#french seam

[ub-sessed]

I just learned that a French seam is called une couture anglaise in French.

Image courtesy of http://sewingcafewithlynne.blogspot.com

[wtfcl0ud]

ok actually the french seam is so cool wtf ugh

[sleepnoises]

due to factors such as "time pressure" and "tulle is of the devil" my expectations for this shirt are not high. but i spent a lot of time imagining these button bands and they turned out pretty nice

[lokh]

me using the sewing machine for the first time in literal years: sewing is... easy??? sewing is Fun???????

[luhvxal]

upcycling the trim of an old blanket and hand sewing my first pair of shorts

/ all the little french seams are so satisfying /

[riverbeatsaber]

I know that the Imperial system is bad and all but I gotta say. I do really like how it works for sewing

[vermillioncrown]

how do you think flying on a sword compairs to skateboarding/snowboarding? if an expert snowboarder ended up reincarnated do you think they could be a flying prodigy?

oh my god this ask has me doing the equivalent of that stick figure biting into a thing and tearing it apart (in a good way)

yes and no. i think they'd have a leg up and have a higher chance at being a flying prodigy if and only if qi powered flight has aerodynamics involved, and isn't just the equivalent of using your mind to hover through the air.

think of a paper airplane. you can 1) throw the plane and have it glide, or 2) personally hold the plane and move it through the air. both have the paper plane 'moved' but the forces and energy involved are very different.

(1 is more energy-efficient btw, and energy in the physics sense of work)

so let's say 1) is how sword flight works. okay, let's compare it to riding a skateboard or snowboard.

the key difference is that you don't have the ground. that sounds stupid but it matters.

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before sword flight, let's think of an aircraft. and before motion, let's think of being still.

without doing work, you can stay in place with a skateboard. why? because you have the ground. the balance of forces is stable without motion. you weight a certain amount and press on the ground, and the ground can push back through the wheels. it's called normal force and we don't have time to go through intro to hs physics. it's why you don't fall through the ground.

snow is a bit different but it still works out. ground is dense enough that you don't compress it like snow, it's solid. snow isn't... purely solid--the individual snow flakes are solid crystalline structures, but it's a collection of these tiny little solids that can move if you press them together. we can call the collection of snow, not an individual snow unit, a fluid rather than a solid. fluids do not hold their shape if you use an outside force on them. from basic chem, we have gas, liquid, solid states, so fluids encompass gas and liquids (with so many caveats but again y'all aren't signing up for intro to viscous fluids)

but let's treat snow like a very dense fluid. the entire snowboard is distributed over the snow rather than the tiny wheels of a skateboard. you can already intuitively imagine that if you put a skateboard on snow, it'd sink until the flat part. the density of matter is what affects how it can 'push back' at things. ground is super dense compared to snow, so little wheels can stand on it vs snow needing a huge distribution to push back the same weight (snow shoes).

air is much less dense than snow. with a density of 1.225 kg/m^3, let's say you weigh 50 kg (~110 freedom units). using basic ass Pressure_liquid=density*acceleration_gravity*height and Pressure_you=mass*acceleration_gravity/Area -> we want P_liquid = P_you -> solve for Area... to stay still at a height of 10 meters, you'd need a 'board' of 4.082 m^2. or about 44 sq ft. but! that board will also have a weight, so you need something bigger, and bigger,

there's nothing out there that can support you, and be lightweight enough to not outpace the pressure that air can exert back to keep you in place. so how do you stay in the air?

two ways. either hover like a helicopter, continuously moving upwards to counteract gravity... or you continuously move forward like an airplane.

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motion time! probably heard of lift force? what you're doing is, as you move through the air, you're displacing the air molecules. think of how it feels to wade through water. the faster you go, the more water pushes back.

now up the magnitude for air since it's less dense. you need to move very fast to displace enough air such that the amount of air pushing back can actually keep you up. but! you also need to deal with that resistance against your motion, too, aka drag.

but in this case, to even keep in constant motion or zero motion, work must be expended to push you up or keep you moving forward, or you eventually slow down and fall like a paper plane

skateboard relies on normal force and friction for its movement. i count staying still as movement, too; it's just movement = 0. you push on the ground with your feet, the ground resists your sideways push, and the wheels can turn, so you move forward.

snowboard relies on something like buoyancy and gravity for its movement. the pressure of the snowboard on an area of snow keeps you up, and you slide downwards because gravity pulls you. friction is still at play but not like skateboarding; the snow is 'slippery' compared to the ground, so you can glide forward

aircraft rely on external forces for any constant motion, even motion = 0. air isn't dense enough to support things in the same way as the ground or snow.

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let's get to why it matters for sword flight.

for changing directions horizontally, all three would be similar. you lean (banking) towards the direction you want to turn, relying on the force keeping you level to push you towards the turn.

for climbing or rolling up, similar--you need to push the ground, expend effort to go up a hill on snow, or provide more thrust to exceed gravity's pull to climb in altitude.

diving, rolling downhill are similar. gravity does the work.

the mechanism for slowing down or staying still, however, very different. for sword flight, it's not that you can't; it's that you cannot rely on the same intuition as for terrestrial boarding. you probably need to consciously trade between the qi-pushing you forward to needing to push you upwards, and it's always a balance. you basically need to treat your qi like a reaction control system for spacecraft, which gets into optimal control theory and of course it's not that the human can't intuitively do it. but it is DIFFERENT than skateboarding or snowboarding. you're not moving your weight around to change motion; there's this nebulous qi thing that needs to be controlled alongside the positioning of your weight to do what you want it to do.

so i think the pro-skater (pro-boarder) will have an advantage, but it's not directly equivalent.

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now, if qi-powered flight was the equivalent of holding a toy plane making airplane noises to move the thing through the air, moot point. entirely not the same thing at all, they don't have an advantage in qi control. but they do have the advantage of balancing on a thing in motion.

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happy winter holidays, sorry not sorry to ambush y'all with physics

[sandraclapham]

Then and now.

First photo when I had one of my two wedding nights over 35 years ago. I had one wedding night with Diane (my TV mistress/master for around 8 years, though we met up infrequently) and another with Gwen.

Second photo is from December 2022 at Boys Will Be Girls - wearing personalised Touchable stockings.

[ymdslf]

i swear i am going to fucking kill this sewing machine why is sewing so fucking hard and confusing????

[frogcoded]

also did you guys know about the hemming foot? like we have a sewing machine foot that does your hems for you? without any more ironing involved? just like that just feed it to the machine? why is no one talking about this?

[sleepnoises]

I'm doing my sewing project I cut out last year and have accidentally colormatched my washi tape seam allowance indicators for the french seams to the fabric

[iphisesque]

trying to figure out the pattern for this coat i want to make. im thinking very simple loose unstructured rectangular shapes + whatever i can salvage for the sleeves so i can avoid bias and curved seams as much as possible. but also i have no idea how the fuck to make a collar

[not-my-circuss]

I made the dress from Pearl (2022) :)

Process details below ⬇️

I really wanted to do this well, and I've never made a dress before. So after hours of scouring YouTube tutorials, I decided to do a practice run. This blanket and tablecloth I got from my sister's bed and breakfast worked

First I had to seam rip stitches throughout the blanket, and take out the stuffing.

Making this one gave me a better idea of how the final red dress should go, and that my elastic hairband for buttonhole idea was Not the Best.

One detail I really like, is that as I was figuring out the materials I would need for this, I noticed that the main lace pattern makes an "X" in between the flowers, as a reference to the previous movie. I was SO happy to find a very similar lace, and dyed it red :3 I would post pictures of the other lace I used, because one of them I didn't get enough of but ended up including it anyway, but there's a 10 photo limit,,

Overall, this entire project took about 7 weeks, the red dress alone took 3. I'm so proud of it, I want to tell everyone I meet, and I can't wait for Halloween so I can say "oh you like my costume? Thanks, I made it!! With pockets!!!"

[discountalien-pancake]

So in the setting of pocket 1, I’ve realized all you machine sewing people are doing pockets in the most annoying way that is only really reasonable for typical modern pocket shapes. The whole “attach pocket pieces to skirt/leg/body pieces, then seam everything in one go” method didn’t work well for me as hand-sewer. It looks fine and is structurally sound but was just so annoying to do.

So instead i’m going to seam my skirt panels to each other and leave the pocket opening unstitched, seam up the pocket pieces first, and then set the finished pocket into the opening. I’m doing this by hand so all the layers are a non-issue for me.

And some changes I’m making to the original SDF design:

Instead of white linen hem facings, I’m going to use a printed cotton shirting. It’s still mostly white, but it has a delicate print in a matching seaglass color that will help my dress stand out a little from actual SDF dresses

I’m going to recut my neckline facings from the same cotton shirting because the smooth cotton will feel better against my hypersensitive skin than the linen

Tops and bottoms of the pocket openings, waist tie attachment points, and the holes for the waist ties to pass through the side of the dress will be reinforced with my usual crow’s feet tacks in a coordinating silk buttonhole twist

I may or may not embroider the sleeve hems. Not sure yet.

[chiropteracupola]

outfits coming slowly together!

[pretapaisley]

My fatal flaw is not checking to see if I sewed the sleeve on the right way before finishing my French seam