I was supposed to finish sewing my jacket.
I may have been craft-sniped by this instead.
@Daniele Verducci @Burnout @Ed @Vi 💙 @Cherryblue @Idiran (AKA: El Lamboz)
non confermo né nego che la serata possa assomigliare a qualcosa di questo tipo :D
Nel weekend ho ordinato della stoffa per farmi un accappatoio nuovo.
Stamattina ho lavato quello vecchio, ed è successo questo
e ovviamente voglio disegnarmelo in un pattern strano, quindi nessuna pressione per farlo veloce e giusto al primo colpo, giusto?
e l'hanno spedita? eh? eh? e adesso?
During the weekend I ordered some fabric to make myself a bathrobe.
This morning I washed my old one and found this:
and of course I want to try to draft an unusual pattern for it, so absolutely no pressure on making it quickly and right at the first try, right? :D
Have they sent it yet? and yet? and yet?
A couple of years ago I bought a small square + protractor like the one in the picture, and LOVED it.
And then, one day it disappeared. I knew it was somewhere in the home, but couldn't find it anywhere. So when I had a chance I bought a new one.
Yesterday evening I wanted to check something in the Corsets and Crinolines book. and it felt strange, as if it had something rigid in it, and I wondered what piece of cardboard or something I had used as a bookmark the last time I used it.
You can all see where this is going, right? :D
If anybody is wondering, the reason why I'm asking is that I've suddenly discovered a need of which I was hitherto unaware for this:
(this toot will break in a month or so, but by that time I will have uploaded the sticker somewhere.)
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.
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?
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
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
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!
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:
@Woozle Hypertwin @Naomi and here they are
(the following pictures are postcards with the phrase mentioned above in white in the middle of a watercolour gradient, in different shades)
(the special effect watercolour are quite hard to photograph well, in person they are quite better)
(and yes, I wanted to experiment a bit with this technique)
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
A quanto pare, per ragioni *incomprensibili*, parlare al telefono con tuo padre non è un buon metodo per contare con successo quali tavolette manipolare quando stai improvvisando un disegno nella #tessitura con le tavolette. :D
Ma va bene così, sto facendo questo nastro come prova per imparare la tecnica (e sto usando uno dei primi filati che ho filato, e non è di gran qualità, comunque).
Apparently, for some *inexplicable* reason, talking on the phone with your father is not conductive to successfully counting the cards you're turning to improvise a double faced #tabletWeaving design :D
But it's fine, this band is meant to be a sort of sandbox to learn the tecnique, anyway (and I'm using one of my first spun yarns, which isn't of high quality either).
L'esperimento di oggi con il #fornoSolare è stata una *cosa* di mele (troppo zucchero per essere una composta, troppo poco per essere una marmellata): 130 g di mele tritate e 40 g di zucchero, bianco e in un barattolo e mascobado nell'altro.
In teoria credo che scaldando i barattoli nel forno solare il giorno prima, riempiendoli fino all'orlo anziché solo a metà e chiudendo del tutto il tappo (magari solo per l'ultima oretta di cottura) dovrebbe essere conservabile (magari mettendo anche un po' più di zucchero), dato che è stato tutto a temperature di pastorizzazione per ore. In pratica, questo finisce nel frigo, e non credo che sopravviverà molto più di due giorni :D
Today's #solarOven experiment was an apple *thing* (too much sugar for a sauce, probably too little to make it keep like a preserve): 130 g pureed apples and 40 g sugar, white in one jar, muscovado in the other.
In theory, I believe that if I heated the jars in the solar oven the day before, filled them to the top instead of just halfway, and fully closed the lid (maybe for the last hour or so of cooking) it should be safe for preserving (maybe also with a bit more sugar), since everything has been at pasteurization temperatures for hours. In practice, this one is going in the fridge, and I don't think it's going to survive much more than two days :D
oppure ci si può andare con un bel costume così:
poi ti guardano strano ugualmente, ma almeno hanno una ragione per farlo :)
Riuscirò a mangiare pasta calda stasera o domani sera?
foto brutta di un pentolino di sugo di pomodoro dentro ad un forno solare
Non ho un buon posto dove mettere il #fornoSolare a metà giornata (ho il sole all'incirca dalle 13:30 ora legale) e oggi è leggermente coperto, ma la sonda sotto al pentolino ha segnato più di 65°C per qualche ora ormai.
Will I be able to have pasta with a warm sauce either this evening or tomorrow evening?
a badly taken picture of a pot of tomato sauce inside a solar oven
I don't have a good place to use the #solarOven in the middle of the day (I get direct sun from around 13:30 daylight saving time), and today it's a bit overcast, but the temperature probe below the pot has been above 65°C for a few hours now.
I'm not 100% happy with it: it is quite heavy, so it's probably not really confortable to use (or at least to carry around), but using a thinner wool probably wouldn't be sturdy enough. Also, the felting isn't very regular.
However, it is usable, so I'm calling it done, and will use it at home.
And move on to the next attempt at making AllTheFauxdori. because I'm absolutely not obsessed with those, right?
And a picture of said ink bottles
I believe that you're not supposed to dip the ruling pen in ink, because that way the part that touches the ruler also gets ink on it, which you don't want.
This would explain the logo used in this tracking page
(FTR: this specific package had to travel only about 25 km in a straight line)
@Bevilacqua Gustavino @Lizbeth
The tool I've used and the results: a bone folder (I've used its back instead of the rounded end of the dowel), the small (~2 cm) steel nail, the tip of the wooden dowel described in the previous post, a square scrap of linoleoum with a simple line based logo carved on it and four square scraps of paper (~2.5 cm sides) that have been embossed with different levels of sharpness; on one of them the non-embossed area has been painted with watercolours.
One third of the shawl has been knit!
this picture is from a couple of days ago, but it isn't that different from how it looks like today
Filed under: I don't really need another #craft project, right?
I've received a piece of vintage lace, of a type that would work nicely on a petticoat ruffle.
While handsewing the linen shirt I'm working on, I've also started to think that the same fabric would also be nice for a petticoat or a petticoat+corset cover combination (and I have enough for it).
But such a garment doesn't call for just a bit of lace at the hem, it calls for some lace on the ruffles, some insertion (and pintucks, dere vill be pintucks), and while of course I have a box of lace of various kinds, I don't have enough for that project.
However, the more I think about it, rather than wanting to look for enough matching lace in the stores, I'm tending towards going for a mix-and-match of looks, joined together by a theme of having some history.
So I'm using some lace that I've been given by different people, and then I want to puppy-eye my mother into doing some crochet lace for me, but then I thought that maybe I should also do some myself.
And thus, yesterday I asked my mother to teach me filet #crochet, I did the bigger square-ish under her guide, and then I've started a sampler band, starting with the simplest pattern to get myself to learn the right tension, and then trying various patterns as I go, until I finish the leftover of crochet lace appropriate yarn I've found in her stash.
I don't have any source on historical people doing something like this, but it's underwear, the silhouette will be correct, and nobody needs to know how it looks (other than the people who will see the pictures here on the fediverse :D )
ETA for the project: maybe a couple of years? Don't hold your collective breaths :D
One thing that bothers me while #sewing is trimming the sewing allowances: I understand that having wider allowances makes it easier to sew by machine, but all those strips of fabric waste hurt my feeling even if they end up as stuffing and not in a dump.
So, what I tend to do when sewing french seams is not to sew with half the seam allowance, but sew the first seam at a bit less than that and the second seam at a bit more.
And for flat-felled seams, I tend to cut the fabric with double allowance on just one side, and align the other side at one allowance of distance, as in the picture.
It doesn't really change anything, it's not like I can fit more pieces in the same fabric by saving that 6 mm strip, but it helps my OCD :D
I believe it was the norm in old sewing manuals, but I can't be bothered to look for the source right now, sorry
I took a picture of the test I did with the posca pen, ironed, and then thrown in the washing machine:
The blob on top is where I refreshed the paint on the pen, and I forgot to take a picture before washing it, but I believe it didn't wash away.
It's not great for fabric because it definitely has some rigidity that fabric paint avoids, but I think I can confirm it works.
As promised, I've published two new #FreeSoftWear patterns: the apron and sleeve protectors I've finished last weekend.
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
The 1700 petticoat has been finished (pictures in the weekend?), so it's time for the next project: a 1880 gentleman shirt in linen.
The instructions have been written, but the pictures I took while making the first mockup weren't great, so I'm going to take them again with the real thing, and then publish everything.
And we had an hour or so of sun! So I dressed up and I'm ready for some serious percussive debugging on the analytical engine!
I have been vaguely thinking about making myself a black apron for potentially staining office jobs (*cough* ink), and on friday evening I stumbled on the instructions from Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing by Myers, Annie E and decided it had to be done NOW.
The pattern was adapted quite a bit from the original to best use wide modern fabric, so it's not an accurate reproduction.
Source code for both the apron and the sleeve protectors will be published as soon as I finish writing them and editing the step-by-step pictures.
it. is. DONE!
Now @Diego Roversi has backpack that matches mine!
I believe I started working on this in 2019, did a bit, stopped for a long while, did another bit, stopped a very long while, etc. so getting rid of the WIP (and having the finished object to use) is a very nice feeling.
source code :) at sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
