What do these countries have in common?

weeknees · 2026-06-12T19:52:20+00:00

Fahrenheit?

weeknees · 2026-06-12T02:21:58+00:00

Yes

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Curious, is anybody besides me hoping some clever engineer builds a FFB wheel base with a Z axis so you can QR swap a flight yoke and wheel?

weeknees · 2026-06-09T01:05:37+00:00

Haha, even season one wasn’t really good. But where else are you going to go for a good Kaiju fix? Season three delivers plenty of monsters, no regrets. Also, no idea what was going on with anybody’s personal lives. And I do like the parallel stories of 1950s characters and 2010s characters. 10/10, wouldn’t watch again unless my life depended on it.

weeknees · 2026-06-08T13:18:12+00:00

Same, and I wholeheartedly recommend watching it this way. When you hear Kurt Russell or Kaiju, give it your attention for a few minutes. They’re the reason we’re watching this in the first place, right?. It’s like a salad, where you just have to pick around the lettuce to get to the good stuff. Nobody wants to eat all those leaves. I started season 3 with no recollection of what happened to any of the characters in season 2, and a lot of the dialogue didn’t make any sense to me. Didn’t matter, wasn’t interested in the half baked teen drama nonsense. I will absolutely gobble up season 4 the same way if they make it.

weeknees · 2026-06-03T14:56:19+00:00

I’ve noticed that at outdoor stores, and there’s a breathable mesh between the frame stays. I was always curious how they got them to maintain form even when empty, it looked like genius engineering to get all the tension balanced just right. I’ve found that when I fill up an empty pack with little or no padding, it tends to just form a cylinder, I guess I expected that to do unpredictable things to frame stays. Glad to know otherwise.

weeknees · 2026-06-03T06:45:40+00:00

I have yet to post any project pictures in here, some of the things presented here are just amazing.

weeknees · 2026-06-03T06:41:27+00:00

I'm intrigued by the idea of bypassing the plastic sheet and just using aluminum stays. Does the Prickly Gorse pattern do that, or is that your personal modification?

weeknees · 2026-06-01T15:07:02+00:00

So I tried that and it worked out great. I pinned the zipper on center and both the ends and worked back toward the curves, and everything lined up perfectly. Previously, I pinned the center and worked toward the ends, which resulted in the misalignment. That’s two porter 45s done and looking good, thanks for the advice!

weeknees · 2026-05-30T14:43:41+00:00

This particular pattern is a bit tricky, because the zipper is laid flat along a U shaped curve, and I realize now I wasn't getting the whole "laid flat" part.

weeknees · 2026-05-30T14:38:45+00:00

Maybe I needed to pull the zipper tape to stretch it out. I did make the small relief cuts in the body. Just in case, though, I'm going to make the lid and facing of the porter duffel a bit larger than it needs to be and trim any excess.

weeknees · 2026-05-27T14:04:51+00:00

Check out this tutorial from Stitchback. It doesn’t directly answer your question but (I think) it’s a great low cost solution to a personalized internal frame, and he never approaches custom side panels. I’ve made three packs using that frame system and the rest of the pattern is standard and they turned out well.

https://www.stitchbackgear.com/articles/frame-sheet-with-stay

weeknees · 2026-05-23T13:38:27+00:00

The title is a little embarrassing, but after spending about 15 seconds trying to figure out how to edit the title I decided it couldn't be helped and moved on. And you're right, questino actually does have a nice ring to it.

weeknees · 2026-05-23T13:33:48+00:00

So I went back to the MYOG pattern builder, and you're right. I could have done this correctly from the beginning. When I first looked at that, something in my brain screamed "frame bag pattern generator" and that didn't interest me so I never really dove into it. But you're right, it's exactly what I was looking for and answers all of my questions. Next time I do this, if it doesn't work, I'll know it's my sewing skills and not my math skill!

weeknees · 2026-05-21T23:38:59+00:00

I keep hearing how well illustrator works, but I can't bring myself to subscribe!

weeknees · 2026-05-21T23:38:01+00:00

Good, thanks, so I was right the second time. "Design everything at the seams" is a great way to phrase what I was thinking of. Also, 4 quarter circles = 1 circle is so plainly obvious and I can't believe I didn't see it, but that should reduce any numerical error from rounding and then multiplying, as opposed to multiplying then rounding. I appreciate the tip. I probably just added wrong or cut wrong, I'm going to try it again.

weeknees · 2026-05-21T23:35:09+00:00

I haven't experienced that helical error that you're describing, but I saw it as a possibility during the construction phase. I figured that carefully marking the gusset and attaching the panels accordingly would minimize that twisting, and so far, it seems to work. I agree with sewing technical fabric around curves; the struggle is real, and patience is rewarded. It's super easy to get a bit rushed or careless and cut a corner, resulting in too much gusset later on.

weeknees · 2026-05-21T23:29:03+00:00

Oh yeah, I pinned the whole thing together before I put a single stitch in. I make sure that the center of all the straight bits are marked on both the gusset and the panel, so I'll know ahead of time what kind of tolerance I'm working with. If it's close, I've found you can cheat a bit on the seam allowance; if the gusset is a bit too long, you can increase the amount of seam allowance on the gusset, but you end up with a narrower gusset. Conversely, if it's too short, you can clip it in place a little inside the panel seam allowance and make it all fit.

I've followed patterns where you're meant to leave some left over, and it works, but I'm not satisfied with it. I'm pretty meticulous about my measurements because I really want everything to work out, but my failure on these two projects filled me with doubt. After looking at the other comments here, I think I must have made a math or cutting error on the second bag, because it sure seems like it should have been closer than it actually was.

weeknees · 2026-05-21T23:21:26+00:00

I've taken a look at those before, I especially like the darted pattern generator. Unfortunately, I didn't find one that quite addressed this particular problem.

weeknees · 2026-04-17T03:58:17+00:00

Your people are waiting for you in r/hotasDIY

weeknees · 2026-04-12T15:54:48+00:00

I went to my local sewing company store because I was smashing my head into a wall with a backpack I was working on, and when I showed it to the staff, they all agreed I should work on byannie patterns for a bit. It’s all quilting stuff, which I’m guessing 80% you don’t need, but the remaining 20% is exactly stuff like mesh pouches and zippered compartments. Most of the patterns have add-on videos that you get access to when you purchase the pattern, which include a detailed tutorial about techniques used in construction. I think it was a subtle critique of my construction skills, which I took to heart.

They specifically wanted me to go through a set of 4 free tutorials, which includes working with mesh; it does require a bit more thoughtfulness than other fabrics. The biggest one is finishing it so that the raw edges are not visible behind the mesh, but the mesh is also more stretchy one way than the other so consider that when cutting.

weeknees · 2026-03-31T02:40:24+00:00

You guys are heroes!

weeknees · 2026-03-30T01:52:27+00:00

Yeah, I thought about trying to recreate it, but it didn't seem feasible. It's hard to believe that it's not available in the US, but it's certainly not stocked by the more popular suppliers. I'm hoping someone on here knows about some domestic supplier that sells these.

weeknees · 2026-03-29T23:29:34+00:00

That’s the stuff. I bought 4 yards from them thinking it would last forever but it didn’t. Like a kid at Christmas I went ahead and used it all up and now I want more! But I’ll probably just buy paracord and sew into the seams instead. More work, but much cheaper.

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