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@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl
2025-09-17 15:14:19

@… #sewing
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Amusing sewing anecdote:

Oscar Cunningham (@OscarCunningham@mathstodon.xyz)
@byorgey Have you seen Zeeman's paper 'Mathematics Applied to Dressmaking'? It has this anecdote in it. > I once saw an innocent-looking instruction in an American dress pattern, saying: 'Slip the lining over the dress, machine round the neck and armholes, and then turn it inside out'. In fact it was shown to me with wry amusement by the very lady who had written the instruction, and who had lost her job as a result of that one sentence. For the dress-pattern firm had been inundated by furious…

@fesoj@ruhr.social
2025-08-11 18:59:21

Thanks to @… for bringing a sewing machine! I did a quick project I had in my head for a long time: a small lens case for one of my lenses. Turned out to be a good fit. #why2025 #sewing

An empty gray bag standing up. In the background is part of a sewing machine and some utensils visible.
A camera lens half covered in a nearly finished lens case. It is laying on a sewing machine on its side.
The finished bag with a pink lanyard for closing the bag and a lens inside.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-13 17:29:45

Coda to my re-make of a raggedy towel (where I made the threadbare bits overlap to rejuvenate the whole thing - see up-thread).
This smaller piece was left over and only a little bit threadbare, and I put a bit of orange zigzag stitching round it! Just seemed like a nice colour :-)
(50p coin for scale)
#mending #sewing #ZigzagStitch

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-07 11:07:04

I can already forecast that this unpatched, single-layer segment will probably be where the next hole goes through :-) Could have pre-emptively patched that too if I'd wanted to! Maybe another day :-)
#sewing #mending

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-07 10:58:21

Before and after of my latest bit of mending! An old towel rejuvenated at a smaller size!
I _could_ have just retired this one and used it as scraps to patch another one. But on the other hand, past-me put in some time and effort to add that loop for hanging it up, and I was thinking that if I could turn it back into a good towel, that'd eke out some more use of _that_ bit of work. So that's what I decided to do.
#sewing #mending

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-02 21:31:47

I did a mend!
Good shorts survive another day.
(they're pretty comfortable and have excellent pockets!)
I didn't have an exactly matching thread, so the thread is a little bit greener than the shorts. So maybe it counts as slightly-visible mending.
#sewing #mending