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uhm, on this hat I think I want to put some kind of decorative knot made with that shiny rayon rope I've around, but I don't know what knot to do

realizes she's bought the Ashley Book of Knots last christmas

uhm, I want to make a knot, but I don't know which one they are too manyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

(ok, I think I settled on a simple one :D )


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hello mutuals. i'm tired so this is going to be terse. ai generated images frequently activate my fight or flight response. if you put them un-CWed on my timeline i'll have to unfollow you. no hard feelings for the most part, but for some of you i'll be a bit sad to have to. if you still don't want to bother accommodating that after reading this just let me know now so i can save myself some anxiety and potentially panic attacks in the future.

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Ciao!
Qualcuno di voi saprebbe indicarmi uno studio serio e attendibile (magari non finanziato da produttori di elettrodomestici o detersivi...) che metta a confronto l'impatto economico ed ecologico del lavare i piatti a mano o con la lavastoviglie, per single, coppia e famiglia di quattro persone?
Grazie

#Mastoaiuto #ambiente #economia #ecologia #soldi

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ecco, io e mia madre ci passiamo a vicenda cose da lavare in lavastoviglie quando una delle due ce l'ha meno piena dell'altra, la distanza è veramente poca, ma anche così l'unica cosa che va in giro sono pentole, insalatiere o altre cose di quella taglia.

Roba più piccola sarebbe troppo sbattito.

Però è anche vero che se uno tutti i giorni deve lavare solo due piatti e quattro posate, è vero che è roba piccola, ma è poca, su e giù qualche piano di scale magari son portabili.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
LAVASTOVIGLIEMANIA MEGATHREAD
Qui abbiamo un'acqua che se la fai scorrere dentro a uno stampo in pochi anni ti trovi con una scultura.

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trenord, treni italiani (lombardi)

ok, forse ho capito.

su trenord.it/linee-e-orari/circo… aggiornano l'orario dellla prossima stazione con l'orario di arrivo stimato, in base al ritardo attuale del treno. dopodiché mandano lo stesso dato su viaggiatreno.it/infomobilita/i… , che invece lo prende come orario di arrivo previsto da orario. e quindi i treni sono sempre in orario o quasi.

not sure if malizia o incapacità

se non fosse #trenord ipotizzerei incapacità :D

(e lol, l'autocompletamento dei tag suggerisce #trenò e #trenordn't )

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trenord, treni italiani (lombardi)

Trenordn't è fantastico!!!

Bisognerebbe scriverlo sui vagoni!!!

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

viaggiatreno non riporta le tratte di ferrovienord, tranne qualche stazione, però riporta i treni di trenord che le percorrono (oltre ai treni trenord che percorrono tratte RFI).

E non credo che trenitalia abbia sensori sulle linee ferrovienord, credo che sia ferrovienord a mandare loro i dati (sbagliati), perché con loro ci giocano perché gliel'ha detto la maestra, ma giusto giusto mentre la maestra guarda, appena si gira rubano il pallone.


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The 1700 petticoat has been finished (pictures in the weekend?), so it's time for the next project: a 1880 gentleman shirt in linen.

The instructions have been written, but the pictures I took while making the first mockup weren't great, so I'm going to take them again with the real thing, and then publish everything.

@FreeSoftWear group #FreeSoftWear

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Who is cutting a linen shirt and is carefully saving all scraps of fabric cut while straightening the grain, to extract the threads in case she may one day need them for invisible #mending, which is also something she is really bad at? :D

#sewing


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Inspired by a.gup.pe/u/fiberarts (not @-ing because this isn't really fiber arts content) I've just created @FreeSoftWear group for people who want to share and see content about wearables and accessories for which instructions are available and published under a Free Culture License, no matter if it is #knitting, #crochet, #sewing or other #crafts.

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This would work like the fiber arts group: @ the group in your #FreeSoftWear related posts so that it gets reshared, including in replies that add content (i.e. anything that isn't just a “love that” or so)

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I've just finished #sewing a quick pair of shorts to wear under summer skirts and

a) the sky has just darkened
b) I've realized that I should have taken pictures and published the pattern as #freeSoftWear

oh, well, if they fit well I'm going to make another pair in the same fabric, except *gasp* not-black, and they should be easier to photograph.

also, if they really work as an encouragement for rain, I'm up for making even more pairs :D

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Serve pioggia? (e a chi non serve quest'anno in Italia?)


TFW you go in front of the mirror to try and level the hem of a skirt (pulling up from the waist, it's a 18th century under petticoat) and realize that even if you don't usually wear your glasses indoors you need them to see the marks on the yardstick at hem level.

#sewing #nearSightedProblems

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OTOH, I'm currently walking around the house with a bustle, skirt, and an old sheet used to mock up the skirt draperies; I need to stop doing this and start working in 15 minutes, but I don't want to take those off :D


this is oh, so very relatable :D

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Google is not very helpful because algorithms can't understand English like people who speak it can, so: does anyone in the #sewing community here know how to get one's plain cup size (before the bra is made) from their bra size? bc I've heard e.g. a 32D uses the same cup as a 34C, 36B, and 38A
so what cup size would one order to make any of those bras?
#bramaking #clothing #fashion #cosplay (sorry for all the tags, just tryna find ppl who might know)

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Yes, sister sizing! Emerald Erin has a lot of good info (and a lot of excellent supplies) on the topic
emeralderin.com/2019/08/how-to…
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Oh right the follow up - this applies as well with underwire sizes, if that is a design feature you are considering.
emeralderin.com/2017/06/how-to…

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sewing, finished apron, ec in the picture

And we had an hour or so of sun! So I dressed up and I'm ready for some serious percussive debugging on the analytical engine!

I have been vaguely thinking about making myself a black apron for potentially staining office jobs (*cough* ink), and on friday evening I stumbled on the instructions from Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing by Myers, Annie E and decided it had to be done NOW.

The pattern was adapted quite a bit from the original to best use wide modern fabric, so it's not an accurate reproduction.

Source code for both the apron and the sleeve protectors will be published as soon as I finish writing them and editing the step-by-step pictures.

#sewing #SteamPunk #FreeSoftWear



me: ok, this afternoon I can attach the pocket to the apron I've almost finished and then go outside to take a picture before the thunderstorm arrives

thunderstorm: think again

(it's still not here, but there is definitely not enough light for photos :D )

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and it has arrived. and gone (at least, it's not raining anymore).

and I've finished finished the apron.

but it's still a bit too dark for photos, they will have to wait for tomorrow.


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it. is. DONE!

Now @Diego Roversi has backpack that matches mine!

I believe I started working on this in 2019, did a bit, stopped for a long while, did another bit, stopped a very long while, etc. so getting rid of the WIP (and having the finished object to use) is a very nice feeling.

source code :) at sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

#FreeSoftWear #sewing #MYOG

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Beh, c'è da dire che un conto è comprare i materiali per un solo zaino (o 3) nel negozio sotto casa (ok, negozio che si trova in Germania, ma il principio è quello :) ), un conto è comprarli a pezze intere per la produzione di massa.

Non credo che per averli di qualità possano comunque materiali economici, ma sospetto che li paghino molto meno.

D'altra parte, loro devono anche pagare il tempo di chi li cuce (che spero sia decisamente più veloce di me, che ho impiegato una giornata solo per la penultima cucitura :D ), che invece nel mio caso conta come divertimento e si scala dal prezzo dei materiali :) .

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

beh, ma immagino che ne faranno qualche centinaio per volta, almeno?

comunque ordini di grandezza di distanza dai due estremi della produzione cinese venduta su aliexpress e di chi se ne fa uno in casa


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food, non animal / drink (non-alcool), abstract eye contact
I've gazed in the breakfast, and the breakfast gazed back


proposta per una nuova istanza, stupido, italiano
qualcuno comunque dovrebbe creare l'istanza giù.social dedicata a chi continua a fare freddure, così non gli si può dire di scendere, che sono già giù.
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proposta per una nuova istanza, stupido, italiano

Loweel is blocked



yes!

of course while following the instructions on The Cutters' Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments I was having problems with the hips line, my hips measurement was too small.

Because, come on! you don't measure your real hips, you measure on top of a bustle cage! What kind of person would not wear a bustle, these days?!?

#patternDrafting #victorian #selfInducedProblems



And since I didn't have enough WIPs, I've just started #handSewing a 18th century underpetticoat in cotton double gauze.

It should be a pretty quick project, I think. maybe.

#sewing

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* starts herringboning¹ 3 meters of hem…

¹ not historically accurate, but it helps with the elasticity of the fabric, which isn't historically accurate either


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Thinks like this are a reminder that humanity is able to dedicate effort and resources to… insult people? :D

CW: the link has scatological discourse and a representation of explicit anatomy, but it's more than a millennia old (closer to two), so it's sfw, right? :D

thehistoryblog.com/archives/64…



Current status:

I may have an idea of something I could make with the #esp32cam. it's not working. Bluetooth hates me.

Every time I try something and it does not work I'm #knitting a row of the lace shawl, that may or may not help :D

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later in the afternoon it worked a bit better. what is received on the serial pins goes to the bluetooth serial. As long as I compile with an older version of the esp support, because of github.com/espressif/arduino-e…

Also, I'm aaaaalmost at one ninth of the shawl.


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Questa è una delle mie opere di cui sono più fiera, era un pacchetto regalo per quella magica persona che è @ed. Arte caducea ftw 💙 #FestaBusta

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cibo, niente animali

la stagione delle freselle nel minestrone è meglio, ma devo ammettere che le freselle con olio e pomodorini sono uno dei pochi lati buoni dell'estate

#teamInverno

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
hanno solo un difetto significativo: i pomodorini son di stagione quando fa caldo :D
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no se conservi appesi quelli giusti, li hai anche in inverno. Oppure i pomodori pelosi di @allegra


So, I *miiiiight* have bought¹ a new board: olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/…

it arrived yesterday.

this morning I quickly followed the tutorial to check if it was working (it is, and the camera quality looks decent enough)

now the question is: what do I want to do with it?

#arduino #esp32cam #esp32


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Quick reminder: today it's a day for towels, but it's also a day for Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

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These things can all be true at the same time:

- If you created free software you don't owe anyone anything, you created it as a gift, people can accept it or not.

- If you are using free software you don't owe anyone anything, you received it as a gift.

- If you created your software because you wanted it to help people it will help more people longer if you create a community around it that can maintain the software longer than you.

- If you want to keep using the software longer it will help if you support the author and help create a community around the software that can maintain it longer than one volunteer author.

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@Mans R Yes, and:

- If you're trying to build a sustainable community, having a new contributor feel welcome and seen may be more important than whether the current quality of their contribution is up to your standards.

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@Mans R > the Nick Krause incident

Linux had a community, which neutralized Nick Krause and prevented an actual incident in the published software.

I'd like to compare this to the more recent event-stream incident where the project only had its one, burned-out, founder.

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Oh, an npm disaster. The real problem there is how packages are distributed and deployed, not how they are developed.

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I'm trying to make some tea, and I've just put the leaves in the mugs instead of the filter in the pot.

I think I need to drink some tea to be able to make tea.



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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Apparently it's by design, to prevent the issues with broken threads that happen between mastodon servers, and I don't think that there is a way to remove one person from the list of @s :(
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ok, maybe I've found a way to be able to remove individuals from the list of mentions (I hope)

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My yarn winder has arrived, and it works!

It's fast, it doesn't hurt my wrists (like using a stick does), it can do 100g cakes and it makes the idea of dealing with about 6 kg of mostly very thin yarn much less daunting than having to make balls by hand.

@FiberArts group #yarn

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play as in “get the kids to do the boring repetitive work by telling them it's play”, right? :D

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imputati numero uno i #cinghiali

varesenews.it/2022/05/vandalis…



TFW you wear your last pair of clean cotton thin¹ socks, and it breaks. and you don't have enough dirty clothing for a full washing machine load, and you should really go out and buy more, but UGH, no, I don't want to do that, I have lots of better things to do with my time!

so you spend a whole afternoon patching *one* pair of socks and finishing another pair that you sewed yourself from jersey fabric, that takes less time, right?

¹ as opposed to mid-thickness wool socks that I knit myself

#sewing #sewingThings #ILoveHavingMended

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I can't. I can't stand warm weather with bare feet (with bare anything, actually, I spend the summer dressed like a victorian vampire :D )


I guess this means I've choosen a side?


(picture of two round patches, on one there is a screenprinted bull's eye in blue and yellow, the other shows the pin sewn to the back)

By that time I would have *serious* doubts about the colours, really, but they are the #screenPrint paints (dekaprint 2000 in blue and yellow + deckweiß to print it on black fabric) I needed to test, and the alternatives wouldn't have worked :D

also, aligning two colour prints on small scraps of fabric is hard, even if you have a bit of a border on the lighter colour :D

#tangentialLiteratureReferences

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(picture of the top of a black cotton sock, cut and sewn to make a pouch, with a swirl made of paws screenprinted in pink)

And this is the speedball paint for dark fabric, in Raspberry. it's a bit less pink in real life, but not very much. It's pleasantly shiny, however.

#screenPrint


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⚠️ Mastodon per il sociale⚠️
Saronno, trovato mazzo di chiavi in via Cristoforo Colombo, consegnato al Bar El Diez Cafè.

#mastoaiuto #Saronno #persoTrovato

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Maurizio Zani :verified:
identifica un modo di vivere questo ambiente, e mi è piaciuto
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Comunque, poi uno dice che non bisogna fare paragoni e bla, bla, bla, ma analizziamo i fatti:
Stesso testo, postato qui (dove sono appena arrivata e non mi conosce nessuno) e là (dove bazzico dal 2011 e sono seguita da oltre 1500 persone): qui, booster e stelline; là, vuoto pneumatico e silenzio cosmico.
Al di là del mezzo, sono le persone a fare la differenza.
Qui c'è voglia di aiutare, di essere uniti, di fare comunità, là non più.
Questo è.
#Mastodon #fediverso
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stesso mio pensiero (mi hai letto dentro!😀) e stessa situazione. Concordo!
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di là (per me IG) c'è una passività preoccupante. E sì, sono d'accordo, le persone fanno la differenza, ma anche il contesto fa il suo. Qui è tutto più tranquillo, non ci sono gare né invidie.


italian, buongiornissimo

e vabbé, se dobbiamo darci il #Buongiornissimo diamocelo :D

niente foto, troppo sbattito, però posso annunciare che sto riuscendo a preparare la colazione con qualcosa che sembrano 10 giri di cerotto attorno al gomito destro, e lo considero un traguardo personale :D

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e non hai idea di quanto dia fastidio togliere il cerotto dalla zampa anteriore destra, dopo che il veterinario ti ha fatto un prelievo di sangue :D

(la saga della zecca prosegue)


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Every six months or so for the past several years, I've been doing a thread on Fedi about where to buy ebooks other than Amazon. It finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.

So, here we are. (And in spite of the title, this isn't JUST about eBooks)

jessmahler.com/where-to-buy-eb…

(Please share your own links in replies, I'll add them to the list as I have spoons.)

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Hey, nice!

Was gonna throw in a plug for Hoopla: hoopladigital.com/ . If your public library partners with them, they're pretty great. Lots of trad pub and indie pub (Draft2Digital distributes to them) and their whole catalog is available -- your library doesn't have to pick specific titles to buy beforehand, as with OverDrive.

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A good shop i've used before is Scarlet Ferret.

Mostly indie authors I believe mostly(all?) DRM free

scarletferret.com


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regular reminder that you don't have to be good (tm) at something to like it, make it your hobby, be excited about it, etc

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I may have bought *some* wool yarn on cones, and now I need to turn it into 100g hanks, wash them, make center-pull balls and then it can be knitted. And some of it is very fine yarn meant for machine knitting.

I have a swift, I've set it to make an hank that is about 1m long, calculated how many meters are there in 100g (easy, the shop provided the number of meters in the full 500g cone), and then I didn't want to count the turns, so I started looking around the house for a magnet (I knew where it was and easily found it) and an hall effect sensor (I still haven't found it) and some microcontroller board to setup some kind of device for counting passes of the magnet over the sensor.

And then my SO told me “why don't you just weight the empty swift?”

#knittingLife #arduino #overEngineeringThingsForFunAndProfit


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Yesterday I stumbled on handknittingcashmereyarn.com/c… (a pattern in Italian for the scarf made with triangles of which I don't remember the English name).

And I had plans for the afternoon! (ok, mostly it involved ironing a bit of backlog, and watching videos online while #knitting a sock).

Instead, I now have an urgent need to have one such scarf, except in a (the most simple) lace stitch, and I have one triangle already made.

#FibreCraftProblems

@FiberArts group

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Anyone know of a way to view kiwix/wiki offline in the terminal?

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Hey #Fediverse, here's a #tip. Be aware of those who surround you, and remember to use the #ContentWarning button.

It's simple: you click or tap on the CW button, fill the small space above the toot with one or more words summarizing the content, write the toot and post.

This will help people stay afloat by avoiding overexposure to #TrendingTopics, and also avoid mentally deteriorating #triggers for those who are recovering and have survived.

Here's a list of common #warning words:

  • uspol / ukpol / itapol / pol (anything political)
  • depression / mental health (mh)
  • violence / sexual violence
  • food, alcohol

Boost this around! Let's get through this together! :boosts_ok:

Feel free to add more under this toot! Let's make this as complete and exhaustive as possible.

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crono :verified:
this is not a pro-con thread. Again, refrain from commenting.
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Since some people are hijacking this thread to turn it into a "pros and cons": please keep your opinions on #ContentWarnings for yourself. For once.

Content warnings are here for a reason: to let people not get too much overwhelmed from news, topics, and other things that can cloud judgment, or ruin mental clarity. Especially when it comes down to things they have no control over, and considered how toxic a discussion over any topic can become in the media today.

You're entitled to not be overwhelmed by a continuous barrage. You're allowed to choose how much to take today, and how many reactions to read. Treat yourself the way you wish others to treat, and respect other people's choices in the matter. If you think you may be strong enough to go through a lot, think again: it's just you. Be considerate of others.

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