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Dog tax! Here is the unrepentant culprit.

[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads? (sh.itjust.works)

Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete....

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Yes

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This meme is art

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No, but I cross my legs while standing so that my feet are close to perpendicular. It’s comfy.

A wiki for repairing anything (www.ifixit.com)

“Our philosophy is that if you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Once you disassemble, repair, and put back together your laptop or iPod, you have a much better understanding of what goes into it. It’s astounding how just 20 minutes of work can make an iPod good as new – but most people have no idea that there are...

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Bookmarking this!

thegiddystitcher, to FiberArts

Spooky Halloween shirt complete!

Husband has always fancied a proper cool Halloween shirt, so I picked this fabric in secret and banned him from the sewing room until it was complete.

I could only afford the absolute bare minimum yardage, and didn't have much control over pattern placement (also no room for cutting errors, eek!)

But it all worked out and as of tonight he's seen it and tried it on and appears to love it. All good!

I will get proper posed photos at some point but for now here it is on my decidedly more curvy dress form!

Main annoyance is that my topstitching is a bit wonky, and I'm normally pretty good at topstitching. Oh well.

Pattern: McCall's M6044
Design: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/10478337

@sewing #Sewing #Halloween #M6044 #FallFinishAlong

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Holy shit this is awesome

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Congrats

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Exactly! It’s called planning ahead, get with it NT folks

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sh.itjust.works/post/1057350

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Nope, but YMMV

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So…the first thing you need to understand is that there are different types of sewing machines, as someone commented on your original post. There are:

  1. “Regular” sewing machines, which can be either mechanical or computerized. These are the type of machines virtually all hobbyists use and can handle a huge range of projects, from linen napkins to ballgowns. It’s important to note that either the computer or the mechanical system determines stitch length and width.
  2. Serging machines, which cut the fabric while sewing it, and make a single specialized stitch.
  3. Embroidery machines. These are similar to “regular” sewing machines, but with a wider table and extra parts for stretching out the area you’re embroidering. They also have a computer to track/calculate the stitches in a given embroidered image.

As far as I’m aware, software is only available for embroidery machines. The computers in anything less than the most expensive of home sewing machines are pretty simple, and I’m not even sure how you would access them. They don’t connect to wifi, and there are no ports in the machines except for power and the foot pedal.

For the use cases you listed, I recommend a basic “regular” sewing machine such as this one. Any regular sewing machine built in the past several decades will be able to use a variety of stitches out of the box.

For repairing socks specifically, I agree with the other poster who talked about zigzag and stretch stitches.

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Singer is one of the most popular brands so will be easiest to find parts for. Husqvarna and Brother are slightly less popular but still pretty popular. I’ve never heard of any other the other brands you listed. Some parts, like needles, are standardized. Others aren’t.

You can’t sew with two needles at once, but there is such thing as a double needle that’s used for special cases. More than likely you won’t need one. The second spool holder is most likely for 1) use with a double needle, 2) quickly swapping out thread colors or 3) actually a bobbin/spool winder and not actually for holding a spool you’re using.

As for stitch pattern symbols, each symbol is supposed to look like the stitch it creates. I would recommend trying to find a video showing all the stitches for whatever machine you pick. If you can’t find such a video, you can experiment with some scrap fabric.

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Do you have access to a sewing machine?

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I’ve been struggling to stay on the wagon for more than two days for the past several weeks. Weighed in this morning at 153.

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noooo it’s horrifying

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I floss and brush religiously every night, have for many years. I had a cavity when I was young and the whole experience was terrible.

I still ended up with multiple cavities as an adult.

How old were you when you were diagnosed (self or otherwise)? What was your journey to diagnosis? (lemmy.world)

For starters, I am self diagnosed. I have brought it up to my family doctor, therapist and psychiatrist a few times. Each time I was shut down because I either didn’t have problems with communication (or some other dated reasoning) or that there was no point to be diagnosed as an adult because there are no support systems for...

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My autistic dad frequently said that I was on the spectrum (always that exact phrase) but refused to have me diagnosed. I grew up just assuming that I had a high-functioning (as I need relatively few accommodations; my apologies if this is an outdated term) form of autism.

Now as an adult, I still don’t have the resources to get a professional diagnosis. I feel very much at home in groups like this; I have many of the symptoms of autism though not all; I got 136 on the RAADS-R test. That test was the tipping point that pushed me mentally from “strongly suspecting I’m autistic” to “self-diagnosed autistic”.

How does this instance feel about this growing pact against federating with Meta? (fedipact.online)

Meta/Instagram launched a new product called Threads today (working title project92). It adds a new interface for creating text posts and replying to them, using your Instagram account. Of note, Meta has stated that Threads plans to support ActivityPub in the future, and allow federation with ActivityPub services. If you...

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Great article, very enlightening for those of us who are too young to remember the early internet.

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