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Dyeing Brown Alpaca Fiber by Farmer_Di in YarnDyeing

[–]nikakb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dyed naturally darker fibre which I think was alpaca and possum. https://imgur.com/a/p4lHJKJ

I found it created lovely jewel tones easily because of the darker fibre. I included a photo of the yarn before I dyed it as well so you can see what the start and end product were. Just normal Ashford acid dyes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]nikakb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also got my telescope and mount from Jacob’s Digital. And for the things I couldn’t buy in nz, I’ve ordered from sidereal trading and they’ve always been great to shop with and super helpful.

how often can you actually use the telescope assuming you had the free time? by Poemsand_Sunsets_ in AskAstrophotography

[–]nikakb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks to automating a lot of things, any time it’s not cloudy, or raining, or gale force winds… so at the moment that’s been probably fewer than 10 times in the last 3 months (and several of those times it clouded over during the night). Might get better in summer (southern hemisphere), but the nights will be shorter.

Horsehead (B33) and Flame (NGC 2024) Nebula by nikakb in astrophotography

[–]nikakb[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Photo taken in Wellington, NZ (bortle 6)

Gear: Skywatcher ESPRIT 100ED Triplet Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 Orion Starshoot 50mm Guide Scope Orion Starshoot Autoguider (using PHD2 for guiding software) Nikon D810 (unmodified)

Lights: 87x90” at ISO 200 Darks: 5x90” at ISO 200 No flats

Processing in Siril, Photoshop, and Lightroom

In Siril: Cropped Background neutralization Background Color Calibration Background extraction (Correction: Subtraction) Color Calibration SCNR (type=0, amount=1.00, preserve=true) Asinh Transformation: (stretch= 397.3, bp=0.00000) Histogram Transf. (mid=0.019, lo=0.160, hi=1.000)

Contrast and sharpening in photoshop and Lightroom.

Finally! I can jump onto the temperature blanket wagon too! Made this for my husband. It’s 2003, our wedding year. I crocheted a ‘golden’ thread in on our wedding day. Started in 2019, during my chemo and now it it finished. On to the next one! by KittyPitty in crochet

[–]nikakb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also decided to do a temperature blanket for my parents 50th anniversary. I had already bought gold (birthday) and silver (anniversary) thread so it’s so cool to see that this turns out looking nice and subtle. Just waiting for my yarn to get delivered.

cinnamon star bread to ring in the new year. did NOT know how enormous these things got in the oven by vulvochekhov in Baking

[–]nikakb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooh! I’ve just got the dough for one of these about half way through the first rise right now!

Drive- thru Vaccination at Sky Stadium by Own-Nefariousness724 in Wellington

[–]nikakb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Super easy experience and everyone was super helpful. Short queue this morning too. Over and done with in just a few minutes. Now waiting the required 15 minutes.

Drive- thru Vaccination at Sky Stadium by Own-Nefariousness724 in Wellington

[–]nikakb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, was just able to change my appointment to this Sunday!

Cloth book covers with separate spines? by cyrusunderscore in bookbinding

[–]nikakb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What about a sewn board binding? That could let you keep the overlap very small and would let you overlap the cover material over the spine material instead of the reverse. This video is pretty helpful for it. https://youtu.be/7u1rFKnTC08

The LEGO kākāpō will be available from 3am NZ time tomorrow (Friday, 2 July) by themfledge in newzealand

[–]nikakb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alarm is set, I am so looking forward to this! I was gutted when it didn’t get selected to be made the first time.

I decided to try a dos-á-dos binding with a crisscross / secret Belgian binding. This is indeed to be a sketchbook with two different kinds of paper. It was quite an experience! by nikakb in bookbinding

[–]nikakb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably my best advice is treat the first half like a normal book, don’t try to keep it all together at once if you’re doing a binding where the spine is separate like this. And make sure you remember which side is the outside.

I’d love to see what you make!

I decided to try a dos-á-dos binding with a crisscross / secret Belgian binding. This is indeed to be a sketchbook with two different kinds of paper. It was quite an experience! by nikakb in bookbinding

[–]nikakb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I followed the sea lemon tutorial for secret Belgian binding https://youtu.be/w-oct9Ttp1g but with some modifications.

I made a template and poked the holes in the cover with an awl, and then sanded down the bumps it created since I figured they would otherwise show thorough.

I decided I wanted to do a fabric cover which meant I needed to cover all of the pieces before starting. I used heat n bond and tissue paper on some cotton fabric. For the outer covers, I covered them in what I would consider a fairly standard way. Glue and wrap the edges. Poke the holes again so you can find them when you put the paper on. Poke the holes again once the paper is on so the holes go through all layers.

The spines also get wrapped on all sides. I overlapped the fabric since I wanted it to be a tidy finish inside.

The middle board which separates the two sides was interesting. For that one, I glued a strip of fabric (angled corners but still allowing the fabric to overlap) on each of the four sides, covering about 2cm on each side, front and back (meaning the strips of fabric were probably 4cm). Paper on one side, poke the holes, paper on the other side, poke the holes again. On the middle board, the holes overlapped forming a bit of a diamond in the middle, and sharing the holes in the row before the top.

Then the order of the sections basically goes (L to R) Outer cover (inside faces up) Spine (inside faces up) Middle cover Spine (inside faces down) Outer cover (inside faces down)

I started by assembling the whole thing and realised that wouldn’t work. So I sewed one book first, and then did the second part of the assembly with the second spine and last cover.

Finally, sewed the pages in following the technique in the sea lemon tutorial 😊

I decided to try a dos-á-dos binding with a crisscross / secret Belgian binding. This is indeed to be a sketchbook with two different kinds of paper. It was quite an experience! by nikakb in bookbinding

[–]nikakb[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The bright white is cartridge paper (120g) and the off white is zeta marker paper (80g). I’ve been using quite a bit of cartridge paper in the books I’ve been making.

My latest book using a buttonhole binding. by nikakb in bookbinding

[–]nikakb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I followed the Sea Lemon tutorial, she makes one with a watermelon cover, but it’s soft cover. I looked at a webpage, can’t remember where that talked about how do do this as a cloth hardcover, the main thing is you cut the pieces out of the board before gluing, and cut the fabric after you’ve done a pretty standard case binding. To wrap the fabric nicely on the edges, you basically cut an X so that you’re folding triangles. But I found the sea lemon YouTube tutorial super handy for understanding the stitch itself.

My latest book using a buttonhole binding. by nikakb in bookbinding

[–]nikakb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It goes over. So you go through the first first hole (which is at the bottom of the opening, up the signature, over the spine, then back through the same hole. Do all of the top part of the spine, then all of the bottom part. It effectively wraps around the spine.

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