In the surviving examples of historical clothing it's pretty common to see sewing allowances that are just pinked, or quickly overcast, or sometimes even left unfinished.
Which is why I'm taking my time to slowly herringbone down the allowances on the (five) back seams of this jacket, right?
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we're missing a once in a lifetime¹ chance to send prince Charles off to Australia with an atomic clock and a button to press as soon as he feels he is a king, to discover whether or not the kingions travel faster than light.
letting him stay on paved ground to check for plant growth is a bonus
¹ lifetime of each monarch :D
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thank you for this thread, Fluff! I didn't know about this but I've seen the aftereffects of authors not reading fanfic because they'll get sued for any similarities etc.
This is very interesting.
Creo un nuovo thread che l'argomento è totalmente diverso
un forno solare è fondamentalmente un sistema di vetri e specchi che sfrutta l'effetto serra per alzare la temperatura di un ambiente ristretto a temperature sufficienti per cuocere (sopra i 75°C, a grandi linee, ma ce ne sono che superano i 100°C).
e si possono costruire con scatoloni usati, carta stagnola e colla vinilica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_co…
solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/S…
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quando ho letto colla vinilica ho pensato a Giovanni Mucciaccia di Art Attack 🤣
Grazie mille! Dopo me lo leggo per bene 😊🙏🏼🍀
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Some (not all) of the red pieces on my 3d-printed (and hand-painted) #piecepack have turned almost white. Every time I've used in the last year or so I planned to repaint them. Today it has happened :D
Qualcuno (non tutti) dei pezzi rossi del mio piecepack stampato 3d (e colorato a mano) è diventato praticamente bianco. Tutte le volte che l'ho usato nell'ultimo anno o giù di lì mi son ripromessa di ridipingerli. È successo oggi :D
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TIL that the name Cedric has been invented in 1819 by Walter Scott.
The original name was Cerdic
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out of the thread because it's not really relevant
@göktuğ, of the orien't out of interested curiosity: the head covering in weirder.earth/@cadxdr/10893700… is the same as the one in e.g. live.staticflickr.com/3073/273… ?
(i.e. the style my mother doesn't want me to wear because it makes me look like a grandmother :D )
@göktuğ, of the orien't apparently, making the knot at the back at the head instead of the front is perfectly fine for a young person (or a not-so-young, but still not grandmother age like me), instead :D
(this is a town in the north of Italy, and my mother is born in the 1950s, btw, if somebody was wondering)
(not that it's common to see people wearing those head coverings, these days, even if the fancy silk ones are still being sold)
I've written my name in blood on the book of the dead.
This means it's time to turn off the PC and go to sleep, right?
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Speaking of #BannerFangirls: I've been wondering whether there is anybody else here in the fediverse who has suffered from an irresistible urge to have a witch hat with ear flaps.
A proposito di #BannerFangirls: mi stavo chiedendo se ci fosse qualcun'altro qui nel fediverso che ha avuto un desiderio irresistibile di possedere un cappello da strega coi paraorecchie.
boosts welcome :D
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It's done!
I've finished making my gentleman's shirt (or Garibaldi Shirt, if we want to call it with a womanswear name) and published the full instructions online.
@FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #sewing #victorian #costuming
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I'm really happy with it because I've had quite a hard time finding detailed instructions for this time period: for the earlier pirate-style shirt there are plenty of articles (and a certain video), but this doesn't seem to be as common.
(cue lots of people providing me with links to patterns and articles about this style of shirt :D )
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And when I end the instructions by saying “start making the rest of the half dozen” I really mean it :D
I'm not going to actually make myself half a dozen shirts, because I don't dress like a victorian gentleman every day :D , but I already have a cut of thin, red wool fabric waiting for me to turn it into a shirt :D
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TIL: the blue laces on my summer corset BLEED
of course, I was wearing my best white shirt, why do you ask?
(luckily, some bleach later, it seems that it is back to being white)
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Meanwhile, an ad online for the iThing, featuring their *exclusive* ability to play a game with *two* players on the same device.
With a split screen.
And you need an in-app purchase to make it work.
D: “the 90s are back”
me: “in the 90s you didn't need the in-app purchase”
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Status update on the 1880 gentleman's shirt.
After discovering that I had cut the sleeves wrong and keeping the project on hold for a while, I've resumed working on it, re-cutting and re-sewing the sleeves.
I've finished one of the sleeves and it's ready to be attached to the body.
The other sleeve is almost completely done, except for the fact that I maaaay have lost one of the cuffs. Tomorrow I'll try to look for it again, or I'll surrender and cut another one :(
At least one sleeve is enough to take the remaining pictures , so that when I'm not sewing I can keep working on the pattern and hopefully publish it in the near future.
Work in progress picture from an hour or so ago:
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And this was the last step-by-step picture, now I only need to press the shirt and take some finished object pictures (weather permitting) and then I can publish the instructions!
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One of the things I love to have learned early on, is the difference between liking a thing, and liking the idea of that thing.
Example: I love the idea of a bohemian life style, the artsy writer, living in a metropol in a messy place, attending weird parties and vibing with the city.
And for a short time, I thought, I wanted that. But that lifestyle would make me miserable. I'm noise sensitive. I need stability. Alone time.
It applies to so many things.
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The pattern for the rain-inducing shorts has finally been
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
ok, published. sort of. without a finished object picture.
because when I cut that pair, I cut one of the legs wrong, and it's shorter than the other one :( (they are fine for wearing, since they aren't visible anyway)
I will add more pictures when I'll make a new pair, but right now I don't think I'll need them short term.
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I've searched and couldn't find anything: do you happen to know whether there is an easy way to generate a #zim archive out of a #sphinx site? maybe a sphinx extension?
Or maybe it isn't really needed because most sphinx sites can be exported to a single pdf file, and that's convenient enough for #offline use?
Oh, well I should also store a fair #laptop, some #network gear and #photovoltaic cells into a strong #faradaycage in case of a #EMP attack.😅
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So, while it isn't in the budget this month, I have a weird thing I may want to commission, if I can find the right artist/artisan.
I'm looking at pens. Specifically a nice dip pen nib holder that I would use for ink drawings. Straight and not oblique.
I don't know of any woodworking creators on the fediverse, though, and I was wondering if there's anyone with the right skill set here?
I'd love to have a unique and interesting drawing pen made.
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I tend to favor ink drawings myself, with calligraphy pens being my favorite tool for it, though I'm not very skilled at calligraphy. I've done a bit with foundational hand, though it's been a long while.
I think I also remember @welshpixie doing some calligraphy (and some really cool mandalas as well), if you want to check out what she does.
My SO is sleeping (siesta time), so for about one hour his chair is free.
What I want to have done in this hour is to continue my inventory of fabric (using his chair as a convenient place to hold it).
What I want do *do* in this hour is playing flare.
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quello si può all'incirca fare: la query diventa qualcosa tipo ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, purché si siano configurato i campi length e width come sortable (che non è il default perché avere troppi campi sortable influenza le prestazioni)
che io sappia non si può fare una query tipo ```lenght = null``` (di solito per quelli finisco per usare grep :D )
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@Bevilacqua Gustavino uops, I didn't realize you wrote in en...
that can be done, the query becomes something like ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, as long as the length and width have been configured as sortable (which is not the default because too many sortable fields influence performance).
afaik it isn't possible to have a query like ```length = null``` (usually when I need something like that I use grep :D )
@Bevilacqua Gustavino I've found that for this kind of applications in most cases, having free text search with stemming is more useful than querying for none, so I think that the tradeoff is worth.
In theory, I could probably write an additional backend to index the data also in an sqlite database for that kind of queries, but I've never felt enough of a need for it to actually *do* it :D
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I've just realized that I *should* add interface support for the spelling correction feature of xapian, however
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there, so that I don't forget
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“The washing machine, I maintain, is one of the most significant inventions in human history”
fully concur.
(I'd recommend using your favourite downloader or the like)
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valhalla vs the gentleman's shirt round 2
the sleeves that were too small and made me stop working on the shirt for a while weren't a failed experiment in how narrow I could cut them, they were cut wrong as compared to the size I had planned to cut on the notes.
a second pair of sleeves has been cut.
the first pair is just too narrow at the cuff, but I believe can work on the arm; I will probably be able to use them on a chemise or something, I'm not sure if I want to cut them so that they are 3/4, or leave them long and use a closure that doesn't need any overlap.
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removing the cap from the bottle will make it much easier to pour some oil on your pappa al pomodoro.
togliere il tappo dalla bottiglia rende molto più facile versare dell'olio sulla tua pappa al pomodoro.
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Anyone know a place to look up the map of trainstations in europe? Was failing with looking up the Copenhagen one. Would be so nice if there was a single resource.
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How to travel by train in Europe: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.www.seat61.com
Oh.. 😀 Sorry.
I haven't been there so can't verify but this looks like what you're looking for. en.hovedbanen.dk/map/
Phone is broken? Camera is broken? Your car as well? Then you can either, you know, buy a new one of each or simply try and fix them. And the best resource for that is probably iFixit – a global community of people helping each other repair things.Stéphane Coillet-Matillon (Kiwix)
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Allegato: 1 immagine Prima di gettarlo, qualcuno è interessato ai primi sei volumi di spagnolo con cd con soap opera in lingua?sociale.network
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#bida è in manutenzione. Potremmo non tornare più on line. È stato bellissimo ugualmente
@admin @gubi @admin@puntarella.party @nebbia @admin@stereodon.social #### manutenzione straordinaria #####
Dobbiamo fare alcuni interventi sul server molto impattanti.
Se si spacca tutto è stato un piacere e ci siamo divertitə assieme.
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😤 I just received a wave of Fedispam (reported) under my recent Peertube video on @shichimi
Quote from their instance About page: "BitTube is a blockchain based video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Airtime reward system where users earn TUBE cryptocyrrency [...] BitTube emphasizes free speech [...]" (src: bittube.video/about/instance )
😩 ...
Have I a bias, or is this corelation between spams, cryptos and 'free speech' is not surprising?
BitTube is a blockchain based video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Airtime reward system where users earn TUBE cryptocyrrency. Check out https://bittube.appbittube.video
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TIL: the best setting on my #printer to print on (relatively lightweight) #watercolour paper is simply “heavyweight paper”.
No fancier setting required.
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Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images
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There are many roads to wellness. Meditation, yoga, exercise, and healthy diet are all effective therapies for bringing down stress levels.Josh Jones (Open Culture)
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The devil made me do it, ok?
(ok, technically it was watching the picture of an amigurumi devil that gave me the idea)
| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
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| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
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| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Oh knits of Babylon
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| You can count but you're blind
| Someone dropped the stitches down
| But you can see in your mind
| The knits of Babylon
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| You're knitting the endless second sleeve
| Bonded and sold as a slave
| A needle dance building up a veil
| Getting as good as you gave
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
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| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
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| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
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| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Black knits of Babylon
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| The devil is me
| And I'm holding the chart
| To the knits of sweet hell
| Babylon
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e piove!
e ho appena visto la temperatura scendere di tipo 3 gradi in mezz'ora
/me felice
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I had a version 1 #Solo key (solokeys.com/) from the first crowdfunding that I've never managed to use, and lately every attempt to talk to it failed with ValueError: Non-canonical CBOR from Authenticator, including when trying to update its firmware to try and get it to work.
This evening I've found the solution on fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_S… : that old version of the key can't be turned into bootloader mode via software, but it needs to be connected to the pc while holding down the button until the led starts blinking.
And now I could update it, and it's working! YAY for a non-bricked key!
#2fa
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And yes, the solution was trivial.
But finding it took me multiple attempts, and even the arch linux wiki didn't have it :(
gesticulates wildly with a walking stick.
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I may have been tempted to buy some more art supplies (mostly paper, this time).
And while I was browsing the new products section of the website, they had poster paper, which I hadn't seen before.
And I remembered that some time ago I saw this tutorial twinsnneedles.com/2020/12/14/m… to make a tool to help pleat fabric.
And I may have accidentally added some poster paper to my shopping cart :D
This is a quick test I did to check whether it would survive being pressed with steam (it does) and which backing to use between more of the same paper and thin cardboard (the latter seems to be working nicely).
I've already glued a bigger pleater, about 30 cm × 30 cm with 1 cm pleats, it's currently drying.
And now I only have to decide what I want to pleat next :D
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Bad sleep, too hot, idea of the morning: I wonder whether pass(1) (the command line password manager) would be a good tool to keep an address book of the people with whom I regularly exchange #snailMail.
Up to now I've used paper (no man page, the physical thing :D), but that usually remains at home when I'm traveling, and I'm not in the habit to send postcards, but sometimes the sudden need for a letter happens (and paper is harder to backup and harder to encrypt in case it's lost).
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@Luca Sironi @Enrico Rossi I wouldn't store physical addresses on a smartphone, and especially not unencrypted: it would be fine if they were businesses, of course, but the combination of real name + surname and home address of people, often even associated with their nickname is something that I wouldn't want to have on something that is easily lost or stolen.
And I'm quite sure that most of them wouldn't consider it ok if I just appeared at their door unannounced. :)
otoh, if it is at home and only accessible via a vpn it's safer, but then one needs the internet connection to get the data, which may or may not be available while traveling.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •I capi d'abbigliamento storici sopravvissuti spesso hanno i margini di cucitura semplicemente tagliati a zig zag, o con un sopraffilo veloce, o a volte anche lasciati così come sono.
E questo è il motivo per cui sto lentamente cucendo i margini di cucitura alla fodera con il punto mosca.
#cucito #costumi #cucitoStorico
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •mi è arrivata una seconda correzione: sopraffilo
uff, l'italiano è difficile :D
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