Unboxing the salami-kabel-trommel (aka 3.5m SPOOL OF SALAMI). It’s everything we dreamed it would be. 😍
Size check. Only about halfway through the torso section. 😭 #endlessstockinette #why #lanatus
“Hey Dr. Jones! Keine Zeit für Liebe.” 😂 Classic.
Size check. Only about halfway through the torso section. 😭 #endlessstockinette #why #lanatus
Unboxing the salami-kabel-trommel (aka 3.5m SPOOL OF SALAMI). It’s everything we dreamed it would be. 😍
Subtitle: Why is your face like that?!
You will recall that earlier this year I trialled several different free mask patterns, and I had some trouble finding one that the Snook deemed comfortable. We ended up just going with the ragmask for him, but it does smush his beard and leave him with unsightly Mask Face whenever he takes it off. Since then, I’ve seen several examples of BEARD MASKS, and now that my sewing machine is here (and we’re going into more lockdown), it seemed like a good time to try one.
I selected this pattern from German designer Christiane Hübner, which seemed simple enough. For fabric, I ordered a pack of paisley samples from Amazon and used those for the outer layer, with some scrap blue fabric for the interior. Feeling confident, I printed out the pattern and whipped up a pair of masks… only to run into disaster.
WTF. It’s standing way up off his nose. I was perplexed. “It’s like your ears are too high or something?” Even with a wire inserted for the nose, it refused to sit properly. It was also too long for his particular beard length, and if he lowered his chin even a little, it pushed the mask up into his eyes again. We pinched and prodded, and it seemed like maybe some additional darts in the cheek area would help?
Okay, back to the drawing board. I started by completely unpicking both masks and ironing the fabric. The easy change was to shorten the pattern by folding it up to take about an inch of length out. Then I recut the pieces for the first mask and made two additional small darts about an inch to either side of the nose. Once it was all back together, I took it down to the client for a fitting.
That’s better! The v2 mask is definitely fitting better around the nose, though there’s some pooching from the darts. It’s also a better length for the beard. Verdict: the v2 mask was deemed Acceptable.
For the other mask, I decided rather than add darts, I’d try to adjust the existing one for the nose. (The Snook doesn’t like the fabric to sit too close to his mouth.) So I kept the point in the same place but sliced the dart a bit wider…
In that photo you can see where I cut across the top dart, and where I folded it across the middle. Once this one was put together, I brought it down for another fitting…
Hey, that’s pretty good! With a wire in, it fits fairly well around the nose without the extra fabric we pinched out in v2. The dart also makes it stick out quite a bit from his mouth in a sort of beak-like shape, which he likes. Again, verdict is Acceptable.
If you want to make the same pattern, there are a couple caveats I’ll mention. In Step 4, I didn’t quite understand the instructions for attaching the nose tunnel. The descriptions just mention pinning it on, but in the subsequent photo for Step 5, you can clearly see it’s been attached. So I pinned it on and then sewed across the bottom edge. The top edge gets attached when you sew the whole thing together.
I was also slightly confused by the description for Step 9, but once you do it, it makes sense. The trick is to turn the mask inside-out, flatten the darts to either side of the chin, and then sew across. The softens that curve along the chin. You can see my version here, with my sewing line indicated in white.
Two more masks that won’t give him Mask Face! That should see him through the holidays… 😷
It’s here. 😳 Such a deceptively small package for 3.5m / 11.5’ of salami! Unboxing to follow… @wurstbaron_official @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/wtVAPXWQBD
@alex_casalboni The next question, of course, is whether I can get 3.5m of salami on one pizza. 🤔
Blog post! In which I try to sew the Snook a BEARD MASK, and end up cursing his weird (but lovable) face several times. 😷
https://t.co/6KYRjeaERJ https://t.co/FOtUiOZSNI
Potato and chorizo hash, courtesy of the Snook. 🤩
It’s here. 😳 Such a deceptively small package for 3.5m / 11.5’ of salami! Unboxing to follow… @wurstbaron_official
Blog post! In which I try to sew the Snook a BEARD MASK, and curse his weird (but lovable) face many times… 😷
It’s here. 😳 Such a deceptively small package for 3.5m / 11.5’ of salami! Unboxing to follow… @wurstbaron_official
Applies to those looking for success with startups too, frankly! https://t.co/zCQkzVKHBt
Does the FTC suit mean I won’t get aggressively retargeted ads all over Insta and FB? Because I’m all for that. I clicked on one single yarn shop post and now I see them so frequently I’ve sworn off EVER shopping there.
@stowball @mobywhale @SydCSS @Gemma_Stiles Sounds like you’re covered, but for future reference, it’s morning in Germany and I’m always up for helping @mobywhale! 😉
WHOA. This year @Blackboard’s traffic spiked to 50x their usual level due to Covid. Sometimes a black swan event looks like a DDoS! You can’t always predict an event, but you can still be prepared… #reinvent 🦢 https://t.co/Xj1rdneZ31
This is fascinating. The start of the Australian school year was @Blackboard’s first sign something remarkable was happening. Traffic shot up 10x. Brian and Gavin walking us through the war story through lens of AWS Well-Architected Framework. #reinvent https://t.co/TRjX3zSeDJ
First time this #reinvent I’ve literally gasped at a slide reveal. WHOA. That’s what 50x load looks like. Sounds like the @Blackboard ops team were working around the clock to make sure schools could teach. 😳 https://t.co/QOSrYBVXYL
@Blackboard They ran out of IP addresses! 😱 Thankfully they were able to add a new CIDR block to their VPC and avoid having to tear everything down… #reinvent
@msharp @stowball @mobywhale @SydCSS @Gemma_Stiles It’s quite likely I would have presented my talk in German. See what you missed out on? 😂 (Make me proud, @stowball!)
The work the @Blackboard team did to evolve their architecture early allowed them to scale up to handle 90x their usual traffic in October. NINETY TIMES. (You really should register for #reInvent if you haven’t already and watch this session on-demand!) https://t.co/GBFNVUDp1v
Translation: I’m going to be a special guest on @dtraub’s daily #reInvent recap auf Deutsch in 90 minutes! ❤️🇩🇪 Please join us. https://t.co/zIxnJCq36K
RT @dtraub: Und wir sind live! https://t.co/QdT8SmLHtG https://t.co/sNkxSVlM6S
@jeffblankenburg @OriginalFunko I’ve only got Peggy Olson, but I love her. https://t.co/zx3jsNjQIY
RT @dtraub: Und hier nochmal der Link zum Unicorn Polo League Game Day nächsten Dienstag: https://t.co/e5hIet7m8m
RT @dtraub: Die heutige Zusammenfassung der re:Invent-Announcements ist im Kasten. Vielen Dank für’s Zuschauen!
Einen Mitschnitt der heut…
RT @ziniman: We are live! https://t.co/kayRr63Kad https://t.co/4uYkMbOoBt
RT @soganmageshwar: I’m streaming ‘The Emerging Tech Show’ at 5pm CET | 9.30pm IST today and I’ll be talking about Autonomous Vehicles. Hop…
@Gaohmee Congrats!!! 🎉
RT @marksbirch: Looking forward to the Peter DeSantis Infrastructure keynote, but first a music opener with White Buffalo.
Truly amazing m…
Anybody else knitting through #reInvent other than me and @jennapederson? 🧶😊 https://t.co/kb4Iu1Yff2
@liedra Lanatus by Susan Crawford https://t.co/DL7cJ4MvtT
@liedra I’m working on it live on Twitch each Sunday morning at 10am CET if you want to join in sometime! 🙂 https://t.co/SGy8OKVXiF
RT @deniseyu21: how I coach my friends to negotiate vs how I negotiate for myself https://t.co/fdrkc0a9Qp
@jeffblankenburg GENIUS.
RT @WomenSciAUST: 👏🏽👏🏼🤩 #brilliant #womeninSTEMM https://t.co/OrOK8gAfS8
@jcnsingapore Thanks for the tip! Followed. 😀
RT @julsimon: We open sourced the bias computation part of Amazon #SageMaker Clarify. Let’s do a quick demo! https://t.co/ang34sgtP9 #AWS #…
RT @ARD_BaB: “Es tut mir wirklich von Herzen leid, aber…” – Bundeskanzlerin Merkel mit einem emotionalen Corona-Appell im #Bundestag. #Ge…
I really enjoyed @benjamin_l_s’s session on the Serverless LAMP stack. As he points out, 80% of the web still runs on PHP. Custom runtimes mean you can run serverless PHP functions and never have to worry about scaling Apache. 😃 #reInvent https://t.co/9F0ZIvym8A
I like that tech conferences now include sessions with cloud architecture diagrams and demos about talking to spacecraft. SPACECRAFT. Really feels like you’re living in the future! 🚀📡🛰️ #reinvent @Yudhajeet1 https://t.co/oAyvkFRxsq
The Snook went for a walk. “Bavariapark giving off a very Dark is Rising vibe today. Snow, crows, the stag statue. Luckily I didn’t come out and find the house replaced by Wayland Smith’s forge.” ❄️🦌 https://t.co/PFfI4JUfvJ
Some really helpful SQS to Lambda best practices from @justinpirtle, particularly around setting visibility and function timeout, and handling errors within batches of messages. #reinvent https://t.co/6lHTJEB4wZ
My name is Kris. I’ve been blogging since the 90’s. I live in Sydney, Australia, and I spent most of my career in the tech industry.
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