@rick yeah used a mouse for those types. Angles can be pretty precise

@mametsuko could have thrown that program and my printer out the window though

I love my boi Fat Tuna.

Especially the AT(elite) version, whenever he does the flying belly slam, someone in my group carts immediately lol

idk who needs this but i made it for u

@mametsuko mame living the dream. I was only fighting IT-stuff this weekend. But good progress was made with the new sewing project!

Well that was… something… I decided to do some preparations to make the next sewing project. And oh boy what did I get myself into.

I will make a dress this time. A nice JSK from Otome no Sewing again. This time a very old Issue. Number two. What it looked like in the magazine you can see in the first image.

I thought it might be a good idea to learn new skills again for sewing. So far I did buy the patterns for the stuff from the Otome no Sewing Books from a pattern-service. Basically a service that would make the pattern with the measures provided in the magazine.

I thought why not try it myself for a change? (although I technically did already buy the pattern from the service)

Did some research for a CAD-program to make sewing patterns with. Came across an article that presents some programs. Most paid but also a free and open-source: Seamly2D!

And good god. While you can make the pattern pieces more or less easy. Like putting stuff in is fine but could be so much better when it would be more intuitive/user friendly.

The program infuriated me! Like imagine you wanna make a basic shape consisting of some edges and points. Easy enough use the Line-Tool. But why the hell is the tool deselected EVERY TIME after I made 1 Edge. Wanna make more edges? Reselect the tool EACH AND EVERY TIME!

How to waste time… I guess they really want you to learn the shortcuts… Maybe its also case of RTFM? Program works but is frustrating to use. I won’t talk about everything… but the layout tool is utter trash. Like it exists. It just throws your pieces on the paper HOWEVER. People generally tell you to not use it. Rather export the layout as a PDF and go from there.

Made the pattern after some frustrations with magazine itself. They somehow made the measurements a little hard to figure out. But maybe that since its an old magazine. Most stuff should be correct. The two pieces with curves I hope will be good.

But oh my I would fight even more tech today lol. I heard in a tutorial you can use stuff like Adobe Acrobat or Foxit Reader to divide the big PDF (exported from Seamly2D) into smaller pieces for printing. Both have a “Poster”-Function.

I dunno why the hell I could not just provide measurements for the grid or something… Both programs decided to to cut the PDF… Somehow. Not in A4. Likely if my pdf would been a multiple of A4 this would have worked?

So I have gone back to my tried and true method: using GIMP and a grid in A4-sizing. I could then copy each A4 into another file.

Then my printer decided to act up. Toner was empty. Okay have a new one since I still had that same test-toner in it you get with the printer. Lasted quite well tbh.

Gone to printing… Linux kinda sucked here. I dunno why but even when I said to print without scaling the test cube was just a little bit too small (4,9cm instead of the 5cm it should have).

So tested on windows. Scaling was fine. But windows really hated my printer somehow and dropped it. It would just error after printing 8 pages.

Reinstalled HP offline drivers. That was going kinda bad tbh. The driver would for the life of it not detect the printer over USB. Then it did. I can print but I can’t check like remaining toner capacity… Not under windows or linux with hplip.

But it prints and it scans. So I will just leave it alone tbh.

Got all the stuff printed and glued together. And then cut out the pattern pieces.

Looking forward to making the test-piece for the JSK to check fitment and make adjustments where needed. I just really need to try it and see it before me so I know what adjustments are needed.

#Sewing

@Erpel You just have to visit them.

@Erpel @rick got it working somehow again though it is still very woozy

I am ready to throw the printer into the next wall ffs

@kadse

@mametsuko Hoi Mame

@snow morning snow

@epsi Ah yes the purest german experience (getting deutsche bahned)

wave to your friends epsi!

@aetios Budget James Hoffmann (alias @steph ) will close in on your location rapidly.

@cidra Who is going to tell them to come to fedi though

Dass der Papst mal nen stabileren take zu KI hat als so mancher laute Nerd aus dem CCC war nicht auf meiner 2026 Bingo Karte.

@Johann150 though the bottles are quite nice even if LTT "only" added the design

@mametsuko Hoi Mame

@aetios @wizard I only know sweet apple strudel lol. This one is... a choice