not a motocompo but still @epsi might enjoy that one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00SUbs4CElM

I finished my trousers!

Over a year ago I set out on the project to make myself a pair of trousers, copied from an old pair of hiking trousers that I liked. I'd never done any sewing of that complexity.
I used a 40-year-old sewing machine and did a lot of hand basting.
It was quite a learning experience. It's amazing how many pieces there are in such a garment, how many little details.

I cut the old trousers open at the seams, laid the pieces out on the floor and calculated the size of the fabric.

The fabric I used is 100% cotton, 110 cm wide, 217 g/sqm and I needed 2.5 m.

The trousers don't have a crotch seam. Instead there is a gusset that runs the whole length of the legs. There is also a yoke and lots of other details like darts at the knees and fancy front pockets. The hardest part was the zip, I had to redo that. I did the buttonhole by hand.

I know it's kind of expected to post pictures but in the end this is just a rather plain grey pair of trousers, not much to see.

#sewing #clothesmaking

If you use Linux, this is your final boss.

What is that emote-reaction mame?

I should maybe actually get up and do some breakfast...

Anything generally useful will be used for evil.

@volpeon will like this one...for sure

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GrahamFluster/115154698734593910

Für morgen habe ich geplant, mich bei meinen Eltern zu outen.

Beide sind schon über 70 und ich habe die Sorge, dass es gar nicht gut laufen wird.

Immerhin reden wir meine Freunde gut zu und sagen, ich soll es endlich hinter mich bringen.

Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich ChatGPT gefragt, ob es aus meinem Avatar einen passenden Chibi-Anime Charakter bauen könnte.

Scheinbar kennt ich auch ChatGPT ganz gut 😅

@NeonPurpleStar If you could turn electricity you would earn a nobel prize for that tbh

Dunno why I have a feeling some people on here would to have such a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0

Einschlafen

Unser Steuersystem ist wie ein planlos geschriebenes CSS File:

- append only
- akkumuliert immer mehr übertrieben spezifische Regelungen
- die obigen Probleme verschärfen sich mit jeder Revision.

Meine Empfehlung: neu schreiben mit einem fancy JavaScript Framework, das schon morgen out of Fashion ist, um die nächste Generation von Legacy System nachhaltig zu zementieren.

some bunny practice doodles for tonight

I love it how stupidly big patterns for skirts can get. I have this pattern for a 3-tiered skirt I printed out on A4 papers.

It is glorious! 9 sheets of A4-papers were needed to get the bottom-most layer of the skirt. Gotta love how much fabric a pleated skirt uses lol.

More lessons learned today,

If a recipe calls for preserved lemons (thats lemons preserved with salt) you better have preserved lemons at home or make yourself some in advance.

Don't be an idiot like me and use fresh lemons the same as preserved lemons.

tbh I have known that zest of lemons is bitter. Did use them like preserved ones anyway.

The dish will taste super bad and bitter because of it.

A preserved lemon will I think not taste that bitter because of the salt and fermentation. So you can use them whole.

There was an attempt made at cooking today a really bad one

learned something new about that printer I recently bought.

Seemingly it gets too hot after printing like 40 pages in one go and needs to cool down a bit before continuing the larger print.

Thats kinda fun and quirky