Nog weer meer toffe nieuwe dingen op het programma voor #lenteindewar! Een workshop #freesewing, zelf kimchi maken, visible mending, kijk vooral even op https://dewar.nl/nl/lenteindewar voor het nog groeiende programma!
De WAR Amersfoort

the blouse itself is pretty unspectacular so i might just generate a fitting one with #FreeSewing (i hope they have a basic blouse) and just take a few accoutrements from the #drcos pattern

Weer zo’n fantastische productie van The Pudding. Alles wat je als vrouw altijd al wist over kledingmaten, samengevat in prachtige visualisaties.

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/

Bonustip voor iedereen met een naaimachine:

https://freesewing.eu/

#FreeSewing #fashion

Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

The Pudding
Finished my second octoplushy! I'm not giving them names, that's up to the recipients. (Hopefully! I hope the parents like them enough, they're perhaps not very cuddly...) These are both for newborn babies, one of whom can be born any day now!

This one has some thicker tentacles, as well as a little bit more #sashiko to spice it up. The face is notably different, too. I think I like the embroidered face more, but this one has a certain manic charm.

#octoplushy #freesewing #sewing #plushie #plushies @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Working on a second #octoplushie using a pattern from #FreeSewing. The last one I made had skinny and long tentacles, which were hard to stuff. So with this one I altered the pattern's settings a bit, made the tentacles shorter and fatter. We'll see how it goes!

The #baby I'm making it for was born a month early, last week... So I feel some time pressure!

#sewing #plushie @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Created an #Octoplushy with a pattern from #Freesewing.org. Altered it slightly to be more suitable for a newborn baby.

I'm making a second one soon, of which I will make the tentacles shorter and thicker. Stuffing these was not easy. Turning them right-side-out was also not easy. Altering the pattern will be easy, though. Freesewing has great pattern adjustment features.

I do like the size, though. That head has a diameter of 20 cm. Good stuff. It's made from the fabric of our old couch which was long due for replacement. The couch cushions were great for providing filling. And I used some different fabrics for the bottoms of the tentacles, to give the baby some sensory variety.

Thanks to @[email protected] for creating the pattern.

@[email protected] #sewing #plushie #plushies #handmadeplushies

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bammerlaan/115995355779331376

@freesewing Speaking of #mascot #plushies—there's this ancient website for a #Tux #plushie: https://free-penguin.org

Does anyone who "gets" open source licenses know if one could just take this pattern and adjust it to work on #FreeSewing? Would be nice to have FS's more advanced pattern editor with this pattern.

(Also on this cool website: Brother #embroidery patterns for Tux)

#sewing #licences #GPL

@joost Your #fosdem talk was absolutely great on so many levels. Thank you #freesewing

@Mastodon You know what would be nice? To have #Plushtodon as a sewing pattern on Freesewing.org! There's already a couple of plushie patterns there, I made one just the other day.

#sewing #freesewing #mastodon @freesewing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@statichost/115615411489202060

The last couple of months have not been easy. Very much a "victim of our own success" situation for #FreeSewing aka @freesewing

I'm happy to have found a new home for my baby at a place that not only can handle the scale without bankrupting me, but also aligns nicely with our values.

Not having to resort to a hyperscaler and sell a kidney to keep the site online is a nice change from the increasing enshitification of tech.