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Carolyn E Holmes
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Assistant Professor of Political Science. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
This is the inspo. All the red-orange will eventually be filled in with printed fabrics, but now I need to figure out how to make those shapes.

It’s really all just making it up as I go.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Back at it again with the nonsense.

Recreational geometry!
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Snow days are fancy coffee days.

Rules are rules.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Christmas crafting! Victorian-inspired wire tinsel!
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Someone in Atlanta, please rescue this gorgeous quilt top (and quilt it) before someone buys it to cut it up for a boxy jacket that will be worn for like 1 year before going "out of style"?
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My favorite color is Fall.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
3rd grader needs to study for a map quiz?

Sounds like we all get to learn the 50 states!
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thread matching: unmatched
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I voted.

Did you?
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm really glad that I have an actual PhD, so as to avoid the humiliation of listing an honorary doctorate as an *actual* job qualification.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Hippie nonsense: resumed
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Hey Carolyn, how's your writing going?"
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Not even going to lie, this may be my best achievement of the season.
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Just hanging with some democracy enthusiasts here in Knoxville…
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Color brainstorming for the new project…
October 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
952 y-seams.
6452 pieces.

Let’s gooooooooooo
October 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yummmm! I made acorn bread
October 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Some quilts just belong on beds! I started it maybe 2.5 years ago, inspired by an old wild star quilt I saw in a book. I abandoned it when it was all separate stars (picture 4), because I didn’t know what to do with it…In my finish-it-Fall-2025, I decided to take it apart and put it back together.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
$5 thread spool organizer from the thrift store = way more than $5 of
🌈rainbow JOY🌈.
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ah yes. Just what I’d been hoping for.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Made a quilt. Calling it my scrappy American, because that’s what I am, darn it.

Blasting Woody Guthrie because this land was made for you AND me.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sometimes, the only response to the muchness of the day is spanakopita.
October 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Yes l, Chuck.

Like, literally. just *do* anything
October 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
After two years of *actively and dramatically dying* following our move, my fiddle leaf fig propagation has two new leaves!
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
So…like…
September 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM