I've just watched Bernadette Banners' video “How to Identify Quality in Clothing (A Rant)” and I'm a bit surprised by the way serging is basically condemned as evil.
I do hate the serger (and the serger hates me), so on the clothing I make I tend to use french seams, bound edges and all those finishes, but other than the odd flat felled seam on sportswear I don't think I've ever seen a professionally made garment where the raw edges weren't finished with serging, even when it was an actual seamstress doing custom work.
Of course there is serging and serging, and the video does mention what to look for for better (or less worse, as they framed it) serging, but I just don't understand how one is supposed to find garments that aren't serged at all for sale.
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I had just finished listening to an 1976 album (from a cd ripped to flac stored on a media center and played by a pinephone connected to the line in of the stereo) and there was a clank sound, possibly coming from the neighbors that sounded very much like the sound the turntables makes when stopping and returning the arm to the resting position.
I had earlier decided against listening to music on vinyl because I was also cutting fabric at the same time.
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Avevo appena finito di ascoltare un disco del 1976 (da un cd rippato in flac, salvato sul media center e riprodotto dal pinofono collegato al line-in dello stereo) e c'è stato un *clank*, probabilmente proveniente dai vicini, che sembrava il rumore che fa il piatto quando si ferma e riporta il braccio alla posizione di riposo.
Prima avevo deciso che non avrei ascoltato musica su vinile perché nello stesso momento stavo anche tagliando della stoffa.
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c'è qualcuno che ha studiato stenografia? Avrei bisogno di decifrare una parola trovata sul retro di una vecchia cartolina.
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Vorrei poterti aiutare.
La mia nonna, che purtroppo ci ha lasciato qualche anno fa, aveva studiato stenografia. Ero molto affascinato dai segni criptici che tracciava sul foglio.
Non posso aiutarti, ma mi hai fatto pensare alla nonna Enza. ❤
Grazie.
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Have I mentioned that #handsewing water resistant cotton by hand (four layers of it, because I'm whipstitching two finished edges together) is *interesting*?
(it may not be the best way to keep the seam watertight, but I may treat it with seam sealant later if I really need it. not that I intend to wear this hood under a downpour, I have a full plasticy cape for those, this is just intended for light rain)
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and since I want to make things even more *interesting* for myself, now I'm adding a border of blanket stitches all around the edge of the hood, in a thread made of *glass fibre*.
(I think it was meant for knitting, but I have had it in my stash for ages, and I decided that I wanted something visible on a black garment meant to be worn while walking in the rain and gloom)
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e per rendermi la vita ancora più *interessante*, sto aggiungendo un bordo di punto coperta(?) tutto attorno all'orlo del cappuccio con del filo fatto di fibra di vetro.
(credo che fosse pensato per il lavoro ai ferri, ma ce l'ho in giro da secoli, e ho deciso che volevo qualcosa di visibile su un capo di abbigliamento nero da indossare quando si cammina sotto la pioggia)
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l'immagine in testa all'articolo è stata scelta totalmente a caso, vero?
ilpost.it/2025/02/06/quanto-ci…
Si fa presto a dire andare su Marte
Per farlo veramente come vorrebbero Trump e Musk c'è una finestra ogni 26 mesi, a causa di come si muovono i due pianetiIl Post
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Filed under #sillyQuestionsAtDinnerTime
Does the fact that the name prescinsöa has a umlaut in it mean that it is metal? \m/
(it's a cheese-adiacent food from Liguria)
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Nella categoria #domandeStupideAllOraDiCena
Il fatto che nel nome prescinsöa ci sia un'umlaut vuol dire che è metal? \m/
(per chi non la conoscesse, è un quasi-formaggio ligure)
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@Justin Time avevi in mente di fare qualcosa questa sera?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…
(attenzione, link ad una wiki dove si perde un sacco di tempo)
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have you had a look at #Streams yet?
«Link your scattered fediverse accounts and their separate logins, with one channel and one identity to share them all.»
codeberg.org/streams/streams
streams
Consent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.Codeberg.org
And this is when I'm sorry that friendica doesn't support creating polls.
This night at about 6:20 somebody tried to check the time, let the phone¹ fall on the ground, hitting other things and causing a lot of noise. who could have been?
* The dog (we don't have a dog)
* A black cat (there are a few in the neighborhood, none of them enter our bedroom
* The naked monkey in a black pajama
¹ an old nokia. the floor is still intact, thankfully.
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Some nuanced privacy advice:
- Signal is good, and you should use it because it strikes an effective balance in the optimization problem that is getting people to use secure technology.
- You should think really, really hard before using any technology whose entire threat model depends on centrally operated infrastructure remaining trusted and uncompromised. Especially ones based in jurisdictions without effective democratic institutions.
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Ultimately, the main questions you really need to ask yourself are:
- "What are you trying to protect"
- "Why?"
- "For how long?"
Privacy itself is a technology, a powerful one, and you should learn to wield it effectively to accomplish the goals you have.
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Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One
Posted on February 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits
A few ago I may have accidentally bought a ring of 12 RGB LEDs; I soldered temporary leads on it, connected it to a CircuitPython supported board and played around for a while.
They we had a couple of friends come over to remote FOSDEM together, and I had talked with one of them about WS2812 / NeoPixels, so I brought them to the living room, in case there was a chance to show them in sort-of-use.
Then I was dealing with playing the various streams as we moved from one room to the next, which lead to me being called “video team”, which lead to me wearing a video team shirt (from an old DebConf, not FOSDEM, but still video team), which lead to somebody asking me whether I also had the sheet with the countdown to the end of the talk, and the answer was sort-of-yes (I should have the ones we used to use for our Linux Day), but not handy.
But I had a thing with twelve things in a clock-like circle.
A bit of fiddling on the CircuitPython REPL resulted, if I remember correctly, in something like:
import board
import neopixel
import time
num_pixels = 12
pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.GP0, num_pixels)
pixels.brightness = 0.1
def end(min):
pixels.fill((0, 0, 0))
for i in range(12):
pixels[i] = (127 + 10 * i, 8 * (12 - i), 0)
pixels[i-1] = (0, 0, 0)
time.sleep(min * 5) # min * 60 / 12Now, I wasn’t very consistent in running
end, especially since I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to run it at the beginning of the talk with the full duration or just in the last 5 - 10 minutes depending of the length of the slot, but I’ve had at least one person agree that the general idea has potential, so I’m taking these notes to be able to work on it in the future.One thing that needs to be fixed is the fact that with the ring just attached with temporary wires and left on the table it isn’t clear which LED is number 0, so it will need a bit of a case or something, but that’s something that can be dealt with before the next fosdem.
And I should probably add some input interface, so that it is self-contained and not tethered to a computer and run from the REPL.
(And then I may also have a vague idea for putting that ring into some wearable thing: good thing that I actually bought two :D )
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e per cena spezzatino cucinato in modo da rispettare una serie di restrizioni alimentari con — oltre ad altre verdure — insalata belga stracotta e sciroppo di Liegi.
come contorno patate lesse, perché non posso mangiare patatine fritte.
e una bottiglia di Rochefort 10 (divisa con @Diego Roversi , perché siamo troppo vecchi per bere una bottiglia di birra a testa, figuriamoci una bottiglia di birra *belga*)
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and dinner was spezzatino cooked to accomodate a number of food restrictions, with — among other vegetables — overcooked belgian endive and syrop de Liège.
the side was boiled potatoes, because I can't have frites.
and a bottle of Rochefort 10 (shared with @Diego Roversi , because we are too old to drink a bottle of beer each, nevermind a *Belgian* one :D )
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This afternoon's project: "A self-hosted Wikipedia (and other bits) clone, using kiwix on a Raspberry Pi 4"
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.The go-to tool for this seems to be kiwix, and that’s what I used, running on a Raspberry Pi.
The hardest part was faffing around with the SSD...
neilzone.co.uk/2025/02/a-self-…
#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting #kiwix #wikipedia
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Speakers: If you have a weird "cut" on the start of your #FOSDEM video recording, tell the video server that it the video starts too late. The next version the video server sent me had much better source video (all three talks I gave had this problem, I assume others might as well - but don't panic!)
I love my annual interaction with the FOSDEM video servers!
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TIL that Sirop de Liège from Belgium (and variations) goes quite nicely with re-heated lake Como style polenta
(and these are the kind of things you do while remoting #fosdem)
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Materiale ciclistico (telai, ruote, selle, manubri, freni, leve, ecc) a Turate (CO)
Tendenzialmente vorrei vendere il lotto intero, ma nel caso ci si può accordare per singoli pezzi. Anche bici da corsa complete. A richiesta, ho anche un sacco di altre foto 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
EDIT: venduto
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Happy Groundhog Day! I am a fan of the absurdity of weather prognosticating rodents and celebrate Groundhog Day with my thermochromic linocut. The shadow is visible if the ambient temperature is <30°C and disappears when >30°C (and it’s a safe bet winter is over or you are overheating your home. So I argue my print is as dependable as any celebrity rodent! The reaction is reversible so 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #mastoart #thermochromic #GroundhogDay #groundhog #folklore #printmaker
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New metasyntactic variables: sex, gender, trans (to replace foo, bar, foobar).
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Linux kernel source:
$ git grep -wi trans | wc -l
15291
Short for at least transcoder, transaction, and transport.
Dear federation obsessed people of the fediverse,
does anybody know of a #xmpp web client with the look and feel of slack?
we are looking for it, and it feels strange that nobody ever wanted something like that
@Alessandro @fabrixxm@gl-como.it
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They are in development, currently still alpha I think.
@alorenzi@livellosegreto.it @tag-xmpp@relay.fedi.buzz
Prose – All of your workplace communication lives here
Prose is a decentralized, open-source and native workplace communication platform.prose.org
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@Menel @Alessandro @Zash uhm, do you have experience with prose?
looking at the websites there are a few things that aren't very encouraging (e.g. the limit of 100 users for the self-hosted version, and the fact that their hosted proprietary version has more features)
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No, I've no experience there, as I said, as far as I know it isn't production ready. I guess we'll have to wait what will come of it.
I guess this limitation is easily to overcome, since it's open source and the underlying xmpp server doesn't know such a limitation.
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Tomorrow begins #IncoWriMo with the First of February. International Correspondence Writing Month is a means to slow down and to listen to the rhythms of your own handwriting and the meditative thinking that goes along with it. It's an excellent time to reconnect with others through the hand written word. It's a time to have some fun. It's not about pressuring you about doing it right or wrong.
You can find out more about the goals at the official website incowrimo.org/faqs/
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@Tobias said:
“it [Friendica] looks like backend developers doing frontend”
and this is one of the reasons I love the way it looks :D
(plis, plis, plis keep this look as an option even if you get a frontend dev!)
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And we're ready to remote #fosdem
(I know, the couch is not full *yet*, but will be later in the weekend)
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sadly, our home wifi is not ipv6-only. And the morning of fosdem is not a good time to try to set it up as such
maybe we will do it for the next year? :D
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There isn't much context, but, on the topic of debian packaging plugin-style things that could be downloaded from some software:
“There was also some confusion about why we bother when there's now a
builtin contentdb (which didn't exist when the first mods were
packaged). I found this quote about minetest use in prisons:> The context of this is, I ship Debian to people in gaol, and they
> can't just download random shit off the internet, or watch tutorial
> videos on youtube. If I can't provide them a "basically fine" default
> setup, there's no point shipping anything”
This afternoon I've received 5 sensors of a certain type¹ I've bought in the weekend.
They were in individual plastic bags (purple), I've put them all in a single plastic bag, and put the bag back in the box they came in.
In the last hour or so I've taken one of them out, connected it to the microcontroller on a breadboard I use for these things, programmed it to use it, it worked. Then I decided to take another microcontroller whose sensor² was broken, and change it with one of these.
So I picked up the soldering iron, all of the accessories, and changed³ the board that connects the microcontroller and the sensor, soldered headers to *another* one of the new sensors, and update the firmware, and everything worked.
And now I wanted to put away the remaining ones in their right place, and I can't find them anymore.
They aren't near in the box, they aren't near the upgraded microcontroller, they aren't in the plastic box where they are supposed to end up
Aaaand thanks everybody, while writing this I looked under the soldering mat (which I had put back into its place) and the sensors were there!
¹ BME280 on a breakout board, but that's not the issue
² SHT20, it had started to give absurd humidity values
³ it's an I2C device. There are 4 pins. *why* is everybody putting them in different combinations??? why can't they settle on something like always putting them in the same order??? (maybe the one used by easyC / StemmaQT, since it's already out there?)
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Oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto dei sensori¹ che ho comprato nel weekend.
Erano in bustine di plastica (viola) individuali, li ho messi tutti nella stessa bustina, e rimesso la bustina nella scatola in cui erano arrivati.
Nell'ultima oretta li ho ripresi in mano, collegati al micro su breadboard con cui faccio le prove, programmato il micro per usarlo, funzionava. E poi ho deciso di prendere un altro micro il cui sensore² si era rotto e sostituirlo con uno di questi.
Quindi ho preso il saldatore e tutto quanto, cambiato³ la schedina che collega microcontrollore e sensore, saldato headers su un altro dei sensori nuovi, aggiornato il firmware e tutto funziona.
E poi volevo mettere i sensori rimasti al loro posto, e non li trovo più.
Non sono nella scatola, non sono vicino al micro aggiornato, non sono nella scatola di plastica dove dovranno andare.
Eeeee, grazie mille, mentre scrivevo questo post ho guardato sotto al tappetino per saldare (che avevo rimesso a posto) e i sensori erano lì!
¹ BME280 su una breakout board, ma non è quello il punto
² SHT20, aveva iniziato a dare valori di umidità assurdi
³ è un dispositivo I2C. Ci sono 4 pin. *perché* li mettono in tutte le combinazioni possibili? perché non si mettono d'accordo per usare sempre lo stesso ordine???? (magari quello usato da easyC / StemmaQT, visto che esiste già)
“Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di #Trenord” (secondo i dati 2024 pubblicati dall'azienda)
(consiglio l'apertura del link con opportune precauzioni)
varesenews.it/2025/01/per-qual…
Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di Trenord
I dati complessivi registrati nel 2024, tra scioperi, guasti ai convogli o alla rete. Lo scorso anno il numero di treni totali in programma è comunque aumentato del 4%Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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Consider this: it's morning, it's raining, you are under the porch where you've slept, but the people who feed you at that location don't give you regular hours. You feel as if you haven't eaten in the last six months¹. And now you have to decide whether to wait here for some more time, and hope to get some food, or to brave the rain and go to beg for food somewhere else.
And the light inside the house turns on, and nobody appears at the door with your food for *hours*²!
complaints were vocalized.
¹ since yesterday, I have no idea at what hour, since I believe that almost everybody in the neighborhood feeds him
² a full 15 minutes, as I was dealing with my clean laundry before getting the smell of kibble on my hands. I know, unacceptable :D
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Immaginatevi la scena: è mattina, piove, siete sotto al portico dove avete dormito, ma le persone che vi danno da mangiare in quel posto non seguono orari regolari. Probabilmente avete mangiato l'ultima volta sei mesi fa¹. E adesso dovete decidere se aspettare qui ancora un po', sperando di vedere del cibo, o affrontare la pioggia e andare ad elemosinare del cibo da qualche altra parte.
E le luci in casa si accendono, e nessuno arriva a darti da mangiare per *ore*²!
Ci sono state delle lamentele vocali.
¹ ieri, non ho idea a che ora, dato che probabilmente tutto il quartiere gli da da mangiare
² 15 interi minuti: ho dato retta alla mia biancheria pulita prima di ritrovarmi con l'odore di croccantini sulle mani. Lo so, inaccettabile :D
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Today I went to a freecycling party hosted by a friend! We all brought clothes/books/art supplies/etc we didn't want, perused everyone else's stuff and took what we wanted, and then divided any remaining items into categories to donate (e.g. one person takes all the art supplies to our local used craft supply store, another person takes all the clothes to a local thrift store, etc).
It was very fun! And I never would have thought of throwing a party like that, so I'm posting about it here to pass along the idea to others :)
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TIL: for some unexplained reason, if you ask circuitpython to write in a location that is not on the SD card, it won't be able to write on the SD card.
also, after weeks of ignoring the issue because I didn't know how to debug it, I now have a device that can log GPS data on an SD card.
additionally, if in the function write_sentence(sentence) you use fp.write(sentence) instead of fp.write(gps.nmea_sentence) you can even write *other* things on the same log! such as, I don't know, sensor data!
now I guess I have to write something for the PC that can extract sensor data from a NMEA log and show it in a nice way? meh, maybe, at some point :D
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TIL: per qualche ragione incomprensibile, se chiedi a circuitpython di scrivere in una posizione fuori dalla scheda SD, non riesce a scrivere sulla scheda SD.
e così, dopo settimane in cui ho ignorato il problema perché non sapevo come debuggarlo, adesso ho un dispositivo che salva dati GPS su una scheda SD
e per di più, se nella funzione write_sentence(sentence) usi fp.write(sentence) anziché fp.write(gps.nmea_sentence) riesci anche a scrivere *altre* cose nello stesso log! tipo, chessò, dati da dei sensori!
adesso immagino che dovrei scrivere qualcosa per il PC che estragga i dati dei sensori da un log NMEA e li mostri in modo carino? mah, magari, prima o poi :D
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A lot of newbies don't know, but in the early times of Mastodon an emphasis was put on being as inclusive as possible.
One way was a simple courtesy to some of our autistic friends. You see some autistic individuals have issues with pictures that have direct eye contact in them.
You know, selfies.
To help them, the community decided to make sure to use a content warning or to use the hashtag #selfie so that they can be filtered out.
So please, be kind and consider doing the same. Thanks.
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Since a lot of new people have come on I've noticed a rise in people trying to start arguments. It's as if they carried the toxicity from wherever they came from along with them.
So this is your reminder that you DO NOT HAVE TO ENGAGE with people who are here just to start fights.
Mute them. Block them. Do whatever you have to do to take care of your mental health.
They aren't worthy of your time.
Let's keep Mastodon and the rest of the Fedi a "social" network and not a "toxic" network.
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Thanks for the reminder. I totally agree with "block early, block often, block for any reason at all".
But I also find that my feeds (and my own posts) are suddenly much more political and much more angry/sad/all the feels for a very obvious reason. I'm trying to keep that in perspective.
As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.
#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology
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intanto, grazie a il post scopro dell'esistenza di trainstats.altervista.org/
statistiche sulla puntualità dei #treni italiani (almeno quelli tracciati da viaggiatreno)
edit: ho visto che prendono dati anche sui treni su rete FerrovieNord
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on unrelated news: I've unpacked the sewing machine and sewed something!
it's just a draft stopper, but I've sewed something!
(next #sewing “project”: changing the elastic to some pajama pants. If I can find where the box with the elastics is. fancy, right?)
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today's let's try to resume #sewing resulted in:
* one hair towel wrap inspired by ikea.com/nl/en/p/stjarnbuske-h… but a bit bigger, made from two towels I'm not using.
* one broken needle at about 2 cm from the end of the very last seam
* while looking for the tip of the needle, discovering that I had not cleaned the sewing machine before packing it (uooops)
* realizing that I still don't have unpacked the sewing machine oil (and won't be able to get to it until the weekend), so gave a quick clean to the machine instead of proper quality time
* couldn't find the needle tip
* it was stuck in the towel layers, of course, ready to hurt myself if I had used the wrap
* finished the last 2 cm of seam, success!
And I also took pictures, but I have no idea when I'll have time to prepare a blog post and instructions.
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risultati del “cerchiamo di ricominciare a #cucire” di oggi:
* un asciugamano per capelli ispirato a ikea.com/it/it/p/stjaernbuske-… ma un po' più grande, fatto con due salviette che non stavo usando.
* un ago rotto a circa 2 cm dalla fine dell'ultima cucitura
* mentre cercavo la punta dell'ago, accorgermi di non aver pulito la macchina da cucire prima di impacchettarla (uoooops)
* rendermi conto di non aver ancora spacchettato l'olio per la macchina (e non riuscire a raggiungerlo prima del weekend), quindi ho dato solo una pulita veloce anziché dedicarle del quality time per bene
* non riuscire a trovare la punta dell'ago
* era incastrato tra gli strati di salvietta, ovviamente, pronto a farmi male se avessi usato l'asciugamano
* finire gli ultimi due cm di cucitura, successo!
Ho anche fatto foto, ma non ho idea di quando avrò tempo per preparare un post per il blog e le istruzioni.
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Post a damn cat pic or something in between all of your "doom and gloom" posts would you?
We know shits getting worse. It doesn't mean that's all we are. There are still good things worthy of our attention out there.
Try not to forget that.
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Musk: mo faccio il saluto per il mio amico Trump e tutti gli amici fasci presenti alla festa
liberali, democratici e intellettuali, storici: ma era un saluto nazista? No, era romano... No, ma forse voleva proiettare con la mano il suo cuore verso la bandiera... A proposito ma che differenza c'è tra saluto romano e saluto nazista? [Passano le successive 24 ore a studiarsi l'argomento]
Buongiornissimo.
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in reply to Sensible Crone • •@Sensible Crone indeed, I think that's the first time I have to complain about something seen in a video by Bernadette Banners, which somehow makes it worse? :D
(I mean, other than the fact that I now have a witch hat and handsew at least part of my shirts, and it's partially her fault :D )
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in reply to Marta 🌿🍃 • •@Marta 🌿🍃 nope, serging as the only construction seam was mentioned as an even worse case (and shown on a few ready made garments, but the video was against serging in general.
as for my mutually hated serger: I've been told that the serger I had (and has since been given to a sewing machine shop for a discount on another machine) was a bad model that just didn't work correctly; now I have access to a new one, but I've basically never used it because I've started to use more and more 1800s techniques, so I can't say whether I could have a better experience with it.
I do plan to try it again. one day. maybe. it's just not a priority :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Good luck with your serger when you get to it! Manuals are usually thorough, but if it's by any chance Jusi 654de, I have a comprehensive threading video for it :)
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in reply to Marta 🌿🍃 • •@Marta 🌿🍃 yeah, in her videos she's only using a straight stitch vintage machine, so that's basically almost the opposite extreme from a serger :D
the thing is, from what I've seen, even people who sew historical garments for customers do use a serger for seam finishes, unless the customer is willing to pay basically museum-grade prices or something.
it's just people who sew for themselves (or for youtube videos, I guess :) ) who can afford to consistently avoid them.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I still finish the edges that will be covered often enough, just because it keeps me from going batty from all the fraying while I'm handling the fabric for hemming and such.
{and then once it serged, I often only roll it once, because that's enough; either that, or I'll sew binding by hand, it depends}
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Unknown parent • •@Asta I think I've seen the whole “serged edge turned just once as a hem” in a context where it wasn't due to extreme cost saving (it was then stitched down by hand), but it was for very lightweight fabric, not something I'd expect in trousers.
And yeah, I tend to use french seams on pretty unfitted things, so they aren't a big problem, but they make alterations pretty much impossible.
like this
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in reply to Lauma Pret 🕸️ • • •What really stung me was the reminder about seam-allowance size and ease of modifying seams. Do I think she was right in that department? YES! How often I've seen of-the-rack pants with easily modifyable mid-back seam? Once in several years!! (I look always, because most pants don't fit my curvy figure) ...
I'm just generally very sad how shit most of contemporary clothing has become, and I wanted to complain a bit more about it. 😅
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