Where is the best place to share tips & tricks?
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but found out that paper painting tapes were far better than standard scotch tapes to assemble my A4 prints. Easier to cut into pieces and to correct assembling mistakes.
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Confirm! I’ve been using paper painters’ tape, too, for my first shirt. I am used to it from woodworking where it’s used for all kinds of marking and protecting and temporary fixing, and so I did not even try normal plastic tape. The painters tape is easy, because you can just quickly tear it by hand. The edge isn’t nice, but it does its glue job perfectly.
The main problem I had was that the A3 prints I had weren’t consistently long on the long paper edge – the prints were too short or too long by a bit, i.e., streched or shrunk a bit. The small edge was consistent, but the long edge was off among pages by as much as 5mm on A3, which was rather annoying. For my second shirt, I ended up having the stuff printed on A0 (two pages for Simon) so I didn’t need to glue, just to cut. Turned out that the A0 printer they use is also much more accurate anyway, probably because A0 prints seem to be used for construction drawings.
That’s a lovely tip, will definitely try that on my next project!
There’s a big sewing community on Mastodon, they’d definitely be in the market for tips like these, too.
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What is the name of the Mastadon community. Do you have a link?
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Oh! Well, Mastodon doesn’t really work with communities, exactly, it works with hashtags that people can follow. So if you tag posts with #sewing, people who follow that hashtag will see your post.
Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, which is made up of different platforms that can interact with each other. So Mastodon is like Twitter, but there’s also Pixelfed which is like Instagram (also with the hashtag system) and Lemmy, which is like Reddit. (And there’s many more Fediverse platforms).
Lemmy does work with communities—https://lemmy.world/c/sewing is the largest that I know of. Usually when I post something on Mastodon that’s related to sewing, I tag it with the relevant hashtags as well as mentioning @sewing@lemmy.world. Then Lemmy users who are part of that community can see and interact with the post, too.
Oh, and there’s also https://a.gup.pe/, which creates social groups on the Fediverse. So, actually, Mastodon does have communities, now that I think about it! By mentioning @sewing@a.gup.pe you also share it there. You can join that group just by following @sewing@a.gup.pe. Same goes for the Lemmy community, by the way. You can join that by following @sewing@lemmy.world.
Or, you could create a Lemmy account and join the community there. In the Fediverse, there’s basically many ways to achieve the same thing. I have an account on a Mastodon, Pixelfed and a Lemmy instance, but theoretically I could get by with just having one single account. Especially Mastodon and Pixelfed are more or less interchangeable. It’s mostly about which type of social media you like best, I guess.
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I’ve been gluing patterns together with craft glue (both the liquid-ish PVA stuff and glue sticks) for a bunch of years, with mixed success. I always have problems aligning things accurately, and it’s somewhat messy.
I’m going to try normal clear tape for my next few attempts, that’s a thing I usually have on hand.
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@ajquiltmaker we tun our own server at:
If you already have a mastodon account on another server, that’s of course fine too. This is just for those people who are new to it and want a home they can trust 
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I mostly use the glue sticks too. I’ve had better results with more expensive ones, they allow a little more time to adjust and line up before they dry
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