i have this idea in my head that i haven’t been ab

witcher 2, post W3 fixit

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oooooh this doesn’t fit in my continuities anywhere but i Love it and I wish someone would write it!!!!!! (Your picture was not posted)

The Witcher Scaled Map

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So because I like to do too much I created a scaled map of The Continent where each one of the individual lines represents 12 miles (19.3 km) [image: image]

I hope this is useful to everyone for their headcanons, fanfictions, roleplaying, shitposts, art, whatever you need this for!

For example, ever wanted to know the distance between Oxenfurt and Kaer Morhen? [image: image]

It’s roughly 180 miles so we are talking a 4-5 day journey minimum https://indiesunlimited.com/2020/03/24/getting-it-right-time-and-distance-on-foot-and-horse/ on horse. A human walking alone would probably take closer to 9 days. (the diagonals are roughly 17 miles – found using some quick math). If you want to go further you could also consider the impact of terrain, eating, character stamina, etc. This just gives a really good base for any worldbuilding.

Feel free to use this map! If you end up using it for something, it would be awesome if you could link them back to this map.

Also, if you want to calculate travel time but don’t want to do the work of figuring it all out, then feel free to send in an ask letting me know the where (Aretuza to Rinde, etc) and how they are traveling (by foot, by horse, by horse-drawn wagon).

Note that some of the s2 locations aren’t on this map quite yet because they haven’t released an image, they just have the interactive map on the website https://www.witchernetflix.com/en/map but I could still easily calculate out those locations too such as Melitele’s Temple and Nivellen’s Mansion if you’d like.

under the cut are some more details about how I came up with this map.

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muslining knit dress from old shirts part 2

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so I found yet another box of old t-shirts i’d put away that don’t fit me properly or that just don’t fit in my current aesthetic etc, and so I started sorting them. Plain shirts in one box, shirts with design elements that I could cut out and keep (button plackets, decorative shirring etc) and maybe incorporate into a finished design that way in half of another box, and then shirts whose front designs I both liked and, when measured (since i don’t do numbers, I just lay the front pattern piece against them) would all fit on the front pattern piece in half of another box.

I soon had no less than fifteen shirts that wanted to be the stars of a dress front. Some shirts also had a design too long to fit onto the front pattern piece– which I had already lengthened, for fit reasons. Those, I reasoned, ought to be skirt panels, so that i could put the whole design on one piece.

Another option exists, which is that the oddly-shaped design could just be cut out like a patch and applied to a finished garment regardless of seam lines, and I’ll keep that in mind but so far nothing has been both precious and oddly-shaped enough for that. [image: image]

[img description: a pile of roller-derby-themed shirts on a table in a dingy basement. slogans include “KEEP CALM AND KNOCK ‘EM OUT” which is super 2012 isn’t it– merch for a team called the Knockouts, Helsinki Roller Derby, Queen City Roller Girls, and a graphic of two skaters in silhouette executing an offensive manoever called a whip (wherein your defensewoman transfers all her forward momentum to a teammate via an arm-slingshot kind of move) captioned “WHIP ME”. There is also a Jack Daniels promotional t-shirt and several Marvel superhero-themed shirts in the mix.]

At any rate, I came to the very quick realization that I have far too many t-shirts. No one needs this many t-shirt dresses in their wardrobe. So I instead picked through and pulled out just the ones in this collection (I am grimly aware there is a very large stash of other shirts somewhere on this theme but I do not know where– where are all my practice jerseys???) that were roller-derby themed, and settled on one I particularly like to be the front bodice piece, and then sat and seam-ripped off the sleeves. I’d just chopped the first shirt up willy-nilly, as it’s much faster to use scissors, but I had a Zoom thing to attend so I sat and seam-ripped, which preserves a few fractions of an inch here and there of the fabric and gives me more options for how to place the pattern pieces. My first muslin, the existing sleeves of the shirt were just too short to use for the sleeve pattern piece, which was slightly frustrating (how efficient would that be!) and I thought perhaps by seam-ripping I’d be able to use them. Not an L but an XL, surely, would have enough extra sleeve…

I laid out the skirt pattern piece. The Turner only has a single pattern piece for the whole skirt– you just cut two, on the fold I think– the skirt is assembled from just two panels. And so I’d thought, well, I’m going to have to add seam allowance, I’m going to this and that and I generally was assuming four or five shirts would go into a skirt– of course the fronts have designs but the backs are blank, so I could stagger those, hm hm. I had thrown in a couple of promotional liquor t-shirts since for some reason I had those– probably from bars, during the roller derby era, that seems like the sort of thing that would happen– and figured I’d just have a big patchwork.

Well.

You may already have thought of what was eluding me, here, but bear with me.

It turns out, a women’s XL, as many of these shirts were, is long enough top to bottom to be the skirt panel without piecing if you just take the neck off. And then it’s wide enough to almost be the whole panel as well, just the front of the shirt. So one shirt, front and back, will cover the entire front panel, with a tiny bit of piecing for the corners. And then one shirt, front and back, will do the back panel. (Probably the efficient thing to do is take neck and sleeves off, slit shirt evenly up the back, flatten it out with the existing side seams doing most of the piecing, and then put in the edges careful of grain direction– but I’m not sure how much piecing will even be required, in that case. Have to disassemble one of the shirts to check, still.

I’d been looking at the fronts of the shirts, and completely forgetting, that of course, these are not two-dimensional objects. The shirts have backs. That’s a lot of fabric.

so I have. Uh. four spare roller derby shirts and two spare liquor-promotional shirts left over, already, just from the batch I pulled out of the box of so many other shirts I also have…

Uhhhh so well. I guess I can be very choosy, and make a second version if this one doesn’t come out the way I wanted.

I also could make them lined. The dress pattern calls for lining the bodice. I was figuring on just hemming the neckline but I could bind it, but also, I could just line the dress as it calls for, using the backs of other t-shirts, or in fact all the ones I have in unattractive colors that I still own for some reason and let’s not contemplate that too intensely. I had the idea of putting a shelf bra inside all of the dresses, just because I own so many bras that are inadequate and most of them could use the help at any given time. It would help make the dresses fit more consistently, if I could know that no matter what else was going on with my bra, it would still have this bit of assistance.

I also want to try some applique and reverse-applique, just for fun, but that’s time-consuming so really I should focus on getting these proofs of concept done-done.

Of course they’ll have pockets; the Cashmerette Turner doesn’t have pockets, but they put a tutorial on the blog for how to add pockets to the Foxhill https://blog.cashmerette.com/2022/01/ahead-of-the-curve-hacks-adding-pockets.html, which is in the book I own, and the Foxhill’s skirt construction is as far as I can tell identical to that of the Turner– so you could download that free pocket pattern and use the directions to apply a side-seam pocket to literally any dress with both waist and side-skirt seams. (There’s pointers for how to do this to a dress without side seams, which mostly amount to adding those side seams, LOL.)

anyway this is. well. i’m definitely hyperfocused on this shit but i still have zero wearable garments out of it so i better ride this as far as it goes.

(Well. not totally true. i’m currently wearing that first muslin bodice as a crop top over a boring dress. yeah no that’s gotta be two inches longer at least. … maybe i’ll just put a kinda peplum on this one and leave it as a tunic? or splice in a waistband, idk. probably better to have it be tight for two more inches before flaring out, tho. Even as a layering piece. IDK. Thought about just using it for a lining but I already got sleeves onto it, seems like a waste.) [image: image]

[img desc: the author, a fat white woman, taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror. She is wearing a black infinity scarf, very bulky around her neck, and a black close-fitting cardigan, and her torso has a vibrant blue shirt with a Rode Microphones promotional print on it that sort of looks like a motorcycle engine and proclaims “ON THE RODE AGAIN” and “Est. 1967″, with a rolled lower hem just below her bustline, and then the rest of her is in a draped soft-blue dress. she’s also wearing a magnifying-glass pendant she just remembered she owns, which is pretty cool.] (Your picture was not posted)