Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!
Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a “Discworld makealong”. And naturally we’d love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too 🥳
No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!
So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but I’m sure we’ll pick up a few more along the way 😄
November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. You’re very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.
Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, link’s in my bio, but not necessary if you’re not into that.
(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what I’m talking about, congratulations you’ve got 41 books to look forward to!)
*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because we’re slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until it’s a week away 🙃
Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--…
@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch
#DiscworldMAL pattern ideas
Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.Google Docs
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se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…
Varese, zona Ospedali
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
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Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
scientificamerican.com/article…
What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?
As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar exploration—and vice versaScientific American
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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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@Giselle thanks
the same triangle (or square-ish) patches are also at the end of the side seams, so that detail is matched elsewhere on the shirt
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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@Jan Schaumann reheated stale take, but like homemade bread which reheats great.
Except reheated homemade bread is a good thing, this is a very serious problem.
Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55…
Books by Babbage, Charles (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 71,820 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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During a nine-month period in 1842–43, Ada Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. via @wikipedia
Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
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1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents
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In honour of a friend's device that has just crapped it's self.
Back up your stuff. Do it now. It doesn't have to be fancy, a zip file copied to a free Google drive with your most important documents and pictures will do, or multiple Google drives if you've got too much stuff.
Plug your phone into your computer and copy everything over. At least it's in more than one place.
Something, some way of recovering the stuff just in case. Something, anything is better than nothing here.
You don't need to have full 3 tier grandfathered backups to bother starting. A usb stick in the bottom of a draw full of your pictures is better than it being blank.
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Waking up thought of this morning¹:
“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:
“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì
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poiché ultimamente ho visto varie discussioni su uso e non uso del CW, vorrei dire anche la mia: mettete un CW a tutte le foto di gatti!
non è che la mia allergia si scateni anche con le immagini (fortunatamente, se no internet sarebbe off limits 😅) è che ogni volta che mostrate un gatto che fa la sua bella vita io provo invidia, una fortissima invidia, uno struggimento doloroso... sto male! perché quella è la vita che dovremmo fare tuttə e non solo i privilegiati felini, mannaggia...
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/me, puts away a pair of linen detachable cuffs, sees her cozy, warm, flannel 1880s shirt.
is it winter yet? and yet? and yet? and…
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* ripone nell'armadio un paio di polsini di lino separati, vede la camicia di flanella morbida e calda in stile 1880.
è arrivato l'inverno? eh? eh? e adesso, è arrivato?
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25.5°C in officina.
Col ventilatore puntato in faccia si sta abbastanza bene.
@Oblomov @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua alla fine di agosto non c'è un'occasione “ufficiale” per andare in giro in costume (non che io abbia piani quest'anno di andare a Lucca, ma se volessi andarci, dovrei preoccuparmi di gestire le temperature col costume, e io non ci andrei col costume da uomo nudo :D )
quindi evidentemente agosto e ottobre non sono la stessa cosa!
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@Kermode that's probably¹ lower than I've ever experienced in my life :D
¹ I've had exactly one experience of -18°C, so maybe on that night I've also met a -19°C, hence the probably
si parlava di treni storici, c'è un viaggio questo weekend (però questo sarà elettrico, non a vapore)
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Carissim*, ovviamente i fatti di cronaca recente ci stanno pesantemente impattando, e tutt* abbiamo la propria opinione e vogliamo esprimerla.
È normale e non è ovviamente un problema.
Però per favore, ricordate che esiste la funzione CW (Content Warning), e che nel dubbio è sempre meglio usarla.
Non è censura: è una forma di cortesia verso chi non vuole leggere anche qua cose relative a determinati argomenti.
Grazie.
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Fervono i preparativi...
[Domenica, 8 ottobre, in occasione della Domenica di Carta promossa dal Ministero della Cultura, l'Archivio di Stato di Como inaugurerà una mostra su Fernanda Wittgens, prima direttrice donna della Pinacoteca di Brera e attiva antifascista, che non esitò a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita per porre in salvo molte persone di religione ebraica, venendo per questo anche incarcerata a Como]
#ASpassoNellaStoria #storia #donnetoste #FernandaWittgens #asco
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Periodic reminder that "don't speak ill of the dead" is for, like, not mentioning at her funeral that Aunt Sally was a drunk and a lousy cook. It's not for suppressing public discussion of public figures and their complicated legacies.
Or, put another way, the obligation to "speak truth to power" is way more important than the obligation "not to speak ill of the dead". One is about justice and the other is about politeness. To be frank, FUCK politeness.
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/me, playing a game of 0ad and looking at the random factions: “oh, it's civil war between Syrians, and my Syrian allies have asked the help of the Roman empire against the yellow Syrians”
@Diego Roversi “fools”
/me, looking and how my ally still has more or less their initial corner of the map, while my territory has been enlarged significantly “you're not wrong”
Carə maestrə delle #scuole materne e asili, fatevelo dire da uno che conosce i prodotti scolastici.
Lasciate perdere i prodotto Giotto, costano un botto e qualitativamente non sono niente di che.
Molto meglio i prodotti Faber Castell o Staedtler, ma ci sono anche tante altre marche poco conosciute che costano meno e sono migliori.
Eventualmente ci sono i prodotti Fila (che è comunque Giotto) a più o meno pari qualità e costo più basso.
Ma soprattutto, e questo è molto importante: a meno di esigenze super specifiche, NON DOVRESTE indicare i marchi da acquistare ai genitori, ma solo la tipologia di prodotto, altrimenti li obbligate a sostenere spese che potrebbero essere proibitive per qualcunə.
Grazie.
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Ma a livello asilo/materna, cosa cazzo parliamo di qualità a fare?
A meno che non siano tutti figli di Picasso direi che l'unica cosa che conta è che siano colori atossici e lavabili (cosa obbligatoria per legge tra l'altro). Fine!
Tanto a livello di resistenza siamo più o meno allo stesso livello e comunque nessun pastello o pennarello resiste più di tanto in mano a un bimbo di 3/5 anni, mettetevi il cuore in pace.
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This week I haven't complained about #handsewing with plastic thread yet, right?
well, now I'm complaining about handsewing plastic fabric with plastic thread when there is even a layer of mylar safety blanket under the fabric.
but binding the edges with a machine seam and then handsewing it on the back is so much neater than trying to stitch in the ditch by machine!
@donkey herder a roll for cards (ID, driver license, etc.), the mylar blanket is there to make it harder to read them remotely (it's not perfect, but it should help reducing the distance the reader has to be to work).
I'm using some leftovers of cordura from my backpack lining, and sew-all thread.
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One way Mastodon is like earlier internets that I most appreciate is there are so many cats and their humans are mostly just sharing the joy of cat rather than trying to make them into influencers/celebrities/brand deal magnets
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This HTML-as-coded-in-1995 page details (and I do mean details) telecommunications in the small and almost inconceivably remote island state of Saint Helena.
It's a hoot.
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Or else the story would’ve just been called The Samaritan?
@Dgar @PaulNickson 🍰 @MaJ1 ♻️ @Chris Real it's my understanding that Samaritans were¹ worshiping the right² entity in the wrong way, which in that context was way worse than worshiping the wrong entity at all.
¹ technically speaking still are, since they still just barely exist
² right and wrong from the point of view of the Jews, of course
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Udite! Udite!
Sia noto in tutto il regno che sabato si terrà la conferenza gratuita "Un patrimonio per la città: gli stranieri a Como nel Quattrocento".
#ASpassoNellaStoria #Storia #GEP
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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 sisi, decisamente interessante, e ti siam stati grati per la segnalazione.
l'unico problema è che forse forse dobbiamo un pezzettino di gratitudine anche a trenò? che se non t'avessimo seguita per le lamentele sui treni, non so se l'avremmo mai scoperto :D
(se ti è utile saperlo: hai causato 4 delle presenze :) )
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Chickpea Crackers
Posted on September 20, 2023
And another half-written article I had in my repo. (Am I doing #FallFinishAlong with blog articles instead of / in addition to craft projects? it feels so).
I was in need of snacks. I wanted something bready, but with a bit less carbs and more proteins. I had a bag of chickpea flour.
Ingredients were:
- 100 g wheat flour
- 100 g chickpea flour
- 100 g water
- 3 g salt
- 1 g dry yeast
Mix everything as usual for bread, leave to rise for 4-6 hours.
Divide in 4 parts, roll them out to a thickness of about 1 – 2 mm, prick them with a fork (or the fancy cracker pricking tool that you don’t really need but I may have bought).
Optionally spray with a bit of water and sprinkle with salt (coarse or flake is best).
Preheat the oven to 240°C and cook for 5 minutes, or preheat the oven to 210°C and cook for 10 minutes for a dryer version.
I’ve tried both cooking temperatures: the 210°C had the big advantage of being the same as the common bread I was already making, so no additional oven time was required (it was summer. this was a consideration.), but I’m not sure which version I like best, so I think in winter I will alternate between the two.
Put it in a cotton (linen?) bag and keep it in a dry place, where it will keep for weeks (assuming you’ve made a bigger batch :D ).
This is now part of my staples.
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@Nathan Lövsund 🐒 🚀 mine aren't extremely crispy (like commercial crackers) either, more like homemade crackers.
Nice idea using sourdough, I should also try it one day!
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somebody on tumblr wrote:
“stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblr”
just rockin' and rollin'
‘stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblrmad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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I know, it's a media thing to attract views and stuff, but I can't resist.
Why? don't you all think of the roman empire when spinning wool while walking on the streets of a town that used to be part of the empire (and thus, you're doing something that, I've read somewhere, was considered a thing not done)?
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua wikipedia mi dice di guardare Erodoto - Le storie (Ἱστορίαι), capitolo 71, libro II
Però hypo era ὑπό, mentre cavallo è ῐ̔́ππος, non son così simili, in fondo
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Luca Sironi
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Luca Sironi • •@Luca Sironi it's wool. I'm going to wear it in autumn / winter. there will be trousers (or leggings and thick woolen socks) below :D
Yes, somebody in the late 1800 would be going to have a fit :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Ho ancora circa metà della stoffa che ho usato per la camicia rossa, e credo che possa bastare giusto giusto per farmi un vestito usando il modello della princess petticoat.
Dovrà essere più corto, forse anche solo fino al ginocchio, e sono abbastanza sicura che non ci sia abbastanza stoffa per la balza né per delle maniche (al massimo manichine molto corte), ma potrebbe esserci della frangia che ho accidentalmente comprato tempo fa quando mi ha assalita dal banchetto della merceria.
Mi tocca, vero?
#mastoCucito
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •most of the fabric has been cut (I think I still need to cut some facings or small things), all seams lines marked with tailor's tacks.
And then, since this is a modern dress (even if an #historyBounding one), and I have access to a serger, of course I've decided to finish all edges with bias tape, and not pre-made one, since that's too thick, but made from some navy blue cotton voile I had in my stash.
I do have all of the fancy tools to make it easier and faster (bias making devices, and a binding foot for the sewing machine), but today as I was cutting that bias tape I was reconsidering my lifestyle choices a bit :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •la maggior parte della stoffa è stata tagliata (credo che mi manchi qualche pezzo piccolo), e ho segnato tutte le linee di cucitura col filo da imbastire (non mi ricordo come si chiamino in italiano i taylor's tacks).
Dopodiché, dato che sto facendo un vestito moderno (anche se con ispirazioni storiche), e ho modo di mettere le mani su una tagliaecuci, ovviamente ho deciso di rifinire i margini con lo sbieco, e non con quello già pronto, che è troppo spesso, ma facendolo con del voile di cotone blu scuro che avevo in giro.
Ho tutti gli aggeggi che servono per rendere la cosa facile e veloce (i cosi per piegare lo sbieco, e il piedino per applicarlo con la macchina da cucire), ma oggi mentre tagliavo striscie di sbieco ho avuto dei dubbi sulle mie scelte di vita :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •oh, and I've been thinking about the front opening, and it's decided: it's going to be (spiral) laced, not buttoned, for a medieval-ish look.
also, if I find out it's too much of a pain to lace up every time, I can unpick one of the side seams and put a zipper in it.
todo.append("* make a suitably long lace with lucet")
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •ah, e stavo meditando sull'apertura davanti, e ho deciso: sarà chiuso con stringa a spirale, non bottoni, per dare un aspetto vagamente medievaleggiante.
e se poi scopro che allacciarlo tutte le volte è una rottura, posso sempre scucire un fianco, e inserire lì una cerniera.
todo.append("* fare un cordino a lucet abbastanza lungo")
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •TFW you load a new¹ silk thread on the machine and really hope that a) it will work with the machine b) you have enough to finish the dress, since it was bought online.
(the one in the picture is a 50 m spool, but I also have another.)
¹ I've used it before for the garibaldi blouse, but that one was completely sewn by hand. I've used silk thread in the machine before, but it was another brand
#sewing
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Quella sensazione di quando carichi del filo per cucire di seta nuovo¹ sulla macchina, sperando a) che funzioni per cucire a macchina e b) di averne abbastanza per cucire tutto il vestito, visto che è stato comprato online.
(il rocchetto nella foto è da 50 metri, ma ne ho un altro.)
¹ Ho usato lo stesso filo per la camicia rossa, ma quella è stata cucina interamente a mano. Ho anche già usato del filo di seta per cucire a macchina, ma era di un'altra marca.
#mastoCucito
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •and it's starting to look like a dress (albeit one covered in a hundred thousand bits of basting thread).
e inizia a sembrare un vestito (anche se coperto da centomila pezzetti di filo per imbastire)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •I'm going to finish the arm with piping and bias tape, and now I'm considering whether to baste everything together with relatively short basting stitches and then sew by machine, or just pin it and sew by hand with backstitches and be done with it.
and I strongly believe that life's too short for basting (unless strictly necessary)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Il piano è di rifinire gli scalfi con (non so come si chiami in italiano il piping) e sbieco, e mi sto chiedendo se imbastire il tutto con punti relativamente corti e poi cucire a macchina o se fissare con gli spilli, cucire a mano in modo definitivo e mortalì.
e sono profondamente convinta che la vita sia troppo corta per imbastire (tranne dove è strettamente necessario)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •eyelets, eyelets everywhere.
occhielli, occhielli per ogni dove
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua sono rifiniti col filo, non con l'occhiello di metallo, e quindi si fanno per forza a mano: contrariamente agli occhielli piatti da bottoni le macchine da cucire base non li possono fare, e non so neanche se ci siano delle macchine da cucire non industriali che li facciano.
Per quelli con l'occhiello di metallo ho le pinze, che sono un passo avanti rispetto a metterli a martellate, ma non la pressa, perché non ho posto in casa per mettercela.
Detto questo, io faccio a mano anche gli occhelli per bottoni, che potrei fare a macchina, per varie ragioni non ultima delle quali il fatto che trovo piacevole farli :)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Io ho una pressetta da banco tipo quella del video, che va bene anche per mettere in sede i cuscinetti, ma devo farci un bel po' di accessori… il che rende obbligatorio l'acquisto di un tornio 😁
invidious.devianze.city/watch?…
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua e hai ben presente quanto spazio occupa il tornio, poi :D le pinze occupano molto meno spazio! :D
(e alla fin fine gli occhielli in metallo li uso molto meno di quelli rifiniti a mano)
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Vi 💙
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Quanto ci hai messo?
Conta che io personalmente trovo che anche fare le asole dei bottoni a mano sia un'eternità 😁
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Vi 💙 • •@Vi 💙 per quelli che ho fatto mentre guardavo video (quindi senza distrazioni significative) ho impiegato circa 10 minuti per occhiello, ma molti li ho fatti un po' per volta mentre stavo facendo altro. In tutto sono 48 occhielli sul davanti, e poi dovrò farne altri 6 in cima agli scalfi (ma il vestito è indossabile anche senza quelli, per ora).
li ho iniziati martedì, dandoci dentro abbastanza (anche grazie al pomeriggio passato in sospeso con le telefonate del dentista che mi annullava l'appuntamento per un emergenza perdita d'acqua e poi me lo ridava perché l'idraulico era arrivato in tempo a risolvere :D ) e facendone quasi metà, ieri ne ho fatti ancora un po' e oggi conto di arrivare alla fine.
E sì, se si conta il tempo totale necessario risulta che ci ho impiegato un'eternità, ma la maggior parte è tempo di relax.
Il singolo occhiello comunque è decisamente più veloce di un'asola per bottoni, perché è con un punto semplice, con con il punto occhielli (ed è anche più piccolo).
Non che io mi sia tirata indietro dal fare, se non ricordo male, 31 occhielli a mano (e 31 bottoni ricoperti di stoffa, per buona misura) su una giacca :D
Invece trovo che le asole fatte a macchina siano una fonte di stress, e le evito :)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •it's almost wearable!
it's missing pockets (there are two gaping holes where the pockets will be, which show the detached pockets I'm wearing under it :D ), a lace to close it up (currently being made on the lucet fork) and some trimming around the neck and armscyes (for which I have ideas that involve weaving, so they may arrive later, after I've used the dress for a while).
And I have enough of the fringed trim that I've used on the hem to also make a belt (or two).
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •È quasi indossabile!
Mancano le tasche (ci sono le due fessure dove andranno, che però si aprono e fanno vedere le tasche staccate che sto indossando sotto al vestito :D ), un laccio per chiuderlo (lo sto facendo con il lucet) e delle decorazioni attorno al collo e agli scalfi (per cui ho delle idee, ma coinvolgono la tessitura, per cui è possibile che arrivino più avanti, quando avrò già indossato il vestito un po' di volte).
E dopo aver messo il bordo con la frangia sull'orlo ne è avanzato abbastanza per fare una cintura (o due).
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Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros non garantisco niente sulla tempestività, ma ci sarà di sicuro un post sul blog (che arriva anche qui sul fediverso) con dovizia di documentazione fotografica :)
se non fossi orrendamente pigra e/o se avessi un cellulare che fa le foto inizierei già a farne qualcuna, ma al momento non si vede ancora molto :)
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Unknown parent • •@AlwaysARedhead 🇨🇦 Ive never found it at the haberdashery (other than buttonhole twist, that one is easily available), I always had to order it online from somewhat specialized shops.
Since I don't like sewing with plastic (for a number of reasons) I like to use it to sew wool and silk garments: it's more expensive, but since I'm also using somewhat expensive¹ fabric I don't mind spending a bit more on thread (maybe something like 10 € a garment? including the buttonhole twist), and it's also a generally historically accurate thing to do (the victorian era manuals tend to instruct to sew like with like, animal based fabric with silk thread and plant based fabric with linen or cotton)
¹ yes, I've paid 9 €/m for this red wool, but that's because it was a deadstock remnant, it would have been expensive fabric at full price :D
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Unknown parent • •@kamikat I've done the first seam and it didn't react in an horribly bad way.
I'll wait until I've finished all of the machine seams before claiming that it's working, however :D
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Unknown parent • •@AlwaysARedhead 🇨🇦 from the place I'm buying it right now it's 2.25 € / 50 m; for comparison I'm buying cotton at a bit less¹ than € 2,95 / 100 m, so basically twice as much.
It's a bit stronger (not in a game-changing way, however) and smoother (which feels different when sewing by hand, but I don't think is an advantage nor a disadvantage).
¹ I think the haberdasher sells it at 2.50 / 100 m, but I'm not 100% sure, so I've checked the price on the producer's shop, which is usually a bit more expensive.