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No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

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girl dinner

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The final mini quilt was so.ething I kept putting off finishing. It felt strange to be done with the project, but as long as this is unfinished, I don't have to feel weird about the end. So there's one last side of binding left undone.

Originally this piece was going to include appliqué as some sort of obvious metaphor for the additional knowledge I have gained from this project, but in the end I really wanted to do this raw edge subtractive bit, and I guess that can be seen as me removing preconceived notions about what a quilt is.

Ultimately this project was so much more than I imagined it would be when I sat down and made the first mini. So this is it for Stancey at 40 because now I'm 41, which I guess means I am once again in my prime.

#stancey at 40 #quilts as journals #a year in quilts #quilting #im so vain #i probably think this post is about me #end on a math joke

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There's just not enough green velvet these days during the holidays. Fun fact, Santa originally had a host of suit colors: green, tan, red, and white. But through the persistent marketing of the Coca-Cola company, his "official" color became red in the 1880s. Probably the most impactful marketing ploy of all time.

This dress, dating from about 1900, is a perfect example of why I find silk velvet so amazing. Because of all of the tiny, tiny fibers, it both absorbs light and then reflects it depending on the cut of the fibers and the lighting. Here, there doesn't seem to be a lot of sheen, but it absolutely soaks up the light! Paired with all those gorgeous sequins, and wow.

Sequins have also been around for a LOT longer than most people think, since it's just a shiny, flat bead. This particular design is just stunning, and so very Edwardian. Plus, it's GREEN, and y'all already know how I feel about green dresses.

From Augusta Auctions.

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nobody understands the connection between a girl and her microsoft excel sheets

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"Are you holding any tension in your body?"

uh yeah obviously. Where else would I keep it?

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Court train, 1815-25

From the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

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"we bought this Victorian house and opened up the interior, adding lots of overhead lights and pewter walls-"

biting you killing you biting you killing you biting you killing you

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I replied to your message in my head several days ago did you not get it

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Reception dress, 1877

From the Minnesota Historical Society

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Penultimate week, and I put this together with all my feelings about the project ending, which is to say I had no idea what I was doing. I just kept putting things together, pulling from the scrap pile, and waited to see what emerged. I only have one more of these, and I have plenty of projects to finish up before the year is out, but it still feels strange that this is practically done.

#stancey at 40 #a year in quilts #quilts as journals #quilting #im so vain #i probably think this post is about me

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I brought cookies. Ah, so thoughtful not to make them yourself.

Pedro Pascal on Saturday Night Live (Oct 21, 2023)

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And here is this week's mini. Lately I have been thinking about the things I have been juggling and their relative weight. And not just the weight I assign, but also the weight others assign. I think some of the weight needs redistribution.

Can you believe I only have two more minis left in this project?

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"Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to actor Jack Black.

"Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of women in the workplace, and actor Jack Black's mother. From an obituary written by her son Neil Siegel after her death in 2016:

“'My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career. When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely. Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a "thank you" [visit] to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.'”

"She finished her engineering career running the systems engineering for the science ground facility of the Hubble Space Telescope.

"During her engineering career, she was a vigorous and tireless advocate of better treatment for women in the workplace. Many things that today we consider routine - the posting of job openings inside of a company so that anyone could apply, formal job descriptions for every position, and so forth - were her creations. She had a profound impact on equality in the workforce.

(via @historyinmemes at Twitter)

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Here is the mini from last week. I really wanted to burn it, but the tests showed that my batting was going to cause issues, and I didn't want to rip it all apart to find a better option, so instead I played with bleach. All good plans leave room to pivot and all that jazz.

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Caravaggio living paintings by Ludovica Rambelli Theater