Discord community call: 21 June 2025

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You are all invited to our Discord hangout.
Please leave a comment here or on Discord to add things to the agenda.
This topic will be updated after the call with notes.

About

FreeSewing’s Discord hangout is an informal hangout/chat/meeting that is open to everyone.
The call is organized/hosted by @tangerineshark.
The call does not have a fixed structure or agenda items. Everyone is free to suggest agenda items, ask questions, or bring ideas.

Details

Location: https://discord.freesewing.eu/ (meeting room: :speaker_high_volume:voice chat)
Date: June 21st, 2025 4pm UTC, which can be found in your local time zone here.
Or check the Events tab in Discord!
The meetings will always be at 6pm, Antwerp time.

Agenda

  • TBD
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Reminder: The FreeSewing bi-weekly Community Call is this Saturday, June 21, 2025.

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June 21, 2025 Community Call

Notes:

  • The weather. How hot it is where people are.
  • Sabrina sports bra design was merged today.
    • Not yet on site. Should be there this weekend with FreeSewing v4.1.
    • TangerineShark and Benjamin F. looked at the design in the studio.
    • Negative ease and fabric stretch are all related.
    • Sabrina has design options for fabric stretch, adjusting the pattern accordingly.
  • Bucket hat design?
    • It’s still in the prototyping stage, to make sure the measurements, ease, angles, etc. are good.
  • What do pattern designers need to do for documentation, for v4?
    • Same documentation is needed, but the file locations are slightly different.
      • Needs, Cutting, and Fabric are now all in the main page file.
      • Design options, each has its own file.
    • Look at Aaron as the example for how to do it.
  • Backend work. Joost is now looking at it.
    • Production backend is not quite in sync with the repo.
    • Writing unit tests first. Refactoring.
      • Unit test: Each test covers one individual aspect, function, or activity.
    • After the unit tests are done, backend code will need to be written to add support for adding new Showcases.
    • Joost will create the OpenAPI docs.
    • It may be a while before things are done.
    • Additional support could be added to load designs from outside the FreeSewing collection.
    • Or, to make a site available to test new designs.
  • Bra patterns
    • Underwires are difficult.
  • Sewing projects.
    • Jeans. Orange denim.
    • Bleach painting.
  • Travelling.
    • Travelling to see solar eclipses.

Attendees:

  • Benjamin F.
  • candle cove blooper reel
  • Curvalicia (a.k.a. Anna Puk)
  • joostdecock
  • TangerineShark
  • Wouter.vdub