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a sewing blog but also covers other crafting. 28f

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A horrible idea came to me

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Let's see how well ribbed fabric takes fabric paint. I'm expecting it not to go well, but I'll find out tomorrow if I need to pivot.

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Oh my god it came out so well

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A horrible idea came to me

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Let's see how well ribbed fabric takes fabric paint. I'm expecting it not to go well, but I'll find out tomorrow if I need to pivot.

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A horrible idea came to me

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I fixed up an old Sony Walkman the other day. I could hear the motor spin, but it wouldn't play any tapes so I figured the belt needed to be replaced. It was a pain in the ass, and required some very delicate desoldering of the AM radio wires and battery terminals to get to the mechanism.

And I was right, the belt basically liquidified over the last 35 years. It was the worst belt I've had to deal with so far and it fucking stuck to everything. Only alcohol and persistent scraping got it off.

After getting the belt on, I had an issue where the reverse direction would just play the same audio channel but in reserved. Did some looking at forums online, turns out a lot of mechanisms had a little contact switch to pick the channel to be read on the tape head, so I just had to readjust that and then it worked.

So now it plays tapes, but I fucked the radio so it's in the exact opposite shape than when I got it 💀 The tape function is more important to me though.

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I have really cool screenprinting stuff I want to do, but I can't do any of it because the freaking emulsion won't come out of the screens.

So I guess I have to buy haze remover and hope that fixes it? I've already overspent on this so it'll have to wait until next week.

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I picked up a stereo recently (a Sony CFD-545) and decided to make it cooler with a stencil on the speaker grill.

I need to clean the glue off, but it looks awesome from a distance! I'm a little worried the paint will flake off, but tbh I'd it does I'll just redo it

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the stencil is from Anarcho Stencilism btw!

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I picked up a stereo recently (a Sony CFD-545) and decided to make it cooler with a stencil on the speaker grill.

I need to clean the glue off, but it looks awesome from a distance! I'm a little worried the paint will flake off, but tbh I'd it does I'll just redo it

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Made a fake cassette to blend in with my other black metal tapes on my tape rack specifically to have luggable weed in a small package.

The band is Felinihilist, and the theme is "what if a cat made depressive suicidal black metal" but I tried to be subtle about it.

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I didn't take many progress pics because I was in the zone, but I finally executed the idea for a chain skirt I've had for over six months.

And it even looks cute on two different types of skirts!

While making it, it was very helpful to string it up on a rack so that everything is kinda taut.

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My sewing machine really didn't want to embroider word FUCK tonight. I had to unpick it like 6 times before I finally got one that was legible. DIE, on the other hand, came out perfect on the first attempt.

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It's been months since I last posted anything. I'm going to dye tonight.

I've had the dye for ages and the shoes are taped and prepped.

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Here we go. It's been ages since I've dyed anything. The goal is a top/bottom green and black split dye.

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Stage 1 done. They look sick as fuck

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Stage 2. I may have been a little too light-handed with the black dip. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. A lot of it seems to fade back into green when I gave them a quick dip in the color fixative so I hope it stayed.

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I did end up having to redo the dip but I think I did it too high. Oh well, the effect still looks cool. They're still wet but I'm done fucking around with the dye so I took the tape off and relaced them.

Some of the dye got through the electrical tape at the seams and dyed the rubber, but honestly they're not any dirtier than they will be eventually anyway.

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It's been months since I last posted anything. I'm going to dye tonight.

I've had the dye for ages and the shoes are taped and prepped.

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Here we go. It's been ages since I've dyed anything. The goal is a top/bottom green and black split dye.

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Stage 1 done. They look sick as fuck

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Stage 2. I may have been a little too light-handed with the black dip. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. A lot of it seems to fade back into green when I gave them a quick dip in the color fixative so I hope it stayed.

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It's been months since I last posted anything. I'm going to dye tonight.

I've had the dye for ages and the shoes are taped and prepped.

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Here we go. It's been ages since I've dyed anything. The goal is a top/bottom green and black split dye.

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Stage 1 done. They look sick as fuck

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It's been months since I last posted anything. I'm going to dye tonight.

I've had the dye for ages and the shoes are taped and prepped.

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Here we go. It's been ages since I've dyed anything. The goal is a top/bottom green and black split dye.

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It's been months since I last posted anything. I'm going to dye tonight.

I've had the dye for ages and the shoes are taped and prepped.

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Since it's sewing related I'll put this on this blog and not the main.

This is the Singer Athena 2000, first sold in 1975. It is the very first electronic sewing machine on the market (not electric. Electronic)

For it's time, it was fancy. You have electronic selection of the stitch options using push buttons and a dial. The dial selects between the different sets, and the button selects the set. Pretty smart way to have 24 options with only 6 buttons! The red dot and the green overlay together show which stitch is selected. This is the portion that makes it 'electronic' because all of that is controlled by a circuit board inside.

And my favorite feature on this is the hidden stitch width and length controls. The badge flips down to reveal three dials. The wacky part is that these dials are capacitive! To adjust the width or length, you just lightly touch the dial. You don't need to turn any of them or press a button.

The dumb thing wasn't stitching properly, and I thought it was a timing issue until I tried winding a fresh bobbin. Apparently all the thread had been on the bobbins for too long so it was having trouble pulling it out. A fresh bobbin fixed that and I haven't had issues on any test piece since.

Here's some derpy dogs

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Embroidery :3