Don't ask me about spidle spinning my Maine Coons hair. ;)
You can also branch out into gardening flax, cotton, hemp, reseda, krapp and indigo ...
No, it was the other way round. I first sewed all pieces to a flat fabric, then cut and assembled the pieces and dyed the outer fabric and lining. After I got the uniform dark colour I was looking for (it took three tries), I put in the wool batting (I used an old roving with a lot of meadow still in it), and sewed that up.
Only then I realized that I had to quilt, in order to keep the roving where it belonged. I designed the front flap first and got a bit carried away. After stitching that, I did the back, with slightly less dense motives, and last the interior flap. There I told my designer-self that the intense front-flap needed some negative space to get full effect (and as to not overtax my aching fingers), so I just put in enough leaves to keep the roving from slipping.
The sleeves are without batting, they only are cotton on cotton and therefore less prone to slip, so the cuffs were all that was needed. Happily, or I would still be not-finishing them today. :D
This is really nice work. Thank you for sharing.
I made this costume out of silk and linen, with a maritime theme. The cuffs are inspired by sea weed and the bigger motives on the vest are clamshells. All seams are weigthed with seed pearls in green and blue.
I made this jacket from leftover fabric pieces that were too small to be used as masks during Covid restrictions. Then I dyed it all dark blue and padded the jacket with leftover wool batting.
Last came the embroidery, call it embroidered quilting through all layers. It is in off-white cotton floss, two strands. Stem stitch, wave stitch, knot stitch ... I forget what I used. Couching too, I think. Need to check. ;)
No, sorry. We are playing Age of Rebellion rules during the Old Republic, because the children wanted to be Jedi.
I second with Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dark Eye, Shadowrun and StarWars RPG in my family. Teach your kids to play and they will never have time or money to waste on drugs. ;)
I'd be very interested in a tiny turbine that gives off 500W per hour to cover the basic power consumption of the house when there is no sun shining. But most stuff I see is junk, and the other stuff is way too powerful for what I need.
The question was posed and therefore answered in German. I do not think any excluding was intended, and translation help like deepl usually is only an URL and a bit of copy/paste away.
Milan himself tries to keep Meta out of his life, but he does not think panicking without solid data is the way to go. He wants to keep an eye on how the situation evolves, and if Meta is practicing non-moderation like on facebook, he will not federate with them for that even before entertaining deeper ethical questions.
I got them made at WASD Keyboards. They have a prepared design file for 104 key ISO (and some more layouts) you can use. My board carries 108 keys, but I don't mind the programmable keys looking different than the main set.
Quality wise, they look good, and I like the slightly rough feel. "Side print" is Qwerty in my own hand, with acrylic marker, for the kids. Profile is Cherry.
My new custom WASD keycaps with NEO2 legends have arrived. I wanted nicely readable legends for the layers I used most, not for all as the predesigned caps offered. I also had problems with the color coding, which emphasized the wrong layers.
At the beginning, I had plans to turn my own handwriting into letters, but that proved too much of a task for the time I had, so I just went with stock symbols and Comic Sans.
I also considered having black keycaps, but after I studied up on the finer points of laser printing on dark base colors - bright colors require a white underprint -, I decided to go with colors on wite for crisp outlines.
All in all I am very happy with the result. My children begged me to give them a chance, so I hand wrote QWERTZ legends on the sides.
Running a mongo database, an express server in VSCode with nodejs, the Angular app, also in VSCode with nodejs and the browsers proved a bit difficult for my existing (and ooold) refurbed Dell latitude. It might have been the last windoofs update that brought it to bay, too. I don't know.
Thank you for the wargames, I am going to try my hand.
I was quite tired of having to pick up bench cushions all the time, so I invested a bit into a full sized pad and made a cover out of an old baby wrap. We are all quite nappy with this solution.
A faithful map of the visible stars of the milky way in the northern and southern hemisphere. The display is unusual, since the sky equator is snaking like a sinus curve through the star chart: Northern and southern hemisphere are visible simultaneously.
As Basis I used an old hand-drawn black-and-white star chart by Fritzius, and I compared the visible stars and magnitudes with NASA material to approximate the coloring for this pearl embroidery. White and blue stars are white and silber pearls, red stars red pearls and the yellow range is rendered with gold pearls. Very dark stars are black or blue.
Star magnitudes lower than 2 have a paillette to show their size. The middle blue area signifies the milky way itself, the slightly darker area around is its light halo.
Hand embroidered on printed (patchwork) cotton fabric; embroidery floss by DMC and MEZ, rochaille pearls by Clover/Prym.
This started out as Anna Dalvi's Anubis but three quarters throgh I gave up on counting the mess and finished it off with knit one, make a hole. It still looked good, but I found I am not a mohair person and gifted it to a friend. She is very happy with it.
At least I hope that this is called needlepoint? My husband wanted a dragon, So I made him one. The sketch was a bit more detailed, but since this was the cover of his pencil box, I decided to skimp on the bottom part.
Cotton floss on cotton velvet.
This is the inside:
Because a real mess needs practice. German-style beech wood embroidery frame, made by my grandfather. I keep it raised on two flexible raisers.
This leaf was first painted onto the fabric and then stitched over with lumi yarn, cordonnet and cotton.
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Our Maine Coon came as a rescued "present" by the local police, who did not know what to do with her. So I was not at all prepared for a long-furred creature.
Summers here are really hot, but her hair is so long and wooly that it felts in place before it can work its way out. In the first year, I had to cut her hair with a mower. ;)
The second year, I was prepared and started combing her. She enjoys it, and I get a lot of harvested hair that way. Sometimes in winter I pull out my tiny 16g top spindle and spin a bit of it. You can't go too fine, or the thread will unravel. For sturdy and fluffy, I recommend spinning around a thread of sewing yarn or mixing in some crimpy wool fiber.