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Cabin baby quilt is done!

This quilt is for the child of some of my friends who have invited me on many winter cabin trips! So I made it outdoor themed for their little explorer.

The tree blocks are machine pieced based on a block from Wise Craft Quilts by Blair Stocker. The stars and cabin are self drafted and English paper pieced. The bulk of the quilting is machine but I did do some big stitch accents for fun.

I’m very happy with it, and tomorrow I get to deliver it and meet the baby!

#👀 my quilt on my dash!#i just saw the baby this quilt belongs to last weekend and the baby report is that he’s very large and very serious #and ate his name tag right off his shirt immediately #quilt update is that they’ve been using it as the backdrop for their monthly photos 🥺

have i told you i’m going to go totally insane english paper piecing now??? well i am

#craftposting

the specialest boy in the world is posting on tumblr

#craftposting #i guess

had a Serious Conversation with my mom that i was dreading but it went pretty well in the end. please clap

#earlier this week i made a cardboard crown that says SPECIALEST BOY IN THE WORLD on it #originally for the taskmaster party i was hosting but now i’m wearing it to celebrate a scary task accomplished #highly recommend. very motivating

black crowned night heron! in the underpass!!!

#birdblog

this thing may look cute with its four little limbs but don’t be fooled. it is my ENEMY

#why is this whole piece of brand new tech sooooo janky #weatherologist's apprentice

viralfrog

#😭#this is soooooo cute #bikes #video

broke my stupid bicycle halfway to work this morning :(

#wadda hell man. i gotta ride you this weekend #foolish bike habits diary

quilting-is-my-new-hobby

I have seen a few sampler quilts with stars that I really liked online so I knew a star quilt would be in my future. Unrelatedly, I had picked up a copy of The Block Book by Judy Martin but I found it has a ton of star patterns. Then, at a quilters’ garage sale last month, I saw a $1 scrap bag of yellow fabrics. That’s serendipity if I’ve ever seen it, so I decided it was time to start my stars.

The first two were directly from the book. The third one is similar to one in the book but it was a 10.25” block and the others were 12” so I decided to tweak it a bit, resize it, and make it a paper pieced pattern. The process would have been far simpler if I had one of those 45 degree rulers, but with a little trigonometry I made it work.

For the layout I have in mind I’ll need about 16 of the 12” stars and 8 or so 6” stars. Right now, I think I will do all of the small stars in that cathedral window style, but we’ll see if I change my mind.

Project started June 2026

#ooogh!!#very cute and very inspiring #paging meda!!#quilts

hoktom

#hoo.#laugh rule #math

remnantglow

part 2 of older lgbt scifi as described in out of context negative reviews - personal favourites edition (part 1)

#LOVE this #book bloggin #hey everybody read babel-17

while i’m vagueblogging about colleagues… guy in this meeting just tried to say that asking for collaborators to put their data in netcdf format is too much of a hurdle. my guy! in the year 2026?????

#weatherologist's apprentice #pull your head out of the hole it’s been in for the last two decades and GET WITH IT

one more week of this nonsense and i’m going to start biting scientists. learn to work and plan collaboratively or get outta here

#you’re not a university researcher anymore! get over it!!#weatherologist's apprentice

chippyanddippy

Fiji table set!!!

When we were in Fiji in January we visited a fabric store and bought these really awesome printed cotton rectangles inspired by Tapa cloth designs, with the idea of eventually making placemats out of them. 6 months later I actually did it!

I found this gorgeous leafy batik at a local fabric store back home and it pulled the whole idea together! I hemmed some squares of it for napkins, too.