I have been thinking in the general direction of doing a bit of streaming where I handsew stuff while talking about handsewing and the project I'm making and general craft things, maybe later in September, would anybody be interested?
It would happen on the streaming server¹ of our LUG, and I may then post recordings on peertube (if I create an account somewhere).
¹ lol, it's just an nginx with a bit of configuration
Stavo vagamente pensando all'idea di streammare mentre cucio a mano, parlando di cucito a mano, il progetto che sto facendo e cose craftose in generale, magari nella seconda metà di settembre, qualcuno sarebbe interessato?
Sarebbe sul server di streaming¹ del LUG, e (se apro un account da qualche parte) poi potrei mettere la registrazione su peertube.
Meanwhile, it's been a while since my last thread on crafting.
I've picked back up #knitting a shawl from *very fine* yarn that I started in 2022, when it looked like this:
and now looks exactly the same, but *a lot more*.
Now I have written down a plan and I think I can finish it by the end of September: it's longer than the usual time before I get bored with it and move to something else, but now that I can actually see the end I really want to do it!
(right now I have picked up a 8 days buffer, so there is hope)
Also, I've kept going on with the 16th century hemd inspired shirt I started (check notes 3 months ago: it's structurally done, I need to finish the bottom hem and the smocking at the sleeves, and then sort out buttons, so I hope that one too will be finished by the end of September, and then I can start some other project I have in the queue!
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.
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 …
E mi sono accorta che è un po' che non aggiorno sullo stato dei progetti craftosi.
Ho ripreso in mano uno scialle ai ferri con un filato *molto* sottile che avevo iniziato nel 2022, quando aveva questa faccia:
e adesso ha lo stesso aspetto, ma *di più*.
Ho provato a mettere giù un piano e credo di riuscire a finirlo per la fine di settembre: le altre volte mi sono stancata prima e sono passata ad altro, ma stavolta vedo la fine, e vorrei davvero arrivarci!
(al momento sono anche riuscita a portarmi avanti di 8 giorni rispetto al piano, quindi c'è speranza)
Sono anche andata avanti con la camicia ispirata allo hemd del XVI secolo che ho iniziato (controlla gli appunti) 3 mesi fa: è interamente assemblata, devo finire l'orlo in basso e lo smocking sulle maniche, e poi decidere cosa fare per i bottoni, quindi spero di riuscire a finire anche quella entro la fine di settembre, e poi posso iniziare uno degli altri progetti che ho in coda!
Ho appena iniziato a cucire a mano uno zaino, quindi non ho bisogno di un altro progetto di cucito a mano, vero?
Ecco…
Con lo zaino sono ad un punto in cui ho bisogno di pensare, ed oggi non è cosa, e poi è un tipo di cucito abbastanza fisicamente impegnativo, per cul il piano era di avere qualcosa di meno faticoso con cui alternarlo.
Avrei potuto fare qualcosa di facile e veloce? ovviamente no :D
E invece avere a che fare con quattro metri e mezzo di stoffa, orlarla e raccoglierla tutta in qualcosa come 36 cm? Più nel mio stile :D
Quindi ho deciso di farmi una camicia seguendo le istruzioni per una camicia tedesca del XVI secolo, usando però del voile di cotone e accorciandola leggermente in modo da poterla infilare nei jeans alla bisogna.
Also, in a Pile of things I was supposed to be clearing I've found an attempt at English Paper Piecing that only needed me to remove the paper bits, turn it inside out and sew it shut, and I've just finished the paper bits removal.
yes, I am clearing the mess on my desktop, doesn't it look like I'm doing it?
Inoltre, in una Pila di cose che avrei dovuto riordinare ho trovato il tentativo di English Paper Piecing a cui mancava solo togliere i pezzi di carta, rovesciarlo e cucire chiuso, e ho appena finito di togliere i pezzi di carta.
Sì, sto riordinando il casino sulla mia scrivania, non si vede?
also, I've decided to sew a buttonhole stitch reinforcement all around the English Paper Piecing mat, so it's no longer 10 minutes and it's done, but I hope to finish it in the next few days too.
11/12 dello scialle finiti! Per caso ho calcolato dei nuovi obiettivi per avere qualcosa su cui mettere dei segni di spunta mentre faccio le ultime 20 righe o giù di lì? cosa ve lo fa pensare?
E ho anche deciso di rinforzare il bordo del tappetino in English Paper Piecing con dei punti occhiello, quindi non bastano più 10 minuti per finirlo,ma spero in questi giorni di finire anche quello.
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' No, that's something I planned to add to README: no sound effect, you are expected to do them yourself ... you have to go "pew! pew! wosh! boom! pew! pew!" while playing
A bit more than a year ago, I had been thinking about making myself a cartridge pleated skirt. For a number of reasons, one of which is the historybounding potential, I’ve been thinking pre-crinoline, so somewhere around the 1840s, and that’s a completely new era for me, which means: new underwear.
Also, the 1840s are pre-sewing machine, and I was already in a position where I had more chances to handsew than to machine sew, so I decided to embrace the slowness and sew 100% by hand, not even using the machine for straight seams.
If I remember correctly, I started with the corded petticoat, looking around the internet for instructions, and then designing my own based on the practicality of using modern wide fabric from my stash (and specifically some DITTE from costumers’ favourite source of dirty cheap cotton IKEA).
Around the same time I had also acquired a sashiko kit, and I used the Japanese technique for sewing running stitches pushing the needle with a thimble that covers the base of the middle finger, and I can confirm that for this kind of things it’s great!
I’ve since worn the petticoat a few times for casual / historyBounding / folkwearBounding reasons, during the summer, and I can confirm it’s comfortable to use; I guess that during the winter it could be nice to add a flannel layer below it.
Then I proceeded with the base layers: I had been browsing throughThe workwoman's guide and that provided plenty of examples, and I selected the basic ankle-length drawers from page 53 and the alternative shift on page 47.
As for fabric, I had (and still have) a significant lack of underwear linen in my stash, but I had plenty of cotton voile that I had not used in a while: not very historically accurate for plain underwear, but quite suitable for a wearable mockup.
Working with a 1830s source had an interesting aspect: other of the usual, mildly annoying, imperial units, it also used a lot a few obsolete units, especially nails, that my qalc, my usual calculator and converter, doesn’t support. Not a big deal, because GNU units came to the rescue, and that one knows a lot of obscure and niche units, and it’s quite easy to add those that are missing1
Working on this project also made me freshly aware of something I had already noticed: converting instructions for machine sewing garments into instructions for hand sewing them is usually straightforward, but the reverse is not always true.
Starting from machine stitching, you can usually convert straight stitches into backstitches (or running backstitches), zigzag and overlocking into overcasting and get good results. In some cases you may want to use specialist hand stitches that don’t really have a machine equivalent, such as buttonhole stitches instead of simply overcasting the buttonhole, but that’s it.
Starting from hand stitching, instead, there are a number of techniques that could be converted to machine stitching, but involve a lot of visible topstitching that wasn’t there in the original instructions, or at times are almost impossible to do by machine, if they involve whipstitching together finished panels on seams that are subject to strong tension.
Anyway, halfway through working with the petticoat I cut both the petticoat and the drawers at the same time, for efficiency in fabric use, and then started sewing the drawers.
The book only provided measurements for one size (moderate), and my fabric was a bit too narrow to make them that size (not that I have any idea what hip circumference a person of moderate size was supposed to have), so the result is just wide enough to be comfortably worn, but I think that when I’ll make another pair I’ll try to make them a bit wider. On the other hand they are a bit too long, but I think that I’ll fix it by adding a tuck or two. Not a big deal, anyway.
The shift gave me a bit more issues: I used the recommended gusset size, and ended up with a shift that was way too wide at the top, so I had to take a box pleat in the center front and back, which changed the look and wear of the garment. I have adjusted the instructions to make gussets wider, and in the future I’ll make another shift following those.
Even with the pleat, the narrow shoulder straps are set quite far to the sides, and they tend to droop, and I suspect that this is to be expected from the way this garment is made. The fact that there are buttonholes on the shoulder straps to attach to the corset straps and prevent the issue is probably a hint that this behaviour was to be expected.
I’ve also updated the instructions so that they shoulder straps are a bit wider, to look more like the ones in the drawing from the book.
Making a corset suitable for the time period is something that I will probably do, but not in the immediate future, but even just wearing the shift under a later midbust corset with no shoulder strap helps.
I’m also not sure what the point of the bosom gores is, as they don’t really give more room to the bust where it’s needed, but to the high bust where it’s counterproductive. I also couldn’t find images of original examples made from this pattern to see if they were actually used, so in my next make I may just skip them.
On the other hand, I’m really happy with how cute the short sleeves look, and if2 I’ll ever make the other cut of shift from the same book, with the front flaps, I’ll definitely use these pleated sleeves rather than the straight ones that were also used at the time.
As usual, all of the patterns have been published on my website under a Free license:
I was in a B&B in Tuscany and there was a 1.5 l bottle of a soft drink with the label in English and German; it looked like the Swiss rivella, and the flavour was *mushrooms*.
Ero in un B&B in Toscana, c'era una bottiglia di soft drink da 1.5 l con l'etichetta in inglese e tedesco, aveva l'aspetto della rivella svizzera e il gusto era *funghi*.
@LaVi @oKolobos quando pioveva mi mettevo all'imbarcadero della chiatta e vedevo il Lago sul marciapiedi, e le cascate giù dagli orridi ... non riuscivo a sentirmi asciutto nemmeno davanti al camino a palla, con lo scialle e Romeo in grembo 🤭
Cioè, non "divieto di sosta sulla ciclopedonale" punto, come dovrebbe essere. No no. Divieto di sosta sulla ciclopedonale perché passano i trattori. Non passassero i trattori, fate come vi pare. Ma passano, eh.
Magari un po' di pietroni sulla ciclopedonale non sarebbero di troppo intralcio né ai pedoni né alle bici… e non ce li vedo i trattoristi a levarseli dal tracciato.
Vendo a offerta libera rilegatrice manuale a spirale Rexel CB205.
C'è anche un discreto numero di spirali di plastica nera, ma devo ancora recuperarle per sapere quante e precisamente di che misure.
Vendo perché sono passata ad un sistema di rilegatura diverso (ma anche il fatto di non essere più all'università e/o in altri ambienti dove girano dispense stampate in copisteria aiuta :D )
I've just put a debian live on an usb key, put it on the pegboard close to the home servers¹ and told my partner it was there in case he needed an emergency debian live.
And then asked him if I should put it on a cord with a fast release buckle, so that the emergency debian live could be pulled down quickly in case of emergency.
And… I need to do it, right?
¹ for which it is completely useless, because arch mismatch, but it was a convenient place
Ho appena messo una debian live su una chiavetta, l'ho appesa al pannello portaoggetti che c'è accanto ai server casalinghi¹ e detto al mio compagno che era lì, nel caso gli servisse una live di emergenza.
E poi gli ho chiesto se dovevo attaccarla ad un cordino con sgancio rapido, in modo da poterla strappare via in fretta in caso di emergenza.
E… adesso lo devo fare, vero?
¹ per cui è totalmente inutile, dato che l'architettura è diversa, ma era un posto comodo
Tonight I dreamed that the rain and wind had thrown down a fence around our house, a couple of goats were ready to jump in and we were afraid for out tomatoes¹.
This morning I got on the fediverse and found a thread (in Italian) about heavy rains in the center of Italy and then this:
Stanotte mi son sognata che pioggia e vento avevano abbattuto una staccionata attorno a casa nostra, un paio di capre erano pronte a saltare dentro, e avevamo paura per i nostri pomodori¹.
@Madeleine Morris out of curiosity, if you want to answer: when you sew japanese garments are you using a western style position pushing the needle with the thimble on the middle finger, or the method I've learned from shashiko instructions with the thimble at the base of the middle finger?
(this question prompted by me thinking about the cording I've done by hand in the japanese style, and how fast it it)
Qualche giorno fa parlavo, non ricordo con chi, di #libriScolastici sotto licenza libera, e dicevo di conoscere dei progetti, ma tutti abbastanza fermi
ecco, ho ritrovato in giro un elenco *quasi* aggiornato (ultima modifica nel 2022):
Meanwhile, yesterday evening I died. Or rather, they let me die. And by “let” I mean “piled monsters on me until I died, and then looted my dead body”.
And then on the next turn, with the new cards I had just picked I won.
I am thankful to @Diego Roversi for getting the cat companion when looting, however. It was just a +2, but it was a cat, and I didn't want him to go into the discard pile!
Intanto ieri sera sono morta. O meglio, mi hanno lasciata morire. E con “lasciata” intendo “mi hanno buttato addosso mostri fino a che non sono morta, e hanno saccheggiato il cadavere”.
E poi al turno dopo, con le carte nuove appena pescate, ho vinto.
Sono grata a @Diego Roversi per essersi preso il compagno gatto durante il saccheggio. Era solo un +2, ma era un gatto, e non volevo che finisse nel mazzo degli scarti!
Posted on August 17, 2025 Tags: madeof:bits TL;DL: if you’re using rrdtool on a 32 bit architecture like armhf make an XML dump of your RRD files just before upgrading to Debian Trixie.
I am an old person at heart, so the sensor data from my home monitoring system1 doesn’t go to one of those newfangled javascript-heavy data visualization platforms, but into good old RRD files, using rrdtool to generate various graphs.
This happens on the home server, which is an armhf single board computer2, hosting a few containers3.
So, yesterday I started upgrading one of the containers to Trixie, and luckily I started from the one with the RRD, because when I rebooted into the fresh system and checked the relevant service I found it stopped on ERROR: '<file>' is too small (should be <size> bytes).
Some searxing later, I’ve4 found this was caused by the 64-bit time_t transition, which changed the format of the files, and that (somewhat unexpectedly) there was no way to fix it on the machine itself.
What needed to be doneinstead was to export the data on an XML dump before the upgrade, and then import it back afterwards.
Easy enough, right? If you know about it, which is why I’m blogging this, so that other people will know in advance :)
Anyway, luckily I still had the other containers on bookworm, so I copied the files over there, did the upgrade, and my home monitoring system is happily running as before.
of course one has a self-built home monitoring system, right?↩︎
Caro Direttore, ho letto il suo editoriale sui bambini rom che hanno rubato una macchina e hanno investito e ucciso una signora. Ho sentito la sua sincera indignazione.
I've just realized that on my first #DebConf, in 2015, some people was using their (thinkpad) laptops as a tray to carry their meals. on my second DebConf, 2025, I didn't see anybody doing that.
I'd say that laptop design has gone really wrong somewhere in the process.
mi sono appena resa conto che alla mia prima DebConf, nel 2015, c'erano un po' di persone che usavano i loro thinkpad come vassoio per i pasti. alla mia seconda DebConf (2025) non l'ho visto fare.
direi che da qualche parte nel frattempo il design dei laptop ha preso una piega profondamente sbagliata
In my first or second Chaos Congress I carried sweet, sugary coffee on top of my closed thinkpad and spilled it. Nothing particularly bad happened, those were the good times.
@Lauma Pret 🕸️ this year at DebConf there was an accident involving a modern thinkpad and some plain water (the thinkpad survived, after being opened and dried) and that's when I discovered that modern thinkpads no longer have the water drainage holes under the keyboard.
I wonder, how Framework laptops are in this department... I keep fingers crossed that until I'll need next laptop, there will be at least third party keyboard with trackpoint for them, and then I'll probably switch. I've had TPs all my adult life, and they have seriously degraded in being suited for my autistic taste/needs.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Stavo vagamente pensando all'idea di streammare mentre cucio a mano, parlando di cucito a mano, il progetto che sto facendo e cose craftose in generale, magari nella seconda metà di settembre, qualcuno sarebbe interessato?
Sarebbe sul server di streaming¹ del LUG, e (se apro un account da qualche parte) poi potrei mettere la registrazione su peertube.
¹ lol, è un nginx con un minimo di configurazione
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •And if you're interested, what time would you prefer? (all times are CEST, i.e. UTC +2)
E se interessati, a che ora preferireste? (ora italiana)
- 8:00 - 9:00 (in English) (25%, 1 vote)
- 8:00 - 9:00 (in italiano) (75%, 3 votes)
- 15:30 - 16:30 (in English) (0%, 0 votes)
- 15:30 - 16:30 (in italiano) (50%, 2 votes)
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