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Zandra
@zandra-wpg.bsky.social
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Queer & chronically ill quilter / auntie / backcountry paddler / cat lady /
settler in Treaty 1 territory 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
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I finished a thing! It’s a quilted tablet sleeve sized to fit our light box and a letter-sized file folder. Except for the binding, it’s completely hand-sewn.

The piecing pattern is Tula Pink’s Moonbow, sized down; fabric by Tilda; bag pattern by Quilt Scouts.

#QuiltSky #EPP #SewSky
Photo of a handmade tablet sleeve on a white table. It’s shaped like an envelope, with two brown fastening elastics looping from the flap to brown leather buttons on the lower corners of the main part. It’s made of beige, brown, and pale turquoise bubbly fabrics pieced together into a star pattern of triangles and hexagons, hand-quilted, and bound with brown leafy bias tape. The hexagons are fussy-cut, each featuring a sleeping bird, snoozing squirrel, or dozy flowers. Photo of a handmade tablet sleeve on a white table. In this image, the flap is open, showing the cream lining fabric and the tablet inside. It’s shaped like an envelope, with two brown fastening elastics looping from the flap to brown leather buttons on the lower corners of the main part. It’s made of beige, brown, and pale turquoise bubbly fabrics pieced together into a star pattern of triangles and hexagons, hand-quilted, and bound with brown leafy bias tape. The hexagons are fussy-cut, each featuring a sleeping bird, snoozing squirrel, or dozy flowers. Photo of the reverse of a handmade tablet sleeve on a white table. There is a handle strap across the back; it is made of the same brown fabric as the binding. In this photo the binding is held with little blue clips, because it is not yet stitched down. It’s shaped like an envelope, with two brown fastening elastics looping from the flap to brown leather buttons on the lower corners of the main part. It’s made of beige, brown, and pale turquoise bubbly fabrics pieced together into a star pattern of triangles and hexagons, hand-quilted, and bound with brown leafy bias tape. The hexagons are fussy-cut, each featuring a sleeping bird, snoozing squirrel, or dozy flowers.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Today I’m marking trans day of remembrance
Photo of a black t-shirt with the following text in block capitals: I hope u know how loved U are. The first line is in ombré blue-pink-white, and the second line is in ombré rainbow colours.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#Quiltsky: help! I had a blue marking pen incident. I’ve sprayed until it was soaked, and blotted, and repeated; but there are still blue splotches. Advice on how to get it out?

It’s a Clover pen, if that makes any difference; and it was totally user error, not the pen’s fault. 🫠😫
Photo of blue ink splotches on a cream quilted fabric. The fabric has a yellow border at the top of the image, and a yellow and black butterfly on the bottom left.
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Oh hey, I lived in one of these places for 3 years. Definitely rings true. (except the doctor flew in 2-3 days/week, on the mail plane)

(With alt text added)
Screenshot of text Rez R Us • Follow 16h • Pierre Poilievre finally breaks down and visits a remote northern rez. With news crews following him around as they tour the place, he asks the chief if there was anything the people need. "Well," says the chief, "We have three very important needs. First, we have a medical clinic, but no doctor." Poilievre whips out his phone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now what was the second problem?" "We have no way to get clean water. The local mining operation has poisoned the water our people been drinking for thousands of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive." Once again, Poilievre dials a number, yells into the phone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "The mine has been shut down, and the owner is being billed for setting up a purification plant for your people. Now what was that third problem?" "We have no cellphone reception up here," the chief says.
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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It’s a frankenbatting kind of day

#QuiltSky
Photo of strips of white quilt batting being sewn together with zigzag stitch by a sewing machine
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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She could be a twin to my Pippin!
A brown tabby cat with white muzzle, bib, and paws sits on a cutting mat next to some pink fabric. He is looking quizzically at the camera.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Quilters who want to avoid GenAI: unfortunately Julius Handmade FPP patterns are based on AI images. Here’s a clip from a recent interview where he discusses his process.

It makes me sad and angry.

#QuiltSky
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Repost with your favourite hallowe’en costume

Nobody at the party knew who we were, but we had fun anyway! (Fezzes are cool)
Zandra dressed up as River Song from Dr Who: blue jeans, white dress shirt, jean jacket, brown leather hip belt purse; holding a blue covered book and a futuristic looking toy gun. A pale person dressed up as Doctor Who (Matt Smith era), wearing blue jeans, a white shirt, and red bowtie under a brown corduroy blazer, with a red fez, and holding a flashlight made to look like a sonic screwdriver.
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Peak cozy achieved: hand quilting with a cat on my legs.
Photo of my outstretched legs in navy yoga pants with a fluffy black cat on them, facing away from the camera. Out of focus in the foreground is the quilt I am hand-stitching.
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Hand quilting update: first pass done on my tablet sleeve!

Pattern: Tula Pink’s Moonbow, shrunk down to use EPP
Fabric: Tilda
Photo of the back of a small quilt sandwich. The fabric is modelled cream. The hand stitching is in the form of six-petalled intersecting flowers. Photo of the front of a small quilt in progress. The piecing is brown fussy-cut hexagons surrounded by pale blue triangles to make six pointed stars, separated by beige diamonds. Three of the hexagons have feature birds, four of the hexagons feature squirrels, and four of the hexagons feature flowers. The hand quilting is harder to see from this side, but it is six-petalled intersecting flowers.
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Or there’s this: double-4patch. It makes an Irish Chain with scrappy background. I used 2” strips for the navy & cream 4-patches, and sewed each to a matching navy 3.5” square, and put them together in 6.5” blocks. You could size up to 2.5/4.5”=>8.5”.

I went scrappy cream, but you don’t need to.
Photo of nine quilt blocks laid out in a square. Each block has a different navy background fabric, with small cream or beige squares running diagonally. When the blocks are put together, the small squares make X and O shapes, like an Irish chain. To make the blocks bigger, use 2 1/2 inch strips and 4 1/2 inch squares to make 8 inch finished blocks.
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This is a quilt I made after seeing a photo in a magazine ad. It’s really simple strip piecing; details in the alt text.
The pillows were a bit harder because of the half square triangles, but still doable for a confident beginner.

Note: prewash all reds & check for dye bleed before sewing!!!
Photo of a bed with a red and white quilt and pillow shams. The quilt consists of three block types: one is a red and white checkerboard, 5 x 5 squares; the second is red and white stripes, three red stripes with two white ones between; and the third is a big plain white square. When put together, the blocks make a sort of plaid pattern, and the whole thing is set on point. You could swap the positions of red & white to make red the dominant colour, and it would be very effective. I used 2-1/2 inch strips to make the checkerboards and the striped blocks, and 10-1/2 inch white squares in between. Around the edge, where you can’t see, there are white setting triangles, before a solid red border. In hindsight, I would have used a patterned fabric for the border; but that’s just personal preference. The pillow shams are a different pattern, consisting of half square triangles in red with white background, making up an eight pointed star, surrounded by two concentric rings of red. The pattern is called carpenters star.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I’m not sure what you mean? You can block a poster from a post. See photo.

If you want to report them for spamming first, go to their profile and click the three dots there.
Screenshot of Bluesky post, with the three dots highlighted in pink. Below is the 3-dot menu, with “block account” also highlighted in pink.
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Quilt retreat day 2: how it started / how it’s going. Second-level disappearing 9-patches are ready to cut up & rearrange again!
Photo of a black Singer Featherweight sewing machine from above, with a stack of pink and yellow nine-patch blocks on the extension table, a second stack of pink squares, and a pile of yellow strips of fabric. Photo of quilt blocks laid out on a grey ironing board. The blocks each have four pale yellow squares at the N/S/E/W directions, with a large pink square in the middle, and eight smaller pink squares bordered by yellow strips.
October 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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This, with alt text:
Text block, black font on grey. Text follows: I was thinking of the "free exchange of ideas" last night. You know, it's not like a market, it's like a potluck. Everyone brings their own ideas and you sample others and some are familiar with a twist, some are interesting but not to your taste, some are bad, some are life changing. You can get into a discussion about recipes or technique, or what have you as people talk about the food. If someone brings mashed potatoes, you can debate about the appropriateness for a potluck: It is too bland? Will it get cold on the table? Do potatoes make up too much of our diet? But if someone puts a streaming platter of dog shit on the table, we're not going to debate it. And when we tell them to take it off the table, it's not because we are afraid of eating their dog shit or we think that it's going to revolutionize lunch but we don't want to allow that to happen. We tell them to get it off the table because there is no debate to be had. It's dog shit. It's not an open question, it's not a matter of palates or picky eaters. That's why we don't engage with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, and it's why we don't (or shouldn't) let them come to the potluck.
October 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Quilt retreat day 1 progress: goal of 40 scrappy 9-patches achieved. Tomorrow I’ll cut them up and make 40 bigger 9-patches.
Photo of quilt blocks laid out on a grey ironing board. The blocks are 9-patches: 5 squares of scrappy pinks, with 4 squares of solid pale yellow. Some of the pink squares are pieced together from tiny scraps (“crumbs”.)
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This sure was the *big* prize turkey: it never could have stood on its legs, that bird. 31 lbs = 40+ servings of meat over the winter, plus 5 or 6 big pots of soup. 🦃 🥣

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁
Photo of a 31-lb turkey, still in its plastic, sitting on a white cutting board with a carving knife ready to cut it up, and bowls behind to hold the pieces as they’re cut.
October 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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FB is sending more and more unhinged emails — they seem to be desperate for me to log back in.

Which is it, Meta? Have I not seen this photo from back in May, or have I reacted to it?
Screenshot of an automated email from Facebook. The text reads: “(redacted) posted a photo you haven’t seen. May 4 at 7:49 PM.” Under the ‘view photo’ button, the text reads: “you and 29 others reacted to this.”
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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If you see this picture, post a random image from your device.
Photo showing a crack on the inside of a Kevlar canoe.
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Dad joke alert

#Canoeing
#Puns
Photo of a whiteboard, with a drawing of a figure in blue shorts and red shirt with a yellow canoe on their head. Above the drawing are the words: “Bad Joke of the Day! Today I learned that if you turn a canoe over, you can wear it as a hat.” The figure is saying this, in a speech bubble: “It’s cap sized!”
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Last rose of the summer: it’s the most spectacular bloom this plant has ever had! Variety is Marie de Bugnet.
Photo of a white rose in bloom, still on its shrub, with green leaves behind and golden centre peeking out. The leaves and petals are speckled with tiny raindrops.
September 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The top is finished! Ready to show at the modern quilt guild meeting tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everyone else’s versions from the class taught by @pennyspoolquilts.bsky.social

#ImprovQuilt
#QuiltSky
Photo of a quilt top pinned to a grey flannel design wall. It is an improv design in various purples and black, with checkerboards, rectangles, flying geese, and triangles arranged in a random but pleasing way.
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Cat petting accomplished. ✅
Photo of Pippin, a brown tabby cat with white nose, bib, and paws, sitting on my shoulder.
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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And this one!
Photo of a brown tabby cat with white nose and paws, jumping down from a shelf he wasn’t supposed to be on.
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#WIPWednesday: a laptop sleeve to match the tote bag I made in August. Self-drafted pattern.
#QuiltSky #SewSky
A photo of an inside out laptop sleeve in progress, showing pieces of striped canvas quilted to foam stabilizer and attached to each other with pins. There will be a navy strap, which is visible at the left hand of the photo. A photo of a laptop sleeve in progress, with the outer bag constructed but missing its lining. The fabric is striped canvas in multiple pastel colours with narrow stripes of cream, and navy webbing partly attached.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM