Skip to content

Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale Logo Fediverso

Social Forum federato con il resto del mondo. Non contano le istanze, contano le persone

I did some sashiko for the first time!!!

Uncategorized
2 2 11

Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
  • @zwol at this point I'd forego semantic, and just take easy and nice to look at. If I were writing a book today, I'd author it in Markdown, and then convert it to...whatever...for editing, or whatever at the very end. Before publishing, I ended up converting to an OpenOffice doc with the publishers template for editing, anyway (but I didn't originally write it to be published, it just worked out that way, so the OpenOffice step wasn't originally in the plans).

    read more

  • @ann3nova this is such a specific thing to obsess over, I love it. I drew my own pointers back then, and the one I used most looked pretty much like this. Same shape, but different colors.

    read more

  • @swelljoe I completely agree that it becomes tiring looking at all the tags. Not sure I've ever seen a markup language that was both semantic and pleasant to read in source form, though.

    read more

  • Le matematiche (libro)

    @libri - La matematica è la stessa, ma la scuola russa la vede in modo diverso

    https://wp.me/p6hcSh-9ds

    read more

  • @zwol I wrote a book in Docbook (SGML first, and then converted to XML later) about 25ish years ago, with a custom vim configuration. It wasn't pleasant. Yes, the tools were bad, but also it's just really sort of tiring looking at all the tags and the processing toolchain was dire.

    I was using a LaTeX-based toolchain for the PDF generation, I don't remember details, but Sebastian Rahtz was super helpful when I ran into mysterious issues.

    I wouldn't do it again. Different time, different me.

    read more

  • @jannem Yeah, like, considered as a thing-in-itself apart from the tools, the major complaint I have about DocBook is that the documentation of _how to write a book using DocBook_ is inadequate.

    Many people have very similar complaints about LaTeX.

    read more

  • @Esoteria you might be a little too young for this classic scene from "WKRP in Cincinnati".

    https://youtu.be/hhbqIJZ8wCM

    read more

  • @molly0xfff At first I thought it was about wikipedia socks, the puppet kind... lol

    read more
Post suggeriti
  • #sewing friends

    Uncategorized sewing
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    0 Views
    #sewing friends!especially people who sew their own clothes:I want to sew my own PJ pantsI am plus sized & have long legs & a large bottom. (mens xl ish) these will be 100% cotton, so no stretch. I like loose & comfy, but not TOO loose or flowy & they MUST have pockets.what are your favorite patterns?
  • Yesterday's sewing!

    Uncategorized sewing historicalfashion
    12
    4
    0 Votes
    12 Posts
    108 Views
    @sinituulia @laumapret my mother always had a bottle of spray starch to be carefully ignored while ironing clothing, so I have one too :Dlately when I want to feel fancy or I have to spend the whole day outside I've started to use it when ironing my linen shirts, and it does work in making them feel nice and crinkle less, but it doesn't make stuff significantly stiffer like I've seen in the videos and blog posts of people dipping garments in starch.Maybe it's possible, if one uses *a lot*, but I'm not sure it's really designed for being used that way.I'm not sure how much it costs, because I still have the bottle I stol… er, borrowed from my mother¹ a few years ago, since each shirt-ful takes very little, and I suspect that for this usecase it would actually cost less than making it at home from food-grade starch, as the latter needs to be made in a bigger batch (and it doesn't keep, not it's really safe to starch all of your clothing and store them starched long term, I believe).I still want to try and make the liquid one to dip some collars and petticoats in, but there are only so many hours in the day, and starching looks like a couple days of commitment.¹ we live close enough that she can easily take it back once ever couple years when she needs it :)
  • So, it’s almost done.

    Uncategorized sewing
    19
    1
    0 Votes
    19 Posts
    77 Views
    @Remittancegirl That's the one. It's a good finish.
  • 0 Votes
    4 Posts
    19 Views
    @sinituulia I suspected something like that :(but now I sort-of want to try and make some back-of-envelope calculation on how cheap you can get by handsewing thrifted materials with gratis patterns from the internet(the frigging lot of time option :D )