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swachter

I just finished this up today and I'm *delighted* by how it turned out. I added a tasteful number of aurora rhinestone rivets to the flap to represent neuron signaling (also because my aesthetic sense has not evolved even a tiny bit since I was an Irish dance-obsessed middle schooler). Rainbow hardware (because of course) and pockets galore inside and out.

I'll have this bad girl for sale this Sunday at the Somerville Flea at the Armory or online at rhymes-with-doctor.myshopify.c

Surface pattern design by Sumana Mahata (spoonflower.com/profiles/hodge) / bag design by me.

A royal blue messenger bag with cream-colored cotton straps and lavender plastic buckles is in the foreground, with out of focus library shelves in the background. The bag is printed with a very bright pattern of neurons in various highlighter-type colors (orange, bright green, pink, purple, blue). There is a zippered pocket running between the two satchel straps with a hot pink zipper. An exterior side pocket in the same neuron fabric is on both sides. There is a stack of three neurology-related library books in front of the bag.
A view of the back of the bag, showing the neuron fabric creating a deep rear pocket. A library book is in the pocket.
A photograph of the under-flap area, showing a deep cargo pocket that closes with a royal blue flap and hot pink snap, with the body of the pocket in the same neuron fabric. There is also a deep slip pocket in royal blue canvas with several slots for pens and similar. A maker's label in the top right corner of the pocket reads "Sarah Wachter Designs / Handmade in Somerville."
A photograph of the inside of the bag, showing four deep cargo pockets in pale grey-khaki canvas, all closing with a flap and hot pink plastic snap.
#sewing#handmade#handmadebags
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swachter

Today’s progress: front pocket is done and attached, rear and side pocket piece is complete but not yet sewn to the body. I’m still adapting how I do the rear and side piece - I only recently started using a separate piece of canvas for the base of the side pockets, which is much more cost-effective for using the expensive hero fabric wisely. That’s opened up some options for handling and reinforcing seams in good ways, but it’s still a lot of very small seams in a very tight area where a lot of precision is required. BUT I’m so much happier with the end product and how tidy it looks, as well as giving me more options for how I use the rest of the fabric.

Tomorrow: hopefully get the flap done (those are usually pretty fast) and finish up the body, see how far I get on the interior.

Fabric design by hodgepodgebricolage / printed by Spoonflower: spoonflower.com/profiles/hodge

Bag design by me

A picture of the base of a side pocket of a messenger bag, in the process of being sewn. A Caucasian woman’s hand is supporting it from underneath and showing the canvas rectangle of the base with reinforcing topstitching, as well as the angled corners on the seam that will be stitched into the bag corner in the last step of attaching it.
A photograph of the completed side pocket piece lying on top of the completed front pocket assembly. The fabric has a pattern of very brightly colored neuron-shapes on a royal blue background. The drawstring of the side pocket with the plastic cord lock can be seen, as can the bright pink KAM snap holding closed the front cargo pocket.
A photograph of the front pocket assemblage. There’s a deep cargo pocket with a bright pink KAM snap on the flap. The cargo pocket is in the same brightly colored neuron fabric. The other side of the pocket assembly is royal blue (like the bag body) and has one deep pocket for a small tablet or similar and several shorter pockets for pens or other small items. There’s a label reading “Sarah Wachter Designs / Handmade in Somerville” in the upper right corner of the pocket. There are two rainbow snaps on the lower parts of the pocket - these will pair up with two snaps on the bag flap to help hold it closed.
A photograph of the inside of the side pocket, showing the stitching lines coming together at the corner to form both the attachment seam (the bit of fabric that will get used to sew the pocket to the body, but doesn’t count as part of the pocket dimensions) and the angled corner of the base seam that will let the pocket flap tuck neatly inside the boxed corners of the bag when it’s being shaped.
#sewing#handmade#handmadebags
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swachter

This is pretty much a duplicate of the resistors bag, although I’m making the front pocket and flap pocket a bit wider for absolutely no good reason other than that I can. Also I revised how I’m doing the front pocket - it’ll end up looking almost identical but hopefully cleaner and with fewer awkward seam allowances stacking up on each other. I pieced some things last time that didn’t need to be pieced, and now I have learned from that.

All the bits got cut out today and marked up with fold lines/sewing lines/positioning lines (and hopefully I’ve done this enough times that I’ve actually marked everything before starting, which really does make a difference.) Tomorrow I’ll start actually sewing and see how far I get.

Several pieces of fabric pinned together. There’s some pieces that have a royal blue background and brightly colored neuron-shapes on it in pink/orange/purple/blue, and others that are solid royal blue with words like “gusset” hand written on them.
#sewing#handmade#messengerbag
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Cosmic Librarian

When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called myokines. In the presence of these muscle-generated signals, neurons grew four times farther compared to neurons that were not exposed to myokines. These cellular-level experiments suggest that exercise can have a significant biochemical effect on nerve growth.

#exercise #neuroscience #health #Medicine #neurons

news.mit.edu/2024/when-muscles

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study showsBy Jennifer Chu | MIT News
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Global Museum

The first complete map of every #neuron in an adult fly #brain

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

The researchers say the whole fly brain map is a key first step to completing larger brains. Since the fruit fly is a common tool in research, its brain map can be used to advance our understanding of how neural circuits work. #flies #science #insects #brains #Neurons

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