valhalla @valhalla@mastodon.social

My other fediverse accounts:

https://social.gl-como.it/profile/valhalla my main account, on a community-hosted instance of friendica. Sometimes it has long posts.

https://pixelfed.social/valhalla pixelfed, where I post WIP and just-finished pictures of the crafts I'm currently working on.

I stumbled on the patent for cutting charts on garment #sewingPatterns: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1443151A/en?q=butterick&q=
pattern&oq=butterick+pattern

“and suggesting uses for ,the scraps or pieces of material remaining after the garment parts have'been cut out”

WHY don't they print that part anymore??? #sewing #reducingWaste

Yesterday I had the courage to spin in public for the first time!

Of course this meant that in 15 minutes the spindle dropped once and half of the whorl twice (it's made of metal washers and it's not fixed so that it can be adjusted in weight).

And then I was alone, and of course everything worked fine :) )

My other fediverse accounts:

https://social.gl-como.it/profile/valhalla my main account, on a community-hosted instance of friendica. Sometimes it has long posts.

https://pixelfed.social/valhalla pixelfed, where I post WIP and just-finished pictures of the crafts I'm currently working on.

that's more than the two sheet of 120 g/m² paper I use (one for the fronts, one for the back), but not that much more.

I'd dread doing this with the system used in the US to measure paper weight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammage#Basis_weight

I've received a card game from the USA; as I put those cards inside protective sleeves I wondered if they were significantly thicker than the paper I use for print-to-play games (in the same sleeves).

I weighted the 27 cards that didn't have a sleeve yet on my kitchen scale (it measured 40g).

Since the cards are 57 x 86 mm I could just convert that to meters, multiply 0.057 * 0.086 * 26 to get the area of those cards in meters and found that they are on ~300 g/m² paper.

useless fact of the day: marketing used to mean the set of skills used when going to the markets and shops to buy groceries and household needs.

You can easily find instances of this use in many household management manuals of the 19th century.

TIL: IKEA is subtly putting proper sized paper in the hands of unsuspecting children in the USA :D

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30193323/

(they don't say it explicitly, but that's A4 and A3 paper in 100 and 120 g/m² — for comparison regular office paper is 80 g/m²)

I've made myself a notebook cover with a pocket for pens and realized two things:

* I've "lost" one of my frixions (it's probably somewhere around the house)
* dip pens are nice and everything, but not very portable. maaaaaybe I may have need also a fountain pen. maybe.

Today I've finally managed to have time to gather chestnuts with my SO.

We went there late, ~1 hour before sunset (and met other people with bags), but were still able to get 7 hg.

looking forwards to roast them and then OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom……………

Today's lunch: raw fennel with tuna sauce (canned tuna in oil, pickled cucumber, pickled capers, anchovies sauce, ginger).

bento safe, quick to make, and yummy.

Now, if the weather had been sunny and warm like two days ago (when I've had soup) instead of raining it would have been even more suitable, but one can't have everything