sinituulia

sinituulia, 9 months ago to random

Hey, does anybody know things about ergonomic mice? My hands are very small and I have a bunch of RSIs and bad joints (my elbow and the nerves within are the worst, but my shoulder is bad also and my clicker finger needs a splint sometimes), and I'm once again idly thinking about getting an #Ergonomic mouse. Do they actually help?
Is it feasible to just have two mice plugged in and use whichever one feels best at the moment, or will that just result in a new and exciting stress injury?

sinituulia, 4 months ago to random

Bizarre knowledge I am building up: the effects, advantages and disadvantages of the different materials, shapes and designs of skirt hangers. You wouldn't believe how different levels of useless to excellent they can be when your use case is very heavy Victorian skirts and petticoats and slightly less heavy 18th century petticoats

sinituulia, 6 months ago to random

Watching a video about the lack of Third Places, places where you gather, socialise and form community bonds without it necessarily costing you anything or much...
Started thinking about how in the 1600s and onwards coffee houses would pop up in England and they were the first places where people of (nearly) all classes would go to get caffeinated, eat, talk to strangers and listen to academics, poets and abstracted talky people debate each other. (Very paraphrased, here 😄​)
Anyway!

sinituulia, 7 months ago to FiberArts

Making a super basic and simple (and zero waste) petticoat for a house skirt. This half of an old duvet cover is a very thick, dense and very very soft cotton.

I folded the sheet, marked a 4cm dip along one side and cut there, to make the centre front 8cm shorter than the back. Machine stitched side seams, then felled down the seam allowance by hand. Currently in process of hemming.

#Sewing #UpCycling

Showing the side seam and the slits, originally called, and I suppose still functioning as, pocket slits... The seam is sewn together up until 20cm from the top edge, from which point the seam allowance has been felled down into a rolled hem. The seam allowance of the seam has been felled down. There are barely visible and loosely but evenly spaced whipstitches.
Basting stitches all along the bottom hem, which has been turned with a 4cm deep hem. The basting or tacking stitches are very widely placed, but the fabric has been ironed to hold the hem and seems to have no trouble doing so. The lighting in the photo is much darker than in the first one, denoting sunset.

sinituulia, 6 months ago to random

Pondering on life without gluten: I've been a Coeliac disease sufferer for 13 years and am mostly as used to it as anything, but sometimes I stop to think how much trouble and how much sadness my mom had when it activated in her. My mother's mother had it, her sister has it, my brother has it and his kid has it... (And mine and my brother's "woke up" after the same seasonal flu! Autoimmune disorders are fascinating and viral illnesses fucking suck!)

For me, I'd already been used to no longer being able to just casually eat anything and everything everybody else was, because I'd been vegan for years and vegetarian even longer at that point, AND I used to be allergic to nuts, especially almond and pistachio. (Stopped being allergic around the time I started the gluten free diet. Autoimmune disorders, fascinating!)

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sinituulia, 4 months ago to random

I've been wearing whatever is next on the clothes rack to go through all of them because with The Wormening I kinda want to wash all of them even after freezing them, but can't be bothered to rewash theoretically clean clothes.

It's silly cold today (because the temperature outside is much warmer than it has been, but it's colder inside??) and thus I'm wearing a linen vest on top of my nice white Victorian button up shirt, for warmth. And it is nice to just wear the fancy thing for no reason

sinituulia, 1 year ago to random

Last night, after spinning on my chair for several hours, I caved in and started working on the lingerie. I cut out the fabrics for two bras and one pants. It is deeply funny to me how little fabric the tiny little pieces take up, because you can jigsaw puzzle them like heck.
I can't be arsed to articulate a post with pictures about it and since they're bought patterns, the instructions and such are somebody's livelihood...

But you can just make your own underwear! You can buy whatever materials you like in whatever colours! Padding, no padding, wire, no wire, grading between two different sizes for immense ass and small waist, or the reverse! Whatever band size you like with whatever cup size! It's great!

#Sewing

sinituulia, 2 days ago to random

Reminded of this feature of Roman architecture, and 1700s European milk parlour or cheese house architecture that I vaguely recall and am too tired to currently re-look into: The Roman villas would have an open air room inside the walls of the house, shaded by overhanging roofs, and there would also be pools of water. The combination of circulation, shade and water evaporation would keep it one of the coolest rooms in the building.
(Vague recollections, please link a good article if handy!)

sinituulia, 11 months ago to handsewing

But Sini, what do you wear when it's hot enough that you forgo your general policy of not being sassy on the internet?
A linen shift! In case you didn't know what that is, it's one of the most enduring garments ever, a simple long shirt built out of rectangles and triangles, extremely frugal in fabric use. When hand sewn, nearly indestructible.
Also my linen bedgown, another 18th century fabric use efficient garment, when a desire to be slightly less boobalicious strikes.

#HistoryBounding #HandSewing #Sewing

Photo of the same, but with a horizontally striped loose open jacket on top. There are no closures and it resembles a kimono in fit and construction. She is looking to her right and down. The garment is knee length and slightly longer at the sides, where the long bias seams from under the arm are cut on the diagonal.

sinituulia, 10 months ago to random

Does anybody have anything to say about #Epson printers as a whole? I had a nice 7 year old workhorse of a Canon printer whose Obsolescence Chip gave up the ghost today. Looking into it, Epson seems to be the only home office calibre manufacturer that still lets you use the same universal ink cartridges instead of a dozen different non-interchangeable and non-refillable ones?

sinituulia, 8 months ago to Cats

Gaze upon him 🧡​

Karvinen does this thing where he gets up on his little behind and puts his paws in the air when he is making considerate demands. If you put your hands close enough, he'll grasp them so he can stay sitting and firmly insist. He won't let go unless you take the hands away, and thus you can jiggle the entire cat.

#Cats #gif

Similar, but a lesser quality photo, from a different day. He is sitting lower down, his front paws suspended in air and placed upon Sini's hand. He is staring directly at Sini again, who is slightly left from where the camera lens was.

A gif of the same, from a different angle. He is determinedly sitting upright with both of his front paws holding onto Sini's hand, the toes curled around her fingers. He is looking at Sini with slightly slitted eyes, but very determined whiskers, resolutely ignoring how he is being bodily wiggled because Sini is moving the hand he is holding onto. The entire cat moves, his back feet staying still, the rest of the feline jelly-like. He is giving off the impression of grace under trying circumstances.

sinituulia, 2 months ago to random

Have done all the top-stitching on the quilt and trimmed out the edges. I only have the binding to put on and I'm both completely ready to never see a quilt in my fucking life and very keen to get it on there, so I can do something other than work on it. Every five minutes I tip between "oh it looks nice" and "this is the worst thing ever created"

Process fatigue is real 😐​ Perhaps it is another break time. I'm so glad I made the binding earlier and don't have to make it now.

#Quilting

sinituulia, 6 months ago to FiberArts

Assorted personal tips for #Sewing a button up shirt, a thread 🧵 1/?​

The easiest time to make the button placket and to put on buttonholes & mark down button placement is when the front is still entirely flat.
Just ironing things down, when cut on the straight of grain, you don't actually even need to use pins to sew it and it will go faster.

(Look at the fun colour gradient thread I used for the buttonholes!)

The front piece of a shirt with the two large bust darts drawn in but not sewn yet, with the folded button placket shown from the reverse. It has been ironed down and looks rather tidy.

sinituulia, 2 months ago to sustainability

Your periodical reminder that all clothing is hand made by humans, usually underpaid!
Polyester doesn't breathe and sheds microplastics when manufactured, worn and washed!
Cotton farming takes immense amounts of water and pesticides!
Viscose can be made from recycled fibres & waste cellulose, but it's a fairly toxic process!
Linen is more ecological to grow but expensive!

"But what do I wear then, Sini?"
The garments you already own, until they fall apart or someone else needs them!
#Sustainability #FastFashion #WorkersRights

sinituulia, 7 months ago to FiberArts

Another little #Sewing project!

First image is my entire pattern. We got taught this 1:10 scale method of #PatternDrafting in dressmaking school. 1mm on paper corresponds to 1cm in actual size. It's an extremely easy and quick way to make rough drafts and even geometric calculations: if you know one measurement but not the other, and use very fine pencil or pen, you can simply measure it off the paper. (More below, if you're curious)

sinituulia, 14 days ago to random

Idly thinking about keffiyeh and where people are buying them from. While it's been part of resistance fashion here since the 1970s and people have thus owned them, surely there must have been a massive spike recently with everybody protesting. I got mine from the thrift shop over 10 years ago (I have so many scarves, it's an entire hoard) but I kinda doubt they're just on sale in "normal" fast fashion chain stores. How do you clothe all of Malmö showing up to protest in a sea of keffiyeh?

sinituulia, 11 months ago to random

Meanwhile, I've finished six of perhaps the tidiest buttonholes in my life, and have surrendered to my desire to use backing buttons (is there an actual word for these?) for #TheWashableLinenVest

If nobody ever told you how much nicer it is to sew on buttons using a backing button, I'm telling you. They'll also prevent wear on your clothes, making them last longer... and are easy to just cut off versus unpicking, if you ever need to move the buttons.

#Sewing

sinituulia, 11 months ago to random

It is I, your olden times clothing propagandist:

I poured coffee all over my house skirt today and am out of other clean comfy options so I put on one of my 18th century petticoats.
They're just two rectangles of fabric, pleated onto two waistbands or ties! Extremely adjustable! Options for separate pockets! Simple and cute! Bring them back 😄​

#HistoryBounding #Sewing #18thCentury

A short clip of Sini standing in her living room, wearing a normal black modern button down shirt with its sleeves rolled up, as well as a floor length brown skirt. It is two full widths of fabric pleated onto the waist, with the front half of it visibly tied behind her back. The ties are beige and in a neat little bow. The fullness of the skirt flares out in a pleasing way when she does a little spin. She is wearing an ivory and blue flower pattern head scarf. There is assorted living room and workspace junk in the frame.

sinituulia, 15 days ago to random

Thinking about the Extremely Subtle And Understated Symbolism For Fertility painting again (Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, c.1620–5, Sir Nathaniel Bacon)
All the lovingly and painstakingly crafted cabbages. The lovely bosom-forward lass holding that pumpkin? All the erect carrots? The shape of the wreath? So subtle! Incredible. 😆

#ArtHistory #OilPaintings

sinituulia, 7 months ago to FiberArts

Impromptu #Sewing projects, aka when cat claws meet very worn fabric: Had to fix up the old house skirt with even more #VisibleMending than previous.

Top-stitched on a very big patch of scrap batiste and cut away the destroyed back. My hands are not working super right today, so it's not very neat, but I took the time to take off and re-apply the smaller patch to make it look more put together.

A top down view of the entire applied patch. It is roughly the size a medium dog would take up when sitting down. Or the size of a cat napping in the croissant pose. The edges of the patch have been stitched on with a pink thread in two lines that are not quite parallel. It's neater in places but as a whole looks a bit erratic, because the skirt was tough to manage under the sewing machine with tired hands. There's a pair of scissors and a keyboard in the frame.
A close up photo of a pretty small patch overlaid on top of the very large patch. It has been sewn on by hand, with two lines of pink parallel stitching. It is much neater than the machine sewing, which has multiple dips and wanders a bit. There is a multitude of cat hair. The patches themselves are pleasant geometric shapes next to and overlapping each other, it looks kinda fun.

sinituulia, 8 months ago to random

The inexorable march of time, progress and crabs 🦀​

I have turned 35 and I got this cute Progress pride flag crab shirt as a birthday gift! Otherwise I have received household appliances as is appropriate for my age, I guess 😂​

Photos taken by my mom, who is very sweet. Also cats.

Another of the same, but this time with two cats and absolutely no posing. Sini is looking down and smiling at the cats. The orange tabby cat is standing on his back legs, front paw braced on her shin, receiving head pets. The Brown tabby cat is walking past, a partially blurry cat shape. The photo is not in focus but is lovely.

sinituulia, 3 months ago to random

Nearly every day I check in here, look at the meaningful and interesting things people are doing and saying, and just slide out a nice cat photo and leave it at that

sinituulia, 3 months ago to random

Random thoughts: I wonder if an Ikea would make for a terrible or a really good fortress for a community in a zombie apocalypse

A lot of furniture and beds, tools and whatever. Kind of a natural maze. But also pretty open?

sinituulia, 3 months ago to Cats

Behold some pampered fucking cats!

Every step taken towards this made sense individually, but I did still kind of look at the boys eating a gourmet cat food from a limited edition designer plate, on the table, with their nice little food tray and water bowl with setting plate under it... and think "This is a bit much, isn't it?" 😂​

#Cats

sinituulia, 6 months ago to visibleMending

I am very easily influenced by textile craft videos so I guess I'll be doing this for the foreseeable future.

#VisibleMending embroidery to take off stress from the spot between two patches that I didn't want to overlap. It's just a fancier and thicker cotton machine stitching thread, but it's quite pretty.