⁂ FEDICAPE — The Making of

[tommi@pan.rent]

⁂ FEDICAPE — The Making of

I got an idea! I decided to make a CAPE with the Fediverse Symbol for #39C3

Of course I got the idea SUPER LATE, I am leaving tomorrow morning at 7:00 from Sanremo.

Here is how it happened.

13:00. We were having the Christmas lunch with the whole family at my grandma’s and I was telling my cousins how INCREDIBLE Congress is, and how people go around dressed with the most insane things.

I started brewing the idea of something to make and wear myself over the afternoon, while napping at my parents’.

17:47. I call grandma D, the most expert sewer of the family.

“NONNAAA I WANNA MAKE A CAPE! Do you have any big pieces of fabric?” “No… I only have bedsheets…”

I call Nonna Gorix, who proudly calls herself my “trovarobe” (literally “things-finder”). I ask her the same thing. She tells me to come over, and we start looking in her stuff, as you see here:

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We couldn’t find anything big enough, until…

“Tommi, why don’t we use the cloth below the Christmas tree? 👀”

So we took that.

17:50. We have fabric!!!!!

I call Nonna D: “Nonna Gorix gave me something! I am coming for dinner, let’s make this cake 🤟🤟🤟”

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[tommi@pan.rent]

19:20. I get at Nonna D’s.

The kitchen table, where we used to sew, is ready for dinner, we can’t use it.

We go in a bedroom, and she tries to figure out how to convert the cloth in a cape. We gotta cut it and change the shape!

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19:40. After cutting the fabric, Nonna D starts sewing it back together.

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19:50. In the meanwhile, I am cutting a piece of paper to make an asterisk, then we are transferring them on black fabric, cutting it three times, to finally compose an asterism.

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20:18. Testing the positioning of the first asterisk…

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21:14: First asterisk sewed!

Positioning the second…

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21:28. Inserted strings at the top.

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21:44. Second asterisk done. Positioning the third…

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