New display idea for the pop-up Christmas cards—clipped to twine on the big kitchen wall. Mostly so Sky doesn’t knock them off the TV credenza. He loves Christmas. #tednaos

So many Peanuts Christmas things for the 75th anniversary year! My advent calendar and Brickcraft Snoopy and Woodstock are ready for December. #peanuts #charliebrownchristmas #snoopy #woodstock #brickcraft

My newest Xmas light addition, a neon-style Snoopy and Woodstock.

Finally got some color on the dining room walls (and a fresh coat of trim paint). Looking even more Midcentury Modern in Old Gold!

the "and More": Ambreen Butt JoAnne Carson Cecelia Condit Lola Flash Sonya Kelliher-Combs Michelle Marcuse Nicole Miller Narcissister Dhara Rivera Linda Stark Kunié Sugiura Hong-An Truong Paula Wilson

Redbird Theater Company (based in Durham, NC) is doing their first holiday show, and I am stage managing! Join us at the Durham Arts Council for The Night Before Christmas Carol: www.redbirdtheatercompany.com

Great article by my colleague Daniel J. Sherman, who isn't mentioned at any point in this thread.

Potential consequences for the NC Courage game this weekend . . .

Saw this new @nccourage.com merch and accepted the craft challenge. Cross stitch, southernness, and soccer. Cross stitch by me. Let’s go Courage! #forthelove #nccourage #nwsl #stitchsky

So very not surprised. #FIFA

Anyone else get past the wait clock to enter the Visa Presale Draw and then get a 400 error when submitting their first step of registration? Help! #FIFA

Hey! I know these guys! Congrats Alex and Jim on the new venture.

Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?

Job opening: Visual Resources Manager (Full Time, Hybrid) Salary Range: $65,000.00 To $70,000.00 Responsible for managing digital assets & rights related to the art collections & temporary exhibitions of the Barnes Foundation & Calder Gardens.

Next Redbird Theater Co. show coming up! Revolution will be happening in Oxford, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham, NC. Tickets go on sale soon. Fun and hijinks during a birthday celebration with best friends, new friends, and a lot of candy and Miller High Life. www.redbirdtheatercompany.com

"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'" untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...

On the east bank of the Rhone in Lyon stands the Tony Bertand Aquatic center, built in 1965 to designs by Alexandre Audouze-Tabourin. An Olympic folly, complete with 4 enormous “torch” towers, part of mayor Louis Pradel’s quest to being the 1968 Summer Games to the city (Mexico City got the bid).

I only had to land in Lyon to immediately see the structurally flamboyant work of Santiago Calatrava in the Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport Station (1994). Very insect-like. And the bollards were all gabion cages. Looking forward to more new-to-me architecture!

Dominant! 2X champions of TST7v7, US Women!

Excited for the TsT7v7 Women’s Championship match! US Women and Bumpy Pitch Women warming up. Second pic is Olivia Thomas 33 (#gdtbath ), Carli Lloyd 10 and (#uswnt ), and Casey Loyd 27 (both).

Conflicted about the next TST7v7 Women’s semi. Reunion City Dallas (my hometown!) vs. US Women (#uswnt #gdtbath). Here’s to a good game!

First TST7v7 Women’s semi between Bumpy Pitch FC and Ultrain. Rooting for Zerboni and Bumpy Pitch (#forthelove). Yuki Nagasato with the kickoff!

US Women

Starting a bit later than planned, but IS Women are warming up for the TST7v7 quarterfinal. Carli Lloyd on the ball. #gdtbath #uswnt

My sisters and I spent countless hours in fabric stores, going through the big pattern books to choose a dress or other item and then going to the big drawers to find that pattern in the right size. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

If you want an exhibition that will make you gasp, go see “Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan” at the @ackland_art_museum 40 pieces are stunning and play with tradition and contemporary art and craft practice. Open through August. Art info in alt text #womenartists #ceramics

Michaels is jumping into the void left by the collapse of Joann, announcing Thursday that it's buying the fabric retailer's private label and drastically expanding its sewing selection.

Making the most of a rainy holiday to put up my new bathroom mirror. The light fixture went up two weeks ago, but the wall had to be spackled and painted first. I kept a piece of the original 1969 woven wallpaper.

Finished! FLW meets Finley Fabric’s Looking Glass (pattern by Laura Vehige). March balloon accent pieces on the front repeated larger in the backing. Pieced and bound by me and longarmed by Carrie Hauser of Lovebug Longarming. Fabrics by Cloud9 based on Wright’s designs. #quiltsky

I think I understand art now.

COYS COYS COYS from NCSpurs in Raleigh!

AND Sully is nominated for Assist of the Week (on Manaka's first goal)!!!! Vote, vote, vote

And also Goal of the Week!!! Vote @nwslsoccer.com on Instagram or X.

Cross stitch finish: Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers” from a Heartland House Designs kit. The design was an unused Liberty mag. cover from 1927 that was made into a glass mural at the Arizona Biltmore Resort. #craftsky #crosstitch

And three more that are not cats: made by Debbie Sommer, detail of buggy quilting, Lorraine Stenoish, and Diana S Fox. More info in alt text. #quiltsky

Favorite quilts from the Southeast Sewing and Quilt Expo. First, the cats: made by Mel Dugosh, Robyn Gragg, Rhonda Settle, and Ruth Anne Yax. More info in alt text. #quiltsky

Can't say enough about how much fun I am having working with this group of people in the NC Triangle area. Come out for Eureka Day in Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, or Oxford, NC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpy3...

Finishing the night at the Biscuits & Banjos Festival with Don Vappie & Jazz Creole at the Durham Armory. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

Part Two: The Carolina Chocolate Drops (all of them), with Sule Greg Wilson and Demeanor. At one point, five bones players were jamming. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

First half of the Biscuits & Banjos concert: new Dangerfield and Demeanor, Niwel Tsumbu, Rhiannon Giddens’ Old Time Revue, and Rhiannon and her sister Lalenja. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

Sara Stephens

Mychal Threets (y’all know him), my @uncsils.bsky.social colleague Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Durham community librarian talking libraries as sanctuaries for black stories. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

Amethyst Kiah “rockin’ it out” at the Blackbird stage at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

Just caught the end of Hubby Jenkins ser at the Blackbird stage of the Biscuits and Banjos Festival (another free venue, which will livestream the big show tonight). #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

McCalla

Black Voices in Country Music with Alice Randall, Rissi Palmer, and Rhiannon Giddens at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival. Free programming under the ATC water tower all day on this perfect weather day.

Taj Mahal with Layla McCall and a late cameo by Rhiannon Giddens. Great start to the Biscuits and Banjos Festival! #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

The many instruments and faces of Dom Flemons at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival. #durhamnc #biscuitsandbanjosfestival

Just sat on one, and one of my favorite things about the process is that we are encouraged to give positive feedback, suggest changes or additions, that would encourage the applicants to re-apply if not selected for funding. Huge mental support in the form of "keep trying, we know you can do it."

A fun Pinky and the Brain cross stitch, adapted from a pattern shared on reddit that seems to no longer be there (I changed Pinky’s response, which was NARF). #craftsky