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Tommi 🤯 → 39C3
@tommi@pan.rent  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

⁂ FEDICAPE — The Making of

I got an idea! I decided to make a CAPE with the Fediverse Symbol for #39C3

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.

“NONNAAA I WANNA MAKE A CAPE! Do you have any big pieces of fabric?” “No… I only have bedsheets…”

I call Nonna Gorix, who proudly calls herself my “trovarobe” (literally “things-finder”). 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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Nonna Gorix while looking for fabric pieces.
Nonna Gorix while looking for fabric pieces.
Nonna Gorix while looking for fabric pieces.
Nona Gorix while searching for fabric pieces.
Nona Gorix while searching for fabric pieces.
Nona Gorix while searching for fabric pieces.
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Hugh
@hugh@social.crablab.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@tommi 👏 This is an amazing thread!

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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@hugh Literally, I would dare to say 😝

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@hugh@social.crablab.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@tommi Pffft neocat_laugh I'm sad I won't get to see it in person! Have an awesome Congress 🚀

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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

We couldn’t find anything big enough, until…

“Tommi, why don’t we use the cloth below the Christmas tree? 👀”

So we took that.

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

I call Nonna D: “Nonna Gorix gave me something! I am coming for dinner, let’s make this cake 🤟🤟🤟”

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A picture of the Christmas tree at Nonna Gorix’s
A picture of the Christmas tree at Nonna Gorix’s
A picture of the Christmas tree at Nonna Gorix’s
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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

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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Nonna D cutting the cape.
Nonna D cutting the cape.
Nonna D cutting the cape.
Nonna D wearing the cloth before cutting
Nonna D wearing the cloth before cutting
Nonna D wearing the cloth before cutting
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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

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

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Nonna D using the sewing machine. Wait for it at the end!
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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

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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Grandma cutting a black cloth following the shape of the asterisk I previously cut on paper.
Grandma cutting a black cloth following the shape of the asterisk I previously cut on paper.
Grandma cutting a black cloth following the shape of the asterisk I previously cut on paper.
A piece of paper shaped as an asterisk.
A piece of paper shaped as an asterisk.
A piece of paper shaped as an asterisk.
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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

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

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Photo of me while I position the topmost asterisk of the asterism on the back of the cape while Nonna D is wearing it.
Photo of me while I position the topmost asterisk of the asterism on the back of the cape while Nonna D is wearing it.
Photo of me while I position the topmost asterisk of the asterism on the back of the cape while Nonna D is wearing it.
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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

21:14: First asterisk sewed!

Positioning the second…

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Grandma putting pins in the second asterisk.
Grandma putting pins in the second asterisk.
Grandma putting pins in the second asterisk.
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Mario Restuccia [7378@39c3]
@mario@eupolicy.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@tommi DAJE che poi come si dice cape in italiano? Mantello?

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@tommi@pan.rent replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@mario FEDIMANTELLO SEEEEEEE

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