Chapter 15: The Disaster Within

I’ve been here since 2010 please don’t look at me it’s very embarrassing.

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Artist Shawn Braley

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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (2025) Tonatiuh as Molina & Diego Luna as Valentín

Why don't we go to the movies?

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Letter to Babette

A gothic gay vampire rat comic originally published by my friend Pete Faecke in Double Digest #3: Hairball

you can follow Pete, see excerpts of his excellent comic, and learn about the other double digests on instagram.

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by _nancy_dc

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Bory Castle in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1923-1959

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Birds enjoying a Hieroglyphic Nest

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I visited London last month and I was so overwhelmed by all the people absorbed into this building, that I boarded the wrong train. So I got time to draw this.

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Vintage Charley Harper Golden Pleasure book of Biology 1963 hardback book. from Bettyandmeshop

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DIEGO LUNA KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN | Official Trailer

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Jack o' Lantern Mushroom Art Print by Julian Plum

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The New Yorker Autumn Covers 🍂🍁

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If you want some, oh, just ask us

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversar

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Neil SimoneI (British,b. 1947)

"Contrast of Light and Shadow" n.d.

oil on canvas