And we had an hour or so of sun! So I dressed up and I'm ready for some serious percussive debugging on the analytical engine!
I have been vaguely thinking about making myself a black apron for potentially staining office jobs (*cough* ink), and on friday evening I stumbled on the instructions from Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing by Myers, Annie E and decided it had to be done NOW.
The pattern was adapted quite a bit from the original to best use wide modern fabric, so it's not an accurate reproduction.
Source code for both the apron and the sleeve protectors will be published as soon as I finish writing them and editing the step-by-step pictures.
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me: ok, this afternoon I can attach the pocket to the apron I've almost finished and then go outside to take a picture before the thunderstorm arrives
thunderstorm: think again
(it's still not here, but there is definitely not enough light for photos :D )
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and it has arrived. and gone (at least, it's not raining anymore).
and I've finished finished the apron.
but it's still a bit too dark for photos, they will have to wait for tomorrow.
it. is. DONE!
Now @Diego Roversi has backpack that matches mine!
I believe I started working on this in 2019, did a bit, stopped for a long while, did another bit, stopped a very long while, etc. so getting rid of the WIP (and having the finished object to use) is a very nice feeling.
source code :) at sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
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ecco... uno sproposito
ho comprato i materiali quando ho fatto il mio, e tra una cosa e quell'altra credo di averci speso più di 200 euro. però buona parte era perché c'erano dei pezzi minimi di acquisto, e da quella cifra sono usciti i due zaini, e ho ancora quasi tutto il materiale (extra ci sarebbero da prendere webbing, cerniera e accessori) per farne potenzialmente un terzo, e di alcuni materiali (soprattutto 3d mesh e imbottitura) anche di più (in realtà il piano non è di farne un terzo uguale, che non mi servirebbe, ma accessori vari).
azz, praticamente 2 zaini + zainetto/sling/altro a poco meno del prezzo di uno
Allora ci credo quando il ragazzo di atdsupply.com dice che non poteva allinearsi ai prezzi esteri perché faceva tutto in Italia
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Beh, c'è da dire che un conto è comprare i materiali per un solo zaino (o 3) nel negozio sotto casa (ok, negozio che si trova in Germania, ma il principio è quello :) ), un conto è comprarli a pezze intere per la produzione di massa.
Non credo che per averli di qualità possano comunque materiali economici, ma sospetto che li paghino molto meno.
D'altra parte, loro devono anche pagare il tempo di chi li cuce (che spero sia decisamente più veloce di me, che ho impiegato una giornata solo per la penultima cucitura :D ), che invece nel mio caso conta come divertimento e si scala dal prezzo dei materiali :) .
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beh, ma immagino che ne faranno qualche centinaio per volta, almeno?
comunque ordini di grandezza di distanza dai due estremi della produzione cinese venduta su aliexpress e di chi se ne fa uno in casa
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yes!
of course while following the instructions on The Cutters' Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments I was having problems with the hips line, my hips measurement was too small.
Because, come on! you don't measure your real hips, you measure on top of a bustle cage! What kind of person would not wear a bustle, these days?!?
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And since I didn't have enough WIPs, I've just started #handSewing a 18th century underpetticoat in cotton double gauze.
It should be a pretty quick project, I think. maybe.
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* starts herringboning¹ 3 meters of hem…
¹ not historically accurate, but it helps with the elasticity of the fabric, which isn't historically accurate either
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Thinks like this are a reminder that humanity is able to dedicate effort and resources to… insult people? :D
CW: the link has scatological discourse and a representation of explicit anatomy, but it's more than a millennia old (closer to two), so it's sfw, right? :D
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later in the afternoon it worked a bit better. what is received on the serial pins goes to the bluetooth serial. As long as I compile with an older version of the esp support, because of github.com/espressif/arduino-e…
Also, I'm aaaaalmost at one ninth of the shawl.
la stagione delle freselle nel minestrone è meglio, ma devo ammettere che le freselle con olio e pomodorini sono uno dei pochi lati buoni dell'estate
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So, I *miiiiight* have bought¹ a new board: olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/…
it arrived yesterday.
this morning I quickly followed the tutorial to check if it was working (it is, and the camera quality looks decent enough)
now the question is: what do I want to do with it?
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I'm trying to make some tea, and I've just put the leaves in the mugs instead of the filter in the pot.
I think I need to drink some tea to be able to make tea.
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I've decided to post the pattern for the shawl I'm making on my website even if it hasn't been finished yet: it's easy enough that I'm pretty confident in it even after just a small sampler.
This is the current status:
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My yarn winder has arrived, and it works!
It's fast, it doesn't hurt my wrists (like using a stick does), it can do 100g cakes and it makes the idea of dealing with about 6 kg of mostly very thin yarn much less daunting than having to make balls by hand.
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imputati numero uno i #cinghiali
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Sono stati scaraventati a terra dei bidoni dei rifiuti con tanto di rifiuti dentro, sparsi dappertutto all’altezza della tredicesima cappella: imputati numero uno i cinghiali.Stefania Radman (Vareseweb Srl)
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TFW you wear your last pair of clean cotton thin¹ socks, and it breaks. and you don't have enough dirty clothing for a full washing machine load, and you should really go out and buy more, but UGH, no, I don't want to do that, I have lots of better things to do with my time!
so you spend a whole afternoon patching *one* pair of socks and finishing another pair that you sewed yourself from jersey fabric, that takes less time, right?
¹ as opposed to mid-thickness wool socks that I knit myself
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I guess this means I've choosen a side?
(picture of two round patches, on one there is a screenprinted bull's eye in blue and yellow, the other shows the pin sewn to the back)
By that time I would have *serious* doubts about the colours, really, but they are the #screenPrint paints (dekaprint 2000 in blue and yellow + deckweiß to print it on black fabric) I needed to test, and the alternatives wouldn't have worked :D
also, aligning two colour prints on small scraps of fabric is hard, even if you have a bit of a border on the lighter colour :D
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(picture of the top of a black cotton sock, cut and sewn to make a pouch, with a swirl made of paws screenprinted in pink)
And this is the speedball paint for dark fabric, in Raspberry. it's a bit less pink in real life, but not very much. It's pleasantly shiny, however.
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My #firstpatch to a #rust project 😁
github.com/soywod/himalaya/pul…
fixes an issue found with git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/git-list
e vabbé, se dobbiamo darci il #Buongiornissimo diamocelo :D
niente foto, troppo sbattito, però posso annunciare che sto riuscendo a preparare la colazione con qualcosa che sembrano 10 giri di cerotto attorno al gomito destro, e lo considero un traguardo personale :D
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e non hai idea di quanto dia fastidio togliere il cerotto dalla zampa anteriore destra, dopo che il veterinario ti ha fatto un prelievo di sangue :D
(la saga della zecca prosegue)
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I may have bought *some* wool yarn on cones, and now I need to turn it into 100g hanks, wash them, make center-pull balls and then it can be knitted. And some of it is very fine yarn meant for machine knitting.
I have a swift, I've set it to make an hank that is about 1m long, calculated how many meters are there in 100g (easy, the shop provided the number of meters in the full 500g cone), and then I didn't want to count the turns, so I started looking around the house for a magnet (I knew where it was and easily found it) and an hall effect sensor (I still haven't found it) and some microcontroller board to setup some kind of device for counting passes of the magnet over the sensor.
And then my SO told me “why don't you just weight the empty swift?”
#knittingLife #arduino #overEngineeringThingsForFunAndProfit
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Yesterday I stumbled on handknittingcashmereyarn.com/c… (a pattern in Italian for the scarf made with triangles of which I don't remember the English name).
And I had plans for the afternoon! (ok, mostly it involved ironing a bit of backlog, and watching videos online while #knitting a sock).
Instead, I now have an urgent need to have one such scarf, except in a (the most simple) lace stitch, and I have one triangle already made.
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If anybody else is interested in #HistoricalSewing, today I stumbled on a couple of lists of period #patternDrafting and generally #sewing books, mostly biased towards the early 1900s
ilsegregoorcostumes.com/the-be…
mermaidsden.com/blog/2017/08/1…
(and my collection of related PDFs has grown, and I really need to organize it somehow :D )
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btw, my own list of such books (the ones I've actually used, not just collected) is at
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uh, interesting resources (and excellent choice to do that instead of doomscrolling :) )
I'll look at them tomorrow (here it's sleeping time)
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I mean, I don't see how radium water can fail to cure grey hair, right? :D
(page 63, if the link doesn't point to it, and it's a 1920s ad for, well, radium water as a cure for grey hair)
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Branco di nerd, riconoscete questo posto? mettete CW alle risposte per non spoilerare agli altri, grazie
Do you nerds recognise this place? Please CW your answers to avoid spoilers
Foto scattata in una cittadina italiana, con un viale alberato in discesa e in fondo un palazzo a quattro piani con vetrine di negozi al pian terreno e un'altra strada più stretta che prosegue. Poche macchine (soprattutto parcheggiate), qualche pedone e bicicletta.
Picture taken in an italian town, with a tree-lined, downhill wide street; at the end there are a 4-stories building with shops and another street. Few cars (mostly parked), few pedestrians and bikes.
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Anyway, half of the time I read an introduction or something where somebody says they are a Victorian by brain goes “wait? how are they posting from the 19th century? did Friendica add support for the telegraph? oh, right, the Australian state” :D
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I feel an irrestistible need to share with you all the good news that I've just finished the thread in the bobbin right at the end of a seam.
Not the last seam of the project, that would have been *too much*, but not the next to last seam of a project either.
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@Chiese Brutte Senna Comasco, Como
Tutto cemento, forma ad hangar, cortili in cemento con grate in metallo. E filo spinato.
Non era catechismo, era un'ora d'aria.
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Filed under: if it can be done it must be done (it's probably not a good idea), right?
18th century pocket. *tactical*!
(Picture of something shaped line a 18th century pocket, except it's made of blue cordura with alternating red and white 2.5 cm webbing sewn at regular 4 cm intervals, and the front slit is closed by a water repellent zipper.)
(Picture of the back of the same pocket, where the webbing is blue (in a darker hue than the cordura), there is no slit, but two small belt loops sewn in the top seam.)
I know, to make it properly *tactical* it should have been camo instead of brightly coloured, but I have no camo fabric at home (and honestly have no plan to buy any) and this was a spur-of-the-moment thing made with leftovers from my backpack-and-accessories.
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TFW it's 21:40, you're making something silly and want to see it finished, you are at the stage where you need to sew a waterproof zipper into waterproof fabric (so there is only one try) plus a lining, and you're stuck with deciding the best way to do it in a way that is as clean as possible. Also, the neighbors won't be happy about my sewing machine going on in the night
I'll try to do the sensible thing and sleep on it. As opposed to both doing it wrong right now AND waking up in the middle of the night with an idea on how to do it and then not being able to sleep.
Tomorrory is a holiday, so I'll be able to work on it in the morning, at least.
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Uhm… zippers?
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LOL, not sealing, just water repellent :D
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I'm reusing the parts of the broken zipper I've removed from my backpack that are still good.
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LOL, of course I didn't wake up in the middle of the night.
I remained fully awake for an hour or two until I got up to make myself an herbal tea and to write down all of the MYOG ideas I had on paper.
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Temple of Mammona¹, Varese, viale Belforte
¹ representation may not be 100% accurate to reality
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ci ho messo del mio, ma non è *molto*, quella sede unicredit odora davvero di edificio religioso!
Ero quasi tentata di taggare chieseBrutte :D
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omg.
she has just taken a small magnet, maybe 2 cm tall, put it on her scissors, and used that as a guide to cut a regular sewing allowance around a pattern.
that loooks like a very useful #sewingTip!
(the related part of video are just a few seconds)
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We got challenged by my friend @Kirilee Cosplay to do a one day make... Challenge Accepted!It took me a while but finally found the time to do one. I have be...YouTube
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TIL: using white glue to attach a waterproof zipper to TPU-coated cordura (and to uncoated lining cordura), and leaving it overnight with a lot of binder clips on WORKS.
In some places it had detached, but there was enough still working that I was able to sew the zipper with much less effort than I would have if everything was kept together with binder clips.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •The sleeve protectors btw are something I did years ago, and they are based on School sewing based on home problems
#sewing
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