My goal is to get my ballot marked and dropped off to a drop box by October 17: No Kings Day. When will you be voting? #nokingsday #vote
Elizabeth Eastmond
@opquilt.bsky.social
I quilt & design quilt patterns. Chocolate, cooking, traveling are also squeezed in around the edges. And I'm on edge a lot these days. https://opquilt.com/linkinbio/
To get you in the mood, here's "Halloween in the Vegetable Patch," made a couple of years ago from J. Wecker Frisch fabrics (always a winner). #quiltsky #halloweenquilts opquilt.com/2024/08/31/h...
This display overwhelms me. And even have a stack of her fabrics sitting in my stash closet. #quiltsky #fabricstash
Working on perfecting a recipe for Stuffed Delicata squash. First run last night. Needs tweaking, but I totally love squash season! #cooksky #fallcooking
When Trader Joe’s gets in the pie pumpkins, it’s officially fall.🍂🍁
I wrote up about finishing the NMAI quilt top — plus — watching the opening day parade of the @smithsonian.bsky.social Museum some years ago (photo from that day). #quiltsky #nmaiquiltalong Click to read the post: opquilt.com/2026/10/11/n... Free block pattern also available for download.
Like I need one more thing to do! 😆 TBH, I’m kind of jazzed about this. 🧙♀️ #quiltsky #newproject #modafabrics
Blog post on this floral quilt, along with some details of construction. It’s from my pattern, with four different sizes and looks. #linkinbio #quiltsky opquilt.com/2026/10/04/f...
Progress on the baby quilt: FMQ, simple yet charming (imho), is finished. Question: do you wash your quilts before gifting them? #quiltsky
Winding down after a long day. First, trying some #fmq and then some reading in a book I picked up in Edinburgh’s Topping & Co. bookshop. #goodmemories #quiltsky
Okay, BlueSky Quilters! I reworked this to where I like it. Here it is, with my figurine from Arizona. #quiltsky @smithsonian.bsky.social Blog post next week, with patterns. #nmaiquiltalong More info in ALT.
I sewed like a fiend today. Can I just say my LEAST favorite quilt border of all time is the piano keys border (sewing bunches of little strips together) because THEY NEVER FIT (so don't look too closely). I filled out the label request and sent it off. DONE! #quiltsky #nmaiquiltalong
HELP! I need to take a little “gift” to a quilting retreat next month for each of my six table-mates and am stumped as to what to do. Pincushion? Notion? Needlecase? What’s the best quilt retreat favor that you’ve given or received? (Image just for ideas)
Made my focaccia twice in two days. Sent first batch home with dinner guests. Took part of second to family with new baby. It’s one of my favorite recipes to share. #focaccia www.elizabethcooks.com/2023/11/focaccia-•-2023/
"People prefer to text, even though research shows that phone calls and in-person conversations make people feel more connected to one another." Loved this. I always say that texts are data transfers, not conversations (borrowed from somewhere!).
Julie Beck@julieebeck.bsky.social · 3w agoreading @gbullard.bsky.social's Against Convenience really made me think about how many of our beloved conveniences come at the cost of our relationships and community--so I wrote about it: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
I took a little trip to Liberty of London a couple of weeks ago, meeting an old pen-pal. There’s nothing like Liberty. #quiltsky opquilt.com/2026/09/27/a...
All Quilty Roads Lead to Liberty
That’s Janine and I, up there under the Liberty Arch. Apparently all roads lead to Liberty of London if you are traveling to England. Janine, of Rainbow Hare, has also written about meeting u…
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Here’s how that last block of the #nmaiquiltalong turned out. I turned the water symbol from a wave into a river, having it run along the edges of mountains. @smithsonian.bsky.social #quiltsky
Click to see all four blocks of the #nmaiquiltalong sewn together! The final border info comes on October 1st, and I’ll finish it up then. #quiltsky @smithsonian.bsky.social
Okay, here's my variation/revision of the NMAI Quilt-A-Long for block #4. Blog post coming in a couple of weeks, but I drew up the pattern (free!) and you can download it in my pattern shop. payhip.com/b/Y8s6u #smithsoniannmai #quiltsky Inspired by @margiecarlson.bsky.social --I made changes!
I have many good friends who are AI-promoters, but for me the dissonance is too great to get on the AI train. What about the pollution from data centers? What about the issues raised in this video clip? The wholesale “theft” of original work? Too many unknowns, I think. #AI
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w agoAsked whether OpenAI should face legal ramifications for the Hugging Face incident, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social, “It seems that this was not just an outlier incident … There is a very real question around intent and when that should actually attach.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26