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lydamorehouse) wrote2022-04-26 01:29 pm
lydamorehouse) wrote2022-04-26 01:29 pm
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What's Old is New Again (the Quilting edition)
Image: a rather dark picture of a quilt I started over a year ago.
Facebook has this thing where it reminds you of things you posted about x many years ago. Today, the thing that popped up for me was this quilt I started during the early days of the pandemic. I am, as it happens, still working on this. In fact, I just got a big influx of fabrics, and so I was adding to it just last night. I think this quilt is one of those lifetime projects. I will probably keep adding pieces to it forever.
I have a quilt that's all finished in terms of piecing, and is just waiting for me to drag the quilting hoop down from upstairs and get going on the finishing touches. That's a big blue and green quilt that I made for
rachelmanija . I have another one that's actually all together and ready to go out the door. I just need to package it up and send it off. I have just not had the energy for these for whatever reason. Currently, I am blaming the weather. It's been cold and gray and miserable here. Though, I see sun right now. My computer tells me that it's 37 F / 3 C. I guess that's warmer than it has been??
Speaking of the outside, I'm going to have to watch a webinar about planting my pollinator garden at some point. I managed to miss the meeting somehow, but they send out recordings to everyone. To be honest, I just haven't thought about it because I try not to do too much to my lawn in early spring. I did rake the section of land that I'm going to start planting on, so I could probably start considering my options there.
I don't know. I am feeling like I should be more clever than I am feeling right now because I just popped back over to Facebook for this picture and got distracted by all the people who are whining about the demise of Twitter and talking about other social media platforms to join. Which... I mean, this comes up periodically and people pretend they're going to leave on principle, but no one ever does. But the thing that really distracted me was that at least two writer friends had threads about this and I was curious enough to see what people were suggesting, and then, lo and behold, people started mentioning Dreamwidth... only to bash it for being empty and "dead." And, I'm like, "Huh." I mean, I guess if you're comparing it to Twitter, yes. But, dead seems a little harsh.
I started to defend out little plot of awesome over here, but then decided I like it quiet. I mean, in this particular case, it really is apples to oranges. What you would get from Twitter, you will NOT get from the long, meandering form of Dreamwidth.
Anyway, here is the same quilt, a year later, also with cat.
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Because we're having a cold spring, I'm much more interested in cleaning up the yard -- i'd so much rather work in chilly weather; but because we're having a cold spring, I really ought not to do it because pollinators. I have no idea when the nighttime temperatures will be at least 50 consistently. Possibly never, as we leap from a cold spring to a stupidly hot summer.
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And, thanks. I should post some pictures of the orange chonk for you!
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HEART EYES FOR ORANGE CHONK.
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I know, right? Here in Madison we have the same issue. The city just started the last round of spring pickups for yard waste, but I couldn't bring myself to rake just yet.
Frankly, I'm ready for the daytime temps to be above 50 consistently now.
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Minneapolis used to harry people to clean up, and then they just shut up about it, and suddenly they came out with the Xerces Society. I'd love to know what went on behind the scenes there.
I would be okay with daytime temps above fifty too! Or even AT fifty. The smaller earlier flowers are blooming stubbornly, but I am worried about the returning warblers. And we aren't supposed to fill our bird feeders right now because Minnesota is having a bout of avian flu. (Warblers mostly eat insects, but you can get a revolting but very popular product called Bird Grub -- it's dehydrated caterpillars. Only one is not supposed to encourage songbirds to congregate right now.)
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DW is certainly not dead. I got over 100 comments on my berry post the other day.
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And, yes, I am hoping to feel inspired to finish yours up. I have been kind of pondering the backing for your quilt because I would like to make it as snuggly as possible for you now that you live somewhere that gets snow. I will absolutely ping you about how to mail it when it is finally ready, though! No worries.
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