21:14: First asterisk sewed!

Positioning the second…

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22:17. Final part…

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21:44. Second asterisk done. Positioning the third…

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21:28. Inserted strings at the top.

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20:18. Testing the positioning of the first asterisk…

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21:14: First asterisk sewed!

Positioning the second…

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⁂ FEDICAPE — The Making of

I got an idea! I decided to make a CAPE with the Fediverse Symbol for #39C3

Of course I got the idea SUPER LATE, I am leaving tomorrow morning at 7:00 from Sanremo.

Here is how it happened.

13:00. We were having the Christmas lunch with the whole family at my grandma’s and I was telling my cousins how INCREDIBLE Congress is, and how people go around dressed with the most insane things.

I started brewing the idea of something to make and wear myself over the afternoon, while napping at my parents’.

17:47. I call grandma D, the most expert sewer of the family.

“NONNAAA I WANNA MAKE A CAPE! Do you have any big pieces of fabric?” “No… I only have bedsheets…”

I call Nonna Gorix, who proudly calls herself my “trovarobe” (literally “things-finder”). I ask her the same thing. She tells me to come over, and we start looking in her stuff, as you see here:

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20:18. Testing the positioning of the first asterisk…

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19:50. In the meanwhile, I am cutting a piece of paper to make an asterisk, then we are transferring them on black fabric, cutting it three times, to finally compose an asterism.

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19:40. After cutting the fabric, Nonna D starts sewing it back together.

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19:20. I get at Nonna D’s.

The kitchen table, where we used to sew, is ready for dinner, we can’t use it.

We go in a bedroom, and she tries to figure out how to convert the cloth in a cape. We gotta cut it and change the shape!

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We couldn’t find anything big enough, until…

“Tommi, why don’t we use the cloth below the Christmas tree? 👀”

So we took that.

17:50. We have fabric!!!!!

I call Nonna D: “Nonna Gorix gave me something! I am coming for dinner, let’s make this cake 🤟🤟🤟”

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#Fediverse #FediverseSymbol #CCC #Congress #cape #FediCape #sewing #asterism #39C3

⁂ FEDICAPE — The Making of

I got an idea! I decided to make a CAPE with the Fediverse Symbol for #39C3

Of course I got the idea SUPER LATE, I am leaving tomorrow morning at 7:00 from Sanremo.

Here is how it happened.

13:00. We were having the Christmas lunch with the whole family at my grandma’s and I was telling my cousins how INCREDIBLE Congress is, and how people go around dressed with the most insane things.

I started brewing the idea of something to make and wear myself over the afternoon, while napping at my parents’.

17:47. I call grandma D, the most expert sewer of the family.

“NONNAAA I WANNA MAKE A CAPE! Do you have any big pieces of fabric?” “No… I only have bedsheets…”

I call Nonna Gorix, who proudly calls herself my “trovarobe” (literally “things-finder”). I ask her the same thing. She tells me to come over, and we start looking in her stuff, as you see here:

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#Fediverse #FediverseSymbol #CCC #Congress #cape #FediCape #sewing #asterism

New account, so it's time for #Introductions.

Hi, I'm the proprietress of Evergreen Sewing, a woman-owned benefit LLC based in Milwaukie, OR and serving the #PDX area!

Evergreen does #sewing machine repair and resale. The company is dedicated to empowering creators, reducing waste, and promoting #SlowFashion.

We're easing into business with a soft launch in January 2026, and expecting the hard launch the next month.

Happy to be here!

New account, so it's time for #Introductions.

Hi, I'm the proprietress of Evergreen Sewing, a woman-owned benefit LLC based in Milwaukie, OR and serving the #PDX area!

Evergreen does #sewing machine repair and resale. The company is dedicated to empowering creators, reducing waste, and promoting #SlowFashion.

We're easing into business with a soft launch in January 2026, and expecting the hard launch the next month.

Happy to be here!

Today I am putting the finishing touches on a soft, warm #Hanten. Hand sewing down the collar.

My neighbour, Ana, two doors down, is of a venerable age. I saw her looking pretty frail the other day. She was complaining about being cold in her house, but that spending all day in her fuzzy bathrobe didn’t seem dignified. So I decided to make her something to keep her warm. #sewing

Trying to decide which kind of spikes to put down the back of my nephew's dinosaur hoodie.
Any opinions?

I asked my husband and he was supremely unhelpful, saying any of them would work. 😅

#sewing

#SilentSunday #sewing

Thinking about this old book I read, "How to make over old dresses" by Augusta Prescott, 1892. In it she tells us how to take apart, wash, possibly re-dye and then make a new dress out of an old one... And past the whole of "a good housewife simply must properly clothe her legion of children" it's fascinating. How much effort went into it, because if you weren't rich, that was good fabric and you had to make do!

https://archive.org/details/how-to-make-over-old-dresses/mode/2up

#OldManuals #Victorian #Sustainability #Sewing