investigating designing a quilt block using a tremendously odd workflow of grid paper notebook & sketchup & clip studio paint
included a mistake or two to let the ghosts out. this was not foundation paper pieced, just a lot of noodling around
see also: my woim
back at it with my Troubled Berries
Possum in the garden (flimsy, 48" by 51½")
#is the three pink blooms a more traditional block? It looks familiar #if so I love its inclusion all the more (tags from @leopardmask-ao3)
i'm responding to these tags so i can post my original mockup:
the three pink blooms absolutely is a traditional block that comes with a lot of different names and variations. i copied it by sight/with graph paper from the above image (Carolina Lily block by Quilt Missouri) and from this Bernina blog post about the Tulips In Vase block.
you can see i was planning to include more traditional blocks and got lost in the sauce of making stuff up. the less traditional blocks in the mockup are by BurlapandBlossom on etsy
ed: the possum is paper pieced! i learned how after making the first couple posts in this thread
i think the echo quilting kind of brings out a keith haringlike energy
Only thing left is to gift it! 🎉
Description of process reminded me of you, @inkylizard :)
For years, people have been warning me about a dread menace that lurks in the shadows of all hobbies. That monster at the end of the book is named "woodworking," and it consumes ordinary people like fire.
It starts innocently enough. You're doing a regular, run-of-the-mill hobby, and you become so engrossed in it that suddenly you need more storage space. Because of centuries of indoctrination, you decide that you need shelves. Sure, you could just go buy some shelves from the store, but they're flimsy and don't fit your available space really well. Then you look outside. Trees. Trees. There's a lot of those. Perhaps a wood shelf would work. A few days later, you're doing all kinds of horrible things in order to afford your latest specialty router bit.
Now, not everyone falls down that rabbit hole. Plenty of people are capable of building a quick piece of shelving without ever learning what a rabbet is. Let's be honest, though: anyone reading this is definitely of the personality type that has already looked that word up on Wikipedia and clicked through to like four related articles. Lee Valley should be giving me thirty pieces of silver for what I've just done to you.
There is good news. If there is a way to avoid woodworking, I think I've found it. It's called welding, and it consists of spending so much money on metal, rod, gas, electricity, and various kinds of weird-shaped magnets that you can't afford woodworking tools anymore. Nor, really, do you want to have wood lying around while you're throwing Zeus's fury at some old Diplomat quarter panels. It's a big downer to burn down your fancy wood shelf from an errant spark, mostly because all your cool stuff will be lying on the floor again.
we gotta take character archetypes and curated aesthetics away from the girls you are not a movie character or pinterest board you are a human person💔
I call BS.
Whenever your solution is to take something away from girls or get girls to stop doing something, you're not looking at the whole problem. You don't like the way girls are exploring and experimenting with self expression? Then look at what the barriers are to them using other ways that you think would be better. Little girls are incredibly creative and resourceful. They found this way to self-express as a work-around or response when someone was blocking or gatekeeping something else. Look for that.
Thinking a lot about how Massachusetts politics is basically socialist libertarianism. We believe strongly in each person’s right to be left the fuck alone and to their own fucking business. But that doesn’t just magically happen. Sometimes we all need to pitch in to ensure that Stevie over here can be left the fuck alone and to his own fucking business.
Maybe that’s shoveling out his driveway. Maybe that’s subsidizing his health care. Maybe that’s paying for good schools so he can figure out what he wants his own fucking business to fucking look like. Maybe that’s regulating guns or getting vaccinated so he doesn’t die in a mass shooting or from a preventable disease - you know what stops you real fast from doing whatever it is that’s your own fucking business? Dying.
Official Post of Massachusetts
I want to apologise to
- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown
- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world
- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music
- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when she’s actually one of the coolest people ever
- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer.
- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work.
- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much
- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.
- Hating the color pink during my teenage years, when it’s actually a lovely color and what I resented was society’s pressure to perform femininity.
Wow. Yeah. All true.
become familiar with nature in your area. your life will be marginally improved by recognizing the birds singing outside your window or identifying pawprints you see. i promise
Can confirm. Lots of things are truly terrible right now, but that migrating oriole couple that has been coming by for breakfast and the batch of goldfinches somewhat annoyed by the orioles crashing their buffet make every day better. As do the plethora of little reptile turds around daily that tell me the lizards and geckoes are finding plenty of food.
You have a unique perspective on this. I love it
A graduate student was kidnapped off the streets by ICE a few blocks from where I live. (You've heard of her). This morning there was a Baltimore Oriole singing outside my window. The latter doesn't in any way balance out or fix the former, but it does give me a little strength to go on with my days.
I'm queer. One of my partners and many of my closest friends are trans. A bestie of mine was in the US on a green card until they were able to naturalize a couple months ago.
Shit is hard. Birds are awesome.
C3PO & R2D2
I have such a soft spot for miniature worlds
there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well
and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it
the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
this is not my beautiful circus..these are not my beautiful monkeys
And you may find yourself crammed into a very small automobile...
You may find yourself in a beautiful bouncy castle, with a beautiful sword swallower
