo facesse :D )
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My mother: “we could go to the plant nursery and buy a few flowers”
The flowers @Diego Roversi and I choose: strawberry, raspberry, and they were out of blueberries but they'll probably be there next week
I mean, they *are* flowering plants, aren't they?
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@Dún Piteog @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi
ah, e se qualcuno ha altri suggerimenti di piante utili che si possano tenere in vaso e che siano anche gradevoli da vedere ditelo che sono tutte orecchie
(se non ricordo male le aromatiche già prese al giro scorso sono salvia, maggiorana, timo, basilico, prezzemolo, i soliti classici)
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I may have done it again
my mother invited 3 people for tomorrow. 4 people with her, and 6 people with us (we may or may not spend most of the time with them, but we do plan to eat our share of the food :D )
I may have already prepared 1 kg of rye flour and 0.5 kg of white flour, and have plans for a dough with 1 kg of durum flour this evening. Plus there is a 0.5 kg of white flour dough that will be cooked for dinner this evening.
0.5 kg of flour per person is reasonable, right? :D
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@Marcos Dione in my defense I have to say that most of this can be easily frozen, or will keep well for a enough days to give us plenty of time to finish the leftovers, I'm way more strict with stuff that is harder to deal with.
I have no idea where empanadas lie on that scale.
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Questo sabato ci sono i mercatini dei bambini proprio su quella via 🥲
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TIL: overpass-turbo
Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.
E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?
Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?
Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:
(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy
e la query generata è:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;
Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).
A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.
Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.
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Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:
cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json
I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it
I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering
I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges
I have no idea what temperature to use
I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?
#MYOG
(the adult will be here in a few hours)
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Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi
Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare
Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili
Non ho idea di che temperatura usare
Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?
(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)
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Non ho avuto bisogno della coperta antincendio
e 200°C sembrano aver funzionato
It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up
halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.
I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.
¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D
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erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata
a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.
Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.
¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D
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@Alessandro la sveglia vera è una specie di musichetta da videgioco molto vintage composta e programmata da @Diego Roversi per arduino + lo speaker di un vecchio pc :)
++ con lo svegliarsi con il piede giusto con Painkiller però :)
Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.
The call went something like:
me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time
luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.
Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!
Should I worry?
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this one enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto… which is indeed a slightly modified version of that one
it comes from Principia Discordiae
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I think it's a good time to remind the world of the existence of
enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto…
right?
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Mail sync on @Haiku now work! It was trying to sync a non-existant imap folder, which stopped the process.
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yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)
and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cu…
And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…
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10 minutes ago the sun had not set yet, so I started to solder the few bits left so that we could finish the project we had been working on in the afternoon (after buying the last bits we needed this morning).
it is now 21:40, and I've finished soldering 10 minutes ago. It's definitely too dark to do any outside work.
I haven't tested anything, and I've already covered everything in heatshrink (it's all cables and pin headers, nothing expensive in case I have to redo everything from scratch).
10 minuti fa il sole non era ancora tramontato, quindi ho iniziato a saldare le ultime cose in modo da poter finire il progetto su cui abbiamo lavorato nel corso del pomeriggio (dopo aver comprato le ultime cose che ci servivano stamattina).
sono le 21:40, ho finito di saldare 10 minuti fa. là fuori fa decisamente troppo buio per lavorare.
Non ho ancora testato niente, e ho già ricoperto tutto di termorestringente (sono solo cavi e pin headers, niente di costoso nel caso in cui debba rifare tutto da capo)
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As for the things I soldered yesterday night, half of them aren't in use because the waterproof box we wanted to use is too small :(
We may find another box, or buy one in the next few weeks.
For the time being, we've used some dupont cables to connect the main sensor to the ESP32C3 board, and got an *interesting* behaviour: the board was sending data from the sensor, but it was *always the same value*. Data for the internal battery level sensor was changing at every measurement, as expected.
We opened the stevenson box, changed the sensor with another identical one. same behaviour.
We opened the waterproof box to bring the board inside and do more tests, and found that the dupont cable for the sensor ground was disconnected. But it was still managing to send data, only it was the *wrong* data.
Reconnected the ground, it seems to be working.
Quanto alle cose saldate ieri sera, metà non sono in uso perché la scatoletta stagna che volevamo usare è troppo piccola :(
Forse ne troveremo un'altra, o al massimo ne compreremo una tra qualche settimana.
Per ora abbiamo usato dei cavi dupont per collegare il sensore pricipale alla schedina con ESP32C3, e abbiamo avuto un comportamento *interessante*: la schedina stava inviando i dati presi dal sensore, ma era *sempre lo stesso valore*. I dati del sensore di carica della batteria (interno) cambiavano leggermente ad ogni misura, come atteso.
Abbiamo aperto lo schermo di stevenson, cambiato il sensore con un altro uguale. stesso comportamento.
Abbiamo aperto la scatoletta stagna per portare in casa la schedina e fare ulteriori test, e scoperto che il cavo dupont del ground verso il sensore era scollegato. Ma riusciva comunque a mandare dei dati, solo dati *sbagliati*.
Ricollegato il ground, sembra funzionare.
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Leroy Merlin is French. The French are Elves. That explains why we entered the shop mid morning (before 10, I think), and after spending half an hour, surely no more than an hour in there, we left at half past midday.
And also why when we go there we always leave being exhausted, as if our soul had been nibbled upon.
@Diego Roversi had to eat some food while we were in, but it was food we had brought from outside, and never left unattended, so we should be fine, right?
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in reply to David Bremner • •@David Bremner I'm a maverick tea drinker in a sea of tiny cups of strong coffee :D
to be fair, ansible runs are usually long enough to drink a cup of espresso, but not enough for a mug¹ of tea
¹ I know, drinking a fine china cup of tea would be even more civilized :D
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