Posted on July 27, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , craft:sewing , FreeSoftWear The recurring joke is that because of some health issues, in summer I dress like a Victorian Vampire. But how would an actual Late Victorian Vampire dress? Picture her, she would look like some kind of eccentric gentlewoman, as vampires usually do, probably with a style that is a bit conservative, rather than following the…
Posted on July 10, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , FreeSoftWear , craft:sewing Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I found some ribbon that looked passable, but the colours I wanted weren’t available, so I set up the website to notify me, and kept working on the hat.…
Posted on July 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , craft:sewing , FreeSoftWear Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA 1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap : it mostly worked as an idea, but it was too short for my hair. On the other hand, I had two old towels I wasn’t using, and a recently unpacked sewing machine. I didn’t plan too much, I just put the…
Posted on April 18, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , craft:cooking This post contains a bit of consumerism and is full of references to commercial products, none of which caused me to receive any money nor non-monetary compensation. This post has also been written after eating in one meal the amount of bread-like stuff that we usually have in more than 24 hours. I’ve been baking bread since a long time…
Posted on March 28, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , topic:inks Note This post will be updated in the next weeks with the test results as they become available. Note Most of the images in this post have no real alt-text: they are all scans of the test sheet at various stages through the test, and the results visible on them are described in detail at the end of the post. Most of the time, what people…
Posted on March 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , FreeSoftWear , craft:sewing For my birthday, I’ve bought myself a fancy new expensive 1 fountain pen. Such a fancy pen, of course requires a suitable case: I couldn’t use the failed prototype of a case I’ve been keeping my Preppys in, so I had to get out the nice vegetable tanned leather… Yeah, nope, I don’t have that (yet). I got out the latex and…
Posted on February 3, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms , madeof:bits Today I had a day off. Some of it went great. Some less so. I woke up, went out to pay our tribute to NotOurCat, and it was snowing! yay! And I had a day off, so if it had snowed enough that shovelling was needed, I had time to do it (it didn’t, it started to rain soon afterwards, but still, YAY snow!). Then I had breakfast, with the…
Posted on January 4, 2026 Tags: topic:walking Warning mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense. A lot of the youtube channels I follow tend to involve somebody making things , so of course one of the videos my SO and I watched a few days ago was about walking around San Francisco Bay , and that recalled my desire to go to places by foot. Now, for…
Posted on November 27, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms , madeof:bits , craft:bookbinding A few years ago I wrote some planner generating code to make myself a custom planner; in November 2023 I generated a few, and posted them here on the blog, in case somebody was interested in using them. In 2024 I tried to do the same, and ended up being even more late, to the point where I didn’t generate any…
Posted on November 17, 2025 Tags: madeof:atoms , craft:sewing After cartridge pleating and honeycombing, I was still somewhat in the mood for that kind of fabric manipulation, and directing my internet searches in that vague direction, and I stumbled on this: https://katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/patternmaking-for-the-kampfrau-hemd-chemise/ Now, do I want to ever make myself a 16th century…