how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

My third quilt is done! I started this last year and leisurely hand-quilted it throughout 2025. I made the somewhat unorthodox decision of binding this halfway through quilting (March?) which meant there were months that passed where I didn’t work on it and just got to enjoy it nearly-complete.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!

My most excellent best friend is now on Bluesky! She is a font of knowledge of all things circus and also I was up until 1:30 this morning reading her book which hopefully will be keeping up many more people in Autumn 2026.

One of my obsessions is the Gemini and Apollo photography (there are 12 Hasselblads just lying on the moon!), so I feel like this article was written specifically for me: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

My dad finished making his pair of Chandigarh chairs! If you are in northern New England you should get a chance to see them in early November through the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and their New England Woodworking Competition. They’ll technically be on loan from me!

It is not done (needs a hem facing) but here is the first skirt I’ve ever self-drafted based on my measurements. Made of green Harris tweed and flatlined in silk organza.

You’ll never guess who watched the quince picking at Yale University Press today.

This pastel by my grandmother used to hang in her bedroom and now it proudly sits in my apartment. A framer friend very generously put museum glass in it (at wholesale) and I can’t stop looking over at it. Unclear if these are Green or White mountains.

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

I finished the top of my banner. Now I need to make the backing and quilt it up! If you ever want to see this in person and also like aerials and a lovely and welcoming community in Connecticut . . . It will live there eventually.

Working on a new project with foundation paper piecing! You really have to pay attention with this stuff and almost think backwards.

Spent most of the day completing this linen robe. I am tempted to swan around my apartment in it for the rest of the weekend.

This is my neighborhood and I'm delighted a judge agrees I should have actual neighbors and not a blighted, decrepit series of buildings: www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gran...

Siri described a photo my dad sent of several unfinished walnut boards in the back of his car as "cardboard" so that's how Apple's AI is doing . . .

My dad has been working on replicating (with some modifications) a Chandigarh chair and just oiled his test, which is made of ash. He figured this out from photos, a lifetime of woodworking knowledge (his first career was making Shaker furniture), and golden ratios.

I’ve made a lot from mid-June to mid-July. I completed the ‘final version’ of a dress I tested in blue cotton voile, and made two versions of a trapeze pattern I modified (changed shoulder slope, lowered armscye, shortened). Also I made a tailor’s sausage to match my ham.

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Something keeps eating my butternut seedlings (farmers market says this is common), so good wishes appreciated for the third round of planting. They appear to be less enticing when the leaves grow hairy. I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.

Ways to contact the governor to support HB5002! 1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today 2. Email directly [email protected] 3. Online form (below) As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap

My new couch arrived and it’s perfect. If anyone wants furniture you can have forever and also the loveliest customer service, my experience with Pompanoosuc Mills was just top tier at every stage.

Took advantage of a long weekend and gray weather to finish a lot of garments I’ve been working on. I finished two tees and a dress from the Elizabeth Suzann Georgia Series (I’ve been taking a class with her) and one dress from Silversaga Patterns (Francesca). All of these have enclosed seams!

If tomorrow is Indie Bookstore Day, is today Indie Bookstore Eve?

We found bloodroot thriving by the side of the road at the edge of my parents’ field and transplanted a select to my mom’s woodland garden.

Made my voice heard at the New Haven HandsOff protest yesterday and sewed 15 buttons and buttonholes.

Between 1916 and 1949, The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’ve made all of his poems available on our site for the first time. yalereview.org/robert-frost...

I rebuilt my community garden plot! I used untreated fir and applied tung oil. The community garden manager cut the wood for me (one long board into the short ones and the 4x4 pole), and then it was just me, a drill, and an impact driver. The fence posts should enable vertical growth.

On Monday I finished my first shirt! This was technically a test (toile) and mistakes were made/ lessons were learned while making it. Pleased to have it in my closet though I do now need to make a camisole as cotton voile is sheer. Pattern is the Amelie blouse from Silversaga Patterns.

Forsythia on the New Haven Canal Trail, Spring 2023 on Kodak Portra. Self developed and scanned.

NH was the easiest state I’ve ever voted in, and the republicans have always hated this, particularly for students (it has long had same day registration). Now they’ve targeted half the population.

I’ve now completed by first jury summons (read a book in a room for 4 hours, name was never called).

I finished binding my quilt! It is not actually complete, as I still need to quilt lines in the opposing direction, but now I can really quilt at my leisure and enjoy it without distributing stray threads and batting.

Someone in my local Buy Nothing put out a call for broken pottery to practice kintsugi and they've confirmed they can mend my chipped East Fork mug. Sharing if you needed a bit of community joy.

I really can’t second this recommendation strongly enough, it’s one of a very small number of movie scenes I can’t even talk about without struggling not to cry

Everything is a nightmare, but I have made progress on sewing my first dress. Hem has just been pinned, not sewn.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

My amaryllis has produced a 2nd bloom! The kit my mom gifted began growing in the box and first bloomed just as I was leaving for the long holiday.

Made a toile of a dress this weekend and successfully modified the bodice (plus figured out how to translate that to the pattern pieces). The focus and problem solving of sewing garments is a great doomscrolling alternative. (Yes the drawstring is off center, but that wasn’t important to fit)

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

I made my first garment! It’s a skirt, with a pattern from soften studios (Clo Bias Skirt). I’m wearing it here with a sweater my mom made for me.

The Yale School of Architecture sponsored screening of The Brutalist reached capacity basically 45 minutes before it was set to start. Best friend and I did not make it in, despite arriving half an hour early. Pretty good evidence New Haven should have a first run movie theater!

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

A rumor requires nothing, & can be instantly dismissed; a firsthand account requires one person, & can be easily waved away. The importance of a full investigation by a known & (mostly) trusted publication can’t be overstated. Reporting, fact-checking, and legal vetting are arduous and essential.

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Strong endorse! For editors looking for reviewers and also to reach out to potential authors, a current CV (with contact info!) helps so much.

I think the LOTR versions on Max reflect a remaster because the Council of Elrond does not look suitably orange/yellow.

Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm... via @tanyalewis.bsky.social

I tend to commit hard to a hobby, so I made a tailor’s ham and filled it with wood shavings from my dad’s woodshop before I even made a garment. One side is green wool from a skirt I adored but no longer fits. The other is chambray from a shirt I loved that also no longer fits.