There is a great episode of Maintenance Phase where they talk about “Ultraprocessed Foods”. Basically, there is no real universal definition, and also no proposed mechanism. People just use it when they mean junk food and want it to sound “sciencey”.

maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

This started happening in the last 5 years or so. All the mats from different manufacturers now come in 1” smaller. I will say my fiskar brand one was still accurate when I got it 4yrs ago.

It’s clearly purple season cause I just dyed mine purple yesterday. Been more than a year since I’ve been purple and I missed it so much.

The link to the cross stitch pattern is here bogdragoncrafts.etsy.com/listing/4353...

Should have known BWS never misses. I have several of their patterns. I will look for this one too! Thank you!

Is this your pattern cause I have a mighty need.

Worse… Canadian dollars. Guess that’s like $4/$5 usd.

My current building is $8 for a full round of laundry… it’s gone up about 4 times in the 7 years we’ve lived here. Never see any maintenance tho.

No its a pattern from @needlelotdesigns.bsky.social called Art Nouveau Crow. Highly recommend their patterns.