Lisa’s List: 12 Yarn Ball Types and How to Knit with Them
Lisa teaches the proper terms for 12 different yarn ball types, how to knit with them and how to hand-wind a ball of yarn.Jenn (Interweave)
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The two main thinks I've been sewing lately are ready to be worn!
The skirt is a foundation skirt from a 1892 patternmaking manual in light blue linen/cotton with box pleated ruffles at the hem, made in a walking length (you can see the ankles! and the very modern hiking boots I'm wearing every day with late 1800 inspired clothing :D )
The shirt is a gentleman's shirt from a 1880 book, made in blue cotton with two pleats per side in the front plus the button placket and a handful of errors: I've put one of the three buttons in the wrong position (it should have been midway between the collar and the second button) and the cuffs are too small (and I've put the slit in the wrong position, wooops), so I haven't added buttons yet (and maybe I won't?)
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The back of the skirt is very full and heavily pleated in the waistband, so it could be worn as is, but also with a bit of padding in the bustle area.
The back of the skirt is gathered in the yoke (but in the picture it can't really be seen, since I'm also wearing my hairs *down*)
Shoes (of which the sole can be seen in the picture) are still very much not historically accurate :D
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The skirt is going to be my to-go skirt for this season, worn like this (which is why I've made it as a short (for its time) walking length skirt).
I'm also going to make some draperies to wear on top of it for a more historical look, but those are needed with less urgency.
I'm also half-way through editing and adding pictures to the instructions, so I will be publishing the source code for it *soon*. #FreeSoftWear
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And as I wrote in another comment, my short term plans for the shirt are to remake it in linen, probably trying to improve the armscye lines a bit, as well as fixing the cuff size.
The detachable collar from my other linen shirt of course fits, and maybe I'll make a few others in different styles, but I'm not sure they will be ready this summer.
The instructions have already been written, but I still have to edit and add the step-by-step pictures, and they are *a lot*, so publishing those will take a bit more time (but it will happen!)
And then there is a cut of lightweight red wool waiting for me in the stash, but that's in long-term plans territory :)
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Soon happened much earlier than I expected :D
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
#FreeSoftWear instructions for a late 1800 foundation skirt with high #historyBounding potential.
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well, the skirt is cotton/linen, so it breathes quite well (and being a relatively wide skirt there is quite some potential for air movement). The other layer below it is a cotton petticoat with lots of ruffles, which I may or may not wear depending on the season and on how historically accurate I want to be.
Plus cotton leggings and wool socks, but those may go away as the season becomes warmer, especially the wool socks :D
I'm quite confident that it's going to be only mildly uncomfortable with any temperature that I can expect in this part of the world (in the 30°C, ish), and less uncomfortable than going around in shorts that don't protect the legs from the sun.
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The shirt is a different matter: it's a relatively thick cotton and I'm wearing it as a moderately warm outer layer on top of a long sleeved t-shirt now that temperatures are around 16–18°C, it's definitely not summer wear.
But it's also a wearable mock-up for a linen shirt, and that one is going to be part of my standard summer wear, together with two other linen shirts from different decades. Again, I'm not going to be comfortable during the summer :) but it's nice to have some well breathing fabric between my body and the sun. As for layers, I'm probably going to be wearing it over either a cotton/linen jersey camisole or a linen chemise (if I manage to make it before the summer :D ), and either a bra or a summer corset in aida cloth.
There is also a video on youtube, I believe by Abby Cox, of people spending half an hour or so in the USA desert in summer while wearing fully layered historical clothing in wool, linen and silk and then measuring their skin temperature with a thermal camera, compared to the same thing while wearing single layer, short modern clothing.
spoiler: multiple layers in linen and wool won :D
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of course, it's the back of the *shirt* that is gathered in the yoke.
And I was surprised I had managed to write this long thread without ever mixing up skirt and shirt.
Those two words are *evil*! evil I say!
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Sai se tra i metodi di modellismo (che sono sempre stati sottoposti a una ferrea protezione della proprietà intellettuale) iniziano a essercene alcuni rilasciati in creative commons?
modellismo nel senso di modelli di cucito, giusto (perché altrimenti no, non è qualcosa che pratico)?
Che io sappia è ancora una nicchia piccolina, ma ci si sta provando. Credo che ci sia anche qualcosa nella comunità di utenti di Valentina (il programma che uso per disegnare i modelli), ma non so più che fine abbia fatto (temo su facebook?) e l'autore del programma è più propenso verso la vendita degli stessi, per cui non credo che li incoraggi particolarmente.
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @varve purtroppo i software sono così costosi da avere provocato la creazione di un mercato del sw pirata molto sviluppato (cfr mastodon.uno/@informapirata/10… ). Il fatto è che al di là del software sono proprio i "metodi" di modellismo (come disegnare un cartamodello in base alle misure) a essere sottoposti a un copyright che rappresenta spesso l'unico vero asset delle scuole di modellismo
@Bevilacqua Gustavino @Rapita dagli alieni @Sasha @Ben Zanin @Christine Lemmer-Webber @Craig Maloney ☕ @[:babaKatt:] Gerblin Taffer :heartQVP::sparkles2: @David Bremner @Astra: Zero Luma
Buona domanda, a quello che leggevo in giro ad essere protetto da copyrigth è la descrizione del metodo, ma non il metodo stesso (che potrebbe essere coperto da brevetti però?), per cui seguire le istruzioni per disegnare un block con un software e pubblicare il relativo file dovrebbe essere lecito.
Parlo però di istruzioni pubblicate su libri, non di blocchi predisposti per specifici programmi.
Come software conosco valentina, che è in debian, e quello in javascript usato su freesewing: entrambi sono basati su design parametrico basato sulle misure del destinatario finale e non sulla creazione di una taglia standard e poi ottenere le altre taglie tramite grading.
Credo che la cosa li renda adatti al lavoro delle sarte (oltre che ovviamente al cucito domestico / individuale), ma non all'uso per la produzione di massa.
Ah, e ovviamente ci sono i manuali d'epoca, con cui si va sul sicuro dal punto di vista della proprietà intellettuale, ma che potrebbero avere qualche lieve controindicazioni stilistica :D
(non capisco quale possa essere il problema, basta vestirsi come se si fosse nell'ottocento :D )
Questi sono i tre che ho usato, nei README ci sono i link al manuale su archive.org, dove però ce ne sono anche molti altri:
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' fantastico! Grazie per la segnalazione!
@varve @Bevilacqua Gustavino @Rapita dagli alieni @Sasha @Ben Zanin @Christine Lemmer-Webber @Craig Maloney ☕ @[:babaKatt:] Gerblin Taffer :heartQVP::sparkles2: @David Bremner @Astra: Zero Luma
On the corner of a street nearby where they often leave used cars for sale they have a panda 4×4. in RED! so it will go even FASTER¹!
we don't need a second car.
but I NEED IT!!! NEED!!! WANT!!!! :D
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Ormai le pande 4×4 sono più ricercate delle Maserati…
Forse perché vanno meglio?
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Maserati Levante in the snow, Sprinter in the ditch.
We got a call for a Maserati Lavante stuck in the snow at the hop valley trailhead, it was their 2nd vehicle at the end of their hike, we were able to get it out for them before they got done with the hike.Invidious
Aaand I haz a short skirt for the spring and summer!
it shows the *ankles*!
and I went for a short walk, and it was the right length not to have to worry about it touching the dirty ground.
There may be pictures in the weekend, and there will be source code as soon as I finish editing the step-by-step pictures I took during the process.
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/me sussurra
epperò, se stiam parlando di medioevo, o son nobili o son borghesi, eran due cose ben diverse
/me scappa
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A piece of apple spontaneously formed in my mouth, and I was “it's ok, it was spontaneously generated by the body, so I can eat it and it won't change the results of my blood tests”.
And of course the fact that food could spontaneously form in my mouth was perfectly normal :D
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Does anyone know of a good way to have a linux computer read books (epub and pdf books etc) out loud to me?
I'm a complete noob when it comes to screen readers and such.
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The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.Ars Technica
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Dear people who sew: do you have cucirini tre stelle sewing thread where you get your sewing thread? Here (just north of Milan where it is from) it is *the* sewing thread, and it was for my mother and for my grandmother, but I'm wondering whether it's a very local thing or not.
Gente che cuce: da voi c'è il filo per cucire cucirini tre stelle? Qui (un po' più a nord di Milano, da dove arriva) è *il* filo per cucire, e lo era per mia madre e per mia nonna, ma mi sto chiedendo quanto sia una faccenda locale.
From Detroit area: No, I'm regularly hopping between several nicer sewing stores, and I have not seen that brand at any of them.
There is one very high end store I go to very rarely (as in asking to handle their stock of bridal fabrics starts with them handing you gloves fancy) who stock lingerie fittings I need occasionally; I will take a look the next time I am there, but I don't recall seeing this brand.
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Thanks everybody for the answers.
Yeah, gutermann is also the main brand available here in supermarkets etc., and their polyester thread is fine (but I try not to use it), but imho their cotton helps giving cotton thread a bad rep.
Grazie a tutti per le risposte.
E sì, gutermann è la marca che si trova anche qui nei supermercati, e il loro filo di poliestere è decente (ma cerco di non usarlo), ma secondo me il loro filo di cotone aiuta a dare cattiva fama al filo di cotone.
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So, I've bought some linen thread to handsew a shirt or two, nothing unusual.
And then I've spotted what is the main reason why they sell it today (bobbin lace), and that reminded me that it's something I try to do some time ago, and really wanted to try again, sooner or later.
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I thought my grandmother's cotton or linen tatting looked like micro-crochet, and projects are small, fitting in a pocket so well. Strong too. Tatting could hand-reinforce button holes and add small loops to things. I might have a tatting shuttle somewhere. . . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatting#… . Grandmother's looked like the metal-hooked one in this pic: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
Piccolo thread sul concetto di "promuovere le proprie opere" su Livello Segreto, che siano articoli, podcast, saggi o sculture di gommapane.
1) Potete farlo! Anzi, è incoraggiato. Siamo qui per scoprire cose interessanti, per parlare, per confrontarci. Per fare nascere alleanze e potenziali collaborazioni.
Ricordate però che questo non è un social freddo. LS punta a essere un punto di incontro più umano e concreto, dove non serve scannarsi per l'attenzione. (segue)
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Penso che mostrerò dei contenuti di alcuni progetti futuri che possono interessare e magari qualche articolo di outcast. Non penso ci sia bisogno di promuoversi all'interno di livello segreto.
Il bello è conoscere altre persone coi loro interessi, il resto vien da sé, la bio di ogni persona c'è per quello. ❤️
Aaaaand, the instructions for my next #freeSoftWear pattern have been written, and the shirt itself is almost done! (I'm attaching the sleeves, and then I need to finish the hem and making buttonholes).
And then I only need to edit a truckload of step-by-step pictures, and add them to the instructions.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love *having released* the source code for my clothing under a Free License? :D
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And since my hands were hurting a bit from the handsewing, yesterday I started a new pattern for a machine sewn skirt, this time from a 1892 book and cut most of the fabric.
And then I discovered that I dont'have matching thread and I need to visit the haberdasher :(
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e niente, non riesco a ricondividerlo nel modo “mastodon”, ma questa cosa si deve VEDERE!
mi assumo le mie colpe e ne vado fiera (ma non è solo colpa mia :D )
Fabio
Sappiate che è colpa vostra questo. https://paste.gl-como.it/YUo6iNvW/+inline#.mp4social.gl-como.it
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I'm following instructions on a book to sew a 1830s hat.
The first thing I did this morning was running 3 + 3 meters of gathering thread. by machine.
you may want to call the sewing police.
(I'm going to wear the hat with a dress that is based on a 1920s look, anyway)
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Copyleft Won't Solve All Problems, Just Some of Them
Toward a Broad Ethical Software Licensing CoalitionWe are passionate about and dedicated to the cause of software freedom and rights because proprietary software harmfully takes control of and agency in software away from users.Software Freedom Conservancy
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Cats know the order of the universe. When there is a space, they fill it. When there is a platform, they occupy it. When there is warmth, they bask, and when there is shade, they lurk.
This might go some way to explaining the neat pentagram of cats on my front lawn when I got home one evening, and the shocked little demon that sat at its center beneath a fading tendril of smoke that curled up into the moonlit night.
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Signore e signori, cittadine e cittadini, procionə e cinghialə l'assemblea del collettivo puntarella.party ha deliberato per il progetto "Calendario 2023 di #ChieseBrutte".
Invitiamo tuttə coloro che vogliono partecipare a inviare le proprie foto all'account @ChieseBrutte. Le migliori 12 immagini ci terranno compagnia nel primo anno post-guerra atomica e lə autorə saranno omaggiati di un pregevole prodotto editoriale. Chi voglia collaborare al progetto con idee, assistenza tecnica, food & beverage è caldamente invitatə a scriverci.
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Was Giordano Bruno Really a “Martyr for Science”?
There are two main historical figures that are often cited as supposed “martyrs for science.” The first is the Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, who was murdered in March 415 AD by a mob of Christians who supported Cyri…Spencer McDaniel (Tales of Times Forgotten)
Un modello eliocentrico con orbite circolari è comunque un'approssimazione abbastanza grezza del sistema solare, in cui invece le orbite sono ellittiche.
A quanto ne so, il sistema geocentrico con epicicli era già arrivato ad un livello di raffinatezza tale per cui *per i calcoli* poteva fornire risultati più precisi rispetto a quelli ottenuti con un modello eliocentrico a orbite circolari, il che è probabilmente uno dei motivi per cui il sistema geocentrico è sopravvissuto nel tempo.
Comunque, se sei interessata all'argomento, ti consiglio alcune pubblicazioni di Lucio Russo, da quelle più divulgative (Stelle atomi e velieri) a quelle più strutturate (La rivoluzione dimenticata)
In other #screenPrint news, today I tried the drawing fluid + screen filler from the kit I've bought, and made this
(pictures of a printing screen, with the word “serigrafia” (italian for screen printing) first in green drawing fluid and then as a stencil surrounded by red screen filler, written using the Stay Puft font.)
yeah, it worked, I'm not sure I'll use this technique a lot, since I'm not painting things free hand, anyway, so I can just use the UV sensitive thing anyway.
However, to make things a bit more interesting, I tried to print using two colours in a gradient:
(pictures of 8 strips of paper with the word “serigrafia” first in two stripes, magenta and black, then in a magenta -> black very irregular gradient and in the last few strips it's mostly black with bits of magenta).
The strips of paper will be glued to a cardboard box where I'm keeping my screen printing supplies (that's why I did them in the first place, beside the experimenting bits)
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it worked!
My third attempt to #screenPrint a qr-code was a success! (nothing like correctly inverting the image to allow a phone to recognise the code :D )
(picture of two scraps of fabric, one black, the other one blue, with QR-codes and “get the source” screenprinted in white)
I'm going to keep this screen, because I expect to use it multiple times in the future, to print it on garments and accessories, and/or to make small patches to sew on them, as applicable.
I've also found a good way to keep the screen stable when exposing it to the free UV lamp in the sky :D
(picture of a small cutting board (not really visible) covered in black felt, with a screen, a sheet of tracing paper with a printed design and a sheet of syntetic glass on top, everything kept together with binder clips).
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TIL: vlc <torrent url>
not that I'm surprised, since vlc <anything that points somehow to a bit of video> tends to work :D
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Mi sembra si stiano facendo un po' i conti col culo dellə altrə rispetto alla gestione del conflitto in Ucraina.
Tipo: "rispondere all'attacco armato con le armi è come cercare di spegnere il fuoco con la benzina".
Ok, chiaro, ma se hai i carri armati che ti sfilano sotto casa e case o scuole colpite da missili, da essere animale in generale, puoi fare solo tre cose: scappare, combattere, fingerti mortə.
Chi può sta scappando, chi non può o non vuole prova a difendersi.
Mi sembra da privilegiatə giudicare la risposta del popolo. Banalmente, in guerra non ci siamo noi, per ora.
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Io sono in un paese Nato eppure mi professo anarchico, scrivo contro le istituzioni su un quotidiano autogestito indipendente, vado ai Pride. Tre cose per cui in Russia finirei in galera. Non ho altro da aggiungere.
I like it how in Italian there is no right and wrong side to fabric, but a front and a back. And sometimes the back is the right side for your project.
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A few updates on #screenPrint progress.
I've tried making a screen with the photoemulsion: even printing the design on tracing paper instead of transparent and using the sun for exposure (instead of a lamp) it worked nicely and printed sharp and precise.
except, I missed the fact that inkscape had not actually inverted all of the design, and thus the QRcode I tried to print was unreadable :(
(picture of a screen for screen printing with green, cured, photoemulsion)
(picture of something that resemble, but isn't, a pair of QRcodes)
At least, I know what went wrong and I can fix it on the next attempt.
I've also found that the kit I've bought doesn't have enough screen cleaning fluid for the number of screens I can do with the available photoemulsion, so I'm waiting a bit until I can get some screens I don't have to reuse (for a few designs that I plan to print multiple times) and more screen cleaning fluid.
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I've also received some wood frames and tried to make another screen with curtain fabric and white glue: this was a success.
(picture of a wooden frame with fabric nailed on it and a right to repair logo painted in glue)
(picture of some black jeans fabric with the right to repair logo printed in white in a fuzzy and irregular way)
I've washed the screen from the back and I can confirm that the glue part survived: I think I will check it for holes and retouch it a bit the next time I'll use it, but it shouldn't need a lot.
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And then there was this, which isn't experimental or anything.
(picture of a pair of pockets in blue with yellow binding and a #screenPrint of white cat silhouettes: on the left two cats are carefully ignoring each other, while on the right a cat is ready to pounce on another one which is stretching, and a third one looks at them from a safe place.)
Done with plastic stencils (made with product packaging) based on clipart found on freesvg.org.
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Yes, there is a war going on and it's really scary.
The point of cw'ing that stuff is not to just "ignore current events", but to allow people who have depression, anxiety, etc. to navigate spaces without constantly having their mental health under attack.
There is little most people can do about the situation in the world and humans are not made to handle all that stress we are exposed now constantly. It makes us feel powerless and helpless. This is also why whataboutism pointing to a bad situation here and is not helpful. It makes it worse. It is not clever, most of what follows "what about ..." is things that suck and are known and just stress our powerlessness.
Just cw so people can dose their intake of horribel stuff.
Thank you.
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OFFERTA DI LAVORO
Da queste parti c'è un serramentista abbastanza grosso che sta cercando un saldatore professionista.
Meglio se con patente C.
D.M. se vi può interessare.
Boostate, grazie
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Also please read that I said "as a people", you Americans have shown that you won't rise up and you expect others to do so.
The way hollywood depicts pre-modern battles follows a perfectly legitimate literary tradition, already seen in the Iliad, of showing two armies getting ready for battle, not having a frigging clue on how war worked centuries earlier and going on with depicting duels between named (and in the case of hollywood unhelmeted) heroes strictly based on the Rules of Cool.
On the other hand, as far as we know Homer didn't have wikipedia.
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TIL: The Mondeluz #watercolours from Koh-I-Noor seem to be the same watercolours as the White Night from St. Petersburg ones.
At least, the one random pan I bought (raw umber) has the same number and pigments as the corresponding White Night, it is made “in cooperation with” the producer of the White Night and it has their logo at the bottom of the pan.
I've never tried the White Night ones for a comparison, however.
And it is a full pan, something I couldn't find on the web site before buying.
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If you want to get angry at the modern internet, try and make something and give it away for free.
Look at how many things you have to either dodge or hoops you have to jump through in order to do something nice, without involving BigAnything or MonetizeEverything.
When you're done, try imagining doing all of this as a person who never learned to be the technical person you are. Someone interesting with interesting, or even important, things to say.
Let's figure out how to fix this.
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Anyone with a book or other form of literature they want to publish and distribute for free can contact kat@invicious.net and provide the text file(s) along with the name they want attached to it, etc
We've made aberrata.net/epress to be an always-free, no-bullshit online publishing group
Mainly to satisfy my intense love of typesetting stuff
Aberrant ePress
Information doesn't just want to be free --- it also wants to be readable!aberrata.net
I had a combination of interest, opportunity, and outright priviledge to make it possible for me to learn about technology despite it not being my job.
That isn't everyone's story, and I'm interested in more ways to make it possible to share things without the person who didn't learn this stuff having to be exploited to do so.
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Uops, I forgot to post a picture of the @Gruppo Linux Como lake penguin
no, it's not perfect, and I should practice a bit more, but the LUG t-shirts are close to becoming a *thing*.
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Today I drove my mother and a neighbor to a fabric shop.
And I bought the bit of cotton canvas suitable to make a couple of bags / backpacks to be screenprinted, exactly as I had planned to do.
And I absolutely have not bought a full dress and a couple of waists. Not even if the goods were really good quality at an exceedingly affordable price.
I did resist buying broadcloth for the skirt that will go with those waists, because black broadcloth is something I'm always going to find, and first I need to make the whole set of underthings for it.
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And I've taken a picture; the brown one is for my mother.
(3 small bolts of fabric in light brown, red and almost electric blue, seen from the side)
And I forgot to mention that there may also have been a cut of black lace, probably enough for an overskirt and to decorate a shirtwaist, and I didn't take a picture either (uops).
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TIL: a collection of icons for #games, under the CC-BY license
(found on ludism.org/ppwiki/SteampunkPie… , which. which. I. need. that.)
Hidden in their mountains, the Swiss have power plants that run on Balrog's fire.
Prove me wrong.
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Too Italian; Didn't Read: offer of a postcard with COMMIE stamp to Italian addresses
L'altro giorno son stata dal tabaccaio a prendere qualche francobollo, e mi han dato quelli commemorativi del congresso di Livorno del 1921.
Ora, visto che è febbraio¹, qualcuno del fediverso italiano² è interessato a ricevere una cartolina scritta a mano con un francobollo COMUNISCHTA?
Offerta limitata al numero di francobolli che ho preso meno il numero di lettere che già devo spedire in Italia :D
¹ #InCoWriMo
² secondo la definizione di Italia delle poste, ovvero con indirizzo di consegna in Italia, San Marino e Vaticano³.
³ e se qualcuno ha l'indirizzo di consegna in Vaticano, bonus point per il LOL.
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The pad is A3 size, but it is kept together with rings and there is a line of microperforations to remove a sheet from the pad outside the ring area.
And this means that after being cut, each sheet is slightely shorter than A3, and can't be cut in e.g. 8 A6 sheets.
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