This weekend I sewed with a twin needle for the first time, finished reading a queer sci-fi retelling of Moby-Dick, went to an outdoor concert, walked around the Obama Center grounds, started volunteer training at the leather arts school, & bought a bunch of groceries to get me through the heat wave

There are more lightning bugs out tonight than I can remember seeing in ages ❤️

Hi I never post but I’m trying to get in touch with a cyclist I saw get hit yesterday on Clark/lawrence. I have their bike and some witness phone numbers! (They gave me their number but their phone got fucked up) If you know someone named Chance who bikes could you put me in touch?

Ordered an enormous pile of food from Noon O Kabab so that I don't have to think about cooking for days and can just live off of this

Made this using asparagus but also added garlic scapes, bok choy, and pea shoots. I love farmers market season so much.

I finished it! All I did today was go to the farmers market and read but I really didn't think I would finish it till tomorrow (if even then)! Now I suddenly have a whole day in front of me tomorrow to do...anything I want???

100 pages down! 100 to go! I can do this!

I don't know why I always do this to myself but I have 200 more pages to read in my book club book this weekend. (It's Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou, it's fun and moving quickly, but it's 416 pages and for some reason I thought it was half that and timed my start date poorly)

I am simply not made for this kind of humidity

My cat is lounging on the windowsill listening to birds, and I tried to pet him, but he put his paw on my arm to stop me and then...started petting my arm with his paw??

Resharing to be clear that this is free!

Chicago mutuals, due to a mix-up I have an extra brand-new Biology Is Bigger Than Binaries t-shirt in color pink size L (unisex), would anyone like it?

It's the 40% off sale at the leather arts school and I have finally decided to drop the $$$ to take the beginner shoemaking class this fall!

Hey lovelies, I need place to live starting July 1st! If you are in Portland or know anyone, please spread the word. I would like a 2 bedroom apt with an outdoor patio or garden, in North Portland or NE. I have a teenager and a cat. I am quiet, super clean, and will take care of any outdoor space.

Met someone named for The Last Unicorn and now I gotta watch that movie again

Jealous of my friends taking the Tatter hand-sewn t-shirt class this month (it's a great class, I took it before) so I've decided to finally sew a t-shirt from the pattern I drafted FOUR YEARS AGO, let's see if I can keep pace with the class while working on my own from notes from way back when.

Anyone have any recommendations for my friend Matt?

SOMEbody built a nest inside my good tracing paper

If you like postal mail I gotta say Shing Yin Khor's Patreon is one of the best $5 I spend every month I'm also VERY excited bc there was an opening at the higher tier where you also get quarterly goodies and I just upgraded!

The Biology Is Bigger Than Binaries t-shirt is back in stock! I just ordered it AGAIN because I bought it in pink back when orange was out of stock, but what I really wanted was orange. 😂

She is very lonely

This weekend I made the purse that I drafted and tested last weekend. My sewing machine hated the flocked novelty fabric I made this out of so everything about the strap is a mess and there are some places I'm going to have to fix or reinforce by hand but it came out ok!

Holy shit I think this 56 second YouTube video just fixed the crooked blinds problem I've been living with for years (and thought was a me problem and not a blinds problem, tbh)

I think it’s incredibly cool that I’ve learned enough about bag making and pattern drafting that I can say “I want a bag that’s shaped like a lime wedge” and just sit down and make a pattern and have it actually work (This is just a muslin/proof of concept, I didn’t bother with a strap)

I think I basically only post here now when I made a thing but here’s a bag I finished today! It’s a mix of two Klum House patterns, it’s basically an Alberta bag but modified to use a Fremont style strap, and I added extra pockets.

Hi friends, my amazing friend indi is figuring out what her life is going to look like after having been full-time caregiver for her mom for the last 13 years. If you have anything to spare, she and her sweet dog Josie could use some help. ❤️

I made a watch band! There are about 100 things wrong with it but I'm still really happy with how it came out.

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

Went on an impromptu bookstore crawl with some friends, forgetting it was St Patrick's day weekend and that the rest of the city was also out on a crawl

Finished weaving in all the ends on this knit blanket yesterday (picture was taken before all the ends were woven in)

Sewed leather on my home machine! This is a victory for two reasons, 1) leather on home machine but 2) the cats mostly left me alone while I was doing it!! This was my first time using the sewing machine since we got the cats!!

My cats are one year old today(!!!) & one decided to get wild and figured out 1) how to get on top of the shower stall/bathroom cabinet and 2) how to open the fridge door. (And how to move the brick. For now the door is held shut with two 10 lb dumbbells.) The other one just wants second dinner.

A friend of a friend was abducted by ICE at a routine immigration check-in. I know we're all stretched so thin but if you can contribute at all to the GoFundMe it will help get Daniela home!

Started working on another bookbinding project and it’s 11 pm now???

Lord, I see what you’ve done for Ashland and California/Dodge and I want that for me too

Walking home, missing her (the 11 bus)

Once I get to day 3 of a weekend I finally have energy and initiative for Projects. We were not made to have only two days for ourselves each week.

It is FIFTY-EIGHT degrees out and I am going to go hang out on a PATIO in FEBRUARY

I can feel patio season drawing ever closer and I am so desperately ready for it

Some favorites from the Yoko Ono exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Look at that sky

Got myself tickets to the Yoko Ono exhibit at the MCA for my birthday, just in time bc it's only there for two more weeks!

This was a rare treat - they're brothers but they mostly just coexist.

Toy camera update: Trying some new Camp Snap Pro filters. Downloaded a filter pack here: codesthings.com/campsnap/ Currently loving Golden '92 (the second photo) which is meant to emulate Lomochrome Color '92 film.

You know what to do

Heads up if you, like me, keep meaning to find out what happens at the end of Destinos Annenberg Learner is shutting down on July 1 (You can still watch Destinos on archive dot org but I'm using this as motivation)

Clearly I was not the only one who decided to hit the grocery store at lunchtime “to beat the crowds”

I'm in my toy camera era right now, I'm obsessed with my Charmera blind box keychain camera which is so tiny and lightweight and takes pictures like my childhood 110 camera. It weighs nothing, I can throw it in my pocket or purse every time I go out.

I finished my book! With enough time left to do some other things today too!