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TFW it's the last day of carnival, and as you get dressed with your perfectly normal dress to go outside for mundane reasons you worry that people may ask you what you're dressed as

(which is not a big problem, as long as they don't decide that I'm dressed as something and so I'm fair game for being covered in nasty plastic foam from a can)

#sewingPeopleProblems

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@Uriel Fanelli @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 più che altro il burlesque tende ad essere una versione eroticizzata degli anni 50, che non necessariamente coincide con lo stile con chi indossa abbigliamento vintage nella vita di tutti i giorni
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Avviso contenuto: dream, earworm

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Avviso contenuto: sogno, canzone che rimane in testa

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Avviso contenuto: sogno, canzone che rimane in testa

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' "LAA LA LAAA LALALA'.... ODINO! LAA LA LAAA LALALA' VALHALLA!"

...mo' chi me lo toglie dalla testa?

(corretto per una maggiore aderenza al materiale originale... gh.)

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@Fabio non so, puoi provare bevendo un crodino :D
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And with the jeans almost¹ done, I've cut a vest out of the leftovers, using a block² from a victorian manual (that I want to check for fit), but to be made with no regard for historical accuracy.

I've also cut three (3) small pockets, to test their positions and size, but I'm not going to do welt pockets on jeans, I'm also going for a simpler method for those.

¹ one pair fully done and worn yesterday for the whole day with success, the other pair is still missing some handsewing and the belt loops
² https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/historical_womenswear/drafting_methods/cutters/index.html#vest

#sewing

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Avendo quasi¹ finito i jeans, ho tagliato un gilet dalla stoffa rimanente, usando un modello base² da un manuale dell'ottocento (del quale voglio controllare le misure), ma realizzato senza la minima attenzione all'accuratezza storica.

Ho anche tagliato tre (3) taschini, per provare le posizioni e dimensioni, ma mi rifiuto di fare una tasca profilata sul jeans, userò un metodo più semplice.

¹ un paio completato ed indossato ieri tutto il giorno con successo, all'altro paio mancano ancora delle rifiniture a mano e i passanti.
² https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/historical_womenswear/drafting_methods/cutters/index.html#vest

#cucito

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode velcro. is. evil.

I don't think that there is really a way to make sewing it non-painful (but maybe somebody else knows one?)


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To celebrate Conversations being back on the Play Store and to deny Google their 15% cut I made the app free for the next ~48 hours. 😜

If you are new here: Check out #XMPP. It's federated, provider and vendor independent instant messaging. It’s great!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

Or get it from #fdroid - That version even has address book integration and public channel discovery! 😂

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Or get it from #fdroid - That version even has address book integration and public channel discovery! 😂

👍👌👏


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Titoli delle voci su #Wikipedia >> Google Translate

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I just got an amber alert with a bit.ly link that redirected to twitter and I would just really love it for governments to not base public information systems on the flimsiest chain of adversarial platforms imaginable

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I think people who write concise posts they want to go viral never actually want replies.

So why not create a social media that doesn't have a reply feature, just people posting and sharing is they want to?

It could be a platform full of viral-wannabe bores, all lumped together.

Me, I want replies.

Unless they go on too long and I can't be bothered to read them.

in reply to Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

@Lydia Conwell :mastodon: @Diego Roversi lately a lot of the blog I'm reading are using static site generators and skipping the comment section (and a few other ones are in the same situation, but using a fediverse thread as their comment section)


After years of sewing together this morning my sewing machine told me her name!

It happened while she was going through too-many-to-count layers of denim while hemming over a flat felled seam.

I supposed I should respect her privacy and avoid telling which name it is to everybody on the internet.

#sewing #sewingPeopleThings

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

sei sicura che fosse il suo nome e un neanche troppo velato insulto? 😁
in reply to Vi 💙

@Vi 💙 no, no, era un nome, non funziona come insulto

di solito quando mi vuole insultare si rompono gli aghi, e questa volta non è successo (per ora, non ho ancora finito i jeans :D )



A bit of a #sewing update.

Last weekend I was sewing the Augusta Stays, but I knew that while watching fosdem videos I could get to a point where I needed to do a fit test, which is not really compatible with fosdem, so I got ready for it by cutting a new top for myself in cotton voile, like the one at https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/contemporary_unisex/tops/low_waste_elastic_neck_top/index.html but with a bit more fullness and an attempt to give a ruffle look to the neckline and cuffs.

I started sewing on Sunday afternoon, and during the week it has progressed nicely, I've now reached the approximately 10 km seams around the neck (then there will be 5 km of seams around the cuffs, and it's done, I have already hemmed the bottom.

However, this meant that I procrastinated starting the binding on the stays. I hope that next week I'll find the courage to do them.

On the machine-sewing side, instead, I've been working on the jeans, but there were a couple of days when they just weren't working, so I stopped and did something else, and they are still stuck with the front and back assembled, and they need to be sewn together, and then finished with the waistband and hems. Next week, too.

OTOH, on the living room table there is now the last bit of elastic denim leftover with a pattern for a vest on top: it's a block from a victorian book, but I'm going to make it very simple, as a sort of wearable mockup for the pattern block.
https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/historical_womenswear/drafting_methods/cutters/index.html#vest
I'm not going to actually cut it until I've finished the jeans, so that I'm 100% sure I don't need any more pieces for them, because the vest will use most of the usable leftovers.

Oh, and the distractions when stuff wasn't working involved reading the Workwoman's Guide and taking notes for more handsewing stuff for the near future. A hint on what may be had by looking at my openclipart account :) https://openclipart.org/artist/valhalla

Basically, I didn't do what I had planned to do, but it still wasn't that bad of a week.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Un aggiornamento sul #cucito.

Lo scorso weekend stavo cucendo le Augusta Stays, ma sospettavo che guardando i video del fosdem sarei arrivata ad un punto in cui serviva una prova, che non è molto compatibile col weekend del fosdem, per cui mi sono portata avanti tagliando una nuova camicetta in voile di cotone, tipo https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/contemporary_unisex/tops/low_waste_elastic_neck_top/index.html ma con volant su collo e polsi.

Ho iniziato a cucirlo domenica pomeriggio e nel corso della settimana è andato avanti, adesso sono al punto in cui devo fare circa 10 km di cuciture sul collo e poi circa 5 km sui polsini, e a quel punto è finito (ho già fatto l'orlo sul fondo).

La cosa però ha comportato il procrastinare il rifinire gli orli delle stays, spero settimana prossima di trovare il coraggio.

Quanto al cucito a macchina, stavo lavorando sui jeans, ma ci sono stati un paio di giorni in cui le cose non funzionavano, per cui mi son fermata e ho fatto altro, e sono ancora fermi al punto in cui i davanti e i dietro sono assemblati, ma vanno cuciti assieme, e poi mancano cinturini e rifiniture tipo orli. Settimana prossima.

D'altra parte, sul tavolo della sala c'è l'ultimo pezzo di jeans elasticizzato con sopra un cartamodello per un gilet: è un modello preso da un libro vittoriano, ma ho intenzione di realizzarlo in modo molto semplice, come mockup indossabilke per il cartamodello.
https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/historical_womenswear/drafting_methods/cutters/index.html#vest
Prima di tagliarlo però voglio aver finito i jeans ed essere 100% sicura di non aver bisogno di altri pezzi, perché con il gilé userei la maggior parte dei ritagli di dimensioni significative.

Oh, e tra le distrazioni di quando le cose non funzionavano c'è stato leggere la Workwoman's Guide e prendere appunti per altre cose da cucire a mano nel prossimo futuro. Un indizio su cosa potrebbe essere sul mio account openclipart :) https://openclipart.org/artist/valhalla

Fondamentalmente, non ho fatto quello che mi ero ripromessa di fare, ma tutto sommato non è stata una cattiva settimana.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

The top is finished!

(don't mind the fichu-like scarf which may or may not be there to cover the thermal underwear I was wearing under the top)

And I've also had @Diego Roversi take pictures of most of the jeans, so that in the next couple of weeks or so I can hopefully finish and publish the blog posts for them.

As for binding the stays. we don't talk about binding the stays :D

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La camicetta è finita.


(ignorate la sciarpa che potrebbe essere stata infilata a coprire la maglietta termica che stavo indossando sotto alla camicetta)

@Diego Roversi si è anche prestato per fare foto alla maggior parte dei jeans, per cui nelle prossime settimane spero di riuscire a finire e pubblicare i post relativi sul blog.

Quanto agli orli delle stays, quali orli delle stays?

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

two tabs of the stays have been half bound (i.e. I've sewn the tape from the front, not yet from the back).

tooManyToCount remaining

#sewing #AugustaStays

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

due cosi¹ delle stays sono stati mezzi-ricoperti (ovvero ho cucito la fettuccia sul davanti, non ancora sul retro).

ne mancano… TroppiPerEssereContati

¹ termine preciso di sartoria storica, eh :D

#cucito #cucitoAMano

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

all of the bottom edge of the stays have been half bound.

I hope that sewing the tape from the back will be less fiddly than doing the first seam on the front (I hope), and then there is the top edge, which is significantly longer, but also much easier (I hope)

#sewing #AugustaStays

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Tutto l'orlo inferiore delle stays è stato rinifito a metà.

Spero che cucire la fettuccia sul retro sia meno incasinato della prima cucitura sul davanti (spero), e poi c'è l'orlo superiore, che è decisamente più lungo, ma dovrebbe essere anche più facile (spero).

#cucito


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You learned how much a shirt cost in the the middle ages! And how much a linen tunic cost in the Roman Empire. This week, find out how much a garment cost in the Late Bronze Age https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/02/10/how-much-did-a-garment-cost-in-the-bronze-age/ #histodons #egyptology #amarnaAge #materialCulture #cuneitoot


a colour photo of the stone remains of the temple of Dendur in a glass-roofed space at the Metropolitan museum of art. The temple consists of a stone gateway, the stone foundation of the front wall, and a one-chamber sanctuary with a two-column porchEgypt gave the US a temple from the reign of Augustus and it is glorious https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802 There is now a video about the Temple of Dendur (have not seen it) https://smarthistory.org/temple-of-dendur/

I have posted about the cost of a shirt in fifteenth-century England, and the price of a tunic in the time of emperor Constantine. That is not the earliest date which we can explore! Writing on scraps of stone from Egypt and clay tablets from Ugarit tell us how much a garment cost in the Late Bronze Age around 1500 to 1100 BCE.

Many short everyday documents survive from the village of Deir el Medina. The village was built to house workers for the Valley of the Kings, then abandoned in the Late Period when it became clear that burying all the kings along the same wadi would not keep them safe. The villagers had access to scribes who managed the King’s work, but they also lived in the Red Land of the desert where texts painted or scratched on potsherds and limestone fragments did not wash clean or sink into the mud when the Nile flooded. And so we know all kinds of things about these ordinary Egyptians which we don’t know about farmers and carpenters who lived in the Black Land along the Nile and in its Delta.

At Deir el Medina, a simple garment of rough linen cost about 5 deben (a weight, usually of copper). Janssen suggested that the families which built tombs in the Valley of the Kings were paid 12 to 15 deben per month in goods and services, including grain worth 9 deben. It is pretty typical of the world before the 20th century that 60-75% of most people’s incomes was spent on food and drink. The workers were probably a bit wealthier than the average person in an agrarian society (and certainly in New Kingdom Egypt). Their houses were built on plots about 5 × 15 metres which would be very familiar to medieval townsfolk or villagers. If we assume that a month has 20 working days, then paying 5 deben out of a month’s income of 12 to 15 deben was 6.66 to 8.33 days’ income for that garment of rough linen.

two offwhite linen tunics, one inside out, and an open chest of clothingTwo linen tunics and some loincloths from the New Kingdom in the Museo Egizio, Turin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tunica_leggera_4KA3530-HDR.tif

We have more prices from the Bronze Age city of Ugarit in Syria. The people of Ugarit wrote a unique alphabetic cuneiform script. Their city was destroyed in the disorders at the end of the Bronze Age, so many everyday documents were baked in burning houses and buried in mud-brick rubble. In these documents, a garment which is probably a tunic (ktn, probably the same root as Greek chiton and possibly English cotton) cost 1.5 to 2.5 shekels. Interpreting these prices is hard because we don’t have evidence for wages and incomes. In 1975 it was not even clear whether a shekel at Ugarit was 1/50 or 1/60 of a pound! The traditional standard in Babylonia was 1 shekel of silver to feed, fuel, and clothe a family for a month but that may have been optimistic. These garments were probably woollen, whereas the medieval shirt, Late Roman linen tunic, and New Kingdom Egyptian garment were all linen. But the prices from Ugarit are the first which I have seen where the price of a basic garment might be one or two months’ income for a family.

I am not sure where to find prices for garments from Old Babylonia or Old Assyria, but it might be possible to work out prices for garments in those cultures. That period around 1800-1500 BCE is probably as early as we could estimate prices from contemporary documents.

I wrote this post from the fragments of old notes so I can’t give exact page numbers. Projects like Jansen’s are unfashionable because there are so many unknowns and so many factors that can affect quality. Readers of Terry Pratchett novels or shoppers at retailers in Canada know that not all boots or cotton slacks last equally long and work equally well. In the 20th century, it was more fashionable to construct price series for basic commodities such as a bushel of wheat or the wage of a country thatcher. But I still think that prices for clothing in historical documents give a feel for the past, and are more reliable than guessing how long hobbyists today would need to make the same garment. When you have a spindle put in your hand before you can walk, or spinning and weaving is the only way you can feed your children, you get good! Today the old tailors of Naples tell anyone who listens that by the time someone has graduated from university they are too old to learn the art of tailoring.

Further Reading


Jac J. Janssen, Commodity Prices From the Ramesside Period. E.J. Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, 1975.

Robert R. Stieglitz, “Commodity Prices at Ugarit, ” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 99, No. 1 (1979), pp. 15-23 especially page 19

Colin Clark and Margaret Haswell, The Economics of Subsistence Agriculture (1970)

(scheduled ?)

https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/02/10/how-much-did-a-garment-cost-in-the-bronze-age/

#ancient #ancientEgypt #economicHistory #historicalClothing #LateBronzeAge #tunicCosts



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One interesting feature of RSS that people don't talk about is accessibility.
If your site has RSS, people can view and interact with your site via an RSS reader, which may include accessibility features that your site does not.
For instance, maybe the RSS reader has a dark mode that your website lacks.

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I've just realized it is indeed the passengers' fault if the trains are late.

You see, a few days ago @Diego Roversi forgot his book home, and the train was quite late. Evidently the train is late when at least one of the passengers does so.

So, if every passenger took care to bring their own book to read while on the train, the trains wouldn't be late anymore!

#badLogicIsFunnierThanGoodLogic

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Mi sono appena resa conto che è effettivamente colpa dei passeggeri se i treni sono in ritardo.

Qualche giorno fa @Diego Roversi si è dimenticato il libro a casa, e il treno era in discreto ritardo. Evidentemente il treno è in ritardo quando almeno uno dei passeggeri lo fa.

Quindi, se tutti i passeggeri facessero attenzione e si portassero un libro da leggere quando sono sul treno, i treni non sarebbero più in ritardo!

#erroriDiLogicaMaSonPiùDivertentiDellaLogica #trenò

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semi-serious web proposal: any essential web service must support the Lynx web browser with equivalent functionality

edit: for those who don't know, Lynx is a text-only web browser with no Javascript support

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The #jeans saga continues.

Yesterday I started to cut the other denim I have bought, the one that is a bit heavier (385 g/m² instead of 355 g/m²) but also has some elastane in it (everything else is cotton, that part was not negotiable), and I decided to cut pieces for two pair of jeans rather than just one, with the two waistband variants (straight, where I add elastic to the sides and back, and shaped).

And now I can work almost assembly-line style on them, and see how long it takes me to finish two pairs.

And then my jeans situation should be fine, and I shouldn't need to make jeans for myself for some time.

#sewing

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode (and since I'm running magic lantern on the camera I've just checked, but I don't think that it has a module to add syncthing support, even if I had a camera with wifi hardware)

(I could play arkanoid on it, however :D )

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode yeah, my smartphone is a pinephone, it's camera situation is, let's say, suboptimal :D

OTOH, it can run git annex (which is what I use on the pc and elsewhere to sync pictures and other files)

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I really don't get why people spend literal thousands on a single item of clothing (sometimes it's even made of polyester). I mean I get that it's a status symbol but how about instead of spending £000s on something off the shelf you pay less than that to get the exact same thing custom made by a local sewist. It would be cheaper, fit you better and you know the conditions it was made in. Also custom made is a status symbol too.

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I suspect you're not looking for an answer, however, since I don't know any local dressmakers, but I run into stuff being advertised to me, I suspect one is easier than the other.
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@kibrika ok but counterpoint. If you have a couple grand to spend on Balenciaga then you have the money to go to a city like New York or Paris and get something made.


One silver lining of remoting #fosdem is that it's much easier to deal with an unwieldy productive fidget device (such as, I don't know, sewing a pair of stays that already has bones in it) when changing rooms only involves an mpv command instead of running between buildings in the rain, wind, snow, sun (all at the same time) :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

una cosa che consola del fatto che si sta partecipando a fosdem da remoto è che è molto più facile gestire un coso fidgettoso per concentrarsi produttivo scomodo da gestire (chessò, a puro esempio cucire un corsetto del 1700 in cui sono già state infilate le stecche) quando cambiare stanza vuol dire un comando di mpv anziché correre tra gli edifici sotto la pioggia, vento, neve, sole (tutti assieme) :D

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Saw a meme and decided it needed a 4x4 taking it to the furthest extreme

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Looks to me like Murphy understands the other ones pretty damn well...
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ok, ok, but in the spirit of the original law, shouldn't murphy's razor be "anything that can be complicated, will be complicated"?


@Diego Roversi has just said that he prefers my diet-mode festive bread (a baguette dough with no fats) with raisins and candied citrus peels to the panettone with sugar glaze he was gifted at $DAY_JOB.

And I mean, it is good enough, but wow

#baking #bread

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Diego Roversi also, I'm absolutely not singing “Lucifer's Raisins” on the tune of the obvious Candlemass song every time I steal one of the burnt raisins from the top of the bread.
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@Diego Roversi ah, e comunque non sto assolutamente canticchiando “Lucifer's Raisins” sull'ovvia canzone dei Candlemass tutte le volte che rubo un'uvetta bruciata da sopra il pane.

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btw, the reason why I'm making this is that tomorrow it's Saint Blaise's day, and there is a tradition in this area to eat panettone that has been kept over from Christmas on that day.

My bread has been made fresh (it wouldn't have kept for over a month), but the candied citruses are leftovers from the same bread I made at Christmas, so that counts, right?

(oh, and we didn't start eating the one for tomorrow, there was a bit of extra dough and I accidentally made another smaller loaf :D)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

il motivo per cui sto facendo questa cosa è che domani è san Biagio, e da queste parti c'è una tradizione di mangiare quel giorno una parte del panettone di natale che è stata messa da parte.

Il pane è stato fatto fresco (non si sarebbe conservato per più di un mese), ma i canditi sono avanzi dallo stesso pane che ho fatto a Natale, quindi conta, giusto?

(ah, e non abbiamo aperto quello di domani, è che c'era un po di impasto in più e mi è capitato accidentalmente di farne uno aggiuntivo :D)

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@Kermode @Diego Roversi right, I was thinking Candlemass the band, not Candlemass the day, which I should have done, yesterday :D

the song is called Lucifer Rising, but with raisins it's funnier


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When you're announcing a new version of some software, please, pretty please, always include a sentence describing what it's for. No need to go into all the details, but even a few words would help.

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Luckily I just did so in my post two minutes earlier than yours: https://sigmoid.social/@osma/111861603610116561


Release 1.0.2 of the #Annif automated subject indexing tool is out. This is a maintenance/bugfix release that fixes some package dependency and Docker rebuild problems. Core Annif code and functionality is unchanged.

https://github.com/NatLibFi/Annif/releases/tag/v1.0.2


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If you have a webpage for your product, and the first thing anyone sees on the main page isn't a short description of what the thing is/does, that's wrong too. And if that's buried deep within some non-obvious "mystery meat" menu system, that's triply wrong.

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Macrame Bookbag


Posted on January 31, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:macrame
a macrame bag in ~3 mm ecru yarn, with very irregular knots of different types, holding a book with a blue cover. The bottom part has a rigid single layer triangle and a fringe.

In late 2022 I prepared a batch of drawstring backpacks in cotton as reusable wrappers for Christmas gifts; however I didn’t know what cord to use, didn’t want to use paracord, and couldn’t find anything that looked right in the local shops.

With Christmas getting dangerously closer, I visited a craft materials website for unrelated reasons, found out that they sold macrame cords, and panic-bought a few types in the hope that at least one would work for the backpacks.

I got lucky, and my first choice fitted just fine, and I was able to finish the backpacks in time for the holidays.

And then I had a box full of macrame cords in various sizes and types that weren’t the best match for the drawstring in a backpack, and no real use for them.

I don’t think I had ever done macrame, but I have made friendship bracelets in primary school, and a few Friendship Bracelets, But For Real Men So We Call Them Survival Bracelets(TM) more recently, so I didn’t bother reading instructions or tutorials online, I just grabbed the Ashley Book of Knots to refresh myself on the knots used, and decided to make myself a small bag for an A6 book.

I choose one of the thin, ~3 mm cords, Tre Sfere Macramé Barbante, of which there was plenty, so that I could stumble around with no real plan.

A loop of four cords, with a handle made of square knots that keeps it together.

I started by looping 5 m of cord, making iirc 2 rounds of a loop about the right size to go around the book with a bit of ease, then used the ends as filler cords for a handle, wrapped them around the loop and worked square knots all over them to make a handle.

Then I cut the rest of the cord into 40 pieces, each 4 m long, because I had no idea how much I was going to need (spoiler: I successfully got it wrong :D )

I joined the cords to the handle with lark head knots, 20 per side, and then I started knotting without a plan or anything, alternating between hitches and square knots, sometimes close together and sometimes leaving some free cord between them.

And apparently I also completely forgot to take in-progress pictures.

I kept working on this for a few months, knotting a row or two now and then, until the bag was long enough for the book, then I closed the bottom by taking one cord from the front and the corresponding on the back, knotting them together (I don’t remember how) and finally I made a rigid triangle of tight square knots with all of the cords, progressively leaving out a cord from each side, and cutting it in a fringe.

I then measured the remaining cords, and saw that the shortest ones were about a meter long, but the longest ones were up to 3 meters, I could have cut them much shorter at the beginning (and maybe added a couple more cords). The leftovers will be used, in some way.

And then I postponed taking pictures of the finished object for a few months.

The same bag, empty and showing how the sides aren't straight.

Now the result is functional, but I have to admit it is somewhat ugly: not as much for the lack of a pattern (that I think came out quite fine) but because of how irregular the knots are; I’m not confident that the next time I will be happy with their regularity, either, but I hope I will improve, and that’s one important thing.

And the other important thing is: I enjoyed making this, even if I kept interrupting the work, and I think that there may be some other macrame in my future.


https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/01/31-macrame_bookbag/index.html

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@Kermode The trick is that I'm often doing repetitive things with my hand while I'm doing something else that requires concentration :) productive fidgeting :)

(also, I'm blogging stuff that I've done months ago and had not blogged yet)

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@Kermode right now he's the guy very close to me under the flannel sheets :D (I know, I know, we don't have real cold around here, but it still feels cold to us :) ).

he's also quite handy, but tends a bit more towards repairing things rather than making new ones (not exclusively, however), but our house *is* full of things that we have done something to.



Right now, I'm really glad that I have a set of leather thimbles in various sizes that I've made to give away to people who want to start sewing by hand because

a) my middle finger is hurting too much to wear my metal one
b) the sewing on my leather thimble has just self-destroyed
c) I need a thimble to be able to re-sew a leather thimble

#sewing #sewingPersonProblems

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

In questo momento sono *molto* felice di avere dei ditali di pelle in varie misure che ho fatto da regalare a chi vuole iniziare a cucire a mano, perché

a) il mio medio fa male e non riesco ad usare il mio solito ditale di metallo
b) le cuciture del mio ditale di pelle si sono appena autodistrutte
c) ho bisogno di un ditale per riuscire a ricucire un ditale di pelle

#cucito #problemiDiChiCuce

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Se devi cucire cose molto spesse e consistenti potrebbe essere utile un ditale palmare, come quelli usati per le vele e le espadrillas.
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@Gustavino Bevilacqua UTC+01:00 no, per quanto sia robusto anche il corsetto del 1700 rientra più nel lavoro di precisione che non nel “cose spesse e consistenti”, serve controllare l'ago con le dita
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@Kermode yeah, you don't *really* need a thimble to handsew, but it makes a *huge* difference in how confortable it is!

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I was measuring ingredients for a dough in a bowl, using the tare button of the scale after each ingredient. Then I removed the bowl, and the number on the scale was 404.

which is extremely appropriate for a bowl that is missing.

#baking

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Stavo misurando gli ingredienti di un impasto in una ciotola, usando il bottone per la tara dopo ciascun ingrediente. Poi ho tolto la ciotola dalla bilancia, e segnava esattamente 404.

che mi pare *estremamente* appropriato per una ciotola che non c'è.


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a post about algorithms and their lack of on ao3 (but I think that some points also apply to the fediverse)

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Let it be a warning story for you, regarding smart home solutions.

Two years ago we have bough a house. Together with the house came a thermostat for controlling the gas boiler. The one from the smart kind.

Since the very beginning it was clear to me, this particular solution is a crap. The only way to control it was by login to the external web page and set the schedule and temperatures there, and the device at home periodically has checked if there is a change to fetch. Also, this particular device has only volatile memory. So, when power is turned off, the device needs to fetch the settings from the server.

I've tried to replace it with another smart solution, but failed at it (and I have wrote a little bit about that as well).

So, I am still using the one which came with the house.

And the servers went down somewhen during last two weeks. So far the device is still working, with recent settings. So, I am not in dire needs. However, the first power failure means I am being left without heating.

And what is the lesson for you? If you want to buy any kind of smart home solution, please make sure it will work decently without internet connection.

The very basic check you can do is to open https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/, find if there is available support for the device you want to buy, and check its IoT class. If this is local push or local polling, it would rather be OK. If this is a cloud push/cloud pulling, then further research is needed, as without the internet (or servers) available, the device's functionality will be degraded. Sometimes slightly, sometimes severely. And it is up to you to decide, if it is OK to be stuck with device having degraded functionality.

PS. To make this clear - I have a backup plan, so no advice is needed. Unless you have a recommendation of a smart thermostat with temperature zone control, which works fully locally. Then I'd be glad to hear.

#smart #smarthome #smarthomes #heating #thermostat #thermostats



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“It's just a pair of jeans, it's a relatively quick sew, once I have a fitted pattern I can easily make a pair in one week¹”

(this is half a subtoot and half a sub-phone-call-with-my-father)

¹ I can only sew a short time each day, maybe an hour or two

#sewing

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

It is wonderful to be able to stick with something often enough to get it done within a shortish time span. I really envy you this ability! Bravo!
When I get started I can do a good hour, or two and even into a third one. But then I will leave the project lying around for ages. I don't understand it myself. Maybe because I stop at a point of difficulty? Or I just think it's going to be difficult? I really don't understand myself. It's a bit frustrating.
Enjoy your project!

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Today I have watched a few videos¹ about traditional Karelian dress; I don't think that the (autogenerated, i assume) subtitles have *ever* managed to get that word right.

However, one time it was subtitled as Carribean, and now I have these visions of people dressed like the pirates of the Carribeans on the lakes between Finland and Russia, and I can't unsee them.

¹ the first one in the series is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECRnLSbXgI

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Oggi ho guardato dei video¹ sul costume tradizionale della Carelia, e non credo che i sottotitoli (suppongo autogenerati) siano *mai* riusciti ad azzeccare quella parola.

Una volta Karelian è stato sottotitolato come Carribean, e adesso ho delle immagini mentali di gente vestita come i pirati dei Caraibi sui laghi tra Finlanda e Russia, e queste immagini non usciranno più dalla mia mente.

¹ il primo della serie è https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECRnLSbXgI


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Uhm… pare che la testa galleggi sopra le spalle alla Magritte, o è solo una mia impressione?

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Aaaaaaand I've done all of the boning channels on the #AugustaStays I started in (checks for the old post) November 2022! And one spool of thread was enough! (I have another, luckily, as I plan to use the same thread for other seams, but for those I would also have had alternatives)

And since I took the picture I've also finished the eyelets on one of the center back pieces, and added boning to both of those and to the side fronts (but the sun has set, so there will be no more pictures until tomorow).

Now I only need to finish the rest of the eyelets, and most importantly to sew the whole thing :D

Maybe in January 2025 it will be done :D If I don't get distracted.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

all eyelets have been done

the small panels have also been boned, I still have to do the big front ones (and I've used about half of the boning called for by the pattern).

#sewing #AugustaStays

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

tutti gli occhielli sono stati rifiniti.

i pannelli piccoli hanno anche le stecche, ma mi mancano ancora i pannelli grandi del davanti (e sono più o meno a metà delle stecche necessarie secondo il cartamodello).

#cucito #cucitoStorico

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

all panels boned, first fitting done, and now I'm turning the sewing allowances and I've started to attach two of the pieces.

The instructions still have *a lot* of pages.

#sewing #AugustaStays

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

stecche inserite su tutti i pannelli, prima prova fatta, e adesso sto rifinendo i margini di cucitura e ho iniziato ad attaccare due pannelli.

Le istruzioni hanno ancora un *bel po'* di pagine.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

all panels have been joined together!

hopefully this afternoon I'll attach the shoulder straps

and then I have to decide whether I want to add seam tapes or not.

#sewing #AugustaStays

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

tutti i pannelli sono stati attaccati tra di loro!

se tutto va bene oggi pomeriggio spero di attaccare le spalline

e poi devo decidere se mettere le fettucce sulle cuciture o se saltarle.

#cucito

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I've decided, no seam tapes.

I couldn't find narrow tapes other than white herringbone ones, and I don't care about the way the look, and the instructions say that it's mostly decoration, so...

I'm currently sewing seam tapes :D

because just after I had decided, I saw the 20 m roll of light blue tape I've bought for the binding, and thought that if I fold it in half it can work as seam tape, too.

#sewing #AugustaStays

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

ho deciso, niente fettucce sulle cuciture.

Non riesco a trovare fettuccia sottile se non quella spigata bianca, il cui aspetto non mi dice molto, e le istruzioni dicono che è soprattutto decorativa, per cui...

Sto cucendo della fettuccia sulle cuciture :D

perché immediatamente dopo aver preso la decisione ho visto la confezione da 20 metri di fettuccia azzurra che ho preso per rifinire i bordi, e mi son resa conto che piegandola a metà può funzionare anche sulle cuciture.

#cucito #cucitoAMano


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A thought-provoking article about the common aspects of censorship through history and today

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PSA to people shooting unboxing videos etc: the 2D barcodes on your packages that look like this tend to contain your address!
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and if your mail was processed by the US postal service, this funky line thing is also your address!

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suddenly, I no longer received new posts from the rss feeds I follow.

it was DNS.

(I think it has been (re)solved)

(I'll see myself out)

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Oggi è #Caturday e mai occasione fu più propizia per diramare un annuncio che ho visto. Si trova a Tavernola (Como) in via Borromini e io, ancora una volta, mi affido alla magia di Mastodon, del #PersoETrovato e #CercoTrovo . Ogni aiuto, boost e pensiero positivo è benvenuto: aiutiamo Pulce a tornare a casa!
Grazie 🥰

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valhalla> …dopo che ieri ho portato su *chili* di marmellata
@Diego Roversi > non credo che fossero *chili*
valhalla> no. aspetta, controllo
valhalla> 330, 340, 340. uno virgola zero uno chili! si può usare il plurale!
diego> va beeene

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This happened in Italian, but for people who are following me because they want to learn Italian here's a translation :D

valhalla> …and yesterday I've brought home *kilograms* of jam
@diegor@social.gl-como.it> I don't think it was *kilograms*
valhalla> they weren't. wait! let me check.
valhalla> 330, 340, 340. there! one point zero one kilograms! plural is fine!
diego> oooook



/me, has a work confcall today
/me, yesterday evening “I should really ask @Diego Roversi to make me a new jack - jack cable that I need to hear audio from this computer, because the one I'm using is on its last leg, but it's late, I'll do it tomorrow evening”.

guess what I had to do this morning? :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

/me, ha una confcall al lavoro oggi
/me, ieri sera “dovrei chiedere a @Diego Roversi di farmi un nuovo cavo jack - jack per sentire audio su questo computer, perché quello che ho sta tirando le cuoia, ma è tardi, glielo chiederò domani sera“

indovinate un po' cosa ho dovuto farestamattina? :D


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I’m pretty sure the most impactful thing I did this week was teach a colleague to git add with -p. And I feel pretty good about that.

Context in case it’s useful: - p is for patch. Command ‘git add -p’ presents the user with all their unstaged changes, one chunk at a time, and prompts for whether to add it or not. This is better than using a dot to all your local changes, or having to type long file paths to pick up just a few files and ignore others. Try it!

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Mini Books


Posted on January 13, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:bookbinding
Two coptic bound small books, seen from the top with the pages somewhat open. One has purple and orange triangles on the cover, the other one waves in two shades of greenish blue.

In 2022 I read a post on the fediverse by somebody who mentioned that they had bought on a whim a cute tiny book years ago, and that it had been a companion through hard times. Right now I can’t find the post, but it was pretty aaaaawwww.

Two coptic bound small books, seen from the front. One of the covers is covered in grey paper, the other one is cardboard that has been spray-painted copper.

At the same time, I had discovered Coptic binding, and I wanted to do some exercise to let my hands learn it, but apparently there is a limit to the number of notebooks and sketchbooks a person needs (I’m not 100% sure I actually believe this, but I’ve heard it is a thing).

A coptic bound small book, seen from the front. The cover is made of white cernit, with thin lines painted in gold acrylic to form a sort of B shape.

So I decided to start making minibooks with the intent to give them away: I settled (mostly) on the A8 size, and used a combination of found materials, leftovers from bigger projects and things I had in the Stash. As for paper, I’ve used a variety of the ones I have that are at the very least good enough for non-problematic fountain pen inks.

Two coptic bound small books, seen from the front. The covers are covered in grey paper with a piece of light blue lace on top.

Thanks to the small size, and the way coptic binding works, I’ve been able to play around with the covers, experimenting with different styles beyond the classic bookbinding cloth / paper covered cardboard, including adding lace, covering food box cardboard with gesso and decorating it with acrylic paints, embossing designs by gluing together two layers of cardboard, one of which has holes, making covers completely out of cernit, etc. Some of these I will probably also use in future full-scale projects, but it’s nice to find out what works and what doesn’t on a small scale.

Two coptic bound small books, seen from the front. The covers are covered in grey paper, and they are half-covered by a piece of off-white tulle, cut on a diagonal. One of the two books has a cat eye embossed and painted in gold.

Now, after a year of sporadically making these I have to say that the making went quite well: I enjoyed the making and the creativity in making different covers. The giving away was a bit more problematic, as I didn’t really have a lot of chances to do so, so I believe I still have most of them. In 2024 I’ll try to look for more opportunities (and if you live nearby and want one — or a few — feel free to ask!)


https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2024/01/13-mini_books/index.html

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Every town should have a cable depot where everyone brings the cables they aren't using and they sort, test, and store them, and when you need some random cable you simply drop by the cable depot to pick it up. And if they don't have it they'll request it from the next town over, like inter library loans.
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Here in Portland we have a long-running non-profit called Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) which:

  • accepts donations of not only cables but any electronics;
  • trains people to disassemble, test, and reassemble computers;
  • handles e-waste recycling for anything that isn't reusable;
  • distributes usable equipment to individuals and non-profits who need it;
  • and runs a little thrift store too.

It's fantastic and I would love to see more places clone the idea.


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Are you interested in space exploration? Do you speak Italian?

The Italian Space and Astronautics Association (ISAA), a no profit for space outreach I'm on the board of, now runs its own Mastodon instance https://social.isaa.it (accounts only for board members & collaborators). Follow:

@astronauticast Human-curated news, info, resources.

@astronautibot Bot that posts events, data, images, links.

At @amoroso@social.isaa.it I post in Italian about space & astronomy.

#space #mastodon #italy

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