Today I changed the name of this blog to Liberumia.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Stopping the shopping // Norway
Participants of the Sewing Rebellion are invited to emancipate themselves from the global garment industry by learning how to alter, mend and make their own garments and accessories! Hosted by Frau Fiber, textile worker and activist. Frau Fiber distributes her knowledge of the garment industry, pattern making and sewing, encouraging the reuse, renovation and recycling of existing garments and textiles in the creation of unique items tailored to individual tastes and body shapes. source
Rereading the above made me look around the internet to see if other have stopped shopping.
In Norway the journalist and writer Irina Lee has stopped shopping for a year and is quoted saying:
Jeg er et lettere, lykkeligere og rikere menneske i dag, enn jeg var for ett år siden. Alt takket være Stop shop, forklarer Lee. (I am a lighter, happier and more rich today than i was one year ago. This is thanks to “Stop shop”, Lee explains.) source, my translation.
Lee has started a group on Facebook to encourage and help people stopping the shopping. The group had over 800 members in january 2013.
Also Jenny Skavlan, a norwegian fashion blogger, who joined the “Stop shop”-wave reports increasing creativity after joining. Skavlan has written a list with 5 tips (in norwegian) to people who “stop shop”:
- Mend your clothes
- Clean your clothes more gently (and perhaps more seldom)
- Decorate with perls and the like
- Sew with thick garnments that does not fray (leather, and the like)
- Borrow clothes from family and friends
More norwegians blogging about their “stop shop” 2013.
Finished copying two models of underpants
patterns are on paper. thinking about how to best get them digitized…
maybe scan and then trace them with inkscape?
Hide taning // Garva skinn
Found a local tannery.
(the rest of this post is in swedish)
Hittade en blogg med bra artiklar med steg för steg anvisning för garvning av olika skinn.
Där hänvisades till en rapport om traditionell skinngarvning från CBM på SLU med mycket läsvärda artiklar.
Preparing wool
How to prepare wool to be used as stopping:
Rinse
Get wool from a local farmer nearby you. Clean the wool from scrapping and part chunks. Rinse the wool from the sweat of the animal by soaking and very gently tugging it in water not warmer than 40 ‘C. This treatment leaves a great amount of wool grease in the wool. Dry. Finish by fluffing it up by parting all chunks of wool with your hands.
Wash
Wash wool if too smelly or dirty by gently soaking and very gently tugging it in soap water not warmer than 40 ‘C. Make sure the wool is only soaked for a short while.
The pattern library of Libre Patterns
The pattern library of Libre Patterns now contains 33 patterns!
This is probably the largest collection of free/libre patterns and sewing instructions in the world at this moment. Please help make it larger by contributing and/or releasing your work under a free license!
You are welcome to make pull requests and/or contact me.
HAPPY SEWING!