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Summer List check: I hand sewed an 18th century style petticoat and pockets

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This is a post about an item on my summer list.

Recently I fell down a rabbit hole. I do that from time to time. See my list of interests. They have been rabbit holes of various depths at one time or another. This time it was the one of historical costuming and sewing.

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Things I want to do during summer

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The summer holidays are here and I have plans. So yeah, this is a simple to-do list of big and small things. Maybe posting it to my blog will keep me more accountable. We'll see how that goes... Definite WIP.

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The "right" kind of scissors

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This is part of IndieWeb Carnival July 2024 on the topic of Tools.

I'm a lefty. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher there wanted me to use lefty scissors. I refused. Vehemently. Why, I am not sure. I was a weird kid.

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A List of Interests

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Here's a list with all the things (though I probably forgot some) I have been interested in so far in my life. Some of them I participated in extensively for many years. Some are just topics of interest, meaning that I like to learn about them instead of practicing them.

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You can keep a journal!

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If you want to do something creative, do it!
It's as easy as that. Or is it?
Of course it is! Of course it isn't!

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Times are a-changing

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I used to think that autumn was my favourite time of the year. I came to the realisation that that is actually not true. However, I still think the light is beautiful in autumn, especially on the changing leaves, the days are still warm, and yet it is time to put out the cozy (in my case often handknit) scarves and pullovers that have been sleeping in the closet all summer.
Another great thing that happens: We're going to return to normal time and dial our clocks back by one hour. In Germany that always happens on the last Sunday in October, which this year is today, the 29th.

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Is my blog dead?

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It's been a while since I've published a blog post. It's not that I have nothing to say anymore. I do. And I do write. But nothing passes the stage of rough first draft.

Why is that? Why don't I work on these drafts?

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Of Big Tech Jungles and Digital Gardens

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Inspired by 99% Invisible's "The Lost Cities of Geo" and Maggie Appelton's "A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden". Thank you, Lost Letters for the link to the latter.

I like the idea of looking at the internet as a city or cities. There are tiny villages, small towns, big cites. And they each have different neighbourhoods, borroughs, quarters, etc. The internet also has its many and very different areas: There are personal websites, porfessional websites, company websites, websites maintained by governments and political parties, forums, websites to share photos, videos, music, books. There are apps you load on your phone. You can see a doctor via the internet, you can talk to friends and family, have job interviews, online courses, webinars. You can even marry online.

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All the blogs that came before

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This is not my first blog. I have had a few. They all have two things in common:

  1. They were short-lived with only a few posts and not many ideas; and
  2. They were pretty much unread. Or at least no one ever left any comment.

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