Good Things Friday (169) and Link Love
May 20, 2022
1. I don’t know if you remember but last fall, I was stressed. And one night, since fabrics were on sale and I needed a project to distract from the horrible stuff going on with COVID, and work, and our stress-faces at home, I bought 16 yards of fleece. That’s right. 48 feet of fleece. You’d think that at some point I’d do the math and realize we were about to be eyebrows deep in fabric but nope, that didn’t dawn on me until the fabric arrived and one of the designs just shipped on the roll. I’d bought so much they chucked the whole roll into a shipping container and called it good. I made four blankets of various sizes and designs for ourselves, and now I’m in the final stretch of my Stress Case Fabric Adventures. I think these last 9.5 feet will make one more blanket for a nibling and a pillow.
2. I MADE A ZIPPER POUCH!! Zippers were going to break my brain but fixing one mistake after another, texting my sewing sisters, on Sunday, I managed to complete a whole functional zippered pouch! Yes, you can buy all kinds of pouches but the sizes I need are really quite expensive. This cost $7 for a yard of fabric (which will yield 2-6 pouches depending on sizes) and $1.50 per zipper. The learning curve was a heck of a thing and it’s very clearly amateur work but it’s for personal use so that doesn’t matter.
Help this family seeking asylum
I thought regular ticks were horrible. This is a nightmare: Winter ticks wiped out nearly 90% of the moose calves scientists tracked in part of Maine last year
FBI monitored and critiqued African American writers for decades (an old article but this is the first time I’m seeing it)
Buffalo Community Fridge will be providing food to residents affected by the mass-shooting. As I mentioned, the terrorist attack took place in a food dessert. Many people will not be able to access food while the market is closed. Please donate!
Venmo @bflocommunityfridge pic.twitter.com/VSHOKqyuXG— J Coley (They/Them) (@JColey716) May 15, 2022
Early on in the Covid pandemic, there were lots of articles about how the 1918 flu disappeared from our collective memory and the historical record. Alfred Crosby famously called it “America’s Forgotten Pandemic” in his 1989 book.
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— Debra Caplan (@debra_caplan) May 17, 2022
I went to Venmo to the Buffalo Community Fridge and there is another account with the same handle but missing the final e. I suspect that’s a scam, so be careful.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Should you find in yourself a desire to make lots of things with zippers, there’s a company called zipperstop which sells on both amazon and etsy, where you can get zippers very economically indeed!
Ooooh thanks! I have been bitten by the bug. I need more zippers. MORE POUCHES!
How satisfying to make your own little pouches!!! That skill will come in very useful, I’m sure. Everything in a pouch!!
All the pouches!!!