It begins.
I'm actually not sure whether I'll go fully #1890s with this jacket (with moderation :D) or I'll keep the sleeves fitting: I'll decide after I've sewed a mock-up.
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no, vabbé, ma è trollare.
mi dai un link all'orario in pdf, e poi sulla pagina metti un tab COSTI con cui prima farsi venire un colpo e poi aprire per scoprire che no, lo si scarica gratis.
sbb.ch/it/orario/orario-online…
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For Christmas (actually it arrived in my hands on the evening of the 30th) I've received a very beautiful handcrafted #dipPen and yesterday I tried it.
The first surprise is that the nib (which they declare is a vintage one from the early 1900s) seems to be glued inside the pen. waitwhat? Don't they know that nibs get ruined with use and have to be changed?
Oh, well, I've tried it with my fancy nib test setup¹ and it's a beautiful fine/extrafine flexible nib that writes smoothly. Sadly I can't know which nib it is, but I guess that when it will get worn down I can try to pry it out and find out.
And then in the package there was a small bottle of black ink. That I tried with my fancy ink test setup² and was really horrible and hard to use even with a rigid nib, never mind the flexible one on the pen.
And ok, I get it that most people who buy a souvenir pen at a tourist attraction (like this one was) do so to keep it unused, but really, it's a pen, it's a tool! why can't they make a tiny bit of effort of making it usable for the few people who would want to actually try to use them³? It wouldn't take much, just a cheap off-brand german fountain pen ink (maybe they require too high a quantity to allow for rebranding? but there must be a solution that is still cheap)
This way they are going to spread the myth that writing was really hard in the past and we have to be thankful for having ballpoint pens (UGH), and discouraging young people who may have shown interest in writing with the tools that are actually nice to use!
And now, off to check whether that ink is usable on fancy paper, because this specific kit. WILL. BE. USED!⁴ :D
¹ a random scrap of paper and cheap but trustworthy Pelikan 4001 black ink.
² a consistent piece of the same printer paper (not fancy, but known to work decently with average liquid inks) and a variety of nibs (rigid extrafine, lettering, flexible)
³ I mean, other than the enthusiasts who are already well equipped with their own favourite inks, fancy paper and everything :D
⁴ At least the pen. the ink is probably not worth too much effort, except as much as I'm having fun being stubborn over it :D
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It's sounding like it might not even be proper fountain/dip pen ink at all.
Out of curiosity, what's the consistency like? What's it doing when you try to use it?
@Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] yeah, that's also what I'm suspecting, that they've taken a random cheap liquid ink and bottled that.
and it's very liquid, spreading out (and down to the other side) as soon as it gets close to the paper.
I told a fountain pen user friend of mine about this and he told me of an even worse story: his first *fountain pen* came with a bottle of ink. luckily the shop he bought it from knew what he was selling, and also gave him a bottle of cheap pelikan 4001 and the recommendation to never use the ink from the box, because it wasn't fountain pen ink. it was for dip pens only. The kind that will clog and ruin a fountain pen.
At least, if you put something inadequate in a kit with a dip pen you have to make a really huge effort to ruin it.
Today I unexpectedly received a box of #ArtSupplies. I had sent the order on boxing day, expecting it to arrive next year, and I hadn't received any notification of it being sent.
Anyway, one of the things in the box is a big (A2) picture frame. I distinctly remember putting it in the chart months ago after carefully measuring *something* (possibly it was two or more matching somethings), so I kept it in the chart when ordering thinking “oh, well, while I wait for it to arrive I will see the thing(s) around the house and remember why I bought it”.
so... any suggestion on what was supposed to go into it? it's probably not something I painted, since I mostly do A6 or smaller, and it's definitely something that I already have.
YES! I've found what it was!
It wasn't two big things, it was 12 small things! the pages of a desktop calendar with cat drawings!
now I can sleep and not lie in bed thinking about it :D (ok, I don't think I would have done it. maybe. not the whole night, at least)
Now, the real question is: does the Descriptivism flag that I keep waving have a specific shape, or everybody uses a different one as long as it has a few features among:
* rectangular in shape;
* made of shapes in bold distinctive colours;
* with a more complex design in the middle;
* insert other typical flag features here :D
Ma la vera domanda è: la bandiera Descrittivista che continuo a sventolare ha un disegno specifico, oppure ciascuno ne usa una diversa purché riporti alcune caratteristiche a scelta tra:
* ha forma rettangolare;
* è fatta di forme in colori distintivi;
* con uno stemma più complesso al centro;
* aggiungere qui altre caratteristiche tipiche delle bandiere :D
Now, the question is: is this Mazzini or Vetinari?
Picture taken at the Museo del Risorgimento, Milan
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#SillyCuratorPrompts #WoobleWednesday
I didn't read the description, of course
OTOH, a voice in my mind has been saying “you can't comb a hairy ball” for the whole time it took me to paint this :D
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It's aliiiiveeee! (almost) #WiP #confy #gtk4 #libadwaita
Screenshots on last post where blueprint ui files made in Workbench, this is from the wip branch. 🚧👍
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#mastoTip On the fediverse, nothing punishes you for adding links to your toots.
And you don't even need to shorten them: mastodon counts all links as if they had the same (small) number of characters, no matter how long it is.
So, if you're talking about something, *do* post a link to it, don't force people to google for it and hope they're getting the right result!
Some caveats.
* Check the rules of your instance: some of them don't allow links to proprietary social networks, or to commercial services, or they may have other custom restrictions.
* Speaking of commercial services, even if it doesn't violate the rules of your instance, if everything you do on the fediverse is posting spammy links to your own commercial service people will block you, but the usual practice in most parts of the fediverse is that sporadic links to your own commercial things among other things are fine, or even welcome if you are a small artisan selling the things they make or something similar.
* Some platforms may show a preview of the link, so please add CWs as appropriate.
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#mastoTip (pss, don't tell people about this, but you can also post a link to the permalink of a toot, hint, hint :D )
(there isn't anything technically wrong with that, but remember that the mods are human, and in most cases they will know if you're doing it with the intent to harm, and act accordingly)
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TIL: to find out what is attached to a device in /dev/ you can use:
udevadm info -q all -n /dev/<device_name>
especially useful for things like /dev/ttyACMx if you connect more than one of them :D
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It;s 16:23 in the afternoon, and the shirt I want to wear tomorrow is already ironed and lightly starched (spray starch, not the real thing).
What is going to go horribly wrong?
(for context: usually I would be ironing it in a hurry 30 minutes before I have to wear it, while also doing something else like baking bread)
filed under #costuming , because, really, nobody else is going to wear a starched shirt at the family gathering tomorrow.
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I *am* going to bring a lot of starchy food, does that count :D (bread, my contribution to the meal, and ideally to a couple of days of meals for the hosting family, is bread :) )
(and most of my relatives are nice, I'm not dreading the day spent with them)
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Da un quotidiano locale:
“[Regione Lombardia] esteso l’offerta gratuita [del vaccino antinfluenzale] a tutti i cittadini *fino* ai 6 mesi di età. [enfasi mia]”
ah, beh, allora siamo a posto :D
(lo so, è un refuso, può capitare)
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After trying some materials I had at home and not finding anything satisfying, I did a panic buy of #macrame cord to be used in the drawstring backpacks I'm making as gift wrappers, from an online shop.
Since I was already late and didn't have time to get another delivery if the one I bought didn't work, I selected a few different types, just to be sure.
Of course, the type I had most hope for worked just fine, so now I have ~100 m balls of 3 different types of macramé cords I don't have a project for.
Right now I should be finishing my breakfast, taking care of the laundry and finishing the last drawstring backpack.
Can you guess what I'm doing instead?
Why, of course I'm attempting a macramé chatelaine bag.
No, I'm not using a pattern.
No, I haven't done macramé before (but I've done lots of friendship bracelets in the past).
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tea has been had.
a handle has been made.
the laundry has been taken care of.
and I've even taken a shower!
and I've tried to take a picture, but the phone isn't being helpful :(
The phone released the two pictures I've taken yesterday
I believe I've done something wrong, since I've used way more rope than the internet tells me is typical for an average project, so I'll either have a lot of leftovers, or a result that is denser than usual.
As a learning thing, I'm fine with either.
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now #sewing: drawstring backpacks¹ in simple cotton as #reusableGiftWrappings, and it's really nice being able to pin the heck out of it, instead of having to be extremely careful when doing them in waterproof fabric :)
#MYOG
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I try reuse bags too whenever I need to give gifts.
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@zephyr my default giftwrapping solution are furoshiki: cut a square of fabric, hem the borders, wrap and knot it around the gift, and then it can be reused in a lot of ways.
Unless I'm feeling lazy, and I buy dishcloths that are already hemmed, and will be reused as dishcloths or small tablecloths :D
But sometimes I prefer to do something different.
I've just added the character 🗞 to my .Xmodmap.
After copypasting it from the output of ``unicode newspaper`` something like once a day on average for, I think, years.
I think that there is some kind of antipattern at work here.
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Un articolo (in inglese) scritto davvero bene su perché mastodon.art ha chiuso le iscrizioni durante i boom di nuovi iscritti e in generale su come e perché per il fediverso è molto meglio avere tante piccole istanze (anche sugli stessi temi) piuttosto che delle megaistanze.(nel caso in cui su altre piattaforme non arrivi, questo è il link diretto all'articolo, quello sopra è il post sul fediverso che lo annuncia) patreon.com/posts/76099798?pr=…
I was going to make this as a thread but then the words became Many and I figured I'd do it as a Patreon post instead XDOn instance scale and federation scale:
patreon.com/posts/76099798?pr=…
I posted yesterday that .art closes registrations to protect the growth and health of our community and some people asked why we'd want to limit how many people are here. This explains why. :)
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Fuor di celia credete ci sia spazio per mini/micro istanze tipo quelle realizzabili con #epicyon ? Vedi monodes.com/predaelli/2022/11/…
@Curator
Epicyon ActivityPub server
Epicyon ActivityPub serverActivityPub server written in Python, HTML and CSS, and suitable for self-hosting on single board computers I may have found a Fediverse server I want to run Epicyon is …Paolo Redaelli
@Paolo Redaelli @Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: effettivamente sì, mastodon ha alzato di molto l'asta su cosa venga considerato piccolo rispetto alle altre piattaforme storiche del fediverso.
Però Welsh Pixie e gli altri mod di .art hanno un bel po' di esperienza nel gestire con successo una comunità vivibile con moderazione forte, per cui mi fido quando forniscono numeri che lo permettono.
Detto questo, io sono su un'istanza da quattro gatti con moderazione debole (perché le iscrizioni sono chiuse, e quindi bisogna moderare solo quel che arriva da fuori, e di solito non c'è neanche davvero bisogno di farlo a livello di server) e mi ci trovo molto meglio (ho risposto alla tua domanda? :) )
/me, pouring water in the transparent teapot: this green #tea is really pale, it will probably be very delicate
/me, 3 minutes later: wait, that water is *really* pale
looks at the still sealed bag of tea
(and it's not even a *morning* tea, here it's afternoon)
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The hot air soldering station set at 260°C worked quite nicely to warm up a pair of needles to bend them for coptic #bookbinding.
Better than using a candle flame, I'd say, as there was no soot to clean up afterwards.
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@Sibylle I wouldn't mind. the phone minds a bit more, at this hour in the night¹ :D
The white part is a reflection of the light, they are just regular big sewing needles (size 2 sharps - I believe that bookbinding needles should have a rounded tip, but right now this is what I have)
Now that I've tested them, I believe that they will have to be bent a bit more, especially the top one.
I don't think tomorrow I'll have time to shoot proper pictures, but I hope in the weekend I will.
¹ it's not really night, it's just dark :)
uops, apparently it's not safe for me to go to the haberdashery to buy just a spool of buttonhole thread.
No, I don't know what to do with it, yet. maybe on a skirt? maybe on a capelet? maybe on a decorative apron of some kind? right now it will go in the stash until I find the right fabric and the right project.
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How to program an attiny85 from arduino ide, in linux.
Having looked at many instruction on the internet, those are the more complete (and working) I have found:
gist.github.com/Ircama/22707e9…
TL;DR:
1) open Arduino Ide from your preferred linux distro (mine is debian/testing)
2) File -> Preferences -> Additional Board Manager Url
3) add this link raw.githubusercontent.com/Armi…
4) ok
5) Tools -> Board Manager, add Digistump AVR Boards
6) Tools -> Board -> Digistump AVR Boards -> Digistump
Now it's all classic "Verify" "Upload" steps to program the attiny85
Yesterday we went for a walk and @Diego Roversi took a few pictures of the flannel shirt I've just finished (and I forgot to button it up completely before the pictures were taken, uoooops)
The pattern is always sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , but I've cut away the excess material in the front rather than pleating it.
#sewing #HistoricalSewing #1880s @sewing group #FreeSoftWear
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've never really used the pockets in shirts, so no (not yet?)
there are two pockets in the skirt, plus access to the detached pockets below it, of course.
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Project red shirt has started!
red as in Garibaldi, not as in Star Trek, and right now I've only done one cut, and then moved on to other things (it was time for tea :D ), but I plan to finish cutting most pieces tomorrow and then start (slowly) #sewing
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I've stopped procrastinating sewing in the sleeves!
ok, technically I'm procrastinating right now, by writing this comment, but I'm going back to it *right now* :D
(oh, and the collar is finished, and the two side seams have both been felled)
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straight part of both sleeves done!
now I have just a bit more time before dinner, but do you think i'm going to press the seam and move on to the gathered part?
nope. brain off. front hem.
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gathered part of one sleeve done, the next will be sewn hopefully tomorrow. Very little hemming done.
I'm starting to suspect that on New Year's Eve I will be making buttonholes while waiting for the new year, rather than wearing the shirt :D
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This morning I took a break to visit the Risorgimento museum in Milan (and spent something like 15 minutes in the small room dedicated to Garibaldi :D ), but still both sleeve seams have been felled!
Tomorrow hem and reinforcement patches (have I ever told I much I hate them?), saturday buttonholes?
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua I've already been there, can confirm :D
We still have to go back and visit the last couple of rooms that we didn't have time to visit because the museum was closing down, but we keep postponing it because it's just two rooms, and what if we get lost rewatching everything else, and still miss those?
(no, we've never been thrown out of a museum because it was closing. we always left them with good grace after the second or third announcement that it was closing, *before* they actually have to come and grab us with force :D )
(and it's not because we get there late :D )
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today I sort of got distracted by polymer clay, but I did finish the hems!
also, I found that the reinforcement patches I've cut are too small, so tomorrow I'll cut new ones. and then buttons and buttonholes.
The plans for the evening (meeting people online) have changed, so there is a decent chance that the dress code will be “evening dress, i.e. pajamas”, but wearing the new shirt on New Year's Day looks feasible.
Also, there is still a bit of thread on the spool, probably enough for the patches.
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aaaaand done! the patches have been added, the shirt can be worn!
I still have to cut and sew at least one detachable collar, but that will happen later, now I think I'll move on to the jacket project and ideally the Augusta Stays.
I hope to be able to take proper pictures of the shirt this weekend!
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I've decided I need to do something vaguely useful with a few microcontroller boards I have, use some of the simple ESP8266 ones to collect temperature and humidity data from various rooms of the house to a MQTT server, collect that data in a RRD and show the current values on an epaper panel together with the current time and weather forecast.
Current status is:
* the MQTT server at home is no longer working (uops, that's why I wasn't receiving other unrelated notifications. I believe I know what the reason is, and how to solve it, but not today. I have mosquitto installed also on the laptop and that one is working)
* the python library I wanted to use to read data from MQTT is broken in debian testing (bug opened at the end of november)
* I can't find the ESP8266 boards. I know that they are around here somewhere, but WHERE???
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Then, with the board nicely sitting on a breadboard, a stable 3.3V and no ratnest of jumper cables I've seen that the code I wrote last week works: the board turns on, connects and sends the temperature and humidity data from the DHT22 on mqtt, sets a timer and goes into deep sleep.
As long as you don't use Serial.flush(); before going into deep sleep, otherwise it will hang on it until it *gets* a serial, or something, and it will not have a serial while running on battery (uooops).
(yes, the DHT22 seems to be working fine on 3.3V, probably as long as it's close enough to the board that the voltage isn't dropping. and I'm not going to have 5V while on battery, so 3.3V it is)
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The Bag of Random Sensors that had the DHT22 also gifted me with 3 (THREE!) BMP280 (temperature and atmospheric pressure, I2C or SPI).
While playing with them I've learned:
* The #esp32c3 can use #i2c on any pin; the default I believe is 8 and 9, but they are also used while programming, so meh
* You can change the i2c pins in #arduino by calling Wire.setPins(I2C_SDA, I2C_SCL); before any Wire.begin();
* There is an example sketch called Wire -> WireScan which scans for i2c devices (you will have to change it to use the pins you want to use with a call to Wire.setPins) which is a godsend.
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aaaand, temperature and pressure have been read.
for some reason, however, right now arduino isn't compiling the sketch twice in a row (with the error “panic: runtime error: index out of range [9] with length 9”).
But I'll look into it probably during the Christmas holidays, for today I'm ok with this.
oh, right. I was supposed to look into the arduino failures.
instead, I've looked a bit at the python side of things, and surprisingly what I did worked fine, even if it wasn't much.
The whole ESP32 family can do hardware I2C on most of their bidirectional GPIO pins. I2C is a relatively simple protocol that can be simulated in software on any GPIO pin on any MCU (FYI):
github.com/bitbank2/BitBang_I2…
GitHub - bitbank2/BitBang_I2C: A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any system
A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any system - GitHub - bitbank2/BitBang_I2C: A software I2C implementation to run on any GPIO pins on any systemGitHub
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They've found an unpicked dress and reconstructed the way it has probably been remade four times from an 1740s original into possibly the 1940s.
Students piece together the mystery of a 280-year-old yellow dress – National Trust
Fragments of yellow silk discovered in a bag have been reconstructed into a historically accurate 18th century dress, thanks to a collaboration between the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the National Trust (NSW).National Trust
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I couldn't help but shudder at the fourth item, just a little jacket? Were they mad? That looks like a home sewer who had no idea what it was, somehow got this and had a go at remaking it. Oh dear god...
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TFW you want to do something, but you're too tired and unfocused to decide what to do, so you start taking notes on #train timetables and possible alternatives for a commute. for somebody else.
and somehow you're focused enough that it works :D
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From today's wikipedia trip: a 1920 ad for work clothing that mentions that they are made by unionized workers.
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(sorry, I don't have the energy right now to copy the rest of the text, it's mostly what one would expect, but if somebody can write a complete image description I'd be grateful)
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Today I've been "nerd snipped" by a friend.
He had to write some excel formulas, and he was writing them in 'pseudocode' before putting the formula together, while commenting about "why I can't write formulas in a sane language".
So I've spent my evening (and part of my night) doing this:
Next step: a web page to run it in a browser :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •but valhalla, you may ask, what happened to the red shirt you were sewing?
yeees, weeeellll.
it's still missing just the reinforcement patches, I may have been procrastinating them :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Abigail • •@Abigail the 1980s are pretty much vintage already, it doesn't take that much to become historical sewing :D
(yes, I was already there in the 1980s, (too?) even if I was too young for fashion :D )
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •I'm not proud of this layout, but it's just the mockup, I'll do better with the real fabic (where the pieces will probably be shorter, so I would have had to change the layout anyway)
#sewing
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •And something tells me that I've attached the sleeve to the wrong side on the mock up :(
it's just basted, but still.
at least I hope that it's attached to the wrong side, because otherwise it's significantly wrong.
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua both the sleeve and the bodice are sewn with the allowances on the outside: this way it's easier to move the seams while fitting the mock up and mark any change.
Any fitting done on the real fabric will happen with the seams allowances towards the inside, of course.
#sewing
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Shield Maiden • •@Shield Maiden I've drafted a block based on The cutters’ practical guide to the cutting of ladies’ garments archive.org/details/cutterspra… (which I have already used on another jacket), changed the front (successfully) to have an opening and tried to enlarge the sleeve with dubious results.
I'm taking inspiration from various fashion plates and existing garments, but not from a specific one (and the sources vary a bit in the dates, between the second half of the #1880s and the first half of the #1890s).
And I already know that the straight 1880s sleeve from that jacket block works, so I may be tempted to just go with it.
#sewing #HistoricalSewing
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in reply to Shield Maiden • •@Shield Maiden that's really nice!
the sleeves from the cutters’ practical guide are also a bit curved: they aren't on the true bias, but not on the straight grain either (and I can confirm from my other jacket that they really follow nicely the line of the arm)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •yeah, I've compared to a finished jacket and I had indeed attached the left sleeve to the right armscye :D
oh, the joys of #HistoricalSewing and of not adding alignment notches to the patterns you've drafted :D
#sewing #patternDrafting
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •*surprisingly* sewing the sleeve to the right side has made it fit :D
I will have to add some structure to the top of the sleeve to prevent it from deflating as it is doing in the mock-up, but I think I can say it fits and proceed with cutting the real fabric.
Which I got for cheap as a bolt end, but was still expensive fabric, so I'm absolutely not trying to postpone the moment, why do you ask? :D (it's going to be made in dark grey — I think it's called — tropical wool, lined in gray silk, and the center will have the option to be filled by at least two different plastrons)
#sewing #HistoricalSewing
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Giselle's very old account
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Will make sure to keep my eyes open if I come across any info like that. Interesting that shoulder rolls are tailoring, I didn't know that. But then I'm a total amateur.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Giselle's very old account • •@Giselle as structures, I've found these from the 1830s:
metmuseum.org/art/collection/s…
collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O22…
and I know that there are some similar ones (as well as ones with the wire visible) from the 1890s, but I can only find pinterest links for most of them, except for
metmuseum.org/art/collection/s…
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Have I ever mentioned how much I love *having marked* the seamlines on fabric with tailor's tacks?
and how much I hate actually doing it? :D
it took me the whole day to lay the pattern on the fabric and start doing that little bit, thanks to interruptions and procrastionation.
(also, apparently I got the problematic update on my #pinephone that broke taking pictures :D )
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •ok, apparently the accepted way to get a pattern to be transferred on fabric with tailor's tacks is to remain in the same room with the fabric and actually do it, with no interruptions. who could have thought!
(yes, the green tint on the photo still comes from the #pinephone and its updated software)
now it's tea time, and then maybe before this evening I'll cut everything out and move on to cutting the lining. if I don't have to do other things (such as maybe look at what happened to the pinephone camera software? maybe).
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •"ok, apparently the accepted way to get a pattern to be transferred on fabric with tailor's tacks is to remain in the same room with the fabric and actually do it, with no interruptions"
Sounds incredibly unfair, definitely write to the management
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in reply to :gnu:+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 • •@:gnu: bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 well, another other thing I've done today is remove the core from some high-vis paracord with the idea one day¹ to sew it as if it was soutache on a cloak, so… it may not be *that* unlikely? :D
¹ I've been *very* slow in removing that core.
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in reply to soil gremlin • •@soil gremlin the ladies' jacket from archive.org/details/cutterspra… archive.org/details/cutterspra… , cut at waist length (and with the sleeve head enlarged, and the front cut, of course).
Cutting for simpler things, where one can just cut without marking the seam lines isn't that bad, but any time one is doing something a bit more structured, yeah.
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in reply to Giselle's very old account • •@Giselle it's just a software issue, it will be fixed (that's what I get by using an unconventional phone, I guess).
I also took pictures with the real camera, but those require downloading from the card and editing and… :D
Now that you mention it, they do look otherworldly, I like it!
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to MagdoLena9 • •@MagdoLena9 lol, no, that would be too easy :D
I'm drafting them from period instructions, or rather I drafted them from period instructions in summer 2021, made one mockup and then put them on hold because I wasn't sure about the fabric to use and I had more urgent projects.
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in reply to MagdoLena9 • •@MagdoLena9 don't hold your breath, it may go back to the wait list.
but one day a pair of cycling knickers will happen, and I will post about it :)
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in reply to Rivikah • •@Rivikah the first mockup I did, after following the drafting instructions was pretty fitting.
For the second attempt I enlarged them (and then I didn't do the second mockup).
Now, they are below-the-knee length, so each leg is just above 80 cm long and it would probably fit on the fabric (there is some leeway because it's the leftovers from the jacket, it's not a straight cut).
The two leg sides for the wider version are not going to fit on the fabric side by side, but the original one may, maybe, possibly with a tiny bit of piecing, or by using the wiggle room.
I would have to be creative with the waistband, but I think I can get the various facings etc. from the jacket scraps, probably, maybe.
First I'll finish the jacket, so if disasters happen I have a safety net to recut pieces, and if I find I need something more for the accessories I can get it.
But afterwards, if I still have this much fabric, I can probably try it.
Unless I get other ideas.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Almost all of the fabric (main, lining, interfacings) has been cut.
Now I should be basting all pieces together with their interfacing and linings, but that requires being at the table, and this evening I'm attending fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-cra… and need something to do in front of the computer, so I've started working on one of the plastrons, the one with soutache decorations.
And now I'm asking myself: why can't I accept a soutache decoration where the braid is placed on top of previous parts of the braid? why do I have to insist on it being a proper knot? :D
(there are pictures in the good camera. one day they will be copied to the computer and posted in this thread. this is not that day :) )
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