i contain multitudes and you can't have any

Bell's Hells my beloveds!!

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the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.

I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

Thanks, Karina!

1. Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

2. The Amalfi Curse, Sarah Penner

3. Evocation, S.T. Gibson

4. A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett

5. The Maiden and Her Monster, Maddie Martinez

6. Olivetti, Allie Millington

7. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson

8. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

9. These Vicious Masks, Tarum Shanker and Kelly Zekas

10. These Ruthless Deeds, Tarum Shanker and Kelly Zekas

11. Everyone on This Train is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson

12. Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz

13. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret, Benjamin Stevenson

14. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Q. Sutanto

15. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros

16. Nine Goblins, T. Kingfisher

17. The Sun and Her Flowers, Rupi Kaur

18. The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison

19. The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic & Murder, Kiri Callaghan

20. Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World, Mark Waddell

21. Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell

22. The Witchstone, Henry H. Neff

23. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

24. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

25. Cinder House, Freya Marske

26. The Summer War, Naomi Novik

27. The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean

28. Wickedly Ever After, R. Lee Fryar

29. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

30. Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune

31. Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, Greer Stothers

32. The Everlasting, Alix Harrow

33. All Systems Red, Martha Wells

34. Artificial Condition, Martha Wells

35. This Will Be Fun, E. B. Asher

36. In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune

37. The Keeper of Magical Things, Julie Leong

38. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Monsters, Grady Hendrix

39. Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo

40. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo

41. Everyone in This Bank is a Thief, Benjamin Stevenson

42. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century⁠—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light⁠—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;⁠—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

Happy Barricade Day 2025!

In lovely collaboration with the talented artist @p-trichor