“ 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…
Since more than a year, a lot of space in my work bag has been taken by a skirt in aida cloth where I've started to embroider a line of #crossStitch swirls around the hem (it should be about 20 swirls).
The problem is, I can't do cross stitch and other counted thread embroidery while I'm doing something else, not even on easy fabric such as this, so I never pick it up to work on it, and it never gets done.
Today I've forced myself to do so and managed to do about 3 swirls. Will I be able to keep working on it at least a bit every day, and finish the skirt by the end of this month?
Also, I really hope that the haberdasher will have more floss in the same colour when I'll go there later this week, because I definitely do not have enough to finish this.
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Tonight it was the 70s and I apparated with a group of Death Eater adjacent wizards in an empty muggle house to listen to their music (it was a Black Sabbath album, btw).
And the thing that bothered me about the dream when I had just half-woken up? That when I plugged in the stereo it was a shucko socket rather than an English one.
Speaking of coronation souvenirs, I've just realized that today I'm wearing a necklace pendant that depicts a royal.
Not a mere king of an irrelevant island, however, this one is His Imperial Majesty Krosp I, Emperor of All Cats.
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It's now officially too warm, and I still haven't changed the hooks and eyes on the linen jacket I finished last autumn, so that's the sewing thing I'll have to do in the next few days.
3 hooks and eyes attached. 28 remaining.
(I'm removing the old ones in batches, so I can probably still wear the jacket while I work on this.)
Hiking Slippers
Posted on May 5, 2023
When I travel for a few days I don’t usually1 bring any other shoe than the ones I’m wearing, plus some kind of slippers for use inside hotel / B&B rooms.
It’s good for not carrying useless weight, but it always leave me with a vague feeling of “what if my only shoes break”, followed by “on a Sunday, when the shops are closed”.
So I started to think in the general direction of hiking sandals, shoes that are designed to be worn when resting, and lightweight to carry, but are a passable substitute for regular shoes in case of an accident to the main ones, maybe with the help of an extra pair of socks2 (or when crossing fords, but that’s not really a usecase I have).
My requirements are easier than the ones for real hiking sandals, since I’m only going to be walking on paved streets (or at most easy unpaved ones), and the weight considerations are a thing, but not as strict as if I had to carry these on my back while hiking many hours in a day.
My first attempt was a pair of hiking sandals from things I already had in my stash, with vibram soles, neoprene padding and polyester webbing. After a couple fixes they sort of worked, but they had a few big issues.
- While comfortable when worn, the neoprene made the sandals hard to make, as it tended to deform while being assembled.
- Polyester webbing is slippery. Some strips of hot glue in strategical places helped, but they weren’t perfect and in time they are peeling off.
- Most importantly, to make the sandals stable enough to wear while walking I had to add a strap around the ankle that needs closing: this makes it a bit of a hassle to use the sandals, say, when waking up in the middle of the night for metabolic reasons.
And then, one day I made my linen slippers, and that lead me to think again about the problem: what if I made a pair of slippers with a rubber sole, technical materials and maybe uppers made of net, so that they would be lightweight, breathable and possibly even still suitable in case I ever need to cross a ford.
This was also readily attainable from the stash: some polycotton for the sole lining, elastic mesh for the uppers, EVA foam for padding and vibram soles.
I decided to assemble most of them by machine, and it was quick and painless (possibly also thanks to the elasticity of the mesh)
For the soles I may have gone a bit overboard with the vibram claw, but:
- I already had it in the stash;
- if I need to wear them on an unpaved road, they are going to be suitable;
- why not?
The soles were glued to the slippers rather than being sewn, as I don’t think there is a reasonable way to sew these soles; I hope it won’t cause durability issues later on (if it does, there will be an update)
As for the finished weight, at 235 g for the pair I thought I could do better, but apparently shoes are considered ultralight if they are around 500 g? Using just one layer of mesh rather than two would probably help, but it would have required a few changes to the pattern, and anyway I don’t really to carry them around all day.
I’ve also added a loop of fabric (polycotton) to the centre back to be able to hang the slippers to the backpack when wet or dirty; a bit of narrow webbing may have been better, but I didn’t have any in my stash.
The pattern is the same as that used for the linen slippers, and of course it’s released as #FreeSoftWear.
I’ve worn these for a few days around the home and they worked just fine, except for the fact that I had to re-glue the sole in a few places (but I suspect it was glued badly in the first place, since the other sole had no issues).
Right now I have no plans to travel, so I don’t know how much I will be able to test these in the next few months, but sooner or later I will (or I’ll keep wearing them at home after I’ve thoroughly tested the linen ones), and if there are issues I will post them here on the blog (and add a link to this post).
- the exception would be when I’m also bringing some kind of costume, and even there it’s not always true.↩︎
- and one should always carry an extra pair of clean socks, as they are useful for so many things, as Pratchett reminds us.↩︎
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@Diego Roversi had just finished a confcall
me> black or green?
diego> (thinks for a few seconds) black
me> mug or IV?
diego> (no answers)
I should serve the tea in an IV drip, right?
Linen Slippers
Posted on May 4, 2023
I hate going out to buy shoes. Even more so I hate buying home shoes, which is what I spend most of my life in, also because no matter what I buy they seem to disintegrate after a season or so. So, obviously, I’ve been on a quest to make my own.
As a side note, going barefoot (with socks) would only move the wear issue to the socks, so it’s not really a solution, and going bare barefoot on ceramic floors is not going to happen, kaythanksbye.
For the winter I’m trying to make knit and felted slippers; I’ve had partial success, and they should be pretty easy to mend (I’ve just had to do the first mend, with darning and needle felting, and it seems to have worked nicely).
For the summer, I’ve been thinking of something sewn, and with the warm season approaching (and the winter slippers needing urgent repairs) I decided it was time to work on them.
I already had a shaped (left/right) pattern for a sole from my hiking sandals attempts (a topic for another post), so I started by drafting a front upper, and then I started to have espadrille feeling and decided that a heel guard was needed.
As for fabric, looking around in the most easily accessible part of the Stash I’ve found the nice heavyweight linen I’m using for my Augusta Stays, of which I still have a lot and which looked almost perfect except for one small detail: it’s very white.
I briefly thought about dyeing, but I wanted to start sewing NOW to test the pattern, so, yeah, maybe it will happen one day, or maybe I’ll have patchy dust-grey slippers. If I’ll ever have a place where I can do woad dyeing a blue pair will happen, however.
Contrary to the typical espadrillas I decided to have a full lining, and some padding between the lining and the sole, using cotton padding leftovers from my ironing board.
To add some structure I also decided to add a few rows of cording (and thus make the uppers in two layers of fabric), to help prevent everything from collapsing flat.
As for the sole, that’s something that is still causing me woes: I do have some rubber sole sheets (see “hiking sandals” above), but I suspect that they require glueing, which I’m not sure would work well with the natural fabric uppers and will probably make repairs harder to do.
In the past I tried to make some crocheted rope soles and they were a big failure: they felt really nice on the foot, but they also self-destroyed in a matter of weeks, which is not really the kind of sole I’m looking for.
Now I have some ~ 3 mm twine that feels much harsher on the hands while working it (and would probably feel harsher on the feet, but that’s what the lining and padding are for), so I hope it may be a bit more resistant, and I tried to make a braided rope sole.
Of course, I have published the pattern and instructions for the slippers as well as those for the braided rope sole as #FreeSoftWear.
Now what is left is trying everything under daily use, and I hope I will have updates on this at the end of the season, rather than soon :D
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Playing openttd I've just sent a full passenger train to the depot, sold the engine, bought a new one, attached it to the old carriages and then allowed it to continue on the route. Which, in the game is afaik the standard way to do so.
However, while doing so my mind was thinking of what the passengers were experiencing.
And well, not even our local commuter train company has ever done something like this :D
@Kermode ora che ci penso... :D
Non mi prendo impegni, ma quando posto qualcosa (ovvero quando non sto rispondendo ad altri) cerco di farlo sempre (a meno che sia un repost dal blog, perché quelli sono troppo lunghi e automatizzati per tradurli senza troppo sforzo :) ).
Programming the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo with Arduino
Posted on April 30, 2023
A few months ago we may have bought a few ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo boards from Olimex.
Since every time I go back to working with them I’ve forgotten how to do so, and my old notes on the fediverse are hard to find, this is the full procedure.
Setup
I start by sort-of-following docs.espressif.com/projects/ar…
- Install arduino from the distribution packages (version 1.8 is ok).
- Under File → Preferences, add the development URL to the Additional Boards Manager URLs field. (on 2023-04-30 that’s
https://espressif.github.io/arduino-esp32/package_esp32_dev_index.json). - Under Tools → Board → Boards Manager make sure that you install a version of esp32 by Espressif Systems that is above 2.0 (on 2023-04-30 there is a 2.0.8 that works).
Programming
- Under Tools → Board → ESP32 Arduino select ESP32C3 Dev Module.
- Under Tools → USB CDC On Boot select Enabled.
You can now compile and upload your sketches.
If something goes wrong, to force the board to bootloader mode bring GPIO9 to GND.
Note that the serial port device /dev/ttyACM0 only appears when in bootloader mode, but uploading sketches and the serial monitor will still work even if the port is not set in the arduino IDE.
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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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And then you think you've gone through all of the sort-of-urgent repairs, move to another room to put away things, and discover that there is another hole that needs fixing, and it's on one of the good shirts, even, so you have to mend it *carefully*.
The Pile of warm weather things that required some #mending love has been taken care of. And I've finished adding buttons and buttonholes and lace to my new linen combinations (there will be pictures).
Now (for “tomorrow” or “next week” values of “now”) I need to change all of the hooks and eyes on my linen jacket, and then I think I may be sort of ready for the hot season?
(I'm never going to be ready for the hot season.)
@Kermode Usually up to around 30-ish is pretty common, 35°C would be an exceptional day (of which of course we expect to see more).
Luckily I don't work outdoors.
TFW you finish sewing a pair of slippers with rope soles (there will be pictures), take off the slippers with vibram claw soles you have been wearing (there will be pictures also of these) to try the finished ones on, and they feel slipperryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
after a few minutes I realized it was just a feeling caused by the comparison, they aren't *that* slippery, but for a second there I was worried.
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The nice thing about #handSewing is that today I wasn't feeling very well, and had very little ability to concentrate on things.
But at least there are 7 more buttonholes that weren't there earlier this afternoon, and the day doesn't feel wasted!
(at least 4 are still missing on this garment)
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uh, Dracula Daily (Dracula, rearranged in chronological order and sent daily) is starting again in a bit more than a week!
I think that the website talks mostly about email, but there is also an rss available.
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this afternoon I received a package of assorted googly eyes.
they arrived late and I had urgent stuff to do, so they still haven't been divided by size and counted, yet.
this will not do.
(or maybe I'll wait until tomorrow? it *is* getting a bit late.)
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oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto un pacchetto di occhietti ballonzosi misti.
sono arrivati tardi e avevo cose urgenti da fare, quindi non sono ancora stati divisi per misura e contati.
non è accettabile.
(ma magari aspetto domani, che si è fatta una certa)
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24 medium big (16 mm tall)
23 medium small (13 mm tall)
28 small (10 mm tall)
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@las_lallero il dubbio mi è venuto leggendo il caso di Milano in cui a quanto pare la vernice non è venuta via con l'acqua.
poi ammetto di non aver letto gli articoli di tutte le volte che è successo.
ok, apparently some people aren't allowed in the spray paint aisle without adult supervision, and it seems I'm one of those people.
I got the plastic primer I was there to buy.
@Diego Roversi for some inexplicable reason prevented me from buying the magnetic blackboard paint I didn't exactly have a plan for.
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diego: “it's also wet”
me: “like a cloud”
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La mia pasta madre si sta dedicando ai grafici di crescita esponenziale manco fossimo a primavera 2020: la sto anche usando, ma credo che nei prossimi giorni ne farò seccare un po' per farne farina (che poi si può conservare nei mesi, e usare come starter quando si vuole della pasta madre).
Qualcuno ne vuole? preparo anche qualche barattolo per la consegna?
Zona Varese – Como (non so se si possano trasportare colture viventi, anche se dormienti, extra UE :D )
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@Katy B. :debian:📚 🥛 beh, essendo il mio lievito immagino che debba essere in una scatola di legno tenuta ben chiusa con fasce di ferro e ricoperta di rune protettive incise a fuoco.
per il resto l'immagine mi pare estremamente accurata.
e sto bevendo una tazza di té (e non bevo alcolici da svariate settimane, o per un motivo o per l'altro)
Usually I check my P.O. box about once a week, and it's empty.
This week I was feeling lazy and was almost tempted to maybe skip a week, it's going to be empty anyway, right, and I can go there early next week?
6 (SIX) cards.
YAY for forcing myself not to be lazy!
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Conta come #origamiSegreti se non arriva da livellosegreto e non è neanche chissà che origami? Avevo bisogno di una scatolina per evitare di perdere in giro degli aghi, e mi serviva *ora*.
Ho seguito le istruzioni di youtube.com/watch?v=7u-4G1lkx4… ma credo che sia un modello tradizionale.
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Se conosci qualche tipografia che stampa in offset puoi recuperare le lastre di alluminio delle matrici (il solvente per pulirle costa più di quel che vale l'alluminio da 0,10 mm, quindi le buttano).
Tempo fa le provai per origamare e si comportano benino, anche se sono un po' delicate nelle pieghe.
Per tagliarle basta farci una riga un po' calcata con una biro, per dare un'idea.
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Ho visto questo e ho pensato alla conversazione dell'altro giorno sull'uso di stampante 3d e cibo
mondo-artista.it/artidee-verni…
certo che non ho idea della resa, ma sospetto che non sia sto gran che rispetto al costo, e probabilmente non è neanche così ideale dal punto di vista del lavaggio (immagino solo a mano, con acqua tiepida ma non calda), però *esiste* :D
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Buono a sapersi, grazie!
Un'altra cosa che si può fare è usare la 3D per fare stampi per silicone, che almeno si va sul sicuro.
Ma bisogna usare il silicone giusto… non quello da idraulici come ha fatto qualcuno.
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Yesterday I was measuring out and cutting a simple garment with my mother, and I had to divide 160 by 3. I can't be trusted to do basic arithmetic, and it's not a division by 2 (which is conveniently marked on the measuring tape), so I grabbed the #slideRule that I still had on the cutting table and... panicked, and couldn't do it.
This morning, on my own, I saw the slide rule, tried and of course I could do such a simple operation.
demo effect, I guess? :D
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@Green and Rainbows the actual thing i needed was “160 divided by 3 and then we measure this on your back and add or remove up to 10 cm”, so, yeah, taking a cm off wouldn't have really mattered :D
(for precise things I tend to draft on the computer :) )
Fitting Top and Camisole
Posted on April 5, 2023
For this summer, I’ve just made a nice sleeveless dress, but that doesn’t mean that I’m planning to go around with bare arms like, I don’t know, a peasant or even somebody with no health issues, perish the thought!
Instead, at the end of last season I’ve bought a remnant of white ramie / viscose jersey that is a bit too transparent to be decent when worn on its own, but should still give some protection from the sun without being unconfortable in the heat, with the intent to make myself a new top.
Because of the transparency I wasn’t sure whether to actually use it for a top, or just to make camisoles, but with the decency preserved by the dress the choice was made: I had enough fabric for a top, a camisole and maybe something small.
I already have a trusted pattern for the top and camisole, but they still had to be published, so I took care to write down instructions and take step-by-step pictures; maybe the white fabric isn’t the best, but it’s better than nothing, and I can still take better pictures the next time I’ll do another make. They are of course on my pattern webiste: top and camisole.
Since the fabric was bought online as a remnant, I didn’t exactly know what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised by how soft it is: it feels like touching a cloud.
This however means that it felt like working with a cloud, and, well, let’s just say I’m happy that both patterns were quite simple and I didn’t have to deal with fiddly bits.
I was also not so pleasantly surprised by the fact that part of the fabric had a few small holes as if the end of the roll had been caught on something; I was able to cut everything around the holes, other than a small bit that I hadn’t noticed and had to be mended. It’s not a big deal, but I suspect it’s a sign that this fabric may not be as sturdy as it could have been, and that there will be more mending in the future as I wear it.
And then, when I had finished the set I was faced with another problem: taking pictures. For one thing, worn on their own they aren’t exactly decent, and then there was the fact that after a week of late spring weather in March, as I was working on summer clothing the temperature dropped and there was even a hint of rain.
I solved this by wearing the new set on top of another set of fitting top and camisole, with matching leggings. Not exactly something I would wear on the regular streets, but good enough for a picture of underwear.
Still, the pictures were taken in quite a hurry, because I wasn’t completely freezing, but still pretty cold.
Anyway, I’m off to find some other piece of summer wear to make, hoping that it will bring proper rain. :)
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@Technology Connections do you (or somebody else on the fediverse) know whether somebody has ever done the ObviousTrollThing and released a vinyl record with two completely different tracks on the theoretical left and right channels?
Ideally, for maximum trolling, music in completely different tempo and style, but similar perceived loudness, I think. (I suspect that speech could have possibly even just worked)
I wonder whether this would have caused a vertical wiggling above specs, and possibly even caused some damage, or if it would have just sounded bad even when listening to just one output channels.
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One could try to abuse this scheme in some ways.
Think original signal cancellation by an opposite phase sound wave emission et al.
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it seems I have maybe not exactly lost but at least misplaced one of my favourite nibs.
Ok, I have another one (uops, just one, I thought I had two: one in my purse and a spare, and it seems I don't have a spare), and it's probably around the desktop somewhere, I only have to clean it and it will resurface.
but still. runs around in circles screaming.
For the record, it's a Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure N° 808 J, and it's the one I almost always use to write addresses on mail.
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Dear #sewing-verse,
while under distress caused by a protracted¹ internet malfunction, aggravated by the fact that my work computer decided not to connect to my backup internet connection, it is perfectly reasonable to drop everything and decide to draft a combinations suite from an edwardian drafting book and make a wearable mockup from an old sheet.
But, since it's a mockup, even if wearable, why did I choose to hand finish all seams?
WHY?
Especially since I didn't have an internet connection, so I couldn't watch videos online while handsewing? (thankfully I still have a dvd collection, even if most of it is stuff that is not really suitable for watching while doing something else)
¹ multiple *days*
We are in the EU, so there is freedom of movement for people and goods, right?
How comes that asking somebody to pass me something during meals often involves the payment of a tariff? :D
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@Green and Rainbows that's likely.
However I also remember having do pay a tariff when food was being moved from the back seat to the front seat and vice versa of a 9 seats minivan that was traveling internationally.
OTOH, part of that trip was outside of the EU (and some of the times part of that food had been bought outside the EU), so, yeah, that makes stuff more complicated, I guess :D
(I don't think we ever tried to pass food from the back seat to the front seat while the car was *exactly* over the border. That's a significant lack of planning on our part.)
Ora, io sono una persona distratta¹ che ha dimenticato a casa la versione stampata dell'impegnativa, ma è possibile che il CUP dove si va a pagare le visite non abbia accesso alle prescrizioni del fascicolo sanitario, ma ti dica se hai problemi a stamparle² di andare a chiedere di farlo in farmacia?
¹ non è esattamente il termine che ho usato al di fuori della compagnia educata
² potrei non aver esattamente detto che avevo dimenticato la stampa, ma aver lasciato intendere di essere senza stampante O:-)
Things I didn't need: a new project.
Thing I'm doing: trying to #embroidery a small fediverse patch on a scrap of fabric using whatever leftover embroidery thread from old crossstitch projects.
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Swiss Embroidery Princess Petticoat
Posted on March 16, 2023
A few years ago a friend told me that her usual fabric shop was closing down and had a sale on all remaining stock.
While being sad for yet another brick and mortar shop that was going to be missed (at least it was because the owners were retiring, not because it wasn’t sustainable anymore), of course I couldn’t miss the opportunity.
So we drove a few hundred km, had some nice time with a friend that (because of said few hundred km) we rarely see, and spent a few hours looting the corps… er… helping the shop owner getting rid of stock before their retirement.
Among other things there was a cut of lightweight swiss embroidery cotton in blue which may or may not have been enthusiastically grabbed with plans of victorian underwear.
It was too nice to be buried under layers and layers of fabric (and I suspect that the embroidery wouldn’t feel great directly on the skin under a corset), so the natural fit was something at the corset cover layer, and the fabric was enough for a combination garment of the kind often worn in the later Victorian age to prevent the accumulation of bulk at the waist.
It also has the nice advantage that in this time of corrupted morals it is perfectly suitable as outerwear as a nice summer dress.
Then life happened, the fabric remained in my stash for a long while, but finally this year I have a good late victorian block that I can adapt, and with spring coming it was a good time to start working on the summer wardrobe.
The block I’ve used comes from The Cutters’ Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments and is for a jacket, rather than a bodice, but the bodice block from the same book had a 4 part back, which was too much for this garment. I reduced the ease around the bust a bit, which I believe worked just fine.
The main pattern was easy enough to prepare, I just had to add skirt panels with a straight side towards the front and flaring out towards the back, and I did a quick mockup from an old sheet to check the fit (good) and the swish and volume of the skirt (just right at the first attempt!).
The mockup was also used to get an idea of a few possible necklines, and I opted for a relatively deep V, and a front opening with a partial placket down to halfway between the waist and the hips. I also opted for a self-fabric ruffle at the hem and armscyes.
The only design choice left was the pocket situation: I wanted to wear this garment both as underwear (where pockets aren’t needed, and add unwanted bulk) and outerwear (where no pockets is not an option), and the fabric felt too thin to support the weight of the contents of a full pocket. So I decided to add slits into the seams, with just a modesty placket, and wear pockets under the dress as needed.
I decided to put the slits between the side and side back panels for two reasons: one is that this way the pockets can sit towards the back, where the fullness of the skirt is supposed to be, rather than under the flat front, and the other one is to keep the seams around the front panel clean, since they are the first ones to be changed when altering a garment for fit.
For the same reason, I didn’t trim the excess allowance from that seam: it means that it is a bit more bulky, but the fabric is thin enought that it’s not really noticeable, and it gives an additional cm for future alterations.
Then, as the garment was getting close to being finished I was measuring and storing some old cotton lace I had received as a gift, and there was a length of relatively small lace, and the finish on the neckline was pretty simple and called for embellishment, and who am I to deny embellishment to victorian inspired clothing?
First I had to finish attaching the ruffles, however, and this is when I cursed myself for not using the ruffler foot I have (it would have meant not having selvedges on all seams of the ruffle), and for pleating the ruffle rather than gathering it (I prefer the look of handsewn gathers, but here I’m sewing everything by machine, and that’s faster, right? (it probably wasn’t)).
Also, this is where I started to get low on pins, and I had to use the ones from the vintage1 box I’ve been keeping as decoration in the sewing room.
A few long sessions of pinning later, the ruffle was sewn and I could add the lace; I used white thread so that it would be hidden on the right side, but easily visible inside the garment in case I’ll decide to remove or change it later.
A few buttons and buttonholes later, the garment was ready, and the only thing left was to edit the step-by-step pictures and publish the pattern: it’s now available as #FreeSoftWear on my patterns website.
And Of course, I had to do a proper swish test of the finished dress with the ruffle, and I’m happy to announce that it was fully passed.
Except, maybe I shouldn’t carry heavy items in my pockets when doing it? Oh, well.
I have other plans for the same pattern, but they involve making some crochet lace, so I expect I can aim at making them wearable in summer 2024.
Now I just have to wait for the weather to be a bit warmer, and then I can start enjoing this one.
- ok, even more vintage, since my usual pins come from a plastic box that has been probably bought in the 1980s.↩︎
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swish test:
passed. uooops, it seems that the pocket was also swishing out.
stability test:
I didn't fall. I didn't faint. At my age that's a success, right? :D
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grazie!
sisi, disegnato seguendo le istruzioni di un manuale ottocentesco e cucito da me.
Can somebody with an account on discord or something contact the people of freesewing.org/community/where… to let them know that on the Fediverse there is a community of a) people who sew and b) people who care about free culture c) an hashtag ( #FreeSoftWear ) where they have been mentioned a few times and it would be great if they wanted to join us?
Thanks!
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we already have more social media accounts than we manage to maintain.
Not to say we don't want to, merely saying that we are spread thin as it is. So unless the request comes with an offer to help out, I doubt it will get much traction
@Joost De Cock uops, so you know about the fediverse already, sorry.
And I'm also sorry that I can't probably help, since I don't have accounts on proprietary platforms, and thus can't act as a bridge between the communities :(
One of my current #sewing projects is a summer garment and it's missing only 3.5 buttonholes, 6 buttons and probably a snap or a hook + eye. I think it's reasonable to aim at finishing it this evening.
Will it cause a sudden drop in the temperatures with a lot of rain?
(one may hope :D )
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it's done!
I also have the instructions and blogpost mostly written, but I need to take a few pictures and edit all of the ones I've already taken.
I hope to publish those in the next few days, unless it starts raining and raining and raining.
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Di solito, quando devo chiedere a chi è accanto a me, ma è in confcall, se va bene l'ora di pranzo prendo un foglietto usato poche volte di carta, una stilografica e scrivo la domanda in buon #corsivo.
Oggi mia madre, al telefono, mi ha passato un pezzo di carta e una penna a sfera per capire cosa stessi cercando di chiederle (era “devo andare avanti a mescolare il pranzo mentre tu sei al telefono?”), e mi sono accorta che mi son messa a scrivere in stampatello, facendo molta più fatica.
La soluzione: abolite le penne a sfera. :D
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The pen they gave me was terrible though! The point would dip a little constantly :( And the one I had with me is heat erasable so not good for documents.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Also, if the haberdasher does not have it, I've found that DMC sells online and filled a 50 EUR cart.
(and then closed the private mode browser window, so that it is now forever lost)
(but I remember what I had selected, more or less)
(I really hope that the haberdasher has the colour I need :D )
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •the second haberdasher I tried had DMC floss in the right colour (except it's one of the colours that have changed, ouch, but this means that I just can't find exactly the same colour anywhere).
the first haberdasher was out of this colour, but had a pair of proper braces to be used with buttons and everything. which is something I wanted to make myself for a long time, but was missing part of the materials, so I ended up buying them.
(12 eur of unplanned shopping is still better than almost 50, right?)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Delib For some reason my brain has a really hard time concentrating on audiobooks, but it can listen to people talking on video while only glancing at the video now and then, so that's what I usually do while handsewing or knitting.
If I have to count things, however, it all breaks down and I can't listen to anything (but then I get bored after a while, because I miss having something else going on at the same time. Brains are weird.)