Itâs not done yet, but itâs the facing, collar, and cuffs for the patchwork dressing gown Iâm working on! It was less than half a metre of silk/rayon velvet that I dyed in college because the sample we did of that colour was so nice I wanted a bigger piece. (It was PRO MX fibre reactive dye in the colour Marine, and I donât have my dye sample book with me right now but I think it was at 4%. It shows up more green on some fibres and more blue on others, but is always gorgeous.)
I had no specific plans for it at the time, but eventually the perfect project came along, and there was just enough!
Iâve been working on this thing (intermittently, in short busts) for a few years now, and am finally done the patchwork and on to the construction. Iâve posted occasional updates on @vincentbriggs and will post photos there when Iâm done.
Iâve also been filming the whole process, so Iâll have a video about it up on my youtube channel eventually, but thatâll be a while after itâs finished because I have so so so many clips and itâs going to take a horrifyingly large amount of editing.
Itâs based on this c. 1835 original, which is a good 50-100 years later than what I usually sew, but I like it and I wanted one.
If anyoneâs wondering how many triangles mine has, itâs 6,957.
Since Iâve got the time consuming part out of the way Iâm hoping I can get the construction done before winter officially ends.
Edit: Why does everyone think I had a bad time working on the triangles?? I loved working on them, it was so satisfying to put lots of little bits of colour together. The reason I worked on it intermittently is because I could not put it down once I got working on it, and would work on it all day for several days straight until I was very tired and sore, and then I had to put it away to stop myself, and then Iâd forget about it for a few months.
Also, theyâre machine sewn. Most of the actual garment construction will be by hand, but the patchwork is all by machine.
I finished my dressing gown.
And besides the velvet, it of course used up a lot of other little bits of fabric!
(Once again, my sewing and other non-dinosaur works are mainly posted on @vincentbriggs)
Video finished :)
Itâs an hour and 13 minutes long and I say 11,785 words in it.
i want to build up my skill set to one day be able to make something like this!!!! #op this is 1) absolutely gorgeous & 2) so much helpful information! thank u for sharing đ„° #all the shots of twirling in the finished garment made me so so happy i got a little teary-eyed??? #âit looks very nice. it reminds me of â you know when people have extra nipples?â #absolutely Took Me Out i hollered #like that comment toward the end of such an earnest video? so unexpected. so fucking hilarious
Thank you!! Good luck on your sewing! And Iâm glad my Very Correct nipple observations were appreciated
There’s a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a “duet me” challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO
Absolutely not. Being allowed to enter your house by a principality, court, or set of laws is not the same thing as being invited in under the laws of hospitality. Those rules donât float that way, they are older and far stronger than your petty police force.
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out – we don’t serve your type.”
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar – fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
âThe average US president has been charged with 1.54 feloniesâ factoid isnât true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Felonies Donld is now up to 79 felonies, for a statistical average of 1.71 felonies per president
Update:
With 91 felonies, felonies Donld has now broken the 2 felonies per president average average (2.02 felonies per president)
did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said âfoxes are dogs cause they are fluffyeâ and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like âyou will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right nowâ
This is especially funny because they arenât even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.
Love the contrast between the Americansâ âApolloâ and the Sovietsâ âSputnik.â You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket âfellow traveler.â Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lolÂ
Update: The fradulent titles were removed by Goodreads and Amazon under pressure from the author community. However, because thereâs a chance this just happened due to the bad publicity, she also linked The Authorâs Guild for other authors who might have their names stolen for fake books, but who might not have the connections she has or the luck to go viral.
When we started talking about AI being used to write entire books, this was a twist I honestly did not see coming. The things people come up withâŠ
