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I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

#samplers #embroidery #needlework #cross stitch #history #fiber arts

lena-oleanderson

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

p0ltergeistsworld

I can't describe how much I love this poem. I want to hug it.

#this is the life of community i want to make #poem #poetry #community

highlandcattleofsaarela

hellsite-testing-ground

˙ʇɐqʇᴉnɹɟ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq oʇ pǝpᴉɔǝp ǝʌ,I

jesterlesbian

everybody neeeeeds to go read this new yorker cartoon article with jacob tierney!!!!! it's so good

#heated rivalry #jacob tierney

theartofmadeline

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

#pride #lgbtq #digital art #illustration

lightgaswaterelectricityrent

"we need more stories about evil women" you couldn't even handle Amy March

shanesloverboy

The amount of people who don't understand that Hudson Williams was the victim of a hate crime is insane

#heated rivalry #hudson williams #shane hollander

shanesloverboy

Unfortunately Hudson Williams committed several grave sins to the internet:

Masculanized an Asian character

Became a heartthrob as a POC

Gave an award-winning performance for a neurodivergent character

Is dating a woman after playing a gay man

Gets just as much praise as his white costar

Doesn't censor himself to fit in

IS AN ASIAN MAN WHO HAS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD SO DIABOLICALLY DOWN BAD FOR HIM

#heated rivalry #hudson williams #shane hollander

mending and skill trades

Visited my friend Sophie today, as she needed tailoring on her clothes. Life hasn't been kind to her lately, and she lost a lot of weight, so some of her clothes didn't fit anymore. I offered to tailor them, and I feel like we both win: she'll get to wear her favourite clothes again, and I have a fun little project to help her out :) So we went through her clothes, I pinned them (inside out) to her liking, and brought them home. It'll be a mix of hand sewing (for the thicker materials), and machine sewing (for the more straightforward pieces). My goal is to keep everything reversible, so if she chooses to change them in the future again, she can just seam rip it and she won't be short on material.

As a thanks, she gave me a loaf of homemade bread. Her bread is always amazing and I don't know how to bake bread at all, so I was super happy. In the bus on the way home, I thought about how great it was to trade our skills that way (and how to eat the bread). Instead of both spending money on necessities, we just traded our "silly little hobbies", which in fact are not silly at all, but real skills that can help ourselves and others. It kind of felt like a communal moment, detached from capitalism and consumerism. Am I reaching?

TL;DR: I mend I get bread