Sara Mrad | Ripples in the Wind
A fiber journey :))))
Op did you drop spindle all of that?
Yeah, I’m too early in my spinning habit to have a wheel :)
Here’s the finished Kaffe Fassett quilt. I’m really happy I could help mom finish something because this is gorgeous and it deserves to be loved. Also it turns out I love hand sewing so I finished the binding on this king size + quilt in <5 hours.
In awe of five hours of hand sewing - my old wrists could never. This is so beautiful! Great job!
To be clear, if was 5 ish hours spaced out over about eight days. Not all at once! I did most of it while sitting in the passenger seat getting driven around the mountains.
Time for a new long post. A group of some of my favorites I’ve done in 2024 already.
cottagecore is out cloistercore is IN if you need me ill be manually transcribing a document by candlelight like a medieval monk
Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week
Drinking spiders??!
You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.
And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.
I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.
We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.
I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.
It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,
I finally finished putting together the backing for the quilt! Everything is ready for me to baste it but I need about four hours and to move this table first. Next weekend, hopefully.
Blocking this doily was an experience! It took a little over three hours and a bit of my sanity. I’ve told myself I’ll never do this again, but I feel as if that might be a lie..
Photos of the doily are of it while being blocked. I totally forgot to get any pics after I took all the pins out. The finished size was 51 inches in diameter.
My brother is an emergency medicine physician and he and his wife are on their first vacation in a while…does not sound like it’s going well:
I think this might be the felt crafting equivalent of a practice doodle that got out of hand...
I get very bored on public transportation and snapchat emoji mosaic is actually a pretty solid medium
If the right way is too hard, fuck it. Do it the wrong way.
Folding clothes keeps you from getting the laundry done? Stop folding clothes. Put a basket in your room and throw your unfolded clean stuff into it right out of the dryer, it's fine.
Rinsing dishes off keeps you from loading the dishwasher? Load them dirty and run it twice.
Chopping onions keeps you from making yourself dinner? Buy the freezer bags of chopped onions.
You forget to take your meds and don't want to get out of bed to get them? Start putting them next to the bed.
Can't keep up with the dishes? Get paper plates. Worried about environment impact? Order biodegradable ones online if your local store doesn't have one.
Make the task easier. Put things where you use them instead of where they "go." Eliminate the steps that keep you from finishing the task. Eliminate the task that is stressing you out.
Do it the "wrong" way. It's literally fine.
This is huge. I have been working on this for years with great success.
If the system doesn’t work for you and you’re the only one who uses it, DON’T CHANGE YOURSELF, CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
It’s not the wrong way if it works.
finished imperial radch trilogy
Tisarwat really is one of the Most characters ever written. I'm 17 years old I'm 3,000 years old I'm six months old. I've died twice and been born three times. I was secretly emperor of the universe for about a month and I spent most of that time throwing up. I spent my first paycheck on surgery to get purple anime eyes. My interests are hot girls of all genders and (distant second) fish
Nothing to make me appreciate walking home at 10 pm on a spring night in Boston like goals of care conversations I guess
Finally working on this one again!