Liz

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

I’ve noticed lots of pink Halloween fabric too! It’s hard not to buy it all!

It’s Boneyard in Violet from Erie by AGF! It’s even prettier in person!

Beautiful fabric and pattern choices! I bet it turns out amazing!

A blue, green and black quilt with skater girl motifs is under the needle of a Juki sewing machine being quilted.

6 different pink and white Halloween quilting fabrics are laid out on an ironing board. They include black cats in witch hats, florals with sneaky skills mixed in, a Victorian house with ghosts floating around and tiny smiling pumpkins.

I’m having a bad pain week, but a good quilting week. I’ve got one of my favorite makes ever under my machine almost ready to be sent off as a special gift and I’m cutting into new fabric to make myself the pink Halloween quilt of my dreams! #quiltsky

The book “The Missing Half” by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester. It’s a green book cover with hair floating on the cover. The book is resting on a white waffle weave blanket and there is a bookmark peaking out of the top.

Indulging in one of my favorite activities: staying up all night reading a trashy thriller while it thunderstorms outside ⛈️📚 #booksky

Beautiful color selections!

You’re welcome! I hate wasting my time with books like that

Just kidding, don't read this. Just a few chapters in there is a shitty diabetes joke. I'm so sick of people making abelist, awful jokes at our expense.

The book “You Are Fatally Invited” by Ande Pliego sits on my lap, my arm with a white hospital bracelet on the wrist next to it

If I have to spend a beautiful, sunny Friday afternoon doing annoying and high-stakes medical tests, I'm definitely starting a new thriller while I wait #booksky #disability

If you can't handle me at my buying books because I'm having a bad day, you don't deserve me at my buying books because I'm having a great day

Wow, that's great!

I love the idea of making a small one first! I might have to give it a try!

So pretty! I've always want to try a jelly roll rug, but they do seem a little intimidating

Thanks! 👻

Pink and black scraps of Halloween fabric on a cutting mat surrounding a wonky star block made with fabric that has little ghosts drinking coffee on it

Did I abandon my seasonally appropriate summer 70s quilt, made with a beautifully well written pattern in order to make a wonky improv quilt with my Halloween scraps? Absolutely lol #quiltsky

The two at a time method is so satisfying!

Two book case shelves are filled with mini bolts of quilting cotton, they are mostly organized by color with a specific section for Halloween fabric behind two Funko pop figures of Care Bears dressed like classic movie monsters

Spending a lovely Saturday night organizing fabric #quiltsky

A photo of two squares of fabric on an ironing board next to a bright yellow iron. The fabric is blue with white daisies and yellow with pink daisies, a very 1970s vibe

The last month has been brutal, dealing with a new autoimmune diagnosis and, ya know, all the fascism. But I’m starting to feel a little human again, and look at this gorgeous fabric I get to play with now! #quiltsky #disabled

Trimming HSTs is simultaneously so tedious and yet so satisfying!

Wonky quilts are the best kind!

I love the strip rulers! They make things so much easier for me!

The book “The Haunting of Room 904” by Erika T. Wurth sitting on top of a black, green and blue quilt

We made it to the weekend y’all, I hope there is some rest and comfort in it for you. My plan is to stay in with a new book ❤️✨ #booksky #quiltsky

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

Thanks! It definitely makes it fun and cheerful!

You’re my favorite person to be around, even when you’re sick 😘

Half of a rag quilt laying on the floor, the quilt is made up of 6.5 inch pink, black and orange squares of Halloween fabric. The picture also includes me wearing Beetlejuice sandworm socks

The Halloween in March rag quilt is coming along nicely. Required wardrobe: Beetlejuice socks. #quiltsky

was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. That was to say, ever since the first tiny bloom had opened. It had called her to come and gaze on a mystery. From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness -quote from Their Eyes Were Watching God

Absolutely! This is my favorite, from chapter 2, I think. I love the image of ideas and feelings questing about her consciousness too.

A blue bowl of popcorn and the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

Tonight there was still a sliver of light when I finished teaching my evening yoga class, which to me means it’s Spring and time to re-read my favorite book. Hurston has the best description of Spring in the Western canon and should be read accordingly #booksky

Sorting is so soothing! I love it too!