Amber Piona
@geekydancer.bsky.social
Historian and Urban Planner, passionate about the past and the future.
Whenever I am trying a new (to me) quilt block, I do a test block out of stash fabric.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Whenever I am trying a new (to me) quilt block, I do a test block out of stash fabric.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Felt motivated to do something small(er). I was able to put together this quilted table runner pretty quickly. This is for my mother's dining table which is wider than mine. Log cabin blocks are so versatile, I spent forever deciding how to arrange them because so many ways looked good!
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Felt motivated to do something small(er). I was able to put together this quilted table runner pretty quickly. This is for my mother's dining table which is wider than mine. Log cabin blocks are so versatile, I spent forever deciding how to arrange them because so many ways looked good!
I realized I never shared the finished quilt. I learned a lot, and I really like how it looks. Hopefully my grandmother agrees!
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I realized I never shared the finished quilt. I learned a lot, and I really like how it looks. Hopefully my grandmother agrees!
Having some people over to celebrate Halloween (by eating ghost pizza and decorating Halloween cookies).
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Having some people over to celebrate Halloween (by eating ghost pizza and decorating Halloween cookies).
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
It depends, I think. If he had ever read or heard about Edward Topsell's the History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658), he might have seen what Topsell called the allocamelus (p78). He thought this creature was the offspring of a camel and a mule.
archive.org/details/hist...
archive.org/details/hist...
October 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It depends, I think. If he had ever read or heard about Edward Topsell's the History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658), he might have seen what Topsell called the allocamelus (p78). He thought this creature was the offspring of a camel and a mule.
archive.org/details/hist...
archive.org/details/hist...
I remember my mother didn't let me watch it (she thought it was rude) so I had to read my magazine to keep up. DA was my whole connection to most of TV, movies, and comics aimed at kids, since most of them fell under my mother's idea of "rude."
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I remember my mother didn't let me watch it (she thought it was rude) so I had to read my magazine to keep up. DA was my whole connection to most of TV, movies, and comics aimed at kids, since most of them fell under my mother's idea of "rude."
Every 2 weeks, my wife, our kid, and I have Book Club. We each read a book and share it. There's a giant gavel, it's fun.
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Every 2 weeks, my wife, our kid, and I have Book Club. We each read a book and share it. There's a giant gavel, it's fun.
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
Yes, but also they won't pay you in anything but "exposure." So, not worth anyone's time, I would think.
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Yes, but also they won't pay you in anything but "exposure." So, not worth anyone's time, I would think.
Last night Lara and I got dressed up and went to the theater to see The Play That Goes Wrong. I love a farce, and a -live- farce is such an impressive technical feat.
September 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Last night Lara and I got dressed up and went to the theater to see The Play That Goes Wrong. I love a farce, and a -live- farce is such an impressive technical feat.
After dinner out, I read a book with a cup of tea. On my way back to my car I heard live funk music. I followed it to a little theater and was let in for free to see the last hour of an excellent band. It was a really great time! Fun little community event.
September 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
After dinner out, I read a book with a cup of tea. On my way back to my car I heard live funk music. I followed it to a little theater and was let in for free to see the last hour of an excellent band. It was a really great time! Fun little community event.
On the last day of my vacation I managed to finish this quilt top. I really like how this one turned out if you stand back and look at it from afar.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
On the last day of my vacation I managed to finish this quilt top. I really like how this one turned out if you stand back and look at it from afar.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Spent the first part of this week in Victoria. Lara and I just wandered around being tourists. It was lovely to see Beacon Hill Park in high summer. Last time I saw it was November of 2023 and it was Very Fall.
August 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Spent the first part of this week in Victoria. Lara and I just wandered around being tourists. It was lovely to see Beacon Hill Park in high summer. Last time I saw it was November of 2023 and it was Very Fall.
Okay, so I am learning, and that is good. I need to square up my quilt blocks -before- I add the stitch and flip triangles.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
July 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Okay, so I am learning, and that is good. I need to square up my quilt blocks -before- I add the stitch and flip triangles.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
One of the things I love about quilting is seeing how the blocks fit together to make a pattern or design. It makes my mind fizz.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
July 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
One of the things I love about quilting is seeing how the blocks fit together to make a pattern or design. It makes my mind fizz.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Every year I get to fall in love again with summer in the pacific northwest. I was out at 8, it was warm and the sky was so blue over my head.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
July 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Every year I get to fall in love again with summer in the pacific northwest. I was out at 8, it was warm and the sky was so blue over my head.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I have really been enjoying my little guy Tinvel, from @nora.zone. He sits on my desk with me and we feel our feelings together.
June 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have really been enjoying my little guy Tinvel, from @nora.zone. He sits on my desk with me and we feel our feelings together.
I love summer in the pacific northwest so much. It was 70 degrees and breezy at 7pm on this pier. I saw the sun set a little after 9pm on my way home after dinner.
June 29, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I love summer in the pacific northwest so much. It was 70 degrees and breezy at 7pm on this pier. I saw the sun set a little after 9pm on my way home after dinner.
Today was my birthday. 40 was personally good, even as it's been really rough living through these times. Here's to 41.
June 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Today was my birthday. 40 was personally good, even as it's been really rough living through these times. Here's to 41.
Here are some close to hand. I bought a button up last year that my wife stole, then a dress which I refuse to let her put on. I am also wearing it in my profile photo (it's cute!). I am waiting on a check because I for sure am getting some pink triangle clothes as a treat for my birthday.
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Here are some close to hand. I bought a button up last year that my wife stole, then a dress which I refuse to let her put on. I am also wearing it in my profile photo (it's cute!). I am waiting on a check because I for sure am getting some pink triangle clothes as a treat for my birthday.
I have spent some time piecing together this quilt top. The news has been -so bad- and so many important things are being destroyed that all I feel I can do is try to hold things together every day. I needed to remember that I can -create-, too.
June 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I have spent some time piecing together this quilt top. The news has been -so bad- and so many important things are being destroyed that all I feel I can do is try to hold things together every day. I needed to remember that I can -create-, too.
My tween (autistic, trans, and anxious) was worried going to a pride event in a small nearby town. We went, and she wrote slogans in chalk on the sidewalk to make her voice heard. It made her day.
June 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My tween (autistic, trans, and anxious) was worried going to a pride event in a small nearby town. We went, and she wrote slogans in chalk on the sidewalk to make her voice heard. It made her day.
Drove to Portland yesterday for a show. Came back, took a 30 minute nap then headed to Snohomish for pride. Exhausted but worth it to watch my kid very seriously write slogans in the sidewalk chalk. She put a lot of thought into her protest words.
June 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Drove to Portland yesterday for a show. Came back, took a 30 minute nap then headed to Snohomish for pride. Exhausted but worth it to watch my kid very seriously write slogans in the sidewalk chalk. She put a lot of thought into her protest words.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Have you seen this? HUD is proposing to remove their Affirmative Fair Housing Market Regulations. The language in the proposed rule is...sure something. This is open for public comment now (through 7/3). www.regulations.gov/document/HUD...
![F. HUD's Policy Is To Prevent Discrimination; Not to Equalize Statistical Outcomes
It is the policy of the Department to prevent discrimination, not to equalize statistical outcomes; however, AFHM regulations are based on an assumption that equal outcomes are what matter. Reviews of AFHM plans include ensuring that those plans 'accomplish...intended objective[s].' 24 CFR108.20, but the objective of the Act is to eliminate discrimination. The AFHM plans are aimed at increasing the number of minority tenants in FHA assisted housing, not simply eliminating discrimination. The Department's policy outweighs any possible advantages of the AFHM regulations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pbsxl36npttw6r4idp7q2gre/bafkreiefrgn4b7s4at35jkynlpnuhkf2sde45xrsdaaapmcmmbhozqykfy@jpeg)
June 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Have you seen this? HUD is proposing to remove their Affirmative Fair Housing Market Regulations. The language in the proposed rule is...sure something. This is open for public comment now (through 7/3). www.regulations.gov/document/HUD...
Happy Pride Month! In celebration, I sent off queer postcards to all the organizations I donate to who support queer people thanking them for their work. It felt nice!
June 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Happy Pride Month! In celebration, I sent off queer postcards to all the organizations I donate to who support queer people thanking them for their work. It felt nice!