Notices by Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)

For months he's worked at clawing off the protective film on my new PC case. Today, he finally did it! I let him unroll it until he started trying to chew it, and then took the rest off. 😆

#Cats

Two of three boys, napping!

#Cats #CatsOnQuilts

In deference to the coming of winter soon I've shaved off most of but not all of my hair in what Finnish colloquially calls "ananastukka", pineapple hair. Since it's nothing on the sides or back, and there's just a little tuft on the top. As a hairstyle it's a firm favourite of lesbians, bisexuals and little boys riding BMX, but mostly I love the word. 🍍

Shout-out to all the reasonable languages that use the proper ananas and all its cognates, also!

@quixoticgeek 😬 That's worrisome even without any further data!

The sir! He sat on there for quite some time, incredibly not aware of what damage it would do if he'd tipped the sewing machine onto the floor again. 😄

#Cats

Idly thought of this descriptor for knitting speed while I was doing the dishes: "Like a turbo-grandmother on untreated ADHD, unlimited coffee and a DVD box set of her favourite shows." Which is to say, fast.

I feel like it's fairly expressive, so I wanted to let you read it also, if it'll be of some use or joy!

The committee, led by spokesman, lodging multiple polite requests

#Cats #TripleCat

Hey, what's that nice video about what Mastodon/Fediverse is, with the pretty graphics and user photos and such? I am having a terrible time looking for it!

Edit: Thank you, answered!

Very much related, could you also pitch me an instance that is the following: Trans-femme friendly, with a book and/or games community, anti-AI. European server, ideally! I am asking for a Finnish friend who is also into World of Darkness, goth things and cats, and writes!

I'm happy with mine, but if there's another more tailored option that would be great also. 😄

Hello, hi! If it pleases you, please briefly describe to me one of your favourite memories that cost absolutely nothing or practically nothing, but has stuck with you! Peak broke life, I could say.

I'll start with that one time me and a friend climbed on top of a roof (via ladders and walkways, not the tiles, the roof was safe) at four in the morning to drink over-brewed cheap tea from a thermos, talked and looked at the clouds instead of sleeping.

@FiddleSix I'm genuinely glad you asked! It's most to do with the water temperature and the amount of agitation needed.

Cotton in general washes better when the water is hot and when there's a bunch of agitation, so a longer program. (On my machine the suggested program is 2h 20min at 60C, for example.) This is fine. Spin cycle it as harsh as you want to, too, as a plant fibre it soaks up a lot of liquid and dries slowly.

But when you wash synthetics, often containing elasthane and spandex etc, those do degrade very fast when the water is hot and there is a lot of agitation. Hot and long also leads to more microplastic shedding, I'm fairly sure! You may also want to use a different detergent for the two, or different amounts. They also dry faster, so less spinning required, less wear on the clothing and washing machine, and less energy expended.

Laundry tips and opinions which were requested:

Using fabric softener will make cotton feel clammy and greasy, and give it a mildewy smell. Fabric conditioning helps with staticky plastic fibres but isn't necessary for natural fibres! Just wash without. Never put it on towels, it stops their absorption powers. You can use a little bit of vinegar instead of fabric softener, it will have a mild smell when wet, dries odourless.

Line drying is less wear on clothes than dryer but live your life if you have no place to dry them!

Bedding needs to be washed super hot occasionally! Towels, too!

If your shirts smell terrible because you've been sweating into them, soak them in the sink with a cup of vinegar in room temperature water, rinse, wash normally. This kills a lot of mildew and helps break apart organic residue.

Liquid laundry detergent is silly! Just get detergent in powder form, you're spared the plastic bottles and no heavy liquids are ferried around.
Soap nuts are great if you're allergic to everything but soap nuts. They're not even nuts and are compostable!

A lot of the washing instructions are LIES. You can literally boil 100% cotton and it's fine! You'd be amazed how much dry clean only is not! Polyester and cotton will be just dandy in 60 Celsius - the manufacturers play it safe because some dyes fade in hotter temps. Cheaply made clothes may shrink, but if it's stinky, take the risk!

Here’s goth icon Bianca The Closet Historian telling you about pattern drafting for sewing but also just life: “Dare to be terrible."

“The difference in almost any success is perseverance. You have to be willing to be terrible. And then you have to be willing to keep going.”
About 8 minutes long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHAyi79Dd28

#PatternDrafting #Sewing

Due to the postal fuck-up I still don't have my thread to finish the waist, and thus am reduced to making a little needle case just because. Am attempting some roses. I don't have any green thread for the leaves of course, but that's a problem for Sini of Tomorrow!

#Embroidery

All I want in life is to put some beads on some embroidery, but this should also occupy me for a while in general.

I don't think it's resembling a rose very much, but it's got colours and shapes and that is pleasing to me. :blob_cat_flower:

I am most certainly still learning things actively as I go, we'll see where this one ends up. I figure the threads will also squish and spread out quite a bit as I inevitably press the heck out of it once I sew it onto the actual fabric where the needles go, this is just the cover!

Continued with the keeping hands busy project, and finished the big flower apart from the beads and whatever I may still want to still put on there... Half finished the little one apart from the edge finish. The little flower looks a bit too different, but I'm telling myself not to unpick and redo it, since it's just a needle case. 😄 Today I might attempt some leaves and vines.

#Embroidery

It feels like it's been eleven million years, but I've finally gotten to the actual beading, and shall continue to add random shit until it feels right! Need to put on the narrow binding on at some point also. Wish I had pale gold beads but alas, those are also lost in transit!

#Embroidery #Sewing

Dear tabletop role playing comrades and strangers of the Fediverse, help my friend find a new game to run! This is what they want:
"Looking for recommendations for TTRPGs where the player's character is slowly revealed/built as the game goes on. Ideally a system that works for a solo player and a DM, is heavily narrative/story focused, and works with a sci-fi setting."

I humbly request your boost and your suggestions should you be aware of nice, probably indie games, for them to try!

#TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #IndieRPG