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• Post #3707397

  In the "I should probably notify people of things ahead of time" category, I'll be participating in the citywide YART SALE on Saturday, August 8 from noon - 6p. I'll be selling bags and reflective stuff, I'll have a couple friends from my pottery studio selling their wares, and I'm shooting to have a table set up for folks to add some bling to their bikes and/or helmets. I'm located on Hudson St. behind the Armory, come over and say hi! https://somervilleartscoun...

• Post #3521107

  Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital for fourteen days. Thoughts and prayers.

• Post #3521106

  RE: https://toot.boston/@swachter/116825955947884254 Sixteen days.

• Post #3461923

  Doing a bit of selfish sewing and picking back up a project that has been languishing for a while. This (will be) a quilted chore coat made from stash linen, batting, and an old flannel sheet. The exciting bit is that the thread I’m using for quilting is retro-reflective, meaning that I get some lovely transient glimmering stars in direct light. I’m trying to be intentionally a little bit chaotic (it’s hard ok) and not overthinking positioning and spacing. #sewing #handmade #quilting #starGazer...

• Post #3418841

  Apparently my ongoing evolution into full crone includes dropping bangers like "it's reprehensible that a bunch of men stole everything we ever wrote and want to sell it back to you" and "aren't you scared that the most unethical people who ever lived know so much about you" and "we eat three billionaires and the rest fall into line" on unsuspecting grad students who are trying to tell me that AI can be used for good

• Post #3342420

  Ok, the load-bearing embroidery in Season 10 of Widow's Bay is one of the best pieces of environmental storytelling I've ever seen. Also it made me laugh until I cried. #WidowsBay

• Post #2744003

  #clothing quality question: If I want to buy decent-quality high-cotton-blend t-shirts in something approaching bulk quantities (for modification and resale), are there any manufacturers making things that aren't trash but also aren't stupid expensive? My brain is providing Hanes & Fruit of the Loom as decent options, but have they been recently enshittified? Boosts & recent experiences welcome.

• Post #2744002

  I have finally, at the age of 42, figured out the magic combination of hair stylist / shampoo / gel / handling that will make my hair be actually curly. So of course I want to shave my head again so bad my palms itch.

• Post #2744001

  It’s a fine line between genius and madness. #marshmallowFluff #Flufffestival #somervilleMA

• Post #2744000

  Ooooo it thunder

• Post #2457467

  This toot is a friendly reminder that if and when you hit a paywall on the internet, check your local library to see if they have access to this resource. Your #library card entitles you to access to more than just books! (Am I subtooting the link below to the Boston Globe? Yes. Yes I am.) Don’t have a library card? Get one! For most systems all you need is a piece of mail with your mailing address on it - even if it’s just a postcard from a friend. And it’s ✨ free! ✨

• Post #1832551

  #ShamelessSelfPromotion Somerville Open Studios is this weekend! I'll be selling handmade bags and reflective gear at the Armory both Saturday and Sunday. I have several #StarTrek bags for TOS / TNG / DS9, about a million nerdy tote bags, and new rear-reflectors and retro-reflective stickers for your #bikeTooter needs. Stop in and say hi! #handmade #handmadebags #ttrpg #artforsale #SomervilleMA #SomervilleOpenStudios

• Post #1705644

  Oscillating between “oh sure of course it’s staged” and “he has to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once.” And time makes its own luck.

• Post #1074926

  Ok let’s crowdsource this shit. I know there’s some #discworld nerds on here. I want to make a playlist where I have one song for each book in the series. Eg Thief of Time is obviously Clocks by Coldplay, Pyramids is Walk Like An Egyptian, Small Gods is Losing My Religion. Songs should be bangers and also thematically appropriate. (I have a list for a lot of them, I’ll post it after this has had a chance to make the rounds.) Aaaaand: go. Mastodon do your thing. #TerryPratchett #music #boos...

• Post #965107

  I don’t know who needs to see this, but if you work in #tech and thus have eight million branded backpacks, fleeces, vests etc for a company you don’t work for / feel like being a free billboard for, thirty minutes with a needle and thimble and a cute patch from an artisan will result in a backpack you actually want to take places. Ten minutes with a seam ripper will do the same thing, but will leave a shadow where the embroidery was. Backpack courtesy of it’s obvious; patch from https://thi...

• Post #965048

  Good sky alert #bostonWeather #boston #weatherIsHappening

• Post #965046

  So how do people feel about watermelon bike reflector triangles? #bikeTooter #sewing

• Post #892539

  I went to pottery class today and opened by asking several of my classmates if they knew how to use the slab roller upstairs. Nobody did but everyone wanted to, so when the teacher got in I’m like “hey teach, do you know how to use the slab roller upstairs” and she’s like “no” (she’s a visiting artist who only got here a couple months ago so this is not very surprising) “but I’ve used a lot of different ones and I bet we can figure it out.” Me: “do you want to go on a Journey of Discovery?” Eve...

• Post #879527

  Ohhhhhh shit I have retroreflective thread and now it’s onnnnn #sewing #quilting

• Post #631517

  While I’m glad it’s no longer “freeze your titties off” season, “no matter what, you’re wearing the wrong thing” season is its own kind of miserable. #BosWeather #weatherIsHappening

• Post #620466

  One of the things I hate about this corrupt timeline is it took perfectly good rhetorical devices and turned them into a sign that a shit-spewing machine wrote this book. There’s nothing wrong with a good tricolon or negation (and obviously ai uses them because people did first) but goddamn when I see them in close succession my spidey sense starts tingling. #ai #fuckAI #noai

• Post #620463

  A friend asked me to share this fundraiser for a local Afghani who has been unjustly and unlawfully detained by ICE: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-am-and-his-family-of-12s-urgent-needs Please share and help his family if you are able. #FuckICE #noBorders

• Post #620461

  Hmmmm apparently it is totally possible to fuse hi-viz HTV to marine vinyl and to ottertex waterproof canvas. HMMMMMM.

• Post #531862

  Took out our feelings about The Horrors on the snow piles and storm drains as we walked to the library and back. How can you make your community a little bit better today? #SomervilleMA #solarpunk

• Post #531857

  Guys did you know you can like just sew bits of fabric to other bits of fabric and make like new fabric or clothes or blankets and shit #sewing #bigIfTrue

• Post #403918

  Something (almost) completely different: I had a bunch of scraps of my “hero” fabrics left over from bag making so I cut them into consistent-width strips and zigzag sewed them together, then sewed the strips together vertically (I did NOT let myself get neurotic about the same print touching itself, it was very difficult, please clap) then I did some math on an existing skirt I like and now I have a new skirt. #sewing #clothing

• Post #292285

  Yoooo #ShamelessSelfPromotion time, I’m at #Boskone with a bunch of cool dragon and Star Trek and mushroom and ttrpg and other cool bags. Swing by and check out the vendor room on the lower level - there’s loads of other great vendors with everything from chocolate to jewelry to (of course) many many books. I’ll be here until 6p today and 3p tomorrow - hope to see you!

• Post #256286

  I can’t fix everything but I can fix these pants. #visibleMending #handmade #MakeDoAndMend #solarpunk #ohDarn

• Post #245207

  So does anyone here know anything about embroidery machines? As in what to look for, what to avoid, bad brands, etc? #sewing #adviceWanted #embroidery