Unpopular sewing opinion: if you won't read the sewing machine manual you should just sell the machine and find another hobby.

I assembled the parts for the Bear quilt tonight. It feels like it's missing something, but maybe that should happen in the quilting? #quiltsky

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help! We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood! We need your help to fund this project givebutter.com/KenzoMural Here's why this is important ⬇️

Topping off a big quilty weekend with stickers of my EPP bear for #quiltcon

Current work in progress update. Each square of this modular brain is 10x10 inches. I’m currently working on 18/30 square. I started it in November 2024. All improvisational hand embroidery by my own hands 😉 #NeuroArt #SciArt #FiberArt #Embroidery

The next quilt top is together. This on is for my smiley face obsessed kiddo. #quiltsky #sewsky he's picked the pink solid for the back.

It's Sunday morning so I'm doing crafts and listening to KEXP #quiltsky #sewsky

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

I am not in need of advice, merely venting. This has not been a good week to exist in my body and my pain levels have been just staying around the 4-5 mark regardless of what I do. At this point it affects what I do, how well my brain functions, and my ability to communicate.

Finished jelly roll race quilt. The proportions of these are so weird but I'm really happy with the hand quilting and this is going to live in my car for snuggles and picnics. #quiltsky #sewsky

Slowly working through January on the temperature quilt. This was the start of the big storm. #quiltsky #sewsky #temperaturequilt

MPR is full of so many great Minnesotans that I get to be proud of them twice.

My tortilla chips keep breaking off in my bean dip

Tell me you don't read modern romance without telling me you don't read modern romance.

Doing a little stitching in bed, this is January 18. Was quite cold. #quiltsky #sewsky #temperaturequilt

I think I'm allergic to my office. Just had my first full day at work after being only there for short periods for two weeks and tonight I needed a breathing treatment. Doesn't seem coincidental.

Time for more binding (turned the first corner) and watching fancy skiing. #quiltsky

I grew up with men who exclusively went by "Grizz" and "Junebug" - they barely remembered that it was actually Phillip and Emil. But if that person changes gender and not just their name it's apparently too complicated.

Unless something has changed in KY I think I'm being punished for crossing the Ohio river. Believe me, I didn't want to.

Guess I don't get to send DMs anymore.

Getting ready for a big trip up north to see the opthalmologist. In the meantime I'm stitching on this binding, drinking tea, and being judged by a cat. #quiltsky #sewsky

A reminder: there is not a single housing market in America—not one city, state, or county—where someone relying on SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment. Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.

It is day 11 of no school and I'm working on this quilt binding between work tasks and parenting tasks. There's a lot of cat hair on this quilt.

Let me tell you a little about why this is so important. I have a 6yo with multiple top 9 allergies (& mustard...) We spent a week in Disney in Dec and they are well known for their allergy awareness. My kid could eat at every restaurant and he said how special it was for him to eat with family.

For no reason I want the skyline to know that Wyze lets you watch your place & choose not to upload, unlike Ring & others

I love the table attachment for my machine so much.

I have completed my lined wool trousers. The pattern is the @stylearc.bsky.social Billie Trousers and it's the third time I've made these. Fabrics from fabricmart. #garmentsewing #sewsky

Finishing touches

I'm just watching the regular OTA coverage of the Olympics and trying to redirect my child to it occasionally because I think he will find something cool. He's uninterested in snowboarding so far but ice dancing is "actually pretty cool"

Hand hemming these trousers before the waistband is on. Because I'm a rebel. #garmentsewing #sewsky

This morning I took the kiddo to the YMCA for a workout and a swim, then we picked up a huge bag of library books, got lunch, and then braved the grocery store. Now I'm tired and a bit sore and watching some ice skating.

Guy in an anticapitalist shirt at the gym complimented my shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Started my Friday be falling asleep again on the couch and waking up far later than I'd prefer.

If you’re not following the case of Steven Feldman, AI Lawyer, your missing out

Some brain bleach for the evening

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Working, stitching, and having preemptive social anxiety about attending #QuiltCon

Gov. Beshear on Lexington's winter response: "As to Lexington, I think we're all disappointed by the city's response to this ice and snow event... after after two times like this, where it's taken them longer than similar or even smaller cities to get their roads clean, we simply have to do better."

And they just announced a 9th consecutive day of no school. I genuinely do not know how people with less kind bosses are handling this.

“Did they grow up under a rock??” Yes. And the rock was probably put there on purpose by men who wanted uneducated people to control. This is why we don’t leave any state or county or town behind. Nobody deserves to grow up under a rock. Especially one they would never have the power to move.

They just cancelled school for the 8th day in a row.

Made a new pincushion for my new pins. Leftover hexis from my fish bag, stuffed with wool and walnut shells. I put an extra hexi over the bottom where I left the card in and slipped a magnet between so it's got a heavy flat bottom that's magnetic

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

I am very tired and all I want to do is melt into the couch and read books from the two crafty humble bundles I've bought recently, but unfortunately this weekend I washed six loads of laundry and folded zero.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

The hand quilting is done! Just needs a trim and some binding.

Today the bestie had a hand quilting lesson at the house, she has a bunch of practice blocks prepared and now she's got all the tools she needs to get comfortable with hand sewing in general and quilting specifically.

Really nice dinner tonight: veggie burgers (the kind where it's a patty of visible veggie chunks) on homemade gluten free buns with broccoli and sweet potato fries. @kristadb1.bsky.social

Now let's get the rest of the people out of the concentration camps.