are we not all, spiritually, full of walnut hulls?

link to part 2

so one thing I really like about my craft supply hoarding tendencies, is that sometimes I can solve problems via stash

like today, I was working on the brain quilt and thought to myself 'man, I think this could use more prominent quilting lines, possibly embroidery, but I would want to make sure my lines were good and I don't want to go to the store to pick up a chalk pencil'

AND THEN I REMEMBERED I HAVE THESE IN STASH

so I grabbed that, and some embroidery floss that matches the color of thread I was using, and now I'm doing a mockup to see if I like it and

Heck. I think I do. This is going to make it take A Lot Longer, but it feels like it'll be more cohesive, and probably sturdier. My thought had been to do a chain stitch, but I also know me and I would get SO impatient with that, so maybe just a sashiko-esque running stitch?

(honestly I should be asking my Spouse to do the yanking but he's asleep and I'm going slow, it's fine)

so I'm gonna try and get four whole squares on the quilt at a time, and hopefully finish them all before I have to move it over again

Guild: -chilly silence-

President: so the challenge to you all is a quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current “democracy”

Guild: 👏👏👏

How I spent my July 4th.

At the start I thought stitching “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” for the last quarter would be therapeutic

I was correct.

I have one more line of embroidery and I think it needs to be bolder and messier than I started it.

Hard to tell in this light, and without ironing it, that the embroidery does get gradually bolder as it goes. Two strands at the top versus 5 at the bottom (6 for the started to be redone final line).

Not bad for first time doing appliqué.

I was unknowingly working on a 35 foot long blanket for years

I started a blanket 10 years ago and put it down shortly after starting. It was on 30” circulars and I just kept casting on until I couldn’t fit anymore stitches. I was new to the hobby so I figured it would just be “blanket sized.”

I picked it back up about 6 months ago determined to finally finish this thing. I transferred it to 60” circulars to give myself more working space, and during that transfer I counted 450ish stitches, but that would just be a big king sized blanket right? So I kept going. But after about 9 balls of yarn and only 2 feet in length finished, I gave up and decided I would just crochet the blanket instead.

Halfway through my crocheted version, I ran out of yarn and made the sad decision to frog the knitted project for salvage yarn. After removing the circular needles, I thought it’d be interesting to see how wide the blanket actually was.

After straightening it all out I stared at my work, utterly dumbfounded, that I had been working on a 35 foot wide blanket this whole time. I am SO GLAD I did not finish this project as I would’ve cried at the monster I had brought into the world.

tl;dr - You should really pay attention to the size reference chart on your yarn and count the stitches when free-handing as a newbie.

And finally, the blanket:

Eat a bag of dicks, Garrett Langley. Don't offer snitchware. Get absolutely wrecked in the worst way. Stop trying to make 1984 happen even more than it already is.

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Dice Man — it’s just how he rolls…

to me, grace's house on erid looks like it was inspired by organic modern/japandi interior design styles with industrial elements. which makes sense from a set designer's stand point because it has to look like it was made with both natural materials and metals.

but i have so many questions about it. is this grace's interior design style? is this how interior design is on erid? did grace and rocky set up a joint pinboard and spend the trip chucking jpegs in there? he has so many vases, are they gifts from the eridians? is it an eridian cultural thing? did grace take up pottery?

But the biodome is that division. That is Grace's beach, and Grace's sand, and Grace's rooms, and Grace's water. He can keep his stuff anywhere without fear of theft. He can sleep on the beach without being arrested.

The house is artifice. He sleeps in his house because thats where the bed is. He eats in his house because no Eridian wants to see that. He abluts in his house because he doesnt want anyone to see that. But the exterior of the house is just more rooms for him to be in.

Maybe he keeps his stuff inside to protect from the humidity and salt of the ocean.

truth over solace in lies

finished one of the most amazing reading experiences in my recent memory! these two are my very favourites.

and then, for reasons usually at least slightly less arbitrary, fucks off again.