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Okay, learning things about myself. I don't like piecing at this scale (these are 2.5 inch squares which I made from strip sets), too much time at the iron. I do love this idea (I am making a quilted vest for my mom), but the making process is really outside of my comfort zone!

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@glaiveguisarme.com and I had a time traveling wedding. We had everyone dress as 19th century time travelers (our friends did Steampunk, our families went old west). The wedding g party had time travel devices as boutonnieres. The reception music was time travel movie/tv themes. It was awesome.

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Today I was sewing together little floral squares for a project I am working on, trying to get these strips to look random but not have two repeats touching and I swear these little suckers move around when I take my eye off of them. I have ripped out so many seams.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, was finally free to catch a showing of SINNERS, and the showing was -sold out-. I cannot recall the last time I ran into that! I will have to try again another day.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

And complete! This quilt is called Love Letters and it is a gift for my wife Lara.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I am finding myself hitting a wall in my quilting. The things I want to make are hard to do with the tools I have at my disposal. All this to say I have been spending the last few days jamming a full sized quilt through the tiny throatspace of my cheap domestic machine.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Finished the Residence and I enjoyed it. But also, I am worried about the calligrapher. They never offered an explanation. Did anyone check and see if he had had a stroke?

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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 34 days ago • 386 comments

Surely there is a more dignified way to pin borders on quilts than the floor yoga I have been doing. Child posing all over the room with my pincushion today. Does everyone have giant tables or something? Outer border next.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

I am unhappy with the sashing for my quilt. Luckily, the fabric came in for Lara's quilt, so I started that. This is going to be a rectangle, not a heart. I am enjoying this pattern, it's my first time sewing half square triangles. They are -stretchy- little suckers.

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

"I was challenged by my own constituents to do something different; I was challenged by my own constituents to do something; I was challenged by my own constituents to take risks..." Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to unelected everyone. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

submitted 45 days ago • 148 comments

In my job I think about regulations and how they can be made better all the time. These days I find myself with a lot of anger about how the federal government is acting. Today I channeled some of that anger into one heck of a comment letter about the proposed changes to the ACA.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

I spent some time looking at the MOHAI digital archives, looking at past queer protest and queer joy. mohai.org/collections-...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, the news was bad (my senators made the right choice at least), so I went dancing at a lesbian bar, to remind myself that life itself can be good.

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I have hit the ground running on my next quilt. I love the fabric so much (FreeSpirit's Kaffe Fassett x Morris & Co. Collection paired with Kona solids in a spectrum of teals), and the blocks are coming together really quickly.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

There’s just no reprieve. Like just take one fucking day off so we can catch our breath for the love of god.

submitted 62 days ago • 21 comments

every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it

submitted 73 days ago • 85 comments

And done! I am calling it Building Together because it does look like a rainbow city grid and solidarity really is what I need right now. This was faster to make than my first and I can feel myself improving. Is there more to work on? Yep! But, we are -building- not -perfecting-.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

@glaiveguisarme.com and I sitting in a house with 10 bookcases: Two more will fix us.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I have to admit that my first quilt was not quilted enough. It probably would have been fine if I hadn't wanted a -working- quilt and this one is not sturdy enough. I will repair it...in the future. Now I will need a new blanket for my bed. Guess I will have to make myself one (¡qué lástima!)

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This was a stretch of my skills (and my little domestic sewing machine), but I successfully finished the quilting stage. I love the overall look of the ripples.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

In an effort to be in community more, I went to a show. Was surprised to find my generally curmudgeonly heart touched by hearing several hundred people dance and sing together about how all is not lost. So, good choice me.

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If you needed something positive today, here it is.

submitted 89 days ago • 46 comments

I have spent today (this whole past 12 days) riding waves of grief. So, I turned on my sewing machine and finished the quilt top tonight. It positively sings with joy, which I don't feel right now, but I know I will. Next going to try backing it with fleece.

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

The news is very bad, so i got back to work on my quilt. Here is my quilt top with sashing. I really like the cornerstones I came up with! Next will be borders.

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

All I can say is that my life has been made better by the trans folks in it, and one of the best things is seeing someone you thought you knew just fucking bloom and flourish after they come out. Anyone who wants to stifle that will never know the light of heaven.

submitted 105 days ago • 10 comments