⁂ Fediverse Cape — The Making of

I got an idea! I decided to make a CAPE with the Fediverse Symbol for #39C3. Edit: I added a picture (spoiler) at the beginning.

Of course I got the idea SUPER LATE, I am leaving tomorrow morning at 7:00 from Sanremo.

Here is how it happened.

13:00. We were having the Christmas lunch with the whole family at my grandma’s and I was telling my cousins how INCREDIBLE Congress is, and how people go around dressed with the most insane things.

I started brewing the idea of something to make and wear myself over the afternoon, while napping at my parents’.

17:47. I call grandma D, the most expert sewer of the family.

ā€œNONNAAA I WANNA MAKE A CAPE! Do you have any big pieces of fabric?ā€ ā€œNo… I only have bedsheetsā€¦ā€

I call Nonna Gorix, who proudly calls herself my ā€œtrovarobeā€ (literally ā€œthings-finderā€). I ask her the same thing. She tells me to come over, and we start looking in her stuff, as you see here:

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We couldn’t find anything big enough, until…

ā€œTommi, why don’t we use the cloth below the Christmas tree? šŸ‘€ā€

So we took that.

17:50. We have fabric!!!!!

I call Nonna D: ā€œNonna Gorix gave me something! I am coming for dinner, let’s make this cake šŸ¤ŸšŸ¤ŸšŸ¤Ÿā€

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19:20. I get at Nonna D’s.

The kitchen table, where we used to sew, is ready for dinner, we can’t use it.

We go in a bedroom, and she tries to figure out how to convert the cloth in a cape. We gotta cut it and change the shape!

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19:40. After cutting the fabric, Nonna D starts sewing it back together.

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19:50. In the meanwhile, I am cutting a piece of paper to make an asterisk, then we are transferring them on black fabric, cutting it three times, to finally compose an asterism.

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20:18. Testing the positioning of the first asterisk…

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21:14: First asterisk sewed!

Positioning the second…

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21:44. Second asterisk done. Positioning the third…

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30 December 2025, 02:17 AM.

Finally, I showed off my beloved cape at #39C3.

Running off towards #40C3

(Thanks @dario for the video)

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@tommi So cool!

I was thinking about how difficult it was going to be to do the multicolored symbol that I've seen, the fedigram (emoji =    )

I had never seen this 3 asterisk symbol, the asterism, and I'm so happy to learn about it!

https://symbol.fediverse.info/en

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A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.

⁂ fediverse symbol