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I am working on a freestyle quilt with blocks designed by children, it is to be a gift but it is too charming not to share. EPP with appliqué and embroidery #quiltsky
four hand-pieced quilt blocks, beginning in upper left and moving clockwise: somewhat unbalanced version of a traditional block made up of squares & triangles in green, blue, and brown - one square highlighted with green blanket-stitch embroidery with a few cute little mushrooms fussy-cut into the middle. 2nd - square divided roughly in half diagonally in blue and green with peach appliqués of a home and a heart on either side and a blue-and-yellow square spiral in the middle. 3rd - divided into fourths diagonally in green and brown with a different mushroom fabric featuring. the angles are notably not square. 4th two gray mountains in front of a cloudless sky, a yellow-and-peach tree with a purple topper as large as the mountains appliquéd in between.
December 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Bernardo waterfowl management area, Socorro NM.
A beautiful spready fall tree reflected in the shallow water below, blue sky with wispy clouds above, amid stands a sign with the white text on brown background characteristic of federal lands, reading : “AREA CLOSED EXCEPT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES”
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I’d like to report a murder
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Found this beauty at the thrift store today, bringing my collection to 3.
white rotary sewing machine, patent 1927
October 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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a pine grove on a sunny day in late summer
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Found this recipe for cleaning spots out of clothing at the historical museum today, sharing in case anyone needs it 😊
Haven’t tried it out myself yet.
DR. C. BENNETT'S RECIPE for the Great Nonpareil Spot Remover For Dress Goods and Clothing LET US DEMONSTRATE! This Recipe is Only One Dollar (Recipe is not transferable) Chloroform 2 oz. Concentrated Ammonia 2 oz. Grain Alcohol 188 proof 4 oz. Hydrogen Peroxide 1 1/2 oz. Sulphide of Ether 1 1/2 oz. Tincture of Contharides 1 1/4 oz Pulverized Borax 1/2 drm. Table Salt 1 tablespoonful Filtered Gasoline 1 gallon To take out ink stains, dampen the stain with cold water, and then cover it with soda (½ inch in thickness), leave it for about one hour or more, till the stain completely disappears. It does not leave a mark after treatment. YOU MUST BE SURE AND USE A SPONGE FOR CLEANING IN ORDER TO GET BEST RESULTS. THIS RECIPE IS FOR ONE GALLON
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A quiet stream reflecting the trees arching over it.
September 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Catalina mountains embroidery detail
Uneven layers of colored rocks imagined in tight blanket stitch
August 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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These potentially AI generated pants I saw at the thrift shop really capture the vibe lately.
Hideous hunter orange cargo harem pants with a white drawstring and a black patch on the thigh pocket flap. The patch reads: “SANGTREE It’s Fine I’m Fine Everything is Fine”
August 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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#nettlesfortextiles project update
this year’s nettles, freshly stripped; last year’s hackled & combed. the same nettles up close, with my hand for scale. it’s difficult to convey the texture difference in a photo, but the fresh ones are greenish and ribbony and crisp, and the older ones soft and flowing, like blonde hair.
July 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Hand spun flax on a little loom. The cat is again very helpful. My brother made the wooden needle.
The beginning of a small woven piece on a wooden frame lap loom, threaded wooden needle ready to pull through. Orange cat standing by on the arm of the recliner.
July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The cat is helping me set up my new (-to-me) rigid heddle loom.
striped ginger cat sitting in the body of a wooden rigid heddle loom frame, eying my white cotton thread twisted out on the warping board.
June 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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bast fiber sampler, hand spun on support spindle & distaff, & hand woven. flax, hemp, ramie.
large hand loom with tan & off-white twill work in progress. warp fibers are flax, weft from bottom hemp, flax x hemp, flax, hemp, ramie. loom built by lost pond looms
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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first harvest of the year. these babies are taller than me the pace will pick up in the autumn (i think they process better after they’ve fully set seed & had a chance to dry out a bit), but the weather this week looks great for retting & i felt like a bit of hedge-bothering #nettlesfortextiles
bright green nettle plants growing around a fallen tree. it’s sunny.
June 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Important addendum: I found the manual.
White Superlock model 534 instruction manual cover, which is illustrated with watercolor(?) and ink drawings of vintage (1980s?) empowered ladies in outfits presumably made using the serger. The characters include: Brown haired woman sitting knees bent on the floor in a soft blue and purple dress. She is also wearing a pearl necklace, white bangles and heels, and she is holding some sort of mixed drink in a pretty cup High-powered businesswoman in a red polka-dot collared shirt with gray-blue blazer and white shirt. She’s pushing up her sleeve, ready to get to work, and holding a pair of amber-colored angular sunglasses. Tennis chick with disproportionately long legs and/or disproportionately short shorts. Game, set, match, baby! Go get ‘em girl in a red skirt and red and yellow plaid top Woman on skis in blue snow pants and jacket. For some reason she is looking behind her, eve though she appears to be headed downhill. Her accessories are red, except for the goggles which are white and yellow.
June 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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had a dream about getting a serger at a thrift shop, then afterwards found this baby for $35. there was a note saying “unable to test” because nobody at the shop knew how to thread it, but i got her home and she works a dream!
White Superlock 534, a cute little dusty-blue machine, light on, edging a piece of tan linen. Multicolored thread cones that she came with. Close up of presser foot, seam, and cutting mechanism. “ Dream journal at the thrift store, someone asking where the sergers are and i'm explaining they don't always have them...”
May 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I’ve been making some lil mending kits to redistribute my excess supplies and I like that this one looks like a birdhouse.
Birdhouse-shaped wallet of teal fabric with a purple roof and green button closure.
May 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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my niece (7) designed a shoulder bag and picked out the fabric at the thrift store, and we made it today! just need to add the buttons and straps.
sketch of a bag with a flap to close the top, and two pockets on the front. the bag in the sketch manifested in teal-pink-purple easter egg fabric, with teal pockets on the front.
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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green skirt, embroidery detail
hoop with green fabric displaying various embroidered plants. wheat stalks with seed heads, a lilac cluster, scattered white elder blossoms, clover, marigold, queen anne’s lace. needle & thread denoting work in progress midway up the third wheat stalk.
April 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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my leggings got holey so i retired them and am making them into something new. (Placemat? satchel?). uhh..american manufacturing is back? 🙃
work-in-progress hand-weaving on a small lap loom. Warp yarn white, weft (the leggings) teal and pink.
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Slowly getting better at flowers
Green fabric with embroidered black eyed susans, lilacs, marigolds, echinachea, asters, and queen Anne’s lace. You can also see bits of my grandma’s flower garden quilt in similar colors.
March 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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bring back laundromats as third spaces i’m always saying
laundry soap dispenser with the snuggle laundry soap logo - a teddy bear with a cozy blanket held to its cheek - and a handwritten-in-sharpie sign taped on: “See Attendent for Snuggle”. (sic)
March 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Embroidery embellishing a thrift skirt
Grass-green jean skirt with embroidered rainbow plaid patch on lower right side, and a few light yellow chains Detail: rainbow patterned uneven cross-stitch on green fabric.
March 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Hannah’s wedding quilt. English paper piecing, hand-quilted
Detail picture of quilt - hexagons arranged into a pattern of stars and flowers in blues and pinks on a white background. Design sketch of quilt layout. A very pleasing tidy box of hexagons in progress. For EPP, each piece is first basted on to a paper template. The pieces are then stitched together and the templates removed and re-used. It’s a time intensive process, but very portable. The quilt spread out on the bed. It is not bound yet, but I did keep the textured edges.
March 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🤔 Superstition Mountains AZ
Brown US forest service sign in front of power lines & mountain: “This Recreation Site adopted by: Boeing”
February 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM