Getting to the laundry place 5 minutes before it closed on Saturday morning to give them 4 heavy-ish carpets to wash (while they were still on the car rather than having to walk there while carrying them later). done.
(we called when we got on the car, to ask whether it was ok, and the owner of the place knows us well enough that there wasn't any time consuming procedure, we just dumped everything in there and then she will deal with them when she opens next week. but still, it felt wrong.)
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#sewing update
The cording on the petticoat has been completed, I'm now doing the vertical seams (hopefully today), and then I have to gather or pleat or something the top and it's done.
I'm cutting a second attempt at the pyra case: I've cut almost everything, but I've just misplaced one of the fabrics I want to use. The inventory says it's in the box I've been looking for it.
I've printed almost all of the hexbin Standard Compliant pattern weights, I've cut enough felt for all of them (I think, I didn't exactly *count*), and I've been using the first one and it works nicely. It's a good excuse to buy new washers the next time I'm at the shop, right?
Related: if you have recommendations for places in Europe that print small amounts of hexagonal #stickers and don't require me to provide a multi layer PDF file (or a tutorial on how to make those with inkscape or other Free Software) I'd be happy to hear about them :)
And thanks to a couple of movie nights¹ at my mother's I'm close to the 3 meters of lucet cord I plan to use for the back of my Augusta Stays. That I still need to cut lining for, why do you ask?
¹ 17:30 - 19:30 or so counts as night, if you're watching a movie, right? :D
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it had fallen to the bottom of the box
(I keep fabric vertically in the box so that I can see all of it at a glance, but this one was especially slippery)
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era caduta sul fondo della scatola
(ripongo la stoffa verticalmente nella scatola in modo da riuscire a vedere tutti i contenuti a colpo d'occhio, ma questa era particolarmente scivolosa)
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
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@debacle @valhalla I think it's almost always a good idea to define each acronym the first time it is used, in any kind of document.
In this case, https://bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-from-the-dpl-april.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon is a fairly long text with "DPL" mentioned more than 20 times. Writing it out the first time would not take much space, and would help make the text a little bit more welcoming to newcomers.
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Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
Hi from the Press Team! You are correct, sometimes we edit things and sometimes we do not, oft is is essential that the speaker speaks as intended and our edits would change the flow of the intention, so we leave them in.
Recently we are addressing this with a few policy changes on editing articles or submissions for publication, we of course invite you to join us: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity
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If #xz were a Go or Rust dependency, you wouldn’t have a single copy of xz library on your system, but many, #xzbackdoor hidden in every executable that uses it. Distros would have to rebuild all packages using that lib (not just the lib itself), which could take days or weeks, and users would have to update them all, downloading tens or hundreds of megabytes.
If you install binaries directly from vendors/devs, it’s even worse – you wouldn’t even know which ones are affected and you’d (1/3)
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@Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @ITwrx @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: @kravietz 🦇 @Jakub Jirutka 🇪🇺🇺🇦 and even for single person projects, having a packager in each main distribution that isn't the upstream developer is a big plus, as it provides a minimum of oversight and redundancy.
Not much, especially when said maintainer(s) are overworked and demoralized, but still better than nothing.
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Yes, that is an important point too.
When we say co-maintainer, we often implicitly assume that it should be an equally or comparably skilled person doing the same tasks.
And then we stop at a thought on how hard it is to find a duplicate.
While it doesn't have to be.
There is plenty of room for a developer to collaborate with a tester, or a packager or a build engineer, or a documentation writer.
It often can be healthier too.
@ITwrx @Conan_Kudo @kravietz @jakub
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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the Pyra¹ that I've just received (YAY!).
Which means working with technical materials.
Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.
¹ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.
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Am I the only one who finds using spray starch almost as fun as using spray paint?
(yes, one day I will try real starch)
(yes, one day I will be ironing and starching my shirts more than an hour before I need to wear them)
(today is not that day)
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sono l'unica che trova usare l'appretto in bomboletta divertente quasi quanto usare le bombolette di colore?
(sì, un giorno o l'altro proverò ad inamidare con l'amido)
(sì, un giorno o l'altro starò stirando ed inamidando le mie camicie con più di un'ora di anticipo rispetto a quando le devo indossare)
(oggi non è quel giorno)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua non so, il problema è che abito in collina, non nelle zone da risaia, credo che darò la priorit๠al piantare il mio lino, filarlo e tesserlo, prima di pensare a produrmi il mio amido.
Però potrei fare quello di patate, anche se credo che ingiallisca un po'.
¹ quello richiede “avere un posto dove piantare il lino”, e ancora sono ben lontana dall'averlo. Diciamo che non è in cima alla lista :D
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We need a movement for conscientious objection to ReCaptchas. I don’t want to be forced to participate in training machine learning models to identify sidewalks, crosswalks, buses and cars in order to go about my daily life digitally.
I don’t want driverless cars on my city streets. I don’t believe the fiction that this technology will ever be safe.
I do not consent to using my own cognitive labor to train the models that will mow down people on foot or bikes later with no accountability.
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My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.
And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I can’t imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope they’re ok.
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So, Philipp Kern dropped by asking if we could do some #ReproducibleBuilds verifications of recent Debian Security updates, given, well the whole #xz mess... and that our build infrastructure may have run compromised code at some point...
So I did a quick pass at a handful of updates and everything verified ok so far, though I skipped some of the probably more juicy targets such as chromium and firefox:
https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2024-March/003321.html
Debian is reproducible enough to at least try this sort of thing!
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Asking people who use #screenReaders: what is the best way to add #AltText to a QR-Code? Are the screen readers clever enough to recognise it as such and offer to read the contents or follow the link? Does putting the content of the QR-Code in the alt text help? or would it make it worse, especially if it is an URL?
boosts are welcome
(the whole point of the post that prompted this question was posting a QR-Code, so no, I couldn't have just posted the URL)
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#sewing update? sewing update!
I suspect that the body of the shift is a bit too wide at the top, but I haven't tried it on yet to find out. It's only missing a hem at the bottom, and then it's done, however (and I'm sure I can adjust the width so that it is wearable anyway).
I haven't done anything on it (nor on the #AugustaStays), however, because I've spent most of my sewing time on the corded petticoat, because *I want to know* whether it will work and how it will look.
And I'm happy to report that I've just finished the next to last section of cording, only 3 more 3-metre-long seams and then I can finally start on the assembly.
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aggiornamento sul #cucito? aggiornamento sul cucito!
Sospetto che la sottoveste sia un po' troppo larga sul busto, ma non l'ho ancora provata per esserne sicura. Manca solo l'orlo in basso, e poi sarebbe finita (e ho fiducia del fatto di poter sistemare in qualche modo la circonferenza in modo da poterla indossare comunque).
Però è un po' che la ignoro (così come sto ignorando le Augusta Staus), perché la maggior parte del mio tempo-cucito in questi giorni è stato passato sulla sottogonna cordonata, perché *voglio sapere* se funziona e che aspetto ha.
E sono felice di annunciare che ho appena finito la penultima sezione di cordonature, mi mancano solo 3 cuciture da 3 metri l'una, e poi posso finalmente iniziare la costruzione.
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Why isn't Redict on GitHub?
Answered here:
https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13157#issuecomment-2022380438
Change license from BSD-3 to dual RSALv2+SSPLv1 by K-Jo · Pull Request #13157 · redis/redis
Read more about the license change here: Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Live long and prosper 🖖GitHub
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Solid reply, this will definitely surprise folks who only know the GitHub model of working on open source software.
Also a good time to promote and support Codeberg; how do we do this best?
1. Support projects on Codeberg. Signal boost Redict and projects like it on Codeberg (also... maybe on SourceHut? 👉 👈)
2. Move your own projects or start new ones on free infrastructure
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TFW you wake up in the morning, try to login on your computer and the h key on your keuboard doesn't work.
so you connect a spare keyboard (cheap gaming keyboard with blue keys, way too noisy for regular use) to a free USB port, login, open a few things and then try to write again with your keyboard, and it works.
disconnect the spare, start having breakfast, post a few things on the fediverse, now the s and the f keys no longer work.
Connect the spare, use it for a while, try the original, it works. And then it stops.
I'm wondering whether I should move elsewhere my keyboard and just resign myself to use the spare today.
(I know what caused the issues, there may have been an accident in the weekend, and a replacement has already been ordered and may even be delivered today or tomorrow, and then there will be time to try and fix the original one.)
TFW ti svegli alla mattina, cerchi di fare login sul computer e il tasto h non funziona.
quindi attacchi la tastiera di scorta (una da gaming economica, con tasti blu che sono troppo rumorosi per l'uso regolare) ad una porta USB libera, fai login, apri un po' di cose, provi a scrivere di nuovo con la tua tastiera e funziona.
stacchi quella di scorta, inizi a fare colazione, postare sul fediverso, e smettono di funzionare i tasti s e f.
Riattacchi quella di scorta, la usi per un po', riprovi l'originale, funzona. E poi smette di funzionare.
Mi chiedo se sia il caso di staccare l'originale e per oggi rassegnarmi ad usare quella di scorta.
(So cosa causa il problea, nel weekend potrebbe esserci stato un piccolo incidente, ed è già stata ordinata una nuova tastiera che potrebbe essere consegnata oggi o domani, e poi ci sarà tempo per provare a far rifunzionare l'originale.)
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@Kermode it was hot water that had been used to clean a jar of jam¹, but basically the same thing, except with more sugar.
Not that I would ever do anything like that to my keyboard!
¹ as in: when there is just a bit of jam left I don't bother with removing it with a spoon, I just pour boiling water in it, let it dissolve and then drink the result as if it was an herbal tea.
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Wow!
@snikket_im just started their new federated instant messaging hosting service (based on #XMPP) for everyone.
This can really be a gamechanger for instant messaging.
You can bring your own domain name if you want to.
This means: for about 5.50€ (6$) a month (according to the website) you get ten instant messaging accounts for you and your family/friends using your personal domain name (not included).
And you are able to talk to every other XMPP user out there.
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Ricevo, e credo che sia utile per un po' di vittime di #trenord qui sul fediverso
https://www.prealpina.it/pages/lombardia-treni-in-ritardo-aumenta-lindennizzo-334475.html
“La norma nel prevedere la necessità di richiesta dell’abbonato reindirizza la misura compensativa del disagio a chi effettivamente lo ha subito, diversamente da quanto accadeva con il vecchio bonus.”
che credo voglia dire, più o meno “speriamo che la maggior parte dei pendolari si dimentichino di chiederlo e/o non vengano a sapere di doverlo chiedere”
se ho ben capito le istruzioni su come fare la richiesta sono già su https://www.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/istituzionale/HP/DettaglioServizio/servizi-e-informazioni/Cittadini/Muoversi-in-Lombardia/Treni/bonus-ferroviario/bonus-ferroviario
Lombardia: treni in ritardo, aumenta l’indennizzo
Sale dal 10 al 30% per gli abbonati. L’assessore Lucente: «L’82% delle corse è puntuale entro i 5 minuti»La Prealpina - Quotidiano storico di Varese, Altomilanese e Vco.
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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 @Fabio mi pareva tempo fa di aver trovato su uno dei siti istituzionali (trenord o regione) che i treni soppressi contino uguali ai treni con più di 30 minuti di ritardo, ma adesso non ho il link sottomano (e non so se le nuove regole siano cambiate).
Comunque c'è il fatto che quei dati non dicono che i treni in ritardo sono ovviamente soprattutto in ora di punta (anche per ragioni ragionevoli, tutto sommato), e che quindi impattano molte più persone rispetto ai treni in orario alle 10 di mattina o alle 8 di sera.
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First working prototype of the #CardboardComputer, calculating the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
https://cardboard-computer.org
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Forgotten Yeast Bread - Sourdough Edition
Posted on March 23, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking, craft:baking, craft:bread
Yesterday I had planned a pan sbagliato for today, but I also had quite a bit of sourdough to deal with, so instead of mixing a bit of of dry yeast at 18:00 and mixing it with some additional flour and water at 21:00, at around maybe 20:00 I substituted:
- 100 g firm sourdough;
- 33 g flour;
- 66 g water.
Then I briefly woke up in the middle of the night and poured the dough on the tray at that time instead of having to wake up before 8:00 in the morning.
Everything else was done as in the original recipe.
The firm sourdough is feeded regularly with the same weight of flour and half the weight of water.
Will. do. again.
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/03/23-forgotten_yeast_bread_sourdough_edition/index.html
Avviso contenuto: social-media meta, smut
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It's not even April, and I've brushed and steamed the wool skirt I've worn all winter, and mended the small bit that needed mending, and it's ready to be put away for the warm season.
Last year I think I postponed doing it until June or even July.
I'm counting this as a huge success :)
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@Lars Wirzenius yeah, it helps, mostly because you can wrap the thing around it, and only have one layer under the iron.
Mine is just a hand-me-down that isn't even 100% stable, but it already makes a difference.
And then there are the taylor's ham and sausage that I made for pressing while sewing, but sometimes they get used also for ironing sleeves and other small or curvy bits: I don't know if they're worth having if somebody does not sew, but they can help.
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#trenord, ma prima che fossero semre in ritardo :D
22 marzo 1879: arriva il primo treno a Saronno, 145 anni fa
Nel 1879 venne attivata la ferrovia Milano-Saronno, che poi è diventata la "dorsale" della rete delle Ferrovie Nord MilanoRoberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
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People are replying to this post with links to their own sporadically-updated blogs...
Which is great! Keep 'em coming 🙂
Can't promise that I'll subscribe to any of them, but I'll definitely have a look at each when I have the time
And hopefully others will click through and have a look as well.
Your periodical reminder that all clothing is hand made by humans, usually underpaid!
Polyester doesn't breathe and sheds microplastics when manufactured, worn and washed!
Cotton farming takes immense amounts of water and pesticides!
Viscose can be made from recycled fibres & waste cellulose, but it's a fairly toxic process!
Linen is more ecological to grow but expensive!
"But what do I wear then, Sini?"
The garments you already own, until they fall apart or someone else needs them!
#Sustainability #FastFashion #WorkersRights
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What an exceptionally vague way to describe it: "We then extract fibres from this material using a patent-pending, non-polluting method that uses entirely renewable consumables."
Because it's already possible to produce cellulose based viscose from pretty much any plant material, I'd assume it's similar, but a different formulation. Lyocell for example is a much less toxic and water intensive formula than previous ones, but still toxic and water intensive! Like yes, do use waste products that could have multiple uses beyond composting (Which is important for a host of other reasons!) but it's not a magical solution, especially in the start-up stage.
Just use less is a very simple one.
The #RSS spec was released 25 years ago on this day. Happy birthday, RSS! 🎂 🎉 🎁
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and this morning I successfully prepared my #tea
and then left it in the kitchen (luckily I had to go there some 10 minutes afterwards, so it didn't cool down too much)
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e stamattina son riuscita a prepararmi correttamente il #té
e poi l'ho dimenticato in cucina (per fortuna ho dovuto tornarci 10 minuti dopo e non si era raffreddato troppo)
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And I think it's time for a new #sewing update.
The shift is progressing nicely, I'm quite happy with the way the sleeves look, and it's getting close to being all assembled together.
In the weekend I've finished the market bag, which means that in category “long straight seams” I've started to work on a corded petticoat.
I've worked on it for more than one hour, and I'm about half through the first seam.
Maybe I should have done it by machine? But at least it is nice and relaxing work, even if it's going to take forever.
As for the lining of the stays… look! a squirrel!
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Also, have I ever mentioned that I have the Italian translation of the famous Reader's Digest sewing book, and that when I write these posts I often have to go through it to find the Italian terms I need for the translation?
Yes, I have learned the basics of #sewing in Italian, but everything else in English on the internet, does it show? :D
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Ah, e ho mai detto che ho la traduzione italiana del famoso libro di cucito di Selezione dal Reader's Digest, e che quando scrivo questi post spesso lo uso per trovare i termini italiani che mi servono per la traduzione?
Sì, ho imparato le basi del #cucito in italiano, ma tutto il resto in inglese su internet, si nota? :D
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@ashneehs
Ditto for me with machines like lathes etc.
It took me a lot of time to discover that a gib is called "lardone".
https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=jRTHjP0sC-o
Matching Dovetails - Adding a Gib
In this video I will mill down the male side of the matching dovetail and add a gib.MrPragmaticLee | Invidious
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Avresti dovuto vedere la faccia della commessa a cui ho chiesto dell'interfaccia fusibile 😂 tutt'ora non mi ricordo come si dica in italiano
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Low Fat, No Eggs, Lasagna-ish
Posted on March 10, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking
A few notes on what we had for lunch, to be able to repeat it after the summer.
There were a number of food intolerance related restrictions which meant that the traditional lasagna recipe wasn’t an option; the result still tasted good, but it was a bit softer and messier to take out of the pan and into the dishes.
On Saturday afternoon we made fresh no-egg pasta with 200 g (durum) flour and 100 g water, after about 1 hour it was divided in 6 parts and rolled to thickness #6 on the pasta machine.
Meanwhile, about 500 ml of low fat almost-ragù-like meat sauce was taken out of the freezer: this was a bit too little, 750 ml would have been better.
On Saturday evening we made a sauce with 1 l of low-fat milk and 80 g of flour, and the meat sauce was heated up.
Then everything was put in a 28 cm × 23 cm pan, with 6 layers of pasta and 7 layers of the two sauces, and left to cool down.
And on Sunday morning it was baked for 35 min in the oven at 180 °C.
With 3 people we only had about two thirds of it.
Next time I think we should try to use 400 - 500 g of flour (so that it’s easier to work by machine), 2 l of milk, 1.5 l of meat sauce and divide it into 3 pans: one to eat the next day and two to freeze (uncooked) for another day.
No pictures, because by the time I thought about writing a post we were already more than halfway through eating it :)
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/drafts/low_fat_no_eggs_lasagna_ish/index.html
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Elastic Neck Top Two: MOAR Ruffles
Posted on March 9, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
After making my Elastic Neck TopI knew I wanted to make another one less constrained by the amount of available fabric.
I had a big cut of white cotton voile, I bought some more swimsuit elastic, and I also had a spool of n°100 sewing cotton, but then I postponed the project for a while I was working on other things.
Then FOSDEM 2024 arrived, I was going to remote it, and I was working on my Augusta Stays, but I knew that in the middle of FOSDEM I risked getting to the stage where I needed to leave the computer to try the stays on: not something really compatible with the frenetic pace of a FOSDEM weekend, even one spent at home.
I needed a backup project1, and this was perfect: I already had everything I needed, the pattern and instructions were already on my site (so I didn’t need to take pictures while working), and it was mostly a lot of straight seams, perfect while watching conference videos.
So, on the Friday before FOSDEM I cut all of the pieces, then spent three quarters of FOSDEM on the stays, and when I reached the point where I needed to stop for a fit test I started on the top.
Like the first one, everything was sewn by hand, and one week after I had started everything was assembled, except for the casings for the elastic at the neck and cuffs, which required about 10 km of sewing, and even if it was just a running stitch it made me want to reconsider my lifestyle choices a few times: there was really no reason for me not to do just those seams by machine in a few minutes.
Instead I kept sewing by hand whenever I had time for it, and on the next weekend it was ready. We had a rare day of sun during the weekend, so I wore my thermal underwear, some other layer, a scarf around my neck, and went outside with my SO to have a batch of pictures taken (those in the jeans posts, and others for a post I haven’t written yet. Have I mentioned I have a backlog?).
And then the top went into the wardrobe, and it will come out again when the weather will be a bit warmer. Or maybe it will be used under the Augusta Stays, since I don’t have a 1700 chemise yet, but that requires actually finishing them.
The pattern for this project was already online, of course, but I’ve added a picture of the casing to the relevant section, and everything is as usual #FreeSoftWear.
- yes, I could have worked on some knitting WIP, but lately I’m more in a sewing mood.↩︎
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/03/09-elastic_neck_top_two_moar_ruffles/index.html
Augusta Stays 1775-1789
The Augusta Stays are the perfect foundation to any late 18th century wardrobe. Choose between detailed instructions on how to make the stays with period accurate materials and construction methods, or equally detailed instructions on making a simpli…Scroop Patterns
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Denim Waistcoat
Posted on March 8, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
I had finished sewing my jeans, I had a scant 50 cm of elastic denim left.
Unrelated to that, I had just finished drafting a vest with Valentina, after the Cutters’ Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments.
A new pattern requires a (wearable) mockup. 50 cm of leftover fabric require a quick project. The decision didn’t take a lot of time.
As a mockup, I kept things easy: single layer with no lining, some edges finished with a topstitched hem and some with bias tape, and plain tape on the fronts, to give more support to the buttons and buttonholes.
I did add pockets: not real welt ones (too much effort on denim), but simple slits covered by flaps.
piece; there is a slit in the middle that has been finished with topstitching.
To do them I marked the slits, then I cut two rectangles of pocketing fabric that should have been as wide as the slit + 1.5 cm (width of the pocket) + 3 cm (allowances) and twice the sum of as tall as I wanted the pocket to be plus 1 cm (space above the slit) + 1.5 cm (allowances).
Then I put the rectangle on the right side of the denim, aligned so that the top edge was 2.5 cm above the slit, sewed 2 mm from the slit, cut, turned the pocketing to the wrong side, pressed and topstitched 2 mm from the fold to finish the slit.
other sides; it does not lay flat on the right side of the fabric because the finished slit (hidden in the picture) is pulling it.
Then I turned the pocketing back to the right side, folded it in half, sewed the side and top seams with a small allowance, pressed and turned it again to the wrong side, where I sewed the seams again to make a french seam.
And finally, a simple rectangular denim flap was topstitched to the front, covering the slits.
I wasn’t as precise as I should have been and the pockets aren’t exactly the right size, but they will do to see if I got the positions right (I think that the breast one should be a cm or so lower, the waist ones are fine), and of course they are tiny, but that’s to be expected from a waistcoat.
The other thing that wasn’t exactly as expected is the back: the pattern splits the bottom part of the back to give it “sufficient spring over the hips”. The book is probably published in 1892, but I had already found when drafting the foundation skirt that its idea of “hips” includes a bit of structure. The “enough steel to carry a book or a cup of tea” kind of structure. I should have expected a lot of spring, and indeed that’s what I got.
To fit the bottom part of the back on the limited amount of fabric I had to piece it, and I suspect that the flat felled seam in the center is helping it sticking out; I don’t think it’s exactly bad, but it is a peculiar look.
Also, I had to cut the back on the fold, rather than having a seam in the middle and the grain on a different angle.
Anyway, my next waistcoat project is going to have a linen-cotton lining and silk fashion fabric, and I’d say that the pattern is good enough that I can do a few small fixes and cut it directly in the lining, using it as a second mockup.
As for the wrinkles, there is quite a bit, but it looks something that will be solved by a bit of lightweight boning in the side seams and in the front; it will be seen in the second mockup and the finished waistcoat.
As for this one, it’s definitely going to get some wear as is, in casual contexts. Except. Well, it’s a denim waistcoat, right? With a very different cut from the “get a denim jacket and rip out the sleeves”, but still a denim waistcoat, right? The kind that you cover in patches, right?
And I may have screenprinted a “home sewing is killing fashion” patch some time ago, using the SVG from wikimedia commons / the Home Taping is Killing Music page.
And. Maybe I’ll wait until I have finished the real waistcoat. But I suspect that one, and other sewing / costuming patches may happen in the future.
No regrets, as the words on my seam ripper pin say, right? :D
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/03/08-denim_waistcoat/index.html
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Jeans, step two. And three. And four.
Posted on March 7, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear
I was working on what looked like a good pattern for a pair of jeans-shaped trousers, and I knew I wasn’t happy with 200-ish g/m² cotton-linen for general use outside of deep summer, but I didn’t have a source for proper denim either (I had been low-key looking for it for a long time).
Then one day I looked at an article I had saved about fabric shops that sell technical fabric and while window-shopping on one I found that they had a decent selection of denim in a decent weight.
I decided it was a sign, and decided to buy the two heaviest denim they had: a 100% cotton, 355 g/m² oneand a 97% cotton, 3% elastane at 385 g/m²1; the latter was a bit of compromise as I shouldn’t really be buying fabric adulterated with the Scourge of Humanity, but it was heavier than the plain one, and I may be having a thing for tightly fitting jeans, so this may be one of the very few woven fabric where I’m not morally opposed to its existence.
And, I’d like to add, I resisted buying any of the very nice wools they also seem to carry, other than just a couple of samples.
Since the shop only sold in 1 meter increments, and I needed about 1.5 meters for each pair of jeans, I decided to buy 3 meters per type, and have enough to make a total of four pair of jeans. A bit more than I strictly needed, maybe, but I was completely out of wearable day-to-day trousers.
The shop sent everything very quickly, the courier took their time (oh, well) but eventually delivered my fabric on a sunny enough day that I could wash it and start as soon as possible on the first pair.
The pattern I did in linen was a bit too fitting, but I was afraid I had widened it a bit too much, so I did the first pair in the 100% cotton denim. Sewing them took me about a week of early mornings and late afternoons, excluding the weekend, and my worries proved false: they were mostly just fine.
The only bit that could have been a bit better is the waistband, which is a tiny bit too wide on the back: it’s designed to be so for comfort, but the next time I should pull the elastic a bit more, so that it stays closer to the body.
I wore those jeans daily for the rest of the week, and confirmed that they were indeed comfortable and the pattern was ok, so on the next Monday I started to cut the elastic denim.
I decided to cut and sew two pairs, assembly-line style, using the shaped waistband for one of them and the straight one for the other one.
I started working on them on a Monday, and on that week I had a couple of days when I just couldn’t, plus I completely skipped sewing on the weekend, but on Tuesday the next week one pair was ready and could be worn, and the other one only needed small finishes.
And I have to say, I’m really, really happy with the ones with a shaped waistband in elastic denim, as they fit even better than the ones with a straight waistband gathered with elastic. Cutting it requires more fabric, but I think it’s definitely worth it.
But it will be a problem for a later time: right now three pairs of jeans are a good number to keep in rotation, and I hope I won’t have to sew jeans for myself for quite some time.
I think that the leftovers of plain denim will be used for a skirt or something else, and as for the leftovers of elastic denim, well, there aren’t a lot left, but what else I did with them is the topic for another post.
Thanks to the fact that they are all slightly different, I’ve started to keep track of the times when I wash each pair, and hopefully I will be able to see whether the elastic denim is significantly less durable than the regular, or the added weight compensates for it somewhat. I’m not sure I’ll manage to remember about saving the data until they get worn, but if I do it will be interesting to know.
Oh, and I say I’ve finished working on jeans and everything, but I still haven’t sewn the belt loops to the third pair. And I’m currently wearing them. It’s a sewist tradition, or something. :D
- The links are to the shop for Italy; you can copy the “Codice prodotto” and look for it on one of the shop version for other countries (where they apply the right vat etc., but sadly they don’t allow to mix and match those settings and the language).↩︎
https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/03/07-jeans_step_two_and_three_and_four/index.html
Jeany - Denim da 12,5 oz - Nero
Tessuto denim di alta qualità da 12,5 once in 100% cotone twill con un bel lavaggio. Il classico per pantaloni, giacche e altri capi.Tessutoattivo
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/me rants at aspell for daring to suggest “sexist” as a correction for “sewist”
sewist. it's a word. learn it.
and no, it's not “sewer”. I'm not a sewer, ok.
(go and suggest a patch for the dictionary file rather than ranting on the internet? naaaaaa, too much effort :D )
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/me gesticola col bastone contro aspell che suggerisce “sexist” come correzione per “sewist”
sewist. è una parola inglese. imparala.
e no, la parola giusta non è sewist. non sono una fogna, ok?
(alzare il culo e preparare e suggerire una patch ai file del dizionario, anziché lamentarsi su internet? troppo sbattito :D )
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Vendo macchina da cucire Singer 8280 usata
Chiedo 100 euro trattabili, consegna in zona Varese / Como (se proprio
proprio necessario si può organizzare per zona Milano).
Mi pare che sia stata comprata nei primi anni 2000, il modello era in
vendita e presente sul sito singer fino all'anno scorso.
Ovviamente è ancora presente il manuale originale, completo di istruzioni di
manutenzione base.
Non la uso da qualche anno, ma era perfettamente funzionante e ad una prova
veloce mi pare che lo sia ancora.
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Ero un po' impensierita, perché a marzo inoltrato non mi si era ancora palesata "la cosa da imparare a fare quest'anno"¹, ma ieri @valhalla e @mercatino credo mi abbiano risolto il problema 🥰
¹ anziché fare i "buoni propositi" d'inizio anno, che tanto poi restavano propositi, da qualche tempo ho iniziato a provare a imparare una cosa nuova ogni anno.
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Avviso contenuto: toot fondamentali
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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈I think I know somebody else who could use that excuse :D
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Ehm…
https://www.livescience.com/39418-millipedes-caused-train-wreck.html
Slimy Suspects: How Millipedes Likely Caused a Train Wreck
Hundreds of small black Portuguese millipedes (Ommatoiulus moreletii) are the likely culprits in a train collision in Australia that injured six passengers.Marc Lallanilla (Live Science)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Entrare in tintoria 5 minuti prima della chiusura al sabato mattina per lasciare 4 tappeti pesantini da lavare (già che li avevamo in macchina, anziché doverli portare a piedi un altro giorno). fatto.
(abbiamo chiamato quando siamo saliti in auto per chiedere se facevamo in tempo, e la titolare ci conosce abbastanza bene per cui non ha dovuto perderci tempo, abbiamo solo scaricato tutto quanto e ci penserà quando apre settimana prossima. però dava una sensazione di sbagliato.)
(e non so perché, ma mi sono venuti in mente @Yaku 🐗 e @Rapita dagli alieni )
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Yaku 🐗
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@rapitadaglialieni
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Rapita dagli alieni
in reply to Yaku 🐗 • • •Ora devi promettermi che il giorno in cui verrai nella nostra cartoleria ci chiederai di lavare dei tappetini! Così, per mettere in pratica tutti gli insegnamenti che vi diamo grazie alle avventure con lə nostrə clienti!
@valhalla
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in reply to Rapita dagli alieni • • •@Rapita dagli alieni @Yaku 🐗 però da voi posso presentarmi spazientita 5 minuti prima dell'apertura, anziché 5 minuti prima della chiusura?
che almeno poi ho tempo di fare due chiacchere con voi :D
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in reply to Yaku 🐗 • • •@Yaku @rapitadaglialieni
Come alla posta il primo del mese (qui a giugno arrivano un po' prima delle 6 che è già chiaro).