Problem: I only have one set and a half of vintage linen bedsheet.
Fact: I have about 7 m of vintage bedsheet-linen (~100 cm wide)
Obvious consequence: I now have to sew almost 3 m of a seam that should be extremely flat, plus two hems, on a deadline of “next sheet change”, during a heatwave.
I love it when I wake up with a pretty low blood pressure, it's already starting to get hot, I have¹ to walk to the pharmacy, stuff happens and I don't manage to have breakfast before doing so.
at least it's a short walk, and there is also a convenient post box very close, so I also sent a postcard :)
¹ technically I could have asked my SO to go, instead we went together, but that meant that we had to go earlier
Adoro alzarmi con la pressione bassa, sta già iniziando a fare caldo, devo¹ andare in farmacia, succedono casini e non riesco neanche a fare colazione prima di andarci.
di buono c'è che è qui vicino, e c'è anche una comoda cassetta della posta quasi sul percorso, quindi ho anche spedito una cartolina :)
¹ tecnicamente avrei potuto chiedere al mio compagno di andarci, invece siamo andati assieme, ma la cosa dava più vincoli di tempo
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.ploum.net
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My mother's washing machine is breaking down, and she lives close enough that I'm washing all of her laundry.
Now, I like being able to fill more loads and wash things more often, rather than have them accumulate until the laundry basket is overflowing, so I'm not encouraging her to buy a new machine (an attempt at repairing hers has already been done, and failed).
My real question is: should I do the proper #victorian thing and embroider my husband's initials on all of our household items? should I do a radical feminist thing and embroider my own initials¹? And what should I do with the bedsheet that already has my great-grandfather initials on it?
¹ or rather design. which has the advantage of having a form that is extremely easy and quick to embroider, and I already use on my conference t-shirts that are identical to @Diego Roversi 's ones :D
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@Fabio no, you were right at the margin of my field of vision, I wasn't looking at you!
but text only lesana can work with something like zbarcam through the shell, Collector would need some QR-code reading of its own :D
New #inkplate 6 arrived and got git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/inktoday running on it.
next: get the weather forecast data again (the service I was using vanished from the web some time ago)
Finally, the twitter shitstorm reached a point where I was personally affected and I had to do something. I just added a key combination to my keyboard map to easily get 🍿.
E alla fine, il casino di twitter mi ha coinvolta personalmente, dandomi cose da fare. Ho appena aggiunto una combinazione di tasti alla mia mappa tastiera per poter digitare rapidamente 🍿.
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And I've just managed to refactor a long file with tons of #ifdef into a hierarchy of classes, in C++, a language I have vague notions about, through the establish industry practice of copying stuff from stackoverflow.
No, the code isn't anywhere where it can be seen.
Yes, if this fails somewhere the worst that can happen is that I have to get up from my chair to know whether the temperature is higher outside or inside.
And I really needed a project where I could give myself permission to do things that only work for me, rather than having to consider other possible usecases, and possibly even to do bad things, like this one.
filed under: palazzinari
“(passeggiando per Roma) scorgiamo in fiamme un isolato¹ di notevole altezza, a molti piani; già tutta la zona vicina bruciava in un incendio spaventoso. Allora uno degli accompagnatori di Giuliano disse «La proprietà urbana offre grandi proventi, ma i rischi sono enormi, senza confronto. Se si potesse trovare un rimedio contro gl'incendi di case tanto frequenti in Roma, giuro che avrei già venduto le mie campagne e comprato in città».”
(Aulo Gellio, trad. Giorgio Bernardi-Perini)
per carità, apprezziamo l'onestà e la mancanza di ipocrisia, but still…
¹ io avrei tradotto condominio o palazzina
Anyway, tonight I've dreamed that a *soccer player* from Torino FC (serie A italian league) had joined the fediverse.
Himself, not his PR staff or something.
And I received a boost of one of his posts, about his struggles with impostor syndrome.
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E stanotte mi son sognata che un *calciatore* del Torino si era iscritto sul fediverso.
Non il suo staff, proprio lui.
E mi era arrivato un boost di un suo post in cui parlava del fatto di soffrire sindrome dell'impostore.
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua pseudorisotto dietetico allo zafferano, uno yogurt, frutta :D
Direi che anche per i miei standard era una cena leggera :D
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e niente, ci sono 27°C in casa, e sto facendo merenda con polenta e zucchero.
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Shawl Calculations
Posted on June 16, 2023
Update 2023-06-17: I had missed an N in the formulas, they have been updated, and since I was editing this I’ve added the haskell bit.
I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.
This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.
It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an approximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.
So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:
$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = N ⋅ w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$
where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.
This gives:
N2 + (1 + 2 ⋅ w0/wr) ⋅ N − 2 * wT/wr = 0
and the only positive solution will be:
$$N = - 1/2 - w_0/w_r + \sqrt(1/4 + w_0^2/w_r^2 - w_0/w_r + 2 ⋅ w_T/w_r)$$
or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):
import math
import statistics
w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
-1/2 - ws[0] / w_r + math.sqrt(1/4 + ws[0]**2 / w_r**2 - ws[0]/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)Or, in Haskell:
let ws = [2, 4, 6]
let w_T = 200
let w_0 = head ws
let w_r = ( sum (map (\(x,y) -> y-x) (zip ws (drop 1 ws))) ) / (fromIntegral (length ws - 1))
-1/2 - w_0 / w_r + sqrt (1/4 + (w_0/w_r)**2 - w_0/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 135 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.
Which means that this shawl will also take forever.
Shawl Calculations
Posted on June 16, 2023
I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.
This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.
It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an aproximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.
So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:
$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$
where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.
This gives:
N2 + N + 2/Wr ⋅ (w0 − wT)
and the only positive solution will be:
$$N = \frac{-1 - \sqrt(1 - \frac{8}{w_r} (w_0 - w_T))}{2}$$
or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):
import math
import statistics
w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
(-1 + math.sqrt(1 - 8 / w_r * (ws[0] - w_T))) / 2Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 140 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.
Which means that this shawl will also take forever.
also, lol, I see that the support for math in pandoc (which I use to generate my blog) is somewhat partial, and what gets here to friendica is even less.
But then, everybody who knits also reads LaTeX, right? :D
Yesterday evening we've put the mosquito net over the bed (sigh, the Season has started late, but it has started).
/me, just before going to sleep: should I also engrave Elbereth on the net, just to be safe?
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Ieri sera abbiamo messo la zanzariera sopra al letto (sigh, la Stagione è iniziata tardi, ma è iniziata)
io, subito prima di dormire> devo anche engravare Elbereth sulla zanzariera, tanto per andare sul sicuro?
(sì, lo stavo dicendo in italiano è ho proprio detto engravare. non mi pento di niente)
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visto che ci aspettano settimane di celebrazioni e quant'altro, cosa ne direste di mettere un CW quando ne parlate, in qualunque modo lo si faccia?
grazie
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/me, making a set of drawers for coloured pencils
my mother> oh, you're also making separators for each individual pencil
me> not making these fiddly things. was. an option?
some reconsidering of lifestyle choices may be in order. or maybe not :D
Project #linocut steampunk #piecepack is under way!
Quite a few months ago I started the project by making this
and buying some supplies (such as non-black linocut ink :D ), and then procrastination happened and I got quite stuck.
Today I've actually drawn all most of the pieces on tracing paper, I need to add the smaller suites, trace everything from the reverse, and then finally carve the linoleum.
And then maybe I'll start procrastinating again, or maybe I'll actually do some test prints in the weekend?
I may also be thinking of regular piecepack suites and playing card suites in the same style, but first I need to actually assemble a piecepack and discover whether it will work.
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For Linux Days:
- carve a fancy Tux not wider than a pasta machine
- bring paper, ink and a pasta machine on the event site
- have people printing their own Tux with their hands ("Ooooh, look, I'm skilled!")
- gather contributions
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Yesterday @Diego Roversi gave me 3 (three!) new #notebooks from a loot of old branded gadgets at work. I've found the courage to actually write on it (ink samples on the last page) and two are even good quality paper (and the other one is an expensive moleskine, but maybe I can use it with pencils?).
And then today in the post I received another, fancy, notebook, a gift from my Aunt!
I didn't buy them so they don't count for “trying not to buy too much 2023”, right? :D
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Thanks to a chat with friends, the universe provided me with:
blessed bleach: will destroy up to 95% of bacteria, viruses and sins.
(it was related to a purification rite after a naked man has been close to an altar, the article is in italian)
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Grazie ad una chat con amici, l'universo offre:
candeggina benedetta: distrugge fino al 95% di batteri, virus e peccati!
(tutto è partito da “Altare di San Pietro profanato da un uomo nudo, si celebra il rito penitenziale” roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/202… )
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I may have accidentally a thing.
This came from wikimedia commons
openclipart.org/detail/342614/…
And it was remixed as:
openclipart.org/detail/342615/…
which isn't a sign that is very useful, but was needed for
openclipart.org/detail/342616/…
and since I was already working on this, I decided I might as well
openclipart.org/detail/342617/…
(if you're reading this on mastodon you probably can't see that the images are in the middle of the text, before the URLs).
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I've just soldered a few cables wrong on a perfboard: I counted pins as if I was on the right side, while I was working on the reverse side.
Since the cables were between sockets, and in a somewhat symmetrical shape, I've found that if I shift the boards that plug into them a bit, the connections are right.
The problem is: 3.3V and GND are in purple, and the data cables are red and black.
Some part of me is screaming “NOOOOOO, REDO THEM. NOW!”. Another, just as important, part of me is going “meh, it works, call it done”.
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<joking> electrons don't care about colors! </joking>
Personally I would redo them to remove the cognitive load of remembering to not trust colors in that specific board... since I will, for sure, forget it.
@Daniele Tricoli in theory, this is just a temporary thing (i.e. something that will remain as is on a shelf somewhere for a few years, with the only interaction being recharging the battery now and then), so it shouldn't be a big problem.
Also, the things that go into it have clearly marked pins.
But still, cognitive load.
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More than a year ago I started #knitting a #shawl. It's still not finished.
Yesterday I helped my mother translating instructions for a shawl she's going to knit.
Yesterday evening I had an idea for another shawl (different from either one).
Of course I had to start it, right?
(but this time I'm being wise and I'm working a prototype on 12 mm tree trunks with big-ish yarn that I have no other use for, from the stash, not 15/1 wool and silk yarn worked on 3mm needles)
oh no!
I decided last autumn that I'd knit myself a shawl for the winter. But I put off even starting it until spring. Now I'm just hoping it'll be finished by *next* winter.
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@Tattie spring is just (FSVO just) before another winter :D
I had notes with the hope to be able to finish that shawl last October. I stopped working on it and worked on sewing projects. *surprisingly* the shawl wasn't ready for October :D
One of my pet peeves are polls that ask you how many books you read per month/year/whatever.
What counts as “one book”? Right now I'm reading a book that is divided in two brick-shaped tomes, each one significantly above 1000 pages (but I'm only reading about half of them, since the other half is in Latin). That's about four time as many pages as your average Pratchett novel, but I'm taking significantly more time at reading it (I don't know whether it's because it has a smaller type (not by much), it's a harder read, or because I *will* lose sleep to finish a Pratchett novel, but up to now I've managed not to with this one :D ).
Then another book I'm reading right now is book one of a series of 15 doorstoppers: probably a faster read than the Latin book above, especially since it's a re-read, but still it's not something I can manage to read in a week, if I want to do something else. Since it's not the only thing I'm reading I'm expecting the whole re-read to last me a few years.
Some of the police procedurals my mother reads are, I don't know, maybe 100 pages and a bit? and the pages are even smaller than the ones of the doorstoppers. That one is easy to read in a day or two, and then you can easily claim that you read more than a hundred books per year, while reading less than if I was reading, say 10 doorstoppers.
And this is still stuff with some literary value, we're not talking about, say the collection of jokes from a famous soccer player.
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@Nicholas Laney :copyleft2: it is! round and it turns!
and there is no beginning, but there are beginning*s* :D
Correspondence Book
Posted on May 26, 2023
I write letters. The kind that are written on paper with a dip pen 1 and ink, stamped and sent through the post, spend a few days or weeks maturing like good wine in a depot somewhere2, and then get delivered to the recipient.
Some of them (mostly cards) are to people who will receive them and thank me via xmpp (that sounds odd, but actually works out nicely), but others are proper letters with long texts that I exchange with penpals.
Most of those are fountain pen frea^Wenthusiasts, so I usually use a different ink each time, and try to vary the paper, and I need to keep track of what I’ve used.
Some time ago, I’ve read a Victorian book3 which recommended keeping a correspondence book to register all mail received and sent, the topics and whether it had been replied or otherwise acted upon. I don’t have the mail traffic of a Victorian lady (or even middle class woman), but this looked like something fun to do, and if I added fields for the inks and paper used it would also have useful side effect.
So I headed over to the obvious program anybody would use for these things (XeLaTeX, of course) and quickly designed a page with fields for the basic thinks I want to record; it was a bit hurried, and I may improve on it the next time I make one, but I expect this one to last me two or three years, and it is good enough.
I’ve decided to make it A6 sized, so that it doesn’t require a lot of space on my busy desktop, and it could be carried inside a portable desktop, if I ever decide to finish the one for which I’ve made a mockup years ago :)
I’ve also added a few pages for the addresses of my correspondents (and an index of the letters I’ve exchanged with them), and a few empty pages for other notes.
Then I’ve used my a6_book.py script to rearrange the A6 pages into signatures and impress them on A4; to reduce later effort I’ve added an option to order the pages in such a way that if I then cut four A4 sheet in half at a time (the limit of my rotary cutter) the signatures are ready to be folded. It’s not the default because it requires that the pages are a multiple of 32 rather than just 16 (and they are padded up with empty pages if they aren’t).
If you’re also interested in making one, here are the files:
After printing (an older version where some of the pages are repeated. whoops, but it only happened 4 times, and it’s not a big deal), it was time for binding this into a book.
I’ve opted for Coptic stitch, so that the book will open completely flat and writing on it will be easier and the covers are 2 mm cardboard covered in linen-look bookbinding paper (sadly I no longer have a source for bookbinding cloth made from actual cloth).
I tried to screenprint a simple design on the cover: the first attempt was unusable (the paper was smaller than the screen, so I couldn’t keep it in the right place and moved as I was screenprinting); on the second attempt I used some masking tape to keep the paper in place, and they were a bit better, but I need more practice with the technique.
Finally, I decided that for such a Victorian thing I will use an Iron-gall ink, but it’s Rohrer & Knlingner Scabiosa, with a purple undertone, because life’s too short to use blue-black ink :D
And now, I’m off to write an actual letter, rather than writing online about things that are related to letter writing.
- not a quill! I’m a modern person who uses steel nibs!↩︎
- Milano Roserio, I’m looking at you. a month to deliver a postcard from Lombardy to Ticino? not even a letter, which could have hidden contraband, a postcard.↩︎
- I think. I’ve looked at some plausible candidates and couldn’t find the source.↩︎
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Late Victorian Combinations
Posted on May 26, 2023
Some time ago, on an early Friday afternoon our internet connection died. After a reasonable time had passed we called the customer service, they told us that they would look into it and then call us back.
On Friday evening we had not heard from them, and I was starting to get worried. At the time in the evening when I would have been relaxing online I grabbed the first Victorian sewing-related book I found on my hard disk and started to read it.
For the record, it wasn’t actually Victorian, it was Margaret J. Blair. System of Sewing and Garment Drafting. from 1904, but I also had available for comparison the earlier and smaller Margaret Blair. System of Garment Drafting. from 1897.
Anyway, this book had a system to draft a pair of combinations (chemise top + drawers); and months ago I had already tried to draft a pair from another system, but they didn’t really fit and they were dropped low on the priority list, so on a whim I decided to try and draft them again with this new-to-me system.
Around 23:00 in the night the pattern was ready, and I realized that my SO had gone to sleep without waiting for me, as I looked too busy to be interrupted.
The next few days were quite stressful (we didn’t get our internet back until Wednesday) and while I couldn’t work at my day job I didn’t sew as much as I could have done, but by the end of the week I had an almost complete mockup from an old sheet, and could see that it wasn’t great, but it was a good start.
One reason why the mockup took a whole week is that of course I started to sew by machine, but then I wanted flat-felled seams, and felling them by hand is so much neater, isn’t it?
And let me just say, I’m grateful for the fact that I don’t depend on streaming services for media, but I have a healthy mix of DVDs and stuff I had already temporary downloaded to watch later, because handsewing and being stressed out without watching something is not really great.
Anyway, the mockup was a bit short on the crotch, but by the time I could try it on and be sure I was invested enough in it that I decided to work around the issue by inserting a strip of lace around the waist.
And then I went back to the pattern to fix it properly, and found out that I had drafted the back of the drawers completely wrong, making a seam shorter rather than longer as it should have been. ooops.
I fixed the pattern, and then decided that YOLO and cut the new version directly on some lightweight linen fabric I had originally planned to use in this project.
The result is still not perfect, but good enough, and I finished it with a very restrained amount of lace at the neckline and hems, wore it one day when the weather was warm (loved the linen on the skin) and it’s ready to be worn again when the weather will be back to being warm (hopefully not too soon).
The last problem was taking pictures of this underwear in a way that preserves the decency (and it even had to be outdoors, for the light!).
This was solved by wearing leggings and a matched long sleeved shirt under the combinations, and then promptly forgetting everything about decency and, well, you can see what happened.
The pattern is, as usual, published on my pattern website as #FreeSoftWear.
And then, I started thinking about knits.
In the late Victorian and Edwardian eras knit underwear was a thing, also thanks to the influence of various aspects of the rational dress movement; reformers such as Gustav Jäger advocated for wool underwear, but mail order catalogues from the era such as archive.org/details/cataloguef… (starting from page 67) have listings for both cotton and wool ones.
From what I could find, back then they would have been either handknit at home or made to shape on industrial knitting machines; patterns for the former are available online, but the latter would probably require a knitting machine that I don’t currently1 have.
However, this is underwear that is not going to be seen by anybody2, and I believe that by using flat knit fabric one can get a decent functional approximation.
In The Stash I have a few meters of a worked cotton jersey with a pretty comfy feel, and to make a long story short: this happened.
I suspect that the linen one will get worn a lot this summer (linen on the skin. nothing else need to be said), while the cotton one will be stored away for winter. And then maybe I may make a couple more, if I find out that I’m using it enough.
- cue ominous music. But first I would need space to actually keep and use it :)↩︎
- other than me, my SO, any costuming friend I may happen to change in the presence of, and everybody on the internet in these pictures.↩︎
In giro ai margini del centro di Varese con un'asciugamano rosso appeso alla vita (per la precisione era appoggiato attorno alle bretelle, ma quelle non si vedevano): FATTO.
(se qualcuno ha detto qualcosa, non l'ho sentito)
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walking in downtown Varese with a red towel hanging from the waist (it was wrapped around hidden braces): DONE.
(if anybody said anything, I didn't hear them)
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This is interesting. I've just asked okular to print page 128 of a 32 pages document (I know. I had my reasons¹), and the printer spewed out a single page with the word "UNIR" at the top left and nothing else.
¹ it was a pdf with 128 A6 pages laid out on 32 A4 pages, and I mixed up the two numbers. could have happened to anybody! :D
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Filed under: hard choices.
I'm writing my second letter to a penpal, and I have to decide which one of my *cough* #inks to use.
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some years ago one of the places I buy fabric from had some plastic fleece on sale, and I bought 3 meters of green fleece to use mostly as a green screen.
I don't usually like green, and it's a colour that I don't really wear.
And now that I've put away most of the winter clothing, but this was still around, I'm a floating head and hands, wrapped in 3 meters of warm green screen.
#TIL: running a gathering stitch sashiko-style with a long needle (a darning one) and the thimble at the base of the middle finger is faster than doing so in the way I had always done.
I wonder whether it also works with two needles, to run two gathering threads at a time, but that's something I'll try in another garment.
@MaryPot for sashiko (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashiko) the needle is guided with the thumb and middle finger, and moved forwards with the base of the middle finger, so that's the part that is covered by the thimble.
Using the base of the middle finger allows to push with a bit more strength, enabling one to sew more stitches before pulling the needle.
#TIL what Sashiko is and about the special thimble!
athreadedneedle.com/blogs/with…
How to Use a Sashiko Thimble
When I started sashiko stitching, the sashiko thimble was a mystery to me! It's an odd shaped soft leather thing that doesn't resemble any thimble I ever saw.A Threaded Needle
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Dear #HistoricalSewing -verse, have you ever stumbled on late victorian / early 1900s instructions on how to sew knit fabric at home?
I don't think I have, and all of the references to knit garments I can think of are of things that one would buy ready made, and thus sewn in an industrial setting.
Which is not any kind of proof that people weren't sewing their own knit underwear at home, of course.
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, I'd still start with the V&A it's their thing. They have an API for searching their data
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ok, this morning I'm going to cut a new set of pajamas, the ones I'm currently using are full of holes and I badly need a new one or two.
* gets the appropriate fabric from the cupboard
* prepares the appropriate fabric on the table, stats to lay out pieces on the fabric
* realizes that the fabric has been put away before it has been pre-washed
and the forecast for these days is a bit of rain today, more rain tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and…
I'm trying to pre-wash it anyway (but just the amount I need for the pajamas, not the whole 8 meters)
Thankfully, the jersey for the combination suit was ready, so I could cut at least that (it was the second thing I wanted to cut today).
The Dreamstress has had some unexpected big expenses last month, and now all of her patterns are on sale to raise some money to cover them.
I've bought many of them, both modern and historical, and even sewn some ( O:-) ) and they were really good (both as patterns and as detailed instructions and extra material), but also from the blog she looks like a really nice person.
thedreamstress.com/2023/05/scr…
Scroop Patterns on Sale! - The Dreamstress
It's sale time for Scroop Patterns! For the next week you can get a whopping 30% off all Modern patterns, and 25% off all historical patternsThe Dreamstress
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Thank you for this prompt. I have been meaning to get a mantle pattern, and have used her patterns before as well.
So off we go! Now, I just need to make about 10 yards of lace for the trim....
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@mem_somerville yeah, that may be an unwanted side effect :D
I'm tempted to buy something, but I've already bought a lot of them, and I'm not sure I really want to add another era (the 1910s) to my wardrobe.
Hei @PHP @PHP Foundation #php , what's up here?
How firefox is doing "unusual traffic from [my] computer network" (requiring a captcha to continue) , while GNOME Web isn't ?
Oggi è il 13 maggio, secondo sabato del mese: questo significa serata craftaggio, con ritrovo dalle 20:30 in poi all'indirizzo meet.gl-como.it/craftaggio
Il piano è sempre lo stesso, portate il vostro lavoro creativo, qualunque esso sia, per passare la serata facendolo mentre si chiacchera con gli altri; siete tutti¹ benvenuti!
¹ con le ovvie eccezioni, paradosso della tolleranza ecc. ecc.
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I hate proprietary software
Posted on May 12, 2023
Even when it’s \m/.
Years ago I watched my SO play Brütal Legend and of course loved it, but I’ve been only using used computers for a long time, and none of them was really able to run modern games.
Admittedly, he told me that I could use his computer to play the game while he wasn’t home (and I do have an account on that computer, that I’ve sporadically used to do computationally intensive stuff, but always remotely), but it was a hassle, and I never did.
This year, however, he gifted me a shiny new CPU and motherboard, and among other things that meant games from this century!
The first thing I’ve spent time on was 0ad (which admittedly already worked on one of the old computers, as long as the map wasn’t too big), but now it was time to play basically the one recent proprietary game I had been wanting to play.
So, this afternoon I started by trying to copy the installer (it was bought from an humble bundle, I don’t have steam) from the home server to my PC, and the home server froze. Ok, I could copy it through something else than git annex (or from the offline hard disk backup, as I did).
Then I tried to run the installer, which resulted in the really helpful error message:
bash: ./BrutalLegend-Linux-2013-05-07-setup.bin: cannot execute: required file not foundok, then surely ldd can help:
not a dynamic executablemaybe it doesn’t like being a symlink (remember, git annex), but no, that wasn’t the problem. ah! maybe
file can help, and indeed:BrutalLegend-Linux-2013-05-07-setup.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executableargh. Why does proprietary software hate us?
Oh, well, wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWT… , dpkg --add-architecture i386 followed by apt update and apt install libc6-i386 and the installer started.
Of course this didn’t mean that the game could run, but at least it was spitting out the right error messages, and I could quickly see what the other missing packages were:
apt install lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386 libgl1:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386and the game started!
and…
no. audio.
I often play games with no audio, because I can’t wear headphones, but here the soundtrack is basically 50% of the reason one would play this game.
Back when my SO had played the game audio was still through pulseaudio, while now I’m using pipewire (and I wasn’t sure that the game wasn’t old enough to be wanting to use alsa), so I started to worry a bit.
And this time, there was no error message to help, but some googling (on searx) and trial and error gave me this list of packages:
apt install pipewire-audio libpipewire-0.3-0:i386 libpulse0:i386 pipewire-alsa:i386and that was it! the game started AND I could hear music!
And then it was time for dinner, and I couldn’t play.
(You may notice that this post has been posted quite some time after dinner. Most of this time wasn’t spent writing the post.)
Anyway, as soon as I’ve defeated and crushed Doviculus I’m going back to 0ad. or maybe wesnoth. or some other Free Software and frustration-free game.
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@Paolo Redaelli I agree that there are more valid reasons to hate proprietary software than the frustration it causes when trying to play a game.
The thing is, I've been lucky to be able to make lifestyle choices that allow me to avoid using proprietary software everywhere that it counts, so the only exception happens to be games and other narrative media, where you can't really get a free software / free culture equivalent (you can often get free works that are in same general category / genre, but if I want to follow the story of the world where Ormagöden, The Eternal Firebeast, Cremator of the Sky, and Destroyer of the Ancient World is real I can't really play a free software RPG or RTS instead.)
And this means that most of the proprietary software I deal with are games from the Humble Bundle, and they are all full of frustrating issues and bugs that a Free Software game would have fixed (such as being built for 64 bit).
And when your desire to play a game that you have wanted to play for years is frustrated, is easy to rant, even when you're otherwise writing notes to remind yourself how you've fixed the problem in the future :)
Also, this morning I wanted to keep playing, and guess what: another gamebreaking bug.
This morning's #tea failure mode:
* put the bread in the bread heating appliance¹
* heated water in the kettle (100°C)
* put the filter in the mug
* put the leaves in the filter
* poured water in the mug
* set the timer
* heard the timer
* turned the bread heating appliance off
notice the lack of “removed the filter with the tea leaves from the mug”
luckily I came back to get the mug only half a minute later or so, the tea is a bit strong, but not horribly so.
¹ it's a sandwich maker, if you're curious, but I tend to abuse it a bit
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“ Strong-minded women who have never worn a pair of stays, and gentlemen blinded by hastily-formed prejudice,alike anathematise an article of dress of the good qualities of which they are utterly ignorant, and which consequently they cannot appreciate.On a subject of so much importance as regards comfort (to say nothing of the question of elegance, scarcely less important on a point of feminine costume), no amount of theory will ever weigh very heavily when opposed to practical experience.”
From The corset and the crinoline : a book of modes and costumes from remote periods to the present time by Lord, William Barry, 1868
(Disclaimer: the historical accuracy of the book is, let's say, peculiar :D )
edit: I forgot the link to the book: archive.org/details/corsetcrin…
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •uops, dimenticavo l'italiano.
Problema: ho solo un completo e mezzo di lenzuola di lino vintage.
Fatto: Ho circa 7 m di stoffa di lino per lenzuola, alta 100 cm.
Conseguenza ovvia: devo cucire quasi 3 metri con una cucitura che deve risultare estremamente piatta, e due orli, con la scadenza di “il prossimo cambio di lenzuola”, durante un'ondata di caldo.
#cucito #ProblemiAutoindotti
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •One meter was sewn. Then this morning I planned to sew more, but my plans were drastically changed by the weather and the local train service.
At least, the temperature outside has gone down.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Un metro è stato cucito. Stamattina pensavo di cucirne altro, ma i miei piani sono stati cambiati drasticamente dal meteo e dal servizio ferroviario regionale.
Almeno ha rinfrescato.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •center seam done!
next step: basting the hems, and then I think I'll use the sheets once before actually sewing them, to find out whether the length is right and to give myself more time to decide how I want to sew them exactly.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Cucitura centrale fatta!
Prossimo passo: imbastire gli orli. E poi credo che userò il lenzuolo una volta prima di cucirli, per controllare che la lunghezza sia giusta, ma anche per procrastinare la decisione su come voglio farlo.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros un lenzuolo, semplicemente un lenzuolo, come li si faceva una volta: due teli cuciti assieme per il lungo con un sopraggito che unisce le cimose¹, e poi due orli sui lati corti.
¹ come cucitura rimane abbastanza piatta da non sentirsi, ma essendo un lenzuolo matrimonale se anche si sentisse sarebbe solo un vantaggio, perché rimane sul confine tra le due metà letto e può servire per ricordare chi tende ad invadere che sta uscendo dai suoi confini.
Poi magari cerco di fare una foto, ma dubito di pubblicarla oggi
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros in realtà non è particolarmente difficile.
Faticoso un po' sì, perché questa stoffa è *densa* e l'ago faceva fatica a passare. E lungo (soprattutto perché nel frattempo facevo anche altro).
Ma tenere tutto quanto in braccio non è stato difficile, e la cucitura era dritta e facile.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •@Elikorokoros
Foto col filtro vintage (altrimenti detto “fotocamera scarsa del pinofono”), poi nei prossimi giorni provvedo con la macchina fotografica vera
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros comunque, più che “bello” l'obiettivo qui è “funzionale”.
Quella stoffa era discretamente ingiallita e macchiata; è stata lavata un po' di volte e dovrei essere riuscita a tagliare le parti con pochissime macchie, ma qualcosa è rimasto comunque.
Spero che con l'uso, i lavaggi con l'additivo sbiancante e il sole quando la si fa asciugare migliori o almeno non peggiori.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros l'aceto rischia di fissare, soprattutto le macchie di ruggine.
Ma no, siamo andati di chimica pesante (altrimenti detta candeggina a base di cloro).
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •@Elikorokoros non che con la macchina vera si veda molto meglio
una delle righe verticali non è una piega, ma una cucitura piatta, ma si indovina appena ingrandendo l'immagine
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros sisi, pronto, e anche usato, funziona bene!
(ho dei tempi biblici quanto a scaricare le foto dalla macchina fotografica ed editarle :D )
Rapita dagli alieni
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 @Elikorokoros in realtà la foto (e la spiegazzatura) aiuta a nascondere un po', ma sì, posso essere soddisfatta del risultato.
grazie!