Notices by Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)

@mavu A good pocket requires either drafting experience or multiple experiments in the best shape... Both things that are easy enough to cut out of the process for cost savings! Although I don't know if we've seen such humongous and slippery phones before. 😅 Some vest pockets would be much better suited for flat objects, like books, but nobody wears vests any more, I guess

@wokstation Ironing is an essential part of sewing, so the iron and board is always out! But it's also out now, as I'm listening to the eldritch tale of a plant monster subsuming an entire house, riveted, while also coincidentally ironing Everything. 😶

Putting an unreasonable quantity of linen things through the wash instead of anything else from Laundry Mountain just so I can have things to iron for an hour of three, so I can focus on this fucking podcast because I apparently cannot unless I have something to do with my hands, and am regrettably sans any hand sewing. 😶

@Triffen My mom as a youth would not let her mother do her laundry, because she always ruined her clothes somehow, but in the eighties she was already married with kids in a big city. But the laundry machine definitely still lived in the cow barn, which also had the single horse stall, sauna, wet room, outhouse and hay loft! It was right next to the milking machine, and the big wood stove and water tank they used to heat the water for the laundry and sauna. 😄 Only the main building had warm water! "We don't need another water line, we'll just pump it in and heat it like we've always done."

@Triffen Also: "We can't get rid of the water heater. What are the cats going to sleep on when it gets cold if we do? There's no cows for them to sleep on, any more!"

Cottagecore, but not cottagecore like a twee little white girl putting a lace hanky and cute jars on a desk. Cottagecore like your ancestral grandmother with her calves of steel, getting ready to do the inevitable laundry in the huge copper cauldron right after hauling half her body weight in hay to feed the cows 😶

Wanted to make this yesterday, but was too tired, so I badly made it today. Now with more swearing!

#ChronicIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes

Gaze upon me finally documenting my works! A brief five part thread of photos, with guest appearances by cats.

Main garments sewn this year with shirts and layers made in the years before. Taken by me in my living room, which is how the boys can participate as they please. 😂 Further details in the posts below.

🧵 1/5

#HistoricalFashion #Sewing

For morale purposes I have once again donned my guillotine earrings.

Do a bit of mending, stab something many many times. Also cat.

#SewingWithCats #Mending

A cat on a quilt, for your #CatsOnQuilts needs!
He really likes napping right there, it's his spot.

#Cats

I present to you a collection of the boys being cute today and yesterday:

#Cats #CatsOnQuilts

And, the pièce de résistance:

#Cats #CatsOnQuilts

I figure I'm gonna go through my bookmarked cat gifs and retoot the best of them, as a public service. Feel free to mute me for today should you not wish to see a million cat gifs of the boys!

@laumapret @valhalla What you have here is a stress point, to no matter what you do to it it's going to be under strain... So what I'd do is reinforce the whole bit where the threads of the fabric have pulled towards the seam. A sort of half circle shape patch should do it, but a half diamond or triangle is a lot easier to hem. I'd try finagling the threads back towards their original spot with the help of a needle and a lot of pinching, too. And since you're already putting in a patch, you could also extend the seam allowance itself via the patch, so there's slightly more room and less stress on the spot, or it's just gonna fray again!
I'm gonna make a morning cup of tea and draw a shitty little illustration of what I'd do, a moment...

@laumapret @valhalla Apologies for the shakiness, it's cold so my hands don't work and Karvinen was licking me. 😆 In any case, put a patch in, redraw the fabric edge at that spot only, then straight seam (with hand or by machine) and fell the seam as per Bernadette and historical techniques by hand. The edge of the patch can be sandwiched within the seam. Any kind of thin fabric will do for the patch, if it's going under it doesn't even need to be linen as long as it's not black. (Though patching with whatever you have at hand is also historically accurate...)

The following is the exchange between users latining and memecucker, from an ancient, cherished post on Tumblr. My notes are unclear which is which, but it goes roughly as follows:

"User A: You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus.”
The people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.

User B: I took the bus for three years when I lived in Honolulu and haven’t lived anywhere with even usable public transit since, but in those three years I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very fucking Weird.

Kid one the bus next to me whose backpack starts moving and it turns out he’s got three chickens and a painted turtle he caught in there? This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been catching small game and transporting it home in whatever they had since we invented bags to put chickens and turtles in.

I traded him three king-size snickers bars I had on me for the turtle because I vaguely remembered that many freshwater turtles were toxic to eat (incorrectly, as it turns out, but this was when I still had a Nokia Brick that lived a blissful, internet-free existence), and didn’t want him accidentally poisoning his family, but didn’t want to just. Steal his hard-won turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been cautious about poisons, looking out for strangers kids and bartering shit since before we were technically humans, probably.

Having acquired a turtle, I now needed to transport the turtle to the on-campus pond that effectively served as an Invasive Freshwater Turtle Containment Zone, but did not have a bag that could adequately contain him so I had to sit the rest of that bus ride, at the station and all through the next bus ride holding the turtle like the world’s angriest hamburger. Multiple people were curious about and delighted with the turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans love an animal, especially one that is capable of appearing grumpy, and hands are for holding things.

By the time I got back to Campus, the anthropology and child psychology building that the Invasive Turtle Containment Pond was in had closed, so I had to figure out how to climb the tree over the wall and get down off the roof while holding The World’s Angriest And Sharpest Hamburger. I eventually ended up having to briefly shove the turtle into by bra to get up to the initial branch and off the roof without breaking an ankle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans are, as a species, a bunch of barely-evolved arboreal frugivores and really good at Tree Physics, and I don’t know a single titty-having bitch out there that hasn’t used their bra as Emergency Pockets at least once, if not daily.

I released the turtle into the Turtle Containment Pond and then had to solve the problem of getting back OUT of the locked building, but Nokia Brick never loses a signal or drops a call (including that time I accidentally dropped it off a 13-story building in the middle of a call to my parents and the damn thing BOUNCED but kept the line open. I miss that phone every day.) and while campus security has been carefully trained to not let people IN to places without proper ID and a call to someone inside, they assume that if you got locked in somewhere, that you got in by legitimate means and not Lemur Shenanigans, so i just called them, apologized that I’d been working late with headphones on and didn’t realize I’d been locked in. This is Perfectly Normal, people have been lying to cops since laws were invented, and will continue to do so because all cops are bastards.

Anyway, everyone should have access to good public transportation because freedom of movement is a human right and meeting a broad spectrum of humanity is good for your mental health and spiritual welfare."

In Finnish the expression when you accidentally button your shirt up with the wrong button to the wrong buttonhole, thus offsetting the whole thing is "in the way of the drunkard's buttons" or juoponnapissa. If there's a fun English expression for the same thing, I don't know it. If your language has any fun expression for it, I also do not know it, and would like to know!

#Language

@zdl Yeah... I once watched a new urbanist (of the Strong Towns variety, who are usually pretty reasonable) try to explain to a disabled person who couldn't walk very well why everybody *else* not being in cars and being able to walk to places 15 minutes away would make their own disabled life easier. It simply did not connect to any sort of brain lobe beyond the fear lobe, and the worry that someone would take away their car. I suppose they just had no idea anything else was possible, because they'd never seen it anywhere! Kind of sad.

@fuzzyface Well, I'm sure glad it's not a thing here. If a student is, let's say, too busy in the morning to properly have a nice cup of coffee or tea... They'll just drop by the school or university cafeteria or some automat in a hallway to get it when they're already there, and have done all the prerequisite steps. Pretty much any workplace in Finland will also have either vending machines or hot beverages available. Often they're also free.

I cannot fathom the idea of driving somewhere and then driving back home to finish getting ready, and only then (probably) drive where you actually need to be going. Absolutely unreasonable, that's so many more times the effort, not even counting the energy use in gas or electricity to move the car!
I like going outside, but it's simply so much effort compared to just staying in, too.