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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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?!?
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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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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…
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?
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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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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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.)
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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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.
A good shop i've used before is Scarlet Ferret.
Mostly indie authors I believe mostly(all?) DRM free
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:
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.
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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)
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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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
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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We are told as anarchists to kill our idols, not because their problematic.
We are told to kill our idols, lest we turn them into a twisted sociopolitical religion. And use it against anyone who speaks against it as a heretic.
We kill our idols, because we refuse to become a dominant hegemony.
Kill your Idols....
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Decided late last night I should make a pixel font that resembles Latin Textura manuscripts, scribal abbreviations and all.
Coming up with rules in the font to automatically use the abbreviations was pretty fun. Making vector versions of all the letters was not.
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Filed under: if it can be done it must be done (it's probably not a good idea), right?
18th century pocket. *tactical*!
(Picture of something shaped line a 18th century pocket, except it's made of blue cordura with alternating red and white 2.5 cm webbing sewn at regular 4 cm intervals, and the front slit is closed by a water repellent zipper.)
(Picture of the back of the same pocket, where the webbing is blue (in a darker hue than the cordura), there is no slit, but two small belt loops sewn in the top seam.)
I know, to make it properly *tactical* it should have been camo instead of brightly coloured, but I have no camo fabric at home (and honestly have no plan to buy any) and this was a spur-of-the-moment thing made with leftovers from my backpack-and-accessories.
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Unknown parent • •ecco... uno sproposito
ho comprato i materiali quando ho fatto il mio, e tra una cosa e quell'altra credo di averci speso più di 200 euro. però buona parte era perché c'erano dei pezzi minimi di acquisto, e da quella cifra sono usciti i due zaini, e ho ancora quasi tutto il materiale (extra ci sarebbero da prendere webbing, cerniera e accessori) per farne potenzialmente un terzo, e di alcuni materiali (soprattutto 3d mesh e imbottitura) anche di più (in realtà il piano non è di farne un terzo uguale, che non mi servirebbe, ma accessori vari).
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Unknown parent • •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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Unknown parent • •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