Since leaving my quilt industry job in late Dec, I've been throwing away work-related projects and finally quilting my own stuff. (MIRACLE!) This is what's been getting me thru the ICE occupation. Here's a tablerunner that I pieced 15-ish years ago but never had time to finish. #quilt #craft

Just finished up this quilt to donate to a local Minnesota organization that is protesting a data center that the city wants to build right smack in the middle of a neighborhood. I hope they can raffle it off for a nice chunk of money to help their cause. NO DATA CENTER! #quiltsky #craftsky

<---Minnesota here. I am currently reading a book about the survivors of a nuclear holocaust and reading it comes as a relief because it seems like surviving a nuclear holocaust would be a lot easier than the bullshit we're trying to survive right now, so there's that. #booksky

Stress baking in Minnesota today. This whole thing is just so exhausting. The worst part is not knowing how much longer this is going to go on. #bread #baking

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Is there anything that smells as good as a nice big loaf of sourdough fresh from the oven? #bread #breadsky #baking

Christmastime #Caturday

Last week, I returned to London for a visit, ignored everything Trump, and felt SO MUCH better. I need to keep doing that. I need to remember who I was before this madness descended on us and everything turned dark. Here is a piece of my work. I hope it brightens your day. #quiltsky #craftsky

If you know, you know. #quiltsky #craftsky

Timeline cleanse. Just warming up for a full blown yawn. A great example of taking the perfect bad picture at just the right/completely wrong time. She'll probably bite me for this later. #catsky #caturday

Currently 2 tree skirts loaded on my longarm. I've been rolling back and forth stitching with red thread, then green, and now gold. I never get tired of watching the quilting slowly transform the quilt. Just look at those burgundy strips before and after the gold threadwork! #quiltsky

One of my favorite things about decorating for the holidays is that I get to pull my Christmas quilts out of storage and admire them again. #quiltsky #prostitcher

I took a mental health break from the utterly depressing news and made some Christmas Jam. It's the perfect condiment for leftover turkey sammies. Isn't the color gorgeous? #Canning

Civil liberties are under attack in the USA like never before. It’s scary, it’s real — and that’s why I hope to raise $100,000 this week to empower the American Civil Liberties Union (@aclu.org). But I’ll need your help. 🧵

I simply can not bear another minute of the news today, so I'm spending the weekend canning and sewing. I truly hope that you'll be able to find something to do today that brings you a few moments of joy and relief from this flaming trainwreck. Behold! Carrot and daikon radish pickles.

Wednesday morning sourdough bake. I'm absolutely LOVING my new oven! #breadsky #bakesky

This week's canning projects were all about the cherries: 3 pints of Danish cherry sauce and 3 quarts and 5 pints of delicious cherry pie filling all topped off with 4 pints of green beans from my bean plants that are just starting to produce. I LOVE putting homemade food on the shelf! #canningsky

First loaf out of the new oven with Bread Proofing option. The proof temp was 15 degrees warmer than my usual temp, so I overproofed the hell out of it and then burned the bottom while baking because it bakes way hotter, but I'm pretty darn happy with this crumb! #breadsky #bakesky

Happy Friday, everyone, from these two knuckleheads. #dogsofbluesky

I'm simply exhausted by all of this <waves arms> and I'll bet you are, too. Here are some early morning flowers to cheer you up. #bloomscrolling #gardensky

These poor little guys took a beating in the recent rainy spell, but hopefully they'll get back on their feet this week. #bloomscrolling #gardensky

Y’all may want to check to see if you are following Jake Tapper @jaketapper.bsky.social here on Bluesky and if you are then unfollow him. He has 291,000 too many followers. Then pass it on.

This little painted rock was sitting on the ledge at the bank drive-up window this morning and it was truly a gift on this grey and difficult day. I hope it brings you the same boost it brought me. Let's all just keep going.

As we all start planning/planting our summer vegetable gardens, please remember to add an extra row or two to grow food to donate to your local food shelf. There are going to be hungry people all around us this year.

Opinions, please? My plan: 1" wide white border, then a 2"wide purple border, then another white border. How wide should that final border be? The quilt will be 95"wide after that purple border and I only want this to be a queen sz so I can't get too carried away. Blocks are 14" #quiltsky

Sewing together the last few rows of this @quiltville-bonnie.bsky.social mystery quilt from 2021. Next up: maybe a checkerboard border?

Hello friendos Librarian here with a little tip If you're looking to get into a hobby or looking for patterns, check out your library! We have instructional books and in our digital apps, we have hobby magazines you can browse and screenshot. Happy crafting!

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Little Finny would like to know if you'd care to stop doomscrolling and play ball with him now?

I'm nearing 12 years as a self employed Designer Maker but i'm not sure people know how badly Brexit has affected UK Small Businesses If you repost Artists & Photographers work please consider doing the same for us as we're invisible on other Social Media now. TY 🫶 #WeekJforJobs #AlphabetChallenge

Question: I'm 64 and had my measles vax when I was a child. Given the fact that measles seems to be ramping up, does that vax still protect me or do I need a booster? #medsky

Ok, hear me out. Thousands of people just lost their jobs, the White House is an international disgrace, there's a growing measles epidemic, bird flu looms on the horizon, the world is lurching toward WW3, and I'm supposed to care about a bunch of celebrities at the Oscars tonight? Puhleeze.

When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

Here's something good to cheer you up today: my son Cody and his team are climbing this building in full firefighter gear, including oxygen tanks,in the Fight For Air Climb to raise money for the American Lung Assoc. Thank goodness for first responders. They save us all.

Yesterday, I used 8 eggs to make egg salad sandwiches for our lunch. It felt so extravagant, like I was splurging on some really overboard thing. It was eggs. 8 eggs. And I felt guilty about making such an expensive lunch. What the actual star spangled f**k are we supposed to even do with this??

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Sewing and watching Godzilla King of the Monsters because it seems less scary to watch monster movies than to watch the news, so we've got that going for us. #quiltsky

RP or like if you are safe & welcoming too 🏳️‍🌈

So now that RFK JR is in, are we all going to start cooking our food at temps like that woman used on her Marie Callender pumpkin pie just in case?

What color should I use for the sashing strips on this quilt? If you look at the second row you'll see that I tucked two shades of yellow in there as possible contenders. Do either of them work? Note: I do not love this quilt at all, and am wondering why I'm even finishing it. Ugh.

Can I just say how grateful I am to the people who post pics of pets, crafts, beautiful old buildings, art, and history because seriously I think you guys are the only thing keeping me from falling into despair right now over the current political goat rodeo.

So. My taxes are finished and ready to submit. Are we doing that this year? Or are we waiting to see if there even is an IRS?

Yesterday I spent some time with my 4 yr old granddaughter and it reminded me how high the stakes are in this fight. Everything we do or don't do right now affects the world she'll have to inhabit. She'll have to be a woman in the world trump is tearing apart. We can't let these little ones down.

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

In a special election held yesterday here in MN, the Dem candidate won 91%-9%. 91%-9% Just in case the GOP is wondering what sort of impact their guy's policies are having on the average vote.

Help! I've been getting random spammy chats from strangers popping up on snapchat. I've checked my settings to make sure that only my friends can contact me, but it's still happening. Anybody know how I can turn them off?

Woohoo! Friday! I'm going to need SO MUCH WINE to recover from this past week. Here's one of my quilts from a few years back to cleanse your feed from politics for a minute.