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Rebekah Deans
@deansrebekah.bsky.social
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Cisgender lesbian. Quilter, cross stitcher, baker, weirdo. One time guest on The Dork Forest.
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Finally finished this quilt top- I picked up the pieces and pattern from an estate sale. Once it’s quilted it’ll go to a charity. I hope that would make the woman who started it happy.
Cream, red, and pink & green stripe fabric in a four square and pinwheel pattern. Background: dark red and gold rug.
March 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Loving my new to me quilt rack. Just need to find the perfect place for it.
Quilts displayed on a ladder: bottom row pink, white, aqua, and navy tumbler, second row sage, gray, aqua, yellow, and fuchsia, third row medium gray, off white, light gray, two black circles (a very simple bear face), top row is two quilts on the left a fox face, on the right a raccoon face. The faces line up. In the foreground is a white chair and a dark wood table with a cutting mat and ruler. In the background is an off white wall, white shutters, a decorative plate in blues and gold, and a plant
March 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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starlightatsea.bsky.social
I badly wanted a similar quilt in the Romancing the Vote auction last year, but the bidding went way past my budget. I will just be quietly envious of whoever wins this one.
February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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stephenrgarza.bsky.social
(cough) crimethinc.com/2017/07/18/a...

Pardon me, I have long COVID.

Not even particularly this ad. Just in general, I think we forget the Internet/social media isn't everyone and maybe the old ways work best.

Also if you know someone cool at a copy shop that can help? No you don't (cough)
February 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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ikewest.bsky.social
#ChamberlainSD #MissouriRiver #sunset #NativeAmerican #metalwork #statuary #artcommunity #quilting #starquilt #dancing
February 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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slothandenvy.com
If you’re so inclined.
February 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Baby Reindeer
2024
Netflix
Richard Gadd
#gay #queer #Trans #ethics
#sexualityisfluid #selfacceptance
Two clips from Baby Reindeer one on top of the other. Both show a close up of main character Donny leaning forward with an introspective/shame filled expression. The lighting is poor and viewers can’t make out what’s around him, but we know he is on public transportation. In the top image the fingers of his left hand are resting on his left temple. The subtitles read: [Donny] It is so devastating to think of yourself as a progress person,. In the lower image his hand has moved away from his head but is still in the image. The subtitles read: only to realize you’re a coward underneath it all. Donny is played by Richard Gadd. He is very thin with medium brown hair and eyebrows, his haircut is shortish. He is wearing a green and red plaid flannel shirt.
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Still tweaking my layout, but added 90 white sashing blocks.

Pattern: Kinship 100 Block Fusion Sampler
Designer: Gnome Angel
Fabric: Tula Pink
#kinshipfusionsampler
#quiltsky
100 brightly colored quilt blocks, each different, with white sashing blocks square in the odd rows and rectangle square rectangle in the even rows. 7 rows are pinned on a gray felt design wall. 3 more rows are laid out on the floor. Miscellaneous quilting supplies are at the edges of the picture.
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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scalzi.com
My VPN works
The Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps, correctly identified as The Gulf of Mexico and absolutely nothing else
February 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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hauntedwhiskers.bsky.social
Let's watch the news!

The news:
February 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This week’s progress. Bohemia by Medusa Dollmaker #crossstitch #medusadollmaker
#fullcoveragecrossstitch
Art nouveau style wood nymph-beautiful woman with red hair and antlers decorated with shells, leaves, and stars. She is dressed in a flowing deep plunge dress of silvery purple with a pink ribbon tied at the waist. She has arm bands, bracelet, necklaces, and an anklet of tiny silver charms. Seated on a bench right arm supporting her, left hand holding a star up to examine, right leg wrapped in swathes of her dress, left leg bare and bent with her foot rests on a large, cracked terra cotta pot with small handles at the lip. Behind her is an odd magenta sky with brown clouds. A brown border with curves and embellishments and a dark magenta border outside of that. The top will have “BOHEMIA” in white and cream arched over the image- currently only the bottom of a few letters have been completed. Below the bench are a few pillows, there will be more details, dress, and borders below. On the left (which is where I have been working) has borders about halfway down the image with flowers, a partial hand to be completed.
February 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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buny.bsky.social
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social
With my WHOLE chest
February 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Working on layout. A constant struggle for me.
Pattern: Kinship 100 Block Fusion Sampler
Designer: Gnome Angel
Fabric: Tula Pink
#kinshipfusionsampler
#quiltsky
96 brightly colored quilt blocks each different. 50 blocks are 8 inch square 46 blocks are 4 inches wide by 8 inches tall rectangles. Each row is 10 blocks wide. The blocks alternate square rectangle square in the odd rows and rectangle square rectangle in the even rows. 7 rows are pinned on a gray felt design wall. 3 more rows are laid out on the floor. Miscellaneous quilting supplies are at the edges of the picture.
February 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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vermontpublic.org
In this episode of "Stitch Please," a sister show to Vermont Public's "Homegoings," renowned quilter Chawne Kimber talks about how she strives to maintain a balance between aesthetic beauty and activist messaging in her quilts.
'Patchwork to Power' with Chawne Kimber
Our sister podcast Stitch Please is a sewing podcast that centers around Black women, girls and femmes, weaving threads of creativity, technique and passion with every episode. And in this episode we’...
www.vermontpublic.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Third finish of 2025- Antelope Canyon
Finished quilt spread out on a wood floor. Quilt is black and shades of gray. A large block log cabin variation. The use of color creates a secondary pattern of a full circle in the center and 4 quarter circle, one in each corner. Pattern is called Antelope Canyon.
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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A scrappy binding for my Antelope Canyon quilt made from leftover fabric from the quilt. Jaybird Quilts has an excellent tutorial. #quiltsky #quilting
8 long strips of fabric running from the top to the bottom of the picture. Each strip is about 1 inch wide composed equal sized parallelograms about 2 inches long of a range of gray fabrics, from pale to black and distinctive textural patterns. Under the strips is a quilt made from the same fabrics laid out in straight lines. The quilting is medium gray with long angled lines.
February 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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This week’s progress on Medusa Dollmaker’s Mermaid project
Top left corner: Gold border with curves and embellishments stitched on white fabric with gray grid lines
February 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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This is the first week’s progress on my Beardsley Dragon #crossstitch
Black irregular shape, curved on the right side zigzag on the left, stitched on white fabric with pale gray grid lines.
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Freshly back from the long arm quilter
Unfinished quilt spread out on a wood floor. Quilt is black and shades of gray. A large block log cabin variation. The use of color creates a secondary pattern of a full circle in the center and 4 quarter circle, one in each corner. Excess batting and backing need to be removed before quilt can be bound. Pattern is called Antelope Canyon. Close up of quilt showing the quilting design: 3D Rectangular blocks on an angle. Gray thread on black and gray fabrics. The backside is folded over on an angle running from the top left corner of the picture to the bottom right. The backing fabric is wavy lines of various thickness in dark shades of the rainbow.
January 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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esqueer.net
Look, we tried to warn people. At this point, the only way out is through. Trump will precipitate a collapse and only then can we rebuild towards a better future. Our goal is to minimize the number of people we lose along the way. Build community, help others. Resilience is all we have.
January 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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inarticulatequilter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy
I’m finding new artists and craftspeople to follow at such a wild pace that it’s overwhelming — and I don’t care! BRING IT ON! All the creativity, all the color, all the beauty, all the joy!

Thank you to everyone making epic shit and for sharing your talents here!
Scrappy improv quilt in shades of vivid red with the words Make Epic Shit pieced in orange interspersed with the words Create the Things You Wish Existed pieced in purple
January 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It’s the Gulf of Mexico. I am not going to be calling it anything else.
Apple Maps screen shot of the Gulf of Mexico taken 1/21/25.
January 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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zakfoster.bsky.social
In 1963, a White boss fired Jessie Telfair for registering to vote. She responded by creating her iconic Freedom quilt—a powerful critique that still resonates. One family knows this story intimately. Does the other?
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Front title: JESSIE TELFAIR
Back title: THE WHITE MAN WHO FIRED HER

#quiltsky
January 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM