Obviously 🙂‍↕️

In particular, the state of the Rude setting may be of interest to you.

I just blocked someone because they said they posted a selfie, and it was not a photo they took of themselves. Instablock. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

In addition to the thread collection and needle minder, I’ve added these two zines to my online shop. (Pre-2022 Ben would not believe such hand work items are real.) benmillett.us/shop/p/zine-... benmillett.us/shop/p/zine-...

I'm quite disappointed Robert Kaufman's not created their Kona Cotton calendar. Look, we don't need all the patterns that came with it; just do the dates half of the page with the gradient of colorways. Not that I actually used it as a calendar, but I'll miss having that gradient on my wall.

I had my mullet removed yesterday and I keep reaching back, thinking, "wait, what happened to my hair?! oh, right." (I'm not regretting it, I needed something new/different, just a change.)

I just love all the listicles of “cuts for thinning hair” that basically only feature men with either thick hair or no hair. You couldn’t have found people in-between? You know, people with THINNING hair?

It’s been a weird feeling, having the show up at the Art Center, knowing it’ll be there forever (until 2 Nov), and now it’s down, and all the headspace I had reserved for the show is now available for use again.

I'll have more to say on this before too long, but want to put this out there right quick: I HAVE A THREAD COLLECTION WITH AURIFIL COMING IN FEBRUARY!

Bugonia? Yes. Watch with an audience.

Hey! It’s November. Do you have your Thanksgiving Dinner (Quilt) ready? benmillett.us/shop/p/thank...

I finally watched The Shining today. Yes, THAT carpet is amazing, but how is it that I’ve never seen these other rugs/carpet shared?! They’re as good or better.

I missed this yesterday, that Canva's latest antic is making Affinity a single free app. I haven't installed it yet, but I'm definitely not yet giving up my Affinity Publisher. www.affinity.studio

The way I laughed at this in recognition (at least for my half of the couple) was exactly how I needed to start the day.

A market place for artists by artists sounds great. But, if you're also saying you want to "make handmade sustainable again"? My interest evaporates. When in all of human history was handmade ever sustainable?

Not sure what is in this album that is fixing me, but I’m glad for it.

Updated to iOS 26.1 RC. This is with the new “Tinted” setting. Still not enough of a change. It’s been commented on elsewhere, but coming back to 26 after 18 feels like using a kids toy. Everything to interact with is unnecessarily giant. I just hate it all.

That screed against GenAI that I decided not to write? This is my new go-to:

It’s just such a great feeling when you’ve futzed with a design so much that you now hate all iterations of the design.

Still laughing about this particular post of this thread.

Laughing in Cash App’s face for asking for a photo of my ID as if there isn’t ample evidence in recent months to not trust uploading an ID.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Jeffrey Gibson spoke at the Des Moines Art Center. It was the highlight of the month for me. Hopefully you have an hour to watch this.

Any BigCartel people here? Who possibly also used to use Squarespace?

My good deed for the day was stopping someone from starting a Substack newsletter.

The article date is today, but Dallin Oaks has been saying this for literal decades.

I've found myself slipping back into "I have this future deadline, I'll design, and then make, all the quilts together" and I am trying to stop myself. I need to not do that nonsense to myself yet again.

Progressed the previous design and now I'm thinking it's not the quilt jacket I want to make. I was reluctant to do a jacket with just stripes, but… I'm feeling this a lot more. #quiltconcouture

Quick draft of #quiltconcouture 2026. It'll likely evolve. It also doesn't show the plan currently only in my head of hand quilting with @aurifil.bsky.social in 12wt and 28wt.

I've decided I need to figure out how to make a jacket like this one by Loro Piana. www.bergdorfgoodman.com/p/loro-piana...

Where’s the lie?

block this shit

Looks like I need to update the recipe comment example in my quilt pattern lecture. This is better than the already truly terrible substitution example I had.

It really is true. So hot.

I knew Squarespace was going all-in with GenAI, but this Refresh is embarrassing. I really need to get a new website provider.

Have you heard of “Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind”? It’s a movie that came out in 2004. Why did no one tell me to watch it sooner?! Maybe it slipped under everyone’s radar.

Why yes, these four are definitely how I picture rarebit and I definitely want to have one of each of these.

Have you registered for my Artist Lecture on Thursday? Hope you can join me there.

Wow, The Substance is quite the movie, isn’t it.

I’ve discovered something worse than nacho cheese on nachos: “red pepper aioli”. Why tf would you put mayo on nachos?! (The last time I had those nachos, there was no mayo, so this was a terrible surprise. Never again.)

I have a distinct memory of watching Chita Rivera perform at the Tony’s for Kiss of the Spider Woman. I never watched the musical or listened to the recording, and I held a high regard for the musical because of that Tony’s performance. So I was confused when watching the new movie.

These pieces at the Des Moines Art Center literally stopped me in my tracks yesterday. Breathtaking. Details in ALT 1/2

Sharing my annual reminder on this National Coming Out Day. #NCOD

What’s an image you can hear?

Our various coneflowers have started flowering again, which means flowers for the table again.

Oh no, I’ve successfully used work today to not think about the conclusion to my artist lecture and I’m all out of work.

This morning I learned The Rescues wrote the music/lyrics for the upcoming Broadway production of The Lost Boys and now all I can think about is how to get to NYC for spring break 2026 to catch a preview performance.

In the beta for iOS 26.1, the "Stop" for an alarm now requires sliding when on the lockscreen. Hell to the no. Am I in the minority of people who basically never use snooze and only use stop? Don't penalize me for everyone else missing the snooze.

If you’re in Ames this month, stop by the Public Library! I have four quilts on display in conjunction with Ames’s Pride celebrations this coming weekend. (I was surprised by the sloped floor, which I incorporated to hang the quilts going upwards at a similar angle.)

On my walk this morning, I passed this tree with really weird leaves in the uppermost branch. They weren’t green and they were making a ton of noise. Strange.