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Heaven-Earth-Hell Tea Service

Ex Altiora (2024-2026) - This quilt has been planned for a long time, and has taken a while to make. It's inspired by the Magnus Archives and the fear of big places, heights, and the sea. It's the reason I met my husband, so I had to make something!

The pattern is Trail Mix but I've wiggled the blocks around so it looks like lightning.

The quilt is machine pieced but hand quilted, with the beginning of the Statement embroidered around the edge of the quilt.

Jane: wait no she's not hot

Jane: except hang on, he likes me and I'm not hot

Jane:

Me:

I was born in 1993, so. I kind of can't not be a Millennial

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

You are transported back in time and into the body of a young noblewoman in the 1400s. Your parents have married you off to an awful, abusive, rapist husband whom literally no one else would marry despite him being very high nobility because he's that terrible. You successfully produce a baby boy and then plan to murder this man for the good of everyone and yourself. Here is the question: do you think you could murder him in a way that is undetectable to the historical people around you? Note: they aren't stupid, you are the prime suspect as the battered wife AND you can't just say poison. Where are you going to buy poison? Do you know anything about poison actually? NO GOOGLING! You were sent back without a plan!

Edit: my notes are full of murder. I love you all

Edit: to clarify about the poison, you can use poison if you actually know how to identify it, I'm saying you can't just go "Poison!" with no knowledge about poison. Buying it probably means they know that poison and you're caught. Your personal knowledge when you read this post is all you have.

Another point of clarity: You went through all that trouble to have a baby without modern medicine so you could get the sweet house after your husband died. That's why you can't be caught. No disappearing.

Edit again: Air embolisms are going on a high shelf because the syringe won't be invented for 350 years. Prove to me that you could make one from scratch, lol

I promise to stop making edits (lol): I left the country vague because I just wanted to see ideas for modern vs. past. Whatever place you are most knowledgeable about

I have started to really wonder if the people suggesting this have ever fought a man as a woman. I have three brothers and I wrestled with them a lot as a kid. They are way stronger than me. They started to be able to overpower me pretty young and I was six years older. Maybe I'm just a weak person, I'm not very athletic, but neither would Miss Noblewoman here be athletic.

I don't know, maybe this isn't everyone's experience, but I find the confidence in this sort of plan baffling. Also, if you try to push him down the stairs and he catches you? You are going down those stairs. You are dead. Game over.

Maybe it's because I didn't specify an age and everyone is imagining this guy as like, old and bloated. He's young and healthy. He will fight back. He's violent! Alcohol and violent man are not a mix you should encourage!

What you do is get rid of him the same way William II of England died— a Hunting Accident. For context, William II died out hunting, and it’s pretty clear it probably wasn’t an accident. What you do is you tell your brothers what’s going on— they’ve probably seen or at least heard (if they’re not present a lot) what your husband does, and how the threat of losing your dowry hasn’t worked on him. They’ll help engineer it so he gets injured or outright killed in a hunt.

Boars, a common hunting target, are super dangerous, as are harts (fully grown stags). Richard II of England’s boyfriend Robert de Vere died from being gored by a boar a few years before (1392), so there are plenty of high-profile legitimate accidents in recent memory. All your accomplices have to do is let him get attacked by an animal and not rescue him, or shoot him with a wayward arrow and let it be an accident.

This is the correct answer for a medieval noblewoman -- hunting is basically THE aristocratic pastime, after all, and if MC's husband is so famously awful nobody else will even marry him, she could probably find some people to cooperate pretty easily, including family (it's a matter of honor after all). Especially if the succession is secure.