The Final Fronteer

Alba | 25 | actual astrophysicist (finally!!!), lesbian grandma at heart (she/her)

[evilscientist3]

Women in STEM (Sleepiness, Time for bed, Extremely comfy sheets, Mattresses)

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is this knit ladybug sweater!

Here's the pattern!

[valenalentine]

[thememedaddy]

[savvy-devine666]

@ilya-halfelven

[echotunes]

(to the tone of creep by radiohead) but i'm asleep. on mypillow

[fuck-philip-banks]

[segamascott]

[freakoutgirl]

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

[freakoutgirl]

and love..........

[chronicintrovert]

love like there's no ending 🥲

[trickyparadise]

[styxbugg]

Happy pride month

[dragon-in-a-fez]

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

[bwabbitv3s]

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.

[bwabbitv3s]

Started stitching the Milky Way in. Slowly making progress on it as I am hiding the travelling thread so the back will look nice.

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.

[bwabbitv3s]

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.

[bwabbitv3s]

Progress on the constellation quilt has come along quite a lot now. Finished the binding on the quilt over the weekend. I prefer to machine stitch the binding to the front then hand stitch the back side. It gives such a nice finish to the quilt. Took the time to measure it also and it ended up being 72" by 72" (183cm by 183cm).

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.

[bwabbitv3s]

Behold the stars of the constellations of the northern sky! I love how this quilt has turned out. It was a lot of fun to work on and the effect is so cool in person. Overall I would estimate it took about 90-100 hours to complete. Give or take 10 hours if you want to count the time I spent custom dying the fabric.

I made sure to get a nice photo of it in daylight. For once I also remembered to get a quilt label on it. The back really shows the difference in readability of the quilting on the ice dyed fabric compared to the solid front. Thank you everyone that has followed this. I am glad you all found joy in it.

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.

[sobcat]

madonna with miffy, e-postcard 11 (sign up)

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a spiraling marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[l0nely-smiles]

hey when the fuck are things gonna get easier

[madamerowina]

me: :((

spring: 🌼 ° 🌱 ۫ ☁️ ⊹ 🌷 🕊 * ִ ۫ 🐝 . ° 🌾 * 🌞 ⊹ ❀ 🍃 .🌿 * . 🌻 ° . 𖧷 ࣪ ᳝ ࣪ 🦋. * . ⊹ 🐛 •. * 🐞° ❁ ࣪ ᳝ ࣪ 🍃 .🌈 * . 🐌. * 🌳 ꕥ ᳝🐿️ 🍄 ⊹ 🌱 ࣪ ᳝ ࣪ 🧚🏻‍♀️ • 💐 * . ✿ ° 🌷 * . 🌲

me: :))

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

[laughterkey]