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Yesterday, users of mstdn.social instance lost their connections to artists at mastodon.art instance ( src: framapiaf.org/@Curator@mastodo… ). I hope giving visibility to this issue will help them to restore the broken bridges.

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Shawl Calculations

Posted on June 16, 2023
Update 2023-06-17: I had missed an N in the formulas, they have been updated, and since I was editing this I’ve added the haskell bit.

I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.

This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.

It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an approximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.

So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:

$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = N ⋅ w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$

where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.

This gives:

N2 + (1 + 2 ⋅ w0/wr) ⋅ N − 2 * wT/wr = 0

and the only positive solution will be:

$$N = - 1/2 - w_0/w_r + \sqrt(1/4 + w_0^2/w_r^2 - w_0/w_r + 2 ⋅ w_T/w_r)$$

or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):

import math
import statistics

w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
-1/2 - ws[0] / w_r + math.sqrt(1/4 + ws[0]**2 / w_r**2 - ws[0]/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)

Or, in Haskell:
let ws = [2, 4, 6]
let w_T = 200
let w_0 = head ws
let w_r = ( sum (map (\(x,y) -> y-x) (zip ws (drop 1 ws))) ) / (fromIntegral (length ws - 1))
-1/2 - w_0 / w_r + sqrt (1/4 + (w_0/w_r)**2 - w_0/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)

Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 135 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.

Which means that this shawl will also take forever.

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

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IMPORTANTE: ZONA WARPA HA BISOGNO DI AIUTO A ROMA!

Ciao, stiamo tuttə bene ma il furgone di supporto ha il motore fuso e ci ha lasciato a piedi.

Il Camper Warpo è già in zona Napoli e con due treni possiamo risolvere lo spostamento.

Abbiamo però bisogno di unə o possibilmente più *volontariə* che ci diano supporto logistico. Persone con un'auto e un paio di ore da dedicarci. Girate pure questo messaggio ad amicə di cui vi fidate.

Boost graditissimi!
Contattare in dm!

Grazie ❤️

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Started cutting out the rectangles for my floaty skirts. (Just comfy, not fitted.) The first is cotton gauze, which is great for this kind of skirt, but it’s kind of a pain to work with. Because it’s a loose weave it tends to wiggle around and be hard to cut accurately.

There’s a trick to cutting a straight line across woven fabric, where you pull out a thread and then cut along the gap where it used to be.

I’m starting by straightening the ends. The photo of the cut end is the correct color

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Shawl Calculations

Posted on June 16, 2023
I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.

This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.

It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an aproximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.

So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:

$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$

where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.

This gives:

N2 + N + 2/Wr ⋅ (w0 − wT)

and the only positive solution will be:

$$N = \frac{-1 - \sqrt(1 - \frac{8}{w_r} (w_0 - w_T))}{2}$$

or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):

import math
import statistics

w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
(-1 + math.sqrt(1 - 8 / w_r * (ws[0] - w_T))) / 2

Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 140 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.

Which means that this shawl will also take forever.

blog.trueelena.org/blog/drafts…

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ieri sera abbiamo messo la zanzariera sopra al letto (sigh, la Stagione è iniziata tardi, ma è iniziata)

io, subito prima di dormire> devo anche engravare Elbereth sulla zanzariera, tanto per andare sul sicuro?

(sì, lo stavo dicendo in italiano è ho proprio detto engravare. non mi pento di niente)

#nethack

#nethack

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Not that anyone noticed, but the English #Wikipedia recently crossed the 6,666,666 article mark.

Unofficially, the milestone article was... SatanCon! It's the annual convention of the Satanic Temple.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SatanCon

SatanCon - Wikipedia

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#Wikipedia

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However, if you run a shopfront like Etsy for your creations and would prefer a dedicated place to post and promote your things for sale, have a look at handmade.social/about. You can use it in addition to your normal account, and then fedi users looking to support indie creators can (and do!) browse the homemade.social local feed to see what's for sale.

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Project #linocut steampunk #piecepack is under way!

Quite a few months ago I started the project by making this

linocut print of four suites in white on black background: goggles, top hat, airship and gear

and buying some supplies (such as non-black linocut ink :D ), and then procrastination happened and I got quite stuck.

Today I've actually drawn all most of the pieces on tracing paper, I need to add the smaller suites, trace everything from the reverse, and then finally carve the linoleum.

And then maybe I'll start procrastinating again, or maybe I'll actually do some test prints in the weekend?

I may also be thinking of regular piecepack suites and playing card suites in the same style, but first I need to actually assemble a piecepack and discover whether it will work.

#piecepack #linocut

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Yesterday @Diego Roversi gave me 3 (three!) new #notebooks from a loot of old branded gadgets at work. I've found the courage to actually write on it (ink samples on the last page) and two are even good quality paper (and the other one is an expensive moleskine, but maybe I can use it with pencils?).

And then today in the post I received another, fancy, notebook, a gift from my Aunt!

I didn't buy them so they don't count for “trying not to buy too much 2023”, right? :D

#notebooks @Diego Roversi
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OK, this is a very niche question, but can anyone point me in the direction of a quality source that discusses the transport and storage of bulk quantities of salt in England between around 1200 and 1450.

I've mined google, and it's all pretty salt cellars for the table, and fluffy general articles about how salt was used in the past. I'm not looking for that.

As an architectural historian turned textile historian, this ain't my area.

ETA - got the info I need now, thank you!

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Once again, seeing the whole, "Fediverse is full of Europeans who keep refusing to frame social justice issues strictly from the point of view of USians and this is definitely very problematic everyone!" thing.

And I can't help thinking, "Have you tried taking your cultural imperialism and shoving it up your arse? Maybe that will help?"

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Jay Blanc

I struggled to understand what you meant by all this. And then I read your further replies on your site where you bring up Roma, and I have this to say.

Please do not use Roma as a way to say "White people suffer racism too!"

Traditionally, Roma were not treated or classified as White People. Some of us can pass as 'White', and many had to in order to flee Fascism. But Roma as a people were not considered 'White People'. See for example how Australia treated Roma immigrants.

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LN :anarchoheart3:

@jay While I agree with her take somewhat, I also think this is extremely easy to miss for us Europeans. Yes, the boundaries of whiteness are not identical in Europe (e.g. the ironic "discrimination" against Italians is funny to Americans but less funny in places like Germany where they are seen as non-white) but that doesn't mean the mode of discrimination doesn't exist here. Our understanding of whiteness is more balkanized but it's still there and at the core of this oppression and anti-Blackness is widespread even if there may be fewer Black people around.

Heck, despite the racism against Eastern Europeans it's trivial to see the difference in how e.g. Germany treats white Ukrainian refugees compared to how it treats brown refugees. There was literally a public discourse around how the existing shelters were undignified and inadequate for Ukrainians when they were apparently perfectly sufficient for Syrians and North Africans.

Yes, whiteness is a social construct but it's also defined by exclusion. It's not literally about skin color, it just often aligns with it. But as the recent cases of Latino/Hispanic white supremacist violence in the US have shown, this complexity is not unique to the US.

As for Europe's history of colonialism: just because we were so racist we didn't want to bring most of the slaves to Europe that doesn't mean we heavily promoted slavery and benefitted from it. Just look at Belgian rubber plantations to see how much pain this caused.

You can't export social justice discourse 1 to 1 from the US to Europe but that doesn't mean it doesn't apply. It's not an exact match but it doesn't require many adjustments. We're just leagues behind when it comes to reflecting on our history of these issues. That's not something to be proud of and it's not the fault of the US.

@Jay Blanc
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Aral Balkan

It’s the colonial mindset. I truly believe it is almost impossible for an American to conceive of the world as separate from America. There’s America, there are the friendly Disneyland states you visit to be entertained by the curious displays of the Almost-Americans, and then there are the Brown people ghettos you bomb (with a suitably diverse military, of course)…

As I watched an American tell a Brit once: “Accent? I don’t have an accent… you have an accent!”

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Per chi fa mercatini.

Evitate scatole di cartone delle banane, cassette ortofrutta in legno, ecc., anche se hanno un look tanto "ecologico": i vostri prodotti dentro a un cassonetto a causa di un acquazzone improvviso sono molto meno ecologici. E alla fine vi costano di più.

I contenitori migliori sono quelli tipo Ikea Samla (ma prendete quelli che trovate a meno!) con coperchio STAGNO.

Non comprate a cazzo, ma misurate il vostro mezzo di trasporto per riuscire a stiparne il più…

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

>>

venga visitata da ospiti indesiderati.

A fine mercatino segnatevi su un foglietto (o in un database MySQL se siete capaci) cosa c'è in ogni scatola, e quanti pezzi: NON fidatevi della vostra memoria!

Avere tutto pronto significa poter fare un mercatino nel tempo necessario a buttare i contenitori nel bagagliaio, senza perdere giorni a cercare le cose qua e là.

Grazie per aver assistito al mio TED talk sull'organizzazione aziendale per anticapitalistә.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

Mannaggia, ho dimenticato di aggiungere una cosa importantissima!

I contenitori con un coperchio BEN FERMATO (non semplicemente appoggiato) non perdono il loro contenuto anche se vengono capovolti.

Ah, e se sono in grado di galleggiare vi parate pure il culo in caso di inondazione della cantina (non che sia una gran soddisfazione, ma almeno non perdete proprio tutto).

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irriverenza nei confronti di rituali religiosi

Grazie ad una chat con amici, l'universo offre:

candeggina benedetta: distrugge fino al 95% di batteri, virus e peccati!

(tutto è partito da “Altare di San Pietro profanato da un uomo nudo, si celebra il rito penitenziale” roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/202… )

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una bella notizia: wikimedia.it/news/museo-egizio… @wikimediaitalia #museoegizio @nilocram

Museo Egizio: online tutte le immagini dei reperti esposti

Il Museo Egizio ha reso disponibili più di 5.500 immagini delle proprie collezioni su Wikimedia Commons con il sostegno di Wikimedia Italia.
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#museoegizio @nilocram @Wikimedia Italia

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I may have accidentally a thing.

This came from wikimedia commons
No dogs sign (a dog behind a red circle with a diagonal line)
openclipart.org/detail/342614/…

And it was remixed as:
The same sign as above, but this time it's a cat
openclipart.org/detail/342615/…

which isn't a sign that is very useful, but was needed for
A blue circle mandatory sign, with a cat
openclipart.org/detail/342616/…

and since I was already working on this, I decided I might as well
Same mandatory sign, with a dog
openclipart.org/detail/342617/…

(if you're reading this on mastodon you probably can't see that the images are in the middle of the text, before the URLs).

#clipart #svg #cats #dogs

#cats #dogs #svg #clipart

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I've just soldered a few cables wrong on a perfboard: I counted pins as if I was on the right side, while I was working on the reverse side.

Since the cables were between sockets, and in a somewhat symmetrical shape, I've found that if I shift the boards that plug into them a bit, the connections are right.

The problem is: 3.3V and GND are in purple, and the data cables are red and black.

Some part of me is screaming “NOOOOOO, REDO THEM. NOW!”. Another, just as important, part of me is going “meh, it works, call it done”.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Daniele Tricoli in theory, this is just a temporary thing (i.e. something that will remain as is on a shelf somewhere for a few years, with the only interaction being recharging the battery now and then), so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Also, the things that go into it have clearly marked pins.

But still, cognitive load.

@Daniele Tricoli
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A little something different from my #NerdStitch archives. Prince of Persia from the Apple II, I recreated the main character running animation in 8 frames of cross stitch and then attached them to a hand crank flip book kit to make it go.
#nerdstitch

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More than a year ago I started #knitting a #shawl. It's still not finished.

Yesterday I helped my mother translating instructions for a shawl she's going to knit.

Yesterday evening I had an idea for another shawl (different from either one).

Of course I had to start it, right?

(but this time I'm being wise and I'm working a prototype on 12 mm tree trunks with big-ish yarn that I have no other use for, from the stash, not 15/1 wool and silk yarn worked on 3mm needles)

#knitting #shawl
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One of my pet peeves are polls that ask you how many books you read per month/year/whatever.

What counts as “one book”? Right now I'm reading a book that is divided in two brick-shaped tomes, each one significantly above 1000 pages (but I'm only reading about half of them, since the other half is in Latin). That's about four time as many pages as your average Pratchett novel, but I'm taking significantly more time at reading it (I don't know whether it's because it has a smaller type (not by much), it's a harder read, or because I *will* lose sleep to finish a Pratchett novel, but up to now I've managed not to with this one :D ).

Then another book I'm reading right now is book one of a series of 15 doorstoppers: probably a faster read than the Latin book above, especially since it's a re-read, but still it's not something I can manage to read in a week, if I want to do something else. Since it's not the only thing I'm reading I'm expecting the whole re-read to last me a few years.

Some of the police procedurals my mother reads are, I don't know, maybe 100 pages and a bit? and the pages are even smaller than the ones of the doorstoppers. That one is easy to read in a day or two, and then you can easily claim that you read more than a hundred books per year, while reading less than if I was reading, say 10 doorstoppers.

And this is still stuff with some literary value, we're not talking about, say the collection of jokes from a famous soccer player.

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Correspondence Book
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A Coptic bound book open to the first page with the title “Book of <space&gt; Correspondence / Volume &lt;space&gt; Years &lt;space&gt;”

I write letters. The kind that are written on paper with a dip pen 1 and ink, stamped and sent through the post, spend a few days or weeks maturing like good wine in a depot somewhere2, and then get delivered to the recipient.

Some of them (mostly cards) are to people who will receive them and thank me via xmpp (that sounds odd, but actually works out nicely), but others are proper letters with long texts that I exchange with penpals.

Most of those are fountain pen frea^Wenthusiasts, so I usually use a different ink each time, and try to vary the paper, and I need to keep track of what I’ve used.

Some time ago, I’ve read a Victorian book3 which recommended keeping a correspondence book to register all mail received and sent, the topics and whether it had been replied or otherwise acted upon. I don’t have the mail traffic of a Victorian lady (or even middle class woman), but this looked like something fun to do, and if I added fields for the inks and paper used it would also have useful side effect.

A page with writing lines with the title of the field below it: it has a number and then date, sender / recipient (at the ends of the same line, in reply to / replied, ink, paper, pen, topics / notes.

So I headed over to the obvious program anybody would use for these things (XeLaTeX, of course) and quickly designed a page with fields for the basic thinks I want to record; it was a bit hurried, and I may improve on it the next time I make one, but I expect this one to last me two or three years, and it is good enough.

I’ve decided to make it A6 sized, so that it doesn’t require a lot of space on my busy desktop, and it could be carried inside a portable desktop, if I ever decide to finish the one for which I’ve made a mockup years ago :)

Picture of book open to the correspondent pages: the fields are name, letters sent, letters received, address and notes.

I’ve also added a few pages for the addresses of my correspondents (and an index of the letters I’ve exchanged with them), and a few empty pages for other notes.

Then I’ve used my a6_book.py script to rearrange the A6 pages into signatures and impress them on A4; to reduce later effort I’ve added an option to order the pages in such a way that if I then cut four A4 sheet in half at a time (the limit of my rotary cutter) the signatures are ready to be folded. It’s not the default because it requires that the pages are a multiple of 32 rather than just 16 (and they are padded up with empty pages if they aren’t).

If you’re also interested in making one, here are the files:

the book open to the page of letter two, which is repeated twice.

After printing (an older version where some of the pages are repeated. whoops, but it only happened 4 times, and it’s not a big deal), it was time for binding this into a book.

I’ve opted for Coptic stitch, so that the book will open completely flat and writing on it will be easier and the covers are 2 mm cardboard covered in linen-look bookbinding paper (sadly I no longer have a source for bookbinding cloth made from actual cloth).

The grey cover of the book with the word correspondence, a stylised envelope and a border in blue.

I tried to screenprint a simple design on the cover: the first attempt was unusable (the paper was smaller than the screen, so I couldn’t keep it in the right place and moved as I was screenprinting); on the second attempt I used some masking tape to keep the paper in place, and they were a bit better, but I need more practice with the technique.

Finally, I decided that for such a Victorian thing I will use an Iron-gall ink, but it’s Rohrer & Knlingner Scabiosa, with a purple undertone, because life’s too short to use blue-black ink :D

And now, I’m off to write an actual letter, rather than writing online about things that are related to letter writing.

  1. not a quill! I’m a modern person who uses steel nibs!↩︎
  2. Milano Roserio, I’m looking at you. a month to deliver a postcard from Lombardy to Ticino? not even a letter, which could have hidden contraband, a postcard.↩︎
  3. I think. I’ve looked at some plausible candidates and couldn’t find the source.↩︎

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

!↩︎

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Posted on May 26, 2023
A woman wearing a white linen combination suite, with a very fitted top, small sleevelets that cover the armpits (to protect the next layers from sweat) and split drawers. The suite buttons up along the front (where it is a bit tight around the bust) and has a line of lace at the neckline and two tucks plus some lace at the legs.

Some time ago, on an early Friday afternoon our internet connection died. After a reasonable time had passed we called the customer service, they told us that they would look into it and then call us back.

On Friday evening we had not heard from them, and I was starting to get worried. At the time in the evening when I would have been relaxing online I grabbed the first Victorian sewing-related book I found on my hard disk and started to read it.

For the record, it wasn’t actually Victorian, it was Margaret J. Blair. System of Sewing and Garment Drafting. from 1904, but I also had available for comparison the earlier and smaller Margaret Blair. System of Garment Drafting. from 1897.

A page from the book showing the top part of a pattern with all construction lines

Anyway, this book had a system to draft a pair of combinations (chemise top + drawers); and months ago I had already tried to draft a pair from another system, but they didn’t really fit and they were dropped low on the priority list, so on a whim I decided to try and draft them again with this new-to-me system.

Around 23:00 in the night the pattern was ready, and I realized that my SO had gone to sleep without waiting for me, as I looked too busy to be interrupted.

The next few days were quite stressful (we didn’t get our internet back until Wednesday) and while I couldn’t work at my day job I didn’t sew as much as I could have done, but by the end of the week I had an almost complete mockup from an old sheet, and could see that it wasn’t great, but it was a good start.

One reason why the mockup took a whole week is that of course I started to sew by machine, but then I wanted flat-felled seams, and felling them by hand is so much neater, isn’t it?

And let me just say, I’m grateful for the fact that I don’t depend on streaming services for media, but I have a healthy mix of DVDs and stuff I had already temporary downloaded to watch later, because handsewing and being stressed out without watching something is not really great.

Anyway, the mockup was a bit short on the crotch, but by the time I could try it on and be sure I was invested enough in it that I decided to work around the issue by inserting a strip of lace around the waist.

And then I went back to the pattern to fix it properly, and found out that I had drafted the back of the drawers completely wrong, making a seam shorter rather than longer as it should have been. ooops.

I fixed the pattern, and then decided that YOLO and cut the new version directly on some lightweight linen fabric I had originally planned to use in this project.

The result is still not perfect, but good enough, and I finished it with a very restrained amount of lace at the neckline and hems, wore it one day when the weather was warm (loved the linen on the skin) and it’s ready to be worn again when the weather will be back to being warm (hopefully not too soon).

The last problem was taking pictures of this underwear in a way that preserves the decency (and it even had to be outdoors, for the light!).

This was solved by wearing leggings and a matched long sleeved shirt under the combinations, and then promptly forgetting everything about decency and, well, you can see what happened.

A woman mooning by keeping the back of split drawers open with her hands, but at least there are black leggings under them.

The pattern is, as usual, published on my pattern website as #FreeSoftWear.

And then, I started thinking about knits.

In the late Victorian and Edwardian eras knit underwear was a thing, also thanks to the influence of various aspects of the rational dress movement; reformers such as Gustav Jäger advocated for wool underwear, but mail order catalogues from the era such as archive.org/details/cataloguef… (starting from page 67) have listings for both cotton and wool ones.

From what I could find, back then they would have been either handknit at home or made to shape on industrial knitting machines; patterns for the former are available online, but the latter would probably require a knitting machine that I don’t currently1 have.

However, this is underwear that is not going to be seen by anybody2, and I believe that by using flat knit fabric one can get a decent functional approximation.

In The Stash I have a few meters of a worked cotton jersey with a pretty comfy feel, and to make a long story short: this happened.

a woman wearing a black cotton jersey combination suite; the front is sewn shut, but the neck is wide and finished with elastic. The top part is pretty fitted, but becomes baggier around the crotch area and the legs are a comfortable width.

I suspect that the linen one will get worn a lot this summer (linen on the skin. nothing else need to be said), while the cotton one will be stored away for winter. And then maybe I may make a couple more, if I find out that I’m using it enough.

  1. cue ominous music. But first I would need space to actually keep and use it :)↩︎
  2. other than me, my SO, any costuming friend I may happen to change in the presence of, and everybody on the internet in these pictures.↩︎

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PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

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This is interesting. I've just asked okular to print page 128 of a 32 pages document (I know. I had my reasons¹), and the printer spewed out a single page with the word "UNIR" at the top left and nothing else.

¹ it was a pdf with 128 A6 pages laid out on 32 A4 pages, and I mixed up the two numbers. could have happened to anybody! :D

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some years ago one of the places I buy fabric from had some plastic fleece on sale, and I bought 3 meters of green fleece to use mostly as a green screen.

I don't usually like green, and it's a colour that I don't really wear.

And now that I've put away most of the winter clothing, but this was still around, I'm a floating head and hands, wrapped in 3 meters of warm green screen.

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Dear #HistoricalSewing -verse, have you ever stumbled on late victorian / early 1900s instructions on how to sew knit fabric at home?

I don't think I have, and all of the references to knit garments I can think of are of things that one would buy ready made, and thus sewn in an industrial setting.

Which is not any kind of proof that people weren't sewing their own knit underwear at home, of course.

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Faith Caton

I have only come across knit fabrics within lists of materials used in an object. For example collections.museumoflondon.org… I imagine the wonderful dress and textiles people at The Museum of London might have information (in case you haven't already contacted them)

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