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Dr. Kristi DiClemente
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History professor, medievalist, and textile artist who loves cozy mysteries and her dog.
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
A white woman with red hair and glasses smiling next to an open drawer within the drawer is a black and white picture of a very very large sheep that went viral a few years ago
August 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.
A white drawer with a black and white embossed label that says "STAMPS 7 WASHI" in all caps.
July 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I made a quill pen! There's definitely room for improvement 😂
A rectangle metal baking pan filled with white sand on a stovetop. There are white goose feathers sticking out of it. The caption reads: Quill Making in 3 parts, Heating up the quills. Those same white goose feathers in another rectangle metal baking tray with very clearly burnt ends. Caption reads: Whoops! I burned them and they smell like burnt hair! A quill pen and an open bottle of calligraphy ink on a sheet of white paper that reads: Holy crap it works. Hello. Not perfect but not the worst thing I've ever made! Caption reads: is a start! I only destroyed 6 feathers and made my house smell like burnt hair... TOTALLY WORTH IT!!
May 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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For a little light heartedness, my friends and I are playing pick 3 fantasy conclave. Here are the rules if anyone is interested 😂 I'm going to ask about wild cards
Black text on white background reading: Fantasy Conclave: Pick 3 Edition How to Play: - Each player picks three Cardinals ranked A, B, and C - Each player picks a team name - Each player will submit a guess for the number of days it will take to choose a new pope - Picks must be locked before the conclave starts Scoring - If your A pick becomes pope, you win! - If no A picks hit, check B picks - If no B picks hit, check C picks - If no picks hit, the player with the closest number of days without going over wins There is an example of how it all works, but I think it's pretty self explanatory, so I'm leaving it out of the alt text Summary 3 picks. 1 days guess. 1 hilarious team name First correct pick wins, or closest days guess wins Good luck and may your cardinal ascend faster than a smoke signal!
April 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Epic!
Picture of a white, orange-haired woman with glasses with a ridiculous smile posing next to the Absolute Unit
March 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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In today's adventures I saw this absolute unit at @themerl.bsky.social
A woman with red hair and a stupid smile taking a selfie next to a drawer containing 2 pictures of an enormous ram
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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It was epic!!
A selfie of an orange-haired, white, middle-aged, woman in a maroon coat in front of the mappamundi
March 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#skystorians I'm going to see the Hereford Mappamundi tomorrow. I'M GOING TO SEE THE HEREFORD MAPPAMUNDI TOMORROW!!! This is bucket list shit, for real!
It is a medieval TO map with east facing up. It doesn't look recognizable as an accurate map, but you can see from the middle going straight to the bottom is awide dark patch that is the Mediterranean, with various rivers coming off of it. There are many landmarks and text.
March 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I saw an owl on campus about 30 mins ago. Our mascot is the owl so it felt like a sign. Not sure what it is a sign of, but it feels positive. Go Owls!
Large oak tree with an owl sitting on a horizontal limb. Behind the tree is a brick academic building and a clear blue sky Large oak tree branches from below with an owl in the middle in front of a blue sky
February 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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When you're a bit extra and make professional-looking blackwork kits for your in-class Elizabethan fashion activity, and stitch a model with varying thicknesses. I hope my students appreciate me! 😂
Pile of Tudor blackwork kits with directions, images, and a stitched model A blackwork stitched model on white aida with different thicknesses of lines A picture of Tudor blackwork that I took at the Met. It has different botanical motifs all filled with different blackwork patterns and outlined in black and gold chain stitches.
February 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I'm terrible at resolutions, so I'm doing a 2025 BINGO card instead. These include personal and professional goals/activities/improvements and I just need to get one BINGO to win! If I do a full blackout, I feel like I should get a really great prize, but I don't know what that would be.
Bingo card for 2025 with the Bayeux Tapestry as a heading image. The 5x5 squares include a heart in the middle for the free space, various numbers between 1 and 24, with some numbers replaced with motifs of a book, silhouette of someone doing a split, hand heart,fountain pen, winding road, lace, and a fiddle.
January 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I had a Little Debbie's Christmas Tree cake today after leading a Christmas craft at my public library. I haven't had one in these in at least 20 years, and they are so good. That's it, that's the post. 😂😂
Image of a box of Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes. The white ones with the red stripes and green sugar sprinkles
December 7, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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I have a new medieval marginalia cross stitch pattern out! Meet "A Lady With A Secret" you can find her in my Etsy shop: kristiscornerneedle.etsy.com
Cross stitched version of medieval marginalia image. A creature with the top half of a woman in a black wimple holding a distaff and spinning wool. The legs and butt of a chicken, and a giant face where her crotch should be. She's wearing a lively blue and coral dress
December 7, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Just as a bit of fun, I helped build my university's float for our city's Christmas parade. WE WON THE PARADE! I yelled so loud when we got the banner 😂 So here is our Grinch-themed float. I drew and painted Max the dog (someone else cut him out), and the top of the tree, and the wheels (unseem).
A christmas float with a giant open book standing in the back. The book has the lyrics to You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch painted on it. In front looks like a large, red sleigh filled with presents. The whole thing looks to be pulled by Max the dog and is covered in white Christmas lights
December 4, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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It's basically a picture of my puppup with wings. And I'll take any excuse to post a picture of my puppup 😂
Picture of a scruffy brown terrier mutt with a black nose and perky ears. He is lying on his belly with his head up lookjng directly at the camera. He looks remarkably like the bat in the repost, in my humble opinion
November 21, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Shameless self promotion! If you like off-color medieval images and you cross stitch, I have the perfect patterns for you! I also have more traditional patterns, but sometimes you just want to be silly. I am just finishing up a fourth that will be posted soon.
kristiscornerneedle.etsy.com
Stitched image of a medieval nun picking penises off a tree Stitched medieval image of a naked man playing a horn with his mouth and butt on a swirly floral vine thing Stitched medieval image of a cat licking its butt on a swirly floral vine thing with some bugs
November 13, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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I went to a book-themed bachelorette party tonight with a PowerPoint presentation option, so I presented on Fabio! I'm not sure that anyone wants to see my top 10 Fabio book covers, but I guess like this post if you're interested.
PowerPoint slide with Fabio on the left. His leather jacket is open, his gair is flowing, and his chest is gleaming. He's looking right at the camera. On the right it says "the hair, the chest, the legend! Fabio top 10 Romance novel covers
November 9, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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This is the day Wicket followed me home from work. He was so sweet. We took him to the Humane Society to make sure he didn't belong to anyone, and a week later picked him up. He's the best good boy.
A 12 pound brown scruffy terrier with nervous eyes on a tile floor looking at the camera.
October 31, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Shade or opportunism in this email from Princeton University Press? Either way, you can get Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's history of Puerto Rico for 30% off with the code PUP30
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Email advertising the book, Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo from Princeton University Press
October 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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I assigned Hanawalt for the first time in ~7 years (I've assigned Bennett's Cecilia Penifader book), and I'd forgotten how good it is! It's just really good history and it teaches students about medieval English peasants, AND how to use sources and what a literature review is. An oldie but goodie!
Cover of Barbara Hanawalt's The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
October 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Our science department brings a cat skeleton to recruitment events to attract students to their table, music brings drums, now we'll have a hoplite shield! I made these a while ago for class activities, but now one has info on it so it's self explanatory. Move over science there's a new kid in town!
A hoplite shield made of corrogated plastic and duct rape with a silhouette of a hoplite on it. There is additional information about the shield on it: "3 ft in diameter, 14-18 lbs", and "Used by ancient Greeks from ~7th to ~3rd centuries". A group of 7 or 8 students standing in a green space in a phalanx formation holding shields. There is a woman on the right with her arms out (it's me!) shouting orders at the students to get them to change formation
October 15, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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I finally made more progress on my maximalist dining room gallery walls. I put up 31 pieces of art today, and it makes me so happy (I already had a few pieces on the big wall).
A gray-blue wall with 31 pieces of art semi-randomly hanging. Including a wooden Mississippi in the middle, 3 woven wall hangings, a sketch of a lobster, and various other things A gray-blue reading nook with a floor lamp and 10 pieces of art. Including 6 embroidered hoops of famous sleuths, a purple butterfly painting, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg print, and a print of the viral "A Woman's Place is in the Resistance " protest sign A gray-blue wall through a white door frame showing 1 piece of art, a print of two flying yellow birds connected by a string that is about to be cut by scissors
October 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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You‘ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

I'm also in good hands, but they'll have to speak lentement because otherwise I won't understand them 😂
September 6, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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I went to Bryve Canyon, UT last weekend as a healing trip with my mom. We saw the Milky Way and it was pretty great
September 2, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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I had a student make one as part of his final research project. It didn't work all that well, but it was really fun to play around with
Man (mid 20s) in a grey shirt and jeans looking very pleased with himself standing behind a homemade trebuchet in front of a brick college building
September 1, 2024 at 3:15 PM