先若后甜

Christopher Noulton (British, b. 1961, London, England) - The Day of the Cat, 2017, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas Paper

I finished the last constellation tonight. All 40 of them are now done! Went through and double checked and every stitch is in place for them and all the beads are in place. Which just leaves the milky way part to do.

Looks pretty cool and keeps the readability of the other stitches. Very happy with it. Just a thousand or so to do. As they are in a grid roughly every centimetre apart.

Update on the constellation quilt. I have gotten the last Milky Way stitch done now. Which means the quilting part of this project is done. My next step will be to baste the edges down, remove the pattern, trim the quilt square, and lastly attach the binding.

With that done I could finally start removing the pattern. Which is taking both less time and more time that I thought it would. As it rips really easily so that goes fast, but the tiny corners and removing it under the beads is slow. You can now see the difference in the glow effect with it against the dark front of the quilt instead of the pattern.

Those that are interested, here is the pattern I used by Haptic Lab. I made the large northern hemisphere version, and plan to make the matching southern hemisphere one next year. I also got your back for the less crafty people. Haptic Lab sells finished quilts in this pattern, both as a large quilt and a small one.

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

Saint Paul the Apostle church, Gallarate, Italy, Maria Rosa Zibetti, 1968-1973. Photo: Stefano Perego, 2025.

Miwa dam, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Virgo by Artem Chebokha

Rebecca Storm (Canadian, b. 1987, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, based Montreal, QC, Canada) - Mistress, 2026, Paintings: Oil on Linen

Czesław Miłosz, “Elegy for N. N.”

Zendaya wearing MATIERES – New York premiere of The Odyssey

Tidawhitney Lek (Cambodian-US-American, 1992) - Hide and Seek (2021)

Daily Cephalopod #27

Stuttgart Main Station, Stuttgart christoph ingenhoven architects 2026 HGEsch

via flickr