I have a normal white skirt and would like to stitch some patterns from a cross stitch book on it. It's made up of normal fabric, not cross stitch cloth. Are there any tips and tricks on how to cross stitch on clothes?

It even has order instruction to order other comics by post. Also an advertisement for 50 free hours of AOL.

I found it pretty interesting, I was a teenager in the 90s and it was a bit nostalgic to see instructions on how to order comics by post.

I bought a book with old German stitch patterns. The patterns were found in a house that used to belong to a textile merchant. This is my first try using metallic yarn.

Based on this pixelart by craftyglitch.

I found these photos at a fleamarket. They don't have a date, but CDV-photos were used between around 1860 and 1915 in Germany.

Also fun fact: The two kids could very well have been boys. It was customary at that time to dress up boys in dresses for photos. My family has a photo of my great grandfather as a young boy in a white dress.

Hello everyone, I bought an old Kodak Retinette 1A in a fleamarket. It seems to be in working condition, although I'll only know for sure after I developed the first photos. I found a manual for a later version (or a different one, the manual is in English and the camera is from Germany) but the lense and the labeling on the lenses are very different from mine.

I was hoping maybe someone with more knowledge of photography could help me make an educated guess. I assume the part labelled with an "m" is distance in meter, but otherwise I have no clue.

Update: Unfortunately the developed Film came out empty, so either I made a terrible mistake or the camera is broken :(

My husband and I went to an exhibition about the solar system at our local natural history museum. There was also an exhibition for children about the human body with really good explanations how genes work, how our ear works, stuff like that.

We came to the part about the eyes and there was an explanation of colorblindness and the different forms together with the tests. You know - the circles with dots where you have to read the number. Anyway, I forgot why but he started reading out the numbers. And well, he got one of them wrong. Not the test for full-on red-green blindness, but he can't tell certain shades apart.

In hindsight I had noticed that he sometimes confuses names for colors apart from the basic ones or that he doesn't like it when I identify an object by its color (e.g. "give me the pink one"). But I'd always chalked it up to German not being his mother language.

A guide-book to magical plants. It features beautiful drawings of the plants and descriptions of the magical properties.

You are some 2-3 km in the air. There's nothing to hold on to. You are sitting on a piece of cloth that is barely large enough to accommodate you. No railings, no seatbelts, nothing to hold on to or stop you from falling to your death if the carpet gets into turbulences or a strong gust of wind makes you lose your balance. And let's not forget that most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own.

You are the last visitor at a small Museum of Egyptology. You walk around the room. Since it is so small, the only guard is the Person selling Tickets at the entrance. Suddenly you hear glass shatter. You turn around and one oft the mummies climb out of the sarcophagus. He seems disoriented and asks you, what place this is and why he isn't in his tomb.

What do you do?

Auf Englisch kenne ich !writingprompts@lemmy.world und !poetry@lemmy.world und so weiter, aber auf Deutsch habe ich noch nichts zum Posten von Selbstgeschriebenem gefunden.