As requested (albeit several months late) I have finally put together a video on my gauffering process!
Please take this video with a grain of saltā I am a complete beginner, and this method is far from traditional. It is simply what I was able to accomplish at my current skill level with the materials I had on hand.
For more in depth videos on sanding and edge painting, please check out @duran-binding and @copticcowgirl . They taught me everything I know!
There is so little instructional information about gauffering available online, particularly with budget materials. The amount of trial and error it took to establish a method that yielded fairly consistent results was frankly maddening, so I sincerely hope that this look into my process is useful to someone.
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honestly the talk vaelus had with hannan not only made her motivation for continuing to be with the group click a lot more for me than before. but it recontextualized her bond with thaisha as well. thaisha who has such steady and strong convictions of her beliefs, and recently gone against her circle's rule (by not letting occtis go through the path) because she listened to her instincts. who now delayed a hearing with her circle (the letter) and chose what she believes is best and more important for the greater good. we have vaelus who has already pre campaign having doubts about her own faith and struggling in stasis, meets this woman who while staying true to her core beliefs forges her own path forward. only a conversation with hannan could've brought that out of her but i'm so curious now to see where that goes.
Week days should only be around 4 hours because that's how many I can be at work without wanting to scream, and then weekends should be 145 hours I can fully dedicate to my gazillion hobbies as well as hanging out with friends
I've been meaning to make a post talking about my stroke because y'all got bits and pieces of the recovery but I never actually told the story of HOW it went down and the thing is the type of stroke I had is usually the type young people have and since having mine i've now heard multiple stories of people under 40 having very similar strokes and the scary thing is, is that they didn't get help right away. Because you're young and healthy and sure you feel weird but it'll pass right? but it doesn't, and it gets worse, and by the time you get to the hospital (some people literally take days to go) the deficits are worse and recovery is harder.
so here's a super long post about strokes in general, and mine in particular/what I went through.
So for strokes the signs are abbreviated BE FAST. Balance loss, Eyesight changes, Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, -> Time to call 911.
Had I known those MAYBE I would have figured it out but my symptoms were a little mixed. I was reading (fanfic!) in bed because it was a sunday morning and i had nothing pressing to do and suddenly got dizzy. I put my laptop aside because my eyes were blurring (Eyesight changes - symptom #1), and laid down, thinking it would pass, it didn't, it's a little vague how it progressed because I'd been having headaches and neckpain for about 3 weeks leading up to it so I was like 'idk is this a migraine?' (headaches can be a stroke symptom so symptom #2) but i got nauseous and eventually got up and to my utmost surprise I immediately fell over as if I was the drunkest of frat bros. The room literally spun before my eyes as I fell to the floor (Balance loss - symptom #3). I have had some Nights and I had never been that unsteady before. I crawled my way to the bathroom, threw up (nausea - not a common stroke symptom) , took 800mg of ibuprofen, and crawled back to bed.
if you know anything about ibuprofen you might know it's a mild blood thinner and that's a high dose. I may have inadvertently helped myself with that one. I was just feeling like shit and thinking 'idk this might help'
At this point I still thought we were still in Normal Land. Sure, it was a weird morning, but Surely There Was A Reason. (Yes There Was) Anyway, as I'm lying there willing my body to stop suffering I realize my arm is going numb (stroke symptom #4) and I switch positions, because weird, but it doesn't go away, and I gave it a good little while. I'm on a medication that can make my limbs tingle but it usually just does it to my fingers and it dissipates quickly but this wasn't dissipating, and then I realized one of my legs was also going numb. Then one side of my face is going numb.
(at the time I did not look in the mirror but I had a drooping eyelid - symptom #5)
Those all seem bad. I grab my computer and google 'when to go to the hospital for dizzyness' as that felt like the worst of my problems. and indeed the list I found highlighted that if you are also experiencing loss of balance, blurred vision, nausea, and limb numbness, you should see a doctor. That seems like far too many symptoms to be having all to be listed. I grab my phone (thankfully plugged in and by my bed), and start layering on more clothing because it's about 10 degrees out and i'm in a pajama dress. The very nice man at 911 talks with me and sends an ambulance, I tell him I don't think I can get out the front door of my building on my own and he asks if I can get to MY apartment door to which I say yes and he assures me that's fine they will have keys to my building.
(I have been since informed they love to chop down doors but no, I could get that far)
I wait by my door laying down on the ground and they arrive pretty quickly. They see to me in the hallway, which is more of a lobby in my building and the only place with room for me to lie down (I cannot stand unassisted at this point) they ask me a bunch of questions, take vitals, and ask me where I would like to be taken. Me, having never had to go to the fucking hospital in an emergency before, simply go 'wherever is close' because I again, I am having a stroke and do not have the wherewithal to think through these things.
A big firefighter helps me down the stairs (it's only a half flight and I still almost did not make it) and we get underway.
At the hospital they wheel me into triage and I mostly lie there gratefully and answer some questions and respond to some tests (grip strength, following a pen with my eyes, that sort of thing) and then I hear what is great when you've been at urgent care for two hours but what is Very Bad when you just arrived in an ambulance and that's 'She's next'. I jumped the line for a CT scan and an MRI. I was there less than ten minutes before I was actively being scanned. honestly closer to five.
my active symptoms seem to have been worse than some of the stories I've heard, not being able to walk AT ALL in particular, although some other are pretty equal (Footless Jo on youtube had a stroke around the same time I did of the same type and has discussed hers, she delayed going in despite the severity for a variety of reasons and it sounds like her recovery has been difficult) My recovery was pretty easy because i was actively being cared for and on blood thinners right away. I was pretty out of it in the beginning, but I was only in the hospital for 6 days and then in a rehab for another 4 to relearn how to walk and balance, then i was released unto the world and just spent time going to physical therapy and recovering for awhile. I was out of work for about 8 weeks total. I basically had the best outcome for a stroke. I recovered almost fully back to 100% (I'm about 2% less sure footed than I used to be, but it's rarely noticeable), my face still feels a little weird but has markedly improved so I live in hope it will eventually get back to normal. It massively sucked. But strokes can fuck you up for life and I came out a weird medical story to tell and have to take some extra medication now/precautions to take (i cannot do certain types of yoga, no weightlifting, no push ups, no going on rollercoasters.... things that could strain my neck essentially) but overall I escaped very lucky.
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Thinking about how Thjazi not breaking the glyph was a snap decision. He didn't plan his own execution in advance as part of a masterstroke play, based on how he was joking with Hal he clearly expected to escape using the glyph. And then he saw that falcon, presumably Mara the Wing. Others have mentioned that he likely chose to die because what he was doing with the blood from the River Gavzidra required someone be in the Tenebral Reaches, and him seeing Mara signaled to him that her passage had been blocked, and he realized he had an express if one way ticket to exactly where his plans needed someone to be. So Thjazi chose to allow his own execution to proceed, and rushed out his last words to Hal in the scant few seconds he had. Circumstances very suddenly required him to willingly sacrifice himself for his cause, and he made that choice very decisively even as he was clearly scared to die. Thjazi was certainly a lot of things, but one of those things was that he was a man who was willing to give up everything if it meant living out his ideals.
I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and theyāre already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that donāt have real words yet. itās being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because youāre known. god. what a gift.
here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!
love the different ways brennan handles NPCs whose roles are exposition heavy, especially when it comes to "i am here to tell you things i overheard." he's the GM and if he wants to info dump, he simply can do that, but instead he builds in justifications for why this particular NPC would be able to deliver this information and gives them a distinct style when doing it
romina is a washerwoman. she overhears things and is told gossip by coworkers and has decent memory recall but the stories tend to have gaps because she's in and out of the room and making a concentrated effort to not look like she's listening for her own safety
demodus is a wizard, so he's very good at information recall, so he can pull together almost the whole story with minimal gaps, but in a high stress situation there are bits he missed or didn't understand, and gaps because he didn't realize he should've been paying attention
cyd's been a spy for over a decade. his ability to recall what he heard even after a stressful situation is excellent, because that's been his whole job for thjazi since he moved to dol-makjar. he pretty much gives them the whole picture, is able to note gaps where they didn't mention a specific topic within earshot, and make connections. one conversation makes it very clear why thjazi asked him to spy
all NPCs are narrative devices in one way or another but it's enjoyable to see the different flavors they can take while fulfilling ultimately the same role
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the more I think about it, the more the āBolaire is Julienās drug dealerā angle falls apart
not because I somehow think julien āself-destructive coping mechanisms galoreā doesnāt do whatever the hell fantasy drugs araman has, because me and other fic writers have been predicting that shit since ep one
but specifically because other characters seem to have forgotten that julien doesnāt live in dol-makjar
is it possible he lived in the city for a while post-falconerās rebellion and went on a bender that bolaire fueled? sure, why not? but it doesnāt seem likely or reasonable given his attachment to house royce, or the fact that legal proceedings against thjazi were happening at the golden orchard.
and heās been with the barrowguard for an undetermined amount of time, but long enough that heās well-known and actually respected for more than just name. he trained alogar, who isnāt a new recruit. when not with the barrowguard, his primary duty seems to be to lady aranessa, who does not appear to have spent much time in the city.
so why in the hell would he have a dealer in a city far from his primary residence or place of employment? dol-makjar means nothing to houses royce or davinos. itās not close enough that heād be making weekend jaunts for substances. it just truly makes no sense at all, if you consider a logical timeline and the information that weāve been given.
Bolaire also phrased it as "we've spent an awful lot of money supplying you with distractions and drugs [...] to keep you away from this." Which again sounds superficially coherent as backstory until you actually think it through. Like, even if you assumed Julien spent a significant amount of time in Dol-Makjar:
Bolaire's not claiming to be a drug dealer, i.e., someone Julien pays for drugs; instead he's claiming Bolaire and an unspecified co-collaborator financed the "distractions and drugs," and he's talking like Julien would know that. Why? Julien's a rich boy with money to throw around for his own shit--why would Bolaire be financing this and why wouldn't that seem super-suspicious to Julien?
To keep him "away from this" has no obvious "this" to refer to except stuff similar to Tsul'rekshi and her workshop. What would bring Julien into contact with stuff like that if he weren't "distracted" and doing drugs? Not his actual, legitimate jobs (Barrowguard and protecting Aranessa) which he was doing, nor voluntary thrill-seeking, because this whole argument is coming out of the fact that he didn't want to be there and was upset about being dragged into it. So presumably he'd only be here if he were doing something similar to what they're doing now--trying to track down stuff that Thjazi was up to. (Stuff that Bolaire didn't even know about himself until the Schemers started retracing Thjazi's steps.)
"We" presumably isn't Bolaire and whatever poor sap he's wearing, so he's claiming a co-conspirator who wanted to keep Julien occupied and "away from this." I assume he's not planning to claim this was, e.g., a mission from Aranessa (the only notable NPC who specifically cared about Julien's well-being, had money to burn, and was not mad about him engaging in the kind of vices Bolaire is claiming he enabled), so I assume the implication is that he was doing this for Thjazi? To keep Julien from, I guess, tracking Thjazi's activities successfully enough to actually track him to places like Knife & Palette? (Hmm, that's funny, because Bolaire was also characterizing Julien as dumb as a sack of rocks, so it would pretty weird if Julien posed a constant danger of single-handedly uncovering Thjazi's Dol-Makjar plots that all the Schemers combined struggled to piece together unless he was kept drugged and distracted.)
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.
I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV
I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!
Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.
Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:
Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.
These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.
With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.
Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.
Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.
Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.
This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.
Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.
The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.
Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.
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