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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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.
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The sleeve protectors btw are something I did years ago, and they are based on School sewing based on home problems
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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.
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/…
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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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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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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?!?
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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.
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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
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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.
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
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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?
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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.
@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.
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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Gillette vuole superare la moda della barba
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I've decided to post the pattern for the shawl I'm making on my website even if it hasn't been finished yet: it's easy enough that I'm pretty confident in it even after just a small sampler.
This is the current status:
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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.
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imputati numero uno i #cinghiali
varesenews.it/2022/05/vandalis…
Animali o umani? brutto risveglio per il sacro Monte di Varese e i “vandalismi” sulla via Sacra
Sono stati scaraventati a terra dei bidoni dei rifiuti con tanto di rifiuti dentro, sparsi dappertutto all’altezza della tredicesima cappella: imputati numero uno i cinghiali.Stefania Radman (Vareseweb Srl)
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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
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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
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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.
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⚠️ Mastodon per il sociale⚠️
Saronno, trovato mazzo di chiavi in via Cristoforo Colombo, consegnato al Bar El Diez Cafè.
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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
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.)
Where to Buy eBooks (Other Than Amazon) - A Digital Garden
Every six months or so, I've been doing a thread on Fedi about where to buy ebooks other than Amazon. Finally, here's the webpage version.Jess Mahler (A Digital Garden)
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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.
A good shop i've used before is Scarlet Ferret.
Mostly indie authors I believe mostly(all?) DRM free
Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition ebooks with extras!
Ferreting about for new ebooks to read? Our hand-picked collection of Special Edition ebooks with free digital extras is right up your street.Scarlet Ferret Bookshop
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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.
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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! 
Feel free to add more under this toot! Let's make this as complete and exhaustive as possible.
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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.
If anybody else is interested in #HistoricalSewing, today I stumbled on a couple of lists of period #patternDrafting and generally #sewing books, mostly biased towards the early 1900s
ilsegregoorcostumes.com/the-be…
mermaidsden.com/blog/2017/08/1…
(and my collection of related PDFs has grown, and I really need to organize it somehow :D )
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btw, my own list of such books (the ones I've actually used, not just collected) is at
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uh, interesting resources (and excellent choice to do that instead of doomscrolling :) )
I'll look at them tomorrow (here it's sleeping time)
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I mean, I don't see how radium water can fail to cure grey hair, right? :D
(page 63, if the link doesn't point to it, and it's a 1920s ad for, well, radium water as a cure for grey hair)
A history of feminine fashion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the All Files: HTTP link in the View the book box to the left to find XML files that contain more...Internet Archive
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Mi capitano sottocchio quei post dei ricordi su quell'altrosociallà ed
è pieno di "tonsillite, ma si va a lavoro" o "e anche oggi febbrone, ora tachipirina e via".
Che ci rimanga, tra le cose buone imparate, questa perlomeno: se stai male, stai a casa, ti curi, ti riprendi, poi torni. La cultura dell'indomitə che sorride finché non crepa male lasciamola a casa a far la muffa.
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Che sono atteggiamenti di merdissima che vorrei ci lasciassimo alle spalle, reliquie del mondo "di prima".
che poi andando al lavoro malati non fai produrre di più l'azienda, la fai produrre di meno, perché a) tu quei giorni lavori di merda b) contagi i colleghi c) tutti i colleghi contagiati o lavorano di merda, o devono stare a casa e non lavorano per niente.
solo che per farlo entrare nella [epiteto rimosso] di testa di certa gente, ecco, ho paura che non sia bastata una pandemia :(
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Branco di nerd, riconoscete questo posto? mettete CW alle risposte per non spoilerare agli altri, grazie
Do you nerds recognise this place? Please CW your answers to avoid spoilers
Foto scattata in una cittadina italiana, con un viale alberato in discesa e in fondo un palazzo a quattro piani con vetrine di negozi al pian terreno e un'altra strada più stretta che prosegue. Poche macchine (soprattutto parcheggiate), qualche pedone e bicicletta.
Picture taken in an italian town, with a tree-lined, downhill wide street; at the end there are a 4-stories building with shops and another street. Few cars (mostly parked), few pedestrians and bikes.
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"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!"
This pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet) is so much more bad-ass than the stupid "quick brown fox" that I had to illustrate it. A tribute to master Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).
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Anyway, half of the time I read an introduction or something where somebody says they are a Victorian by brain goes “wait? how are they posting from the 19th century? did Friendica add support for the telegraph? oh, right, the Australian state” :D
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[EN]"Mastodon.it" website is perceived by many people as the official Mastodon website of Italy, yet it is not.
It is a website promoting "mastodon.uno" over other instances, it's their first link on the page.
If I had my own instance, I wouldn't federate with people tricking others into joining their instance [mastodon.uno] .
[IT]Il sito "Mastodon.it" è percepito da molte persone come il sito ufficiale di Mastodon italiano, ma non lo è.
È un sito che promuove "mastodon.uno" rispetto alle altre istanze, è il primo link nella pagina.
Se avessi una mia istanza, disabiliterei la federazione con chi porta gente nella propria istanza [mastodon.uno] con l'inganno.
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magari si può chiedere agli admin di Bida.
D'altro canto, non sarebbe stato più semplice, vantaggioso ed immediato creare direttamente l'istanza mastodon.it, senza 'sto giro assurdo? 🙂
I feel an irrestistible need to share with you all the good news that I've just finished the thread in the bobbin right at the end of a seam.
Not the last seam of the project, that would have been *too much*, but not the next to last seam of a project either.
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How to Sister Size your Bra Pattern
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How To Fit Your Underwire …and other underwire mysteries
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