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Meanwhile, in #LinenCyclingTrousers - I don't know if these will look like anything when done, but more importantly I also no longer care, I just want them done! It's even too dark to get any reasonable photos of it, because NEVER ENDING NIGHT OF WINTER and also capitalism refuses to sell me a lamp that's both pretty and effective but also costs less than 200€. 🙃
Anyway. I'm putting on the waistband, finally, after a million different intermediate steps. And hating the process.
#linencyclingtrousers
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Sini Tuulia
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The fabric is so thick and feels coarse against my fingers, and I need to use a million pins to manage it. And it's just very very annoying and not at all enjoyable. At least the button fly, after a lot of struggle, looks reasonably neat with all of its myriad parts.
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Sini Tuulia
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Well, the waistband is on.
I had to put the waist herringbone tape in since I forgot at first, then hand stitch it in place. And the button fly, from both sides, could be worse. I managed to just offset the bulkier bits, so it's not horrendously thick. And speaking of horrendously thick, look at all those gathers??

#Sewing #LinenCyclingTrousers

A close up photo of the inside of a half finished shaped waistband of trousers in black linen. A wide-ish bit of herringbone linen tape in a pale colour is in the process of being hand sewn on, on the inside, sort of opening the waistband sandwich and then doing a sparse herringbone stitch to keep it down. This will leave only a slightly visible two lines of stitching on the outside, which in fact is the inside of the waistband. Sini's hand holding it open.
A poorly lit photo of the front fly of trousers, in raking light which shows pretty much all of the wrinkles and creases ever, but also the ones that love to appear on linen when you handle it. The fly itself doesn't seem to pull or warp much, and there are still neat lines of basting or tacking thread in white. Sini's hand in the frame, trying to persuade the camera to comprehend white balance and exposure.
The inside of the button fly front. The pieces that flop about have been bound by the same linen herringbone tape, and there's a lot more tacking thread visible. It does indeed look like all the most thick bits have been offset by a pretty exact centimetre, reducing bulk. The button side of the button fly looks much neater than the buttonholes side, which shows a tiny fuck-up or two. The buttonholes are much too wide, and have been sewn back down shorter.
The inside of a waistband and the body of the trousers, prior to sewing. There's probably two dozen pins holding down a length of only 30cm, and the voluminous and bulging gathers. It looks like a slight nightmare to handle, both because of the sheer volume of gathered fabric, but also the million sewing pins. Terrible lighting once again, but there's a cute sewing supplies tin with birds on it. Sini's hand on the trousers, her myriad silver rings look like they're trying to escape.
#sewing #linencyclingtrousers
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Sini Tuulia
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Here's the previous bane of my life, this fun dropped style line at the centre back. The little notch with the peaks used to be for hanging suspenders off, but the dip is just my own foolish choice! It was terrible to sew on, terrible! I couldn't see what I was doing or have any kind of precision, so eventually I just minutely whipstitched that very back point on by hand. Looks alright. Also the gathers compressed nicely after me steaming the heck out of them.
A photo of the centre back of black linen trousers, placed upon an ironing board. There's a little wide set open V at the very back, the waistband being much wider and higher in the back that at the sides, and forming a mirroring peak of the V down where it joins the trouser body. It does look nice as a shape, though this very poorly reflects what an absolute hassle it was to do. The reported hand sewn bits are invisible in this photo, the texture of the fabric and the darkness hide it pretty much. Sini's hand on the trousers. The voluminous full gathers have been flattened and ironed into tidy little creases with haphazard variance by some determined ironing.
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Jonobie
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ZOMG I have that same complaint about lights that are pretty and effective and not super expensive. My living room is way too dark to do much of any crafting in these days with us being in The Dark Period. :-(
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Sini Tuulia
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@jonobie I have a small but efficient work light right next to whatever I'm doing, and that works, but the radius of light is pretty small, and sometimes I have to scoot the lamp right next to what I'm looking at! It's okay for crafting but not for photos.

I had a wonderful large lamp with an immense lampshade, and it still fit on my windowsill and lit up the whole desk and half the room. Then the cats dropped it, and it's no longer sold... 😢

@Jonobie
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Jonobie
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That makes sense, and booo on cats managing to drop the irreplaceable thing.

I keep thinking about whether I want to get can lights installed for my living room (where I do a lot of the crafting), but it’s sort of annoyingly expensive for anything electrician related. But dimmable lights there would be awfully nice.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @Jonobie I'm lucky in that I'm surrounded by LED strips that appear out of nowhere and probably reproduce around the house. I'm sure that @Diego Roversi is not involved in buying them every time he sees a new type or anything like that.

some have been mounted in aluminum strips and they do make *a lot* of light.

(a few times I may have encouraged him. but usually he doesn't need any encouragement)

@Diego Roversi @Sini Tuulia @Jonobie
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Sini Tuulia
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@valhalla @jonobie I used to have *enormous* industrial warehouse fluorescent lights for my forest of chillies, but I got rid of them thinking I wasn't going to get them cleaned properly enough, nor need them without the plants.
I am kind of missing the practically daylight levels of noon colour light at any hour I wanted, but damn were they also ugly and ate a lot of electricity.
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Jonobie
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Jonobie
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@valhalla My downstairs where I do daily work has a level of lights obtained from searching for high-lumen lightbulbs that my boyfriend @Wham says is like the surface of the sun. I love it SO much and credit some of my tolerance of the extreme dark here to that. LED light strips and industrial fluorescents seem like they might have some of the same “surface of the sun” effects… ;)
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NilaJones
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@jonobie @valhalla @Wham

I would love to know what fixtures and bulbs you use! I have a similar setup, using halogen work lights, but they require constant maintenance

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marius
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I use a light therapy lamp for when I need super bright lighting during evenings.

@valhalla @jonobie

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Sini Tuulia
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@mariusor @valhalla @jonobie Effective, of reasonable cost, absolutely do not look like they belong in my decor at all! If I didn't have the cats I'd probably go for one of those enormous but pretty rice paper floor lamps
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marius
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same... I usually keep it hidden behind some books and use the reflected light of the wall. :D

@valhalla @jonobie

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @marius @Jonobie yeah, also some of the led strips around here are just practical, others actually look *good*, but they do so in a very specific style that won't fit everywhere.

the ones we use for ambient light are somewhat easier to hide, but then they aren't the very bright, very high colour temperature ones that I use for work, those are more in plain view

three options, choose two, as usual :(

@marius @Sini Tuulia @Jonobie

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