Head Full of Bees
@headfullofbees.bsky.social
I’m devoted to the cause of making the new world out of the stuff we have laying around. We can do this! Freelance non-fiction editor and textile artist.
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People are kind of hilarious. Today I found an antique spinning wheel at a secondhand shop in Sickla, and I was taking it home on the subway. This, of course, garners some stares and comments. One woman sat down next to me and asked me about it, and I enthused about my find.
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
People are kind of hilarious. Today I found an antique spinning wheel at a secondhand shop in Sickla, and I was taking it home on the subway. This, of course, garners some stares and comments. One woman sat down next to me and asked me about it, and I enthused about my find.
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A surprise donation of more than 3,000 African American quilts to a California museum is helping to rewrite history—and prompting a race to preserve it. news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...
The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News
Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
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October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A surprise donation of more than 3,000 African American quilts to a California museum is helping to rewrite history—and prompting a race to preserve it. news.artnet.com/art-world/ba...
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
My response to the world at large: here is some lovely handspun heritage-breed yarn.
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
My response to the world at large: here is some lovely handspun heritage-breed yarn.
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“Women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700.
Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historical record, women contributed to all the most important areas of the economy, such as agriculture, commerce, and care.”
Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historical record, women contributed to all the most important areas of the economy, such as agriculture, commerce, and care.”
A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700.
Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historical record, women contributed to all the most important areas of the economy, such as agriculture, commerce, and care.”
Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historical record, women contributed to all the most important areas of the economy, such as agriculture, commerce, and care.”
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Well now that’s just straight up lucky.
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Well now that’s just straight up lucky.
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Well now that’s just straight up lucky.
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Well now that’s just straight up lucky.
It’s the first day chilly enough for me to think, yeah, I could use a wool vest over my shirt. #showmeyourknits
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It’s the first day chilly enough for me to think, yeah, I could use a wool vest over my shirt. #showmeyourknits
I’m putting together a little slide show for the Freeform crochet workshop that I’ll be teaching tomorrow, and naturally I want to show the work of some of the originators of this style, Prudence Mapstone and Renate Kirkpatrick.
September 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I’m putting together a little slide show for the Freeform crochet workshop that I’ll be teaching tomorrow, and naturally I want to show the work of some of the originators of this style, Prudence Mapstone and Renate Kirkpatrick.
Sharing gems from my gamedev husband: “We had one bug where it was possible to hurt yourself with the weapons you were holding, as a way to encourage the players to be precise in their attacks. But there was a bug where sometimes a character would take a lead pipe, adopt a menacing stance,
Games need to have an outtakes reel like DVDs used to back in the day.
Devs, quote this with some of the wacky things that have happened during development.
We could all use the laughs.
Devs, quote this with some of the wacky things that have happened during development.
We could all use the laughs.
September 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sharing gems from my gamedev husband: “We had one bug where it was possible to hurt yourself with the weapons you were holding, as a way to encourage the players to be precise in their attacks. But there was a bug where sometimes a character would take a lead pipe, adopt a menacing stance,
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I just went to a concert in my neighborhood, it was an all-Swedish Bluegrass band. I never really know how to parse things like that. They were good! But also Swedish, with no roots in Appalachia as far as I can tell.
August 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I just went to a concert in my neighborhood, it was an all-Swedish Bluegrass band. I never really know how to parse things like that. They were good! But also Swedish, with no roots in Appalachia as far as I can tell.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
Oh #showmeyourknits is doing scrap yarn projects? That’s my whole raison d’être.
August 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Oh #showmeyourknits is doing scrap yarn projects? That’s my whole raison d’être.
Sometimes I think about how crazy it is that no one ever seemed to password protect their personal holodeck files. Like, I don’t even want the people in my life, knowing what Google searches I’m doing.
August 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Sometimes I think about how crazy it is that no one ever seemed to password protect their personal holodeck files. Like, I don’t even want the people in my life, knowing what Google searches I’m doing.
Check it out, I’m using the nettle fibre that I foraged this spring and spun to weave an extremely rustic hairband.
August 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Check it out, I’m using the nettle fibre that I foraged this spring and spun to weave an extremely rustic hairband.
I haven't picked up any new editing work for the past few months because my brain hasn't been functioning on that level and I didn't think I could do a good job. But I'm feeling better now, and I'm getting back to it. Here's hoping the brain actually does what it's supposed to.
July 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I haven't picked up any new editing work for the past few months because my brain hasn't been functioning on that level and I didn't think I could do a good job. But I'm feeling better now, and I'm getting back to it. Here's hoping the brain actually does what it's supposed to.
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Thanks, I feel inspired:
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
July 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thanks, I feel inspired:
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
While trees rake carbon from the sky
and lignify it 'til they die,
eventually that heat's released
by fire or rot or gnawing beast.
But if you've got the clime to suit,
and want to see less top, more root
while storing carbon out the ass
you cannot beat a prairie grass.
I hated Girls the first time I watched it, but when I watched it again recently, I loved it. The difference was me. At first, I wasn’t willing to forgive my 20-smthing self but later I was. Writing cringey, growing ppl takes talent, and watching them takes self-forgiveness.
Has Lena Dunham often been the chaos? Yes. Has she often been a scapegoat as well? Also yes! Join me in looking back on the era when everything was Problematic
You can stop blaming Lena Dunham now
Expecting the "Girls" and "Too Much" creator to be the voice of a generation was always our mistake.
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July 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I hated Girls the first time I watched it, but when I watched it again recently, I loved it. The difference was me. At first, I wasn’t willing to forgive my 20-smthing self but later I was. Writing cringey, growing ppl takes talent, and watching them takes self-forgiveness.
My dog got stung by a bumblebee, then proceeded to spend the next half hour trying to take revenge on the bee’s brethren. It’s tragic that I can’t explain to him how much he is going to come out the ultimate loser in this battle.
July 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My dog got stung by a bumblebee, then proceeded to spend the next half hour trying to take revenge on the bee’s brethren. It’s tragic that I can’t explain to him how much he is going to come out the ultimate loser in this battle.
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
I’m always playing with something new, and I’m not all that fussed about doing something especially well at the playing stage of things. This week it’s basketry. Here is my third attempt at making a base (first two attempts did not hold). This is fresh willow.
June 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I’m always playing with something new, and I’m not all that fussed about doing something especially well at the playing stage of things. This week it’s basketry. Here is my third attempt at making a base (first two attempts did not hold). This is fresh willow.
Hey woolfiends, we’re doing yellow for #showmeyourknits, hmm? This is my favourite cardigan, Mariage Soeurs.
June 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Hey woolfiends, we’re doing yellow for #showmeyourknits, hmm? This is my favourite cardigan, Mariage Soeurs.
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"I expect one of you overpaid three-martini-lunch layabouts to have a good explanation why my family’s home-decor company is bleeding money like a physician of high standing using proper, modern medical techniques against female mental illness?"
Can Anyone Tell Me Why Sales of Our Signature Terrifying Yellow Wallpaper Are Down?
Gentlemen, I want answers. Our quarterly earnings are in the garbage, and I expect one of you overpaid three-martini-lunch layabouts to have a good...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"I expect one of you overpaid three-martini-lunch layabouts to have a good explanation why my family’s home-decor company is bleeding money like a physician of high standing using proper, modern medical techniques against female mental illness?"