#Sewing and garment upkeep related note:
Whenever you're washing your fabrics before sewing anything of them (and you absolutely should wash them first, with the exceptions of wool and silk, more in second post) you should wash them exactly as you're likely going to be washing the garment for its entire lifetime.
If the fabric is going to be ruined by normal treatment, it's better it be a disappointing disaster before you've put the hours of work in!
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#Wearable electronics projects are a recent thing, right? you need LEDs and lightweight batteries and microcontrollers and all of those things, right?
TIL:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, I don't have a new project. I don't have a use for an evening dress. And a Worth gown is not something that can be reproduced easily or cheaply.
L'#elettronicaIndossabile è una cosa recente, giusto? Per farla servono LED, batterie leggere, microcontrollori e tutto quanto, giusto?
TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
no, non ho un nuovo progetto. non mi serve un abito da sera, non saprei cosa farmene. E un abito di Worth non è qualcosa che si riproduca facilmente o in modo economico.
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Magari puoi fartelo per inaugurare la casa se traslochi qui:
Milan, 1824. 4 pages of coins in circulation and their values in what I believe are lombardo-venetian lire (decimal) and an older non-decimalized system whose name I don't know. Of course the values of each coins have clean, round numbers such as 13.50 or 1.65
Why am I suddenly thinking of the neatly decimal currency (1 gold coin = 10 silver = 100 copper) of many #RPG games? :D
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Milano, 1824. 4 pagine di monete in circolazione e i loro valori in quelle che credo siano lire del lombardo-veneto (decimali) e un altro sistema di cui non conosco il nome, non decimale. Ovviamente i valori delle monete sono delle belle cifre tonde come 13.50 o 1.65.
Perché improvvisamente mi vengono in mente i sistemi di monete dei #GdR belli puliti in cui 1 moneta d'oro = 10 monete d'argento = 100 monete di rame? :D
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It's been a while from my last post on behalf of the Department of Unnecessary Projects #DepUnPr
So here is the "UEFI bootable slide show"
An UEFI executable that load tga uncompressed images from disk and display them as a slideshow in loop.
for when you feel the urge to show some photos and you can't wait for a full os to boot up.
(thanks to @Elena ``of Valhalla'' for inspiring this thing.)
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E scusate, io torno a disturbare la bella comunità fediversica con un nuovo #PersoETrovato (che più volte ha funzionato), questa volta per cercare di riportare a casa Rubina, che a quanto pare ha una passione per cantine e garage.
Grazie.
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FLOSS hiring thread for November 2023
Are you hiring? Especially for remote work?
Let us know what region(s) of world, type of work, link to opening, etc.
Are you looking for a job?
10s of thousands of layoffs in last year, lots of people looking, let's help them find good jobs
@SeaGL hybrid Career Expo this Friday
floss.social/@FLOX_advocate/11…
#GetFediHired #FLOSScareer #FLOSSjobs #CareerExpo #FediJobs
#SeaGL 's Career Expo is a hybrid for the first time this FridayWe'll be in person in UW's HUB in #Seattle and we'll also have counselors available for virtual sessions
Please attend @SeaGL this Friday and Saturday and sign up for a #CareerExpo consulting session if you'd like some #CareerCounseling
30 minute sessions begin at 11:30 after our Friday keynotes ( @baconandcoconut and @sri )
gnu-cloud.yourownnet.cloud/app…
osem.seagl.org/conferences/sea…
#FLOSSevent #FLOSScareers #FLOSSconf #FLOSSjobs
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Find your place in the open source ecosystem. This is a hub for open source jobs and professionals.Open Source JobHub
Just learned, that #debian is going to the moon!
This is a group of rovers which will collaboratively and autonomously drive around on the moon. They're using Debian for all the dev machines and the rovers themselves.
A trio of small rovers will work as a team to explore the Moon autonomously, mapping the subsurface in 3D, collecting distributed measurements, and showing the potential of multirobot missions.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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that hood made of just squares and rectangles, vaguely inspired by the Skjoldehamn hood (but assembled from different pieces) that has remained on my WIP pile for more than a year because I got the side of the pieces completely wrong?
On Friday I've cut new fabric, and now I'm halfway through the hem, and then it will be finished! And it fits!
(now, the next step of the Project is going to take a lot more time before I even start thinking about doing it, but the (combed?) top (yes, top. not fabric, not yarn) is still in the Stash, not around the house somewhere not really protected from dust)
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Eccomi di nuovo qui a rompervi le scatole.
Abbiamo deciso di chiudere la pagina facebook della nostra #Mastocartoleria e volevamo lasciare un messaggio qualche giorno per spiegare le nostre motivazioni.
È un po' lunghetto e ringrazio in anticipo chi avrà la voglia e il tempo di leggere e dare qualche consiglio 
Ciao a tutti.
Volevamo comunicarvi che la pagina della cartoleria xxxxxx su Facebook sarà eliminata entro breve. Non che sia una cosa così importante, ma volevamo farvi almeno sapere il perché di questa decisione.
Non è solo la novità dell'abbonamento a pagamento per i social di casa Meta nel caso in cui non si vogliano vedere le inserzioni (abbiamo già eliminato il profilo Instagram), ci sono motivi più profondi e importanti.
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
Cazzo, a questo non ci avevo pensato. Devo fare una versione per l'utente medio facebook:
"Feisbùk cacca, sito bello, buongiornissimo kaffè"
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Thor and Loki have become pop culture icons thanks to Marvel. But the influence of Norse mythology on contemporary fantasy runs through Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and so much more.Eric Molinsky (Imaginary Worlds)
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Confirmed: they have found the mummy of Marge Simpson (depicted on the sarcophagus), and it's from the New Kingdom.
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Posted on November 4, 2023
Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.
I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.
Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.
The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.
And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.
The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D
One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.
I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.
For the last ... checks notes ... 14 months I've been working on the next major release of FreeSewing. The core software itself was ready at the end of September, but I still have to put the finishing touches on the website migration.
That is done now, and (the completely new) FreeSewing.org now runs v3.
There's a ton of new stuff, so I'll link to this umbrella post with an overview: freesewing.org/blog/v3-umbrell…
Spread the word because this is big news #FreeSewing
There's a flurry of news about FreeSewing v3, so here's an overviewFreeSewing.org
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As a reminder, no corporate algorithm here means you don’t need to disguise your words.
Twitter can be Twitter, Trump can be Trump, Musk can be Musk, etc. Using plain language is both clearer for readers than code words AND means people can set up more useable filters to control their own experience. #FediTips
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Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:
saved it as ``hit🗞 .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit🗞.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).
(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)
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Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!
Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a “Discworld makealong”. And naturally we’d love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too 🥳
No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!
So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but I’m sure we’ll pick up a few more along the way 😄
November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. You’re very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.
Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, link’s in my bio, but not necessary if you’re not into that.
(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what I’m talking about, congratulations you’ve got 41 books to look forward to!)
*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because we’re slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until it’s a week away 🙃
Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--…
@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch
Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.Google Docs
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se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
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Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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@Elikorokoros non garantisco niente sulla tempestività, ma ci sarà di sicuro un post sul blog (che arriva anche qui sul fediverso) con dovizia di documentazione fotografica :)
se non fossi orrendamente pigra e/o se avessi un cellulare che fa le foto inizierei già a farne qualcuna, ma al momento non si vede ancora molto :)
@kamikat I've done the first seam and it didn't react in an horribly bad way.
I'll wait until I've finished all of the machine seams before claiming that it's working, however :D
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
scientificamerican.com/article…
As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar exploration—and vice versaScientific American
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Can we please bring content warnings back? for descriptive violence?
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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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Lasst euch eine zauberhafte Woche von diesem Kätzchen zaubern 💜!
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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@Jan Schaumann reheated stale take, but like homemade bread which reheats great.
Except reheated homemade bread is a good thing, this is a very serious problem.
Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55…
Project Gutenberg offers 71,820 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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During a nine-month period in 1842–43, Ada Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. via @wikipedia
Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
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In honour of a friend's device that has just crapped it's self.
Back up your stuff. Do it now. It doesn't have to be fancy, a zip file copied to a free Google drive with your most important documents and pictures will do, or multiple Google drives if you've got too much stuff.
Plug your phone into your computer and copy everything over. At least it's in more than one place.
Something, some way of recovering the stuff just in case. Something, anything is better than nothing here.
You don't need to have full 3 tier grandfathered backups to bother starting. A usb stick in the bottom of a draw full of your pictures is better than it being blank.
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Waking up thought of this morning¹:
“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:
“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì
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poiché ultimamente ho visto varie discussioni su uso e non uso del CW, vorrei dire anche la mia: mettete un CW a tutte le foto di gatti!
non è che la mia allergia si scateni anche con le immagini (fortunatamente, se no internet sarebbe off limits 😅) è che ogni volta che mostrate un gatto che fa la sua bella vita io provo invidia, una fortissima invidia, uno struggimento doloroso... sto male! perché quella è la vita che dovremmo fare tuttə e non solo i privilegiati felini, mannaggia...
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •You don't want to be breathing that in while working on the fabric and the treatments change how the fabric feels washed versus unwashed!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Ailbhe
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Ailbhe • • •@artbyailbhe I know people wash silk but there's also silk you're not supposed to wash unless you want it to go floppy and dull and lose some of its sheen. Something to do with starch and mica(?) bonded to the proteins of it. Can't recall.
I simply do not use silk because it's expensive and I'd be washing it all the time and probably ruining it 😅
Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Mx Amber Alex (she/it) • • •@amberage As far as I can remember most silk fabrics are designed to be dry clean only, which means they can use dyes that would run or fade, or treatments and weaves that could shift, when washed with warm water. They're not going to be making neckties and bowties from silk that withstands washing because the expectation is already that you're going to dry clean them!
Silk meant for *some* washing, like merino and silk underwear, are presumably differently treated in the first place. Idk lol
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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I love how sartor has tested their silks by washing a sample in water and they will tell you both the recommended treatment suggested by the producers and their own test results
sartorbohemia.com/article/14/h…
Sini Tuulia
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia @amber alex, mx afaik most producers just label their silk and wool as dry clean only because it's the easiest thing to do, people have gotten used to it, and then it's Not Their Problem anymore.
But historically both silk and wool were washed with water, even if just sporadically, and it's not necessarily harmful.
With readymade garments it's not that easy, but with fabric I think it's often worth trying to wash a sample of the fabric to see what happens, as that can give more opportunities for the future care of the garment.
(afaik silk and wool aren't going to shrink, so it's not critical that the washing is done before cutting (and making) the garment, but it can also be done on a leftover scrap: if it fails, then the garment will just have to be dry clean only)
(I work on wool that has been steamed, however, so maybe that's the step that takes care of any shrinking / size changes)
Sini Tuulia
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia definitely, if you felt it will shrink (but it also changes texture and behavior and everything else)
I was thinking more “safe washing of wool” :) (cold water, wool-specific detergent, hand washing with care or the wool-specific washing machine program)
Sini Tuulia
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Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •As a knitter and person of limited spoons (mental energy) I have done lot of dumb things with wool garments. Going from 30°C to 40°C once reduced my adult vest to a kid vest. Accidentally throwing merino shawl in cotton cycle instead of wool felted ir rather small... But in general I do find that washing my selfmade wool knits in correct settings with correctly functioning washing machine really improves my life.
Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲
in reply to Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲ • • •Also, where I live there is a certain kind of moths that can eat wool. They find clean wool less appealing than worn. That also motivates me to wash my favorite cardigans in spring.
Jón Fairbairn
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Still, it wasn't a terrible colour, so wore it for years, washing it every now and then until it fell apart.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia @Ailbhe FTR, I have a few silk camisoles that are nice to wear in winter but were my mother's (and no longer fit her), aren't exactly my size, have been around for a lot of time and, well, I don't really care if they get ruined, so I've been washing them in the regular cotton cycle at 30°C with all of the rest of the dark laundry including jeans and stuff, with probably alkaline detergent.
They are still perfectly fine :D
(that's a borderline criminal treatment and I would never do that to something *new* or that I care about :D )
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sibylle
in reply to Sibylle • • •you can literally boil wool. but the moment you add cold water, the fibers will contract at once. and you will never be able to relax them again. If you wash with an alcalic detergent you just made a piece of felt.
No temperature shocks. Keep it sour. If you do not have wool detergent, just use hair shampoo. It's the same material. Treat it gently when wet. No wringing, no kneading. Dry on a flat surface.
Silk is similar. It is a similar material.
Cavyherd
in reply to Sibylle • • •Heh. I remember the time I independently discovered this. Was washing a yarn pom pom (because I was enjoying the feel of the suds on my hands)—and then all of a sudden it wasn't a pom pom anymore. Just a fuzzy wad, like a nekkid tennis ball.... oops....
Sibylle
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in reply to Sibylle • • •Years later, in a conversation with one of my fibre-arts friends. "Huh. So that's actually a thing! Who knew?" 😂
Cavyherd
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Cavyherd • • •There's much less of them and they cost more. Shops are often really bad at telling where the fabric was made and if it has any certifications: usually they just want you to buy the cheap shit at as big a markup as possible and never ask any questions!
But if you're getting a generic nice quilting cotton for 18€/m, the Öko-Tex one might be 20€/m, so not that much more. I've often picked a basic nice cotton by feel and sight and only then discovered it to be organic cotton, and only slightly more expensive. Certified linen is often *much* more expensive but so worth it!
Cavyherd
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in reply to Cavyherd • • •Cavyherd
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Where I live, we have one (1) not-niche fabric store, which is one of those crafty-quilty places. To have anything even remotely resembling the options I saw as a kid, you have to travel to the next Big City over, and even then I wouldn't bet on having anything like a reasonable selection.
I mostly don't sew anymore, so this is a class of issue I've mostly been able to ignore, but it's nice to know that online shopping is viable!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Cavyherd • • •Cavyherd
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Hah! "Reading fabrics from the photos" yar har.
Yeah, sounds like maybe a non-trivial amount of spin-up. Oh well. Unlikely to come up; I just unloaded a bunch of unused fabric on my local artsy-crafty coop charity.
Naomi P
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in reply to Naomi P • • •Now -> Her_Doing@sunny.garden
in reply to Naomi P • • •@gannet
That's my thought too! With flannel I might even wash it a couple of times first.'
I always buy mine extra large - and wash them carefully! - but I still have photos of one when new brushing the floor, and later only reaching mid-shin. 😳
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Now -> Her_Doing@sunny.garden • • •Washing it first really pays off.
DriftlessRoots
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to DriftlessRoots • • •@DriftlessRoots Some fabrics would definitely benefit from it! Anything more loosely woven will shrink more when washed. I tend to wash them alone with a short program, to get most of the manufacturing gunk out, and then put them in the wash with whatever else I'm laundering on the cotton program that day, to get the rest of it.
I am pleased that my random sewing thoughts and other people's knowledge has been helpful!