Photo of a craft project on a quilted grey background. The project is a wire wreath form that has embroidery floss wrapped around it in the style of a “god’s eye.” The 15 shades of blue floss form concentric rings of color, like rings on a tree.
Last night’s #brainweaselbuster was a destash of 15 skeins of embroidery cotton and one dollar store wreath form. Biggest “god’s eye” I’ve ever made, and I am super pleased with the result.
A quilt top pieced from 20+ different brightly colored solid and print fabrics, with some boring grey fabric added to tie things together. There is no design or order - things just got sewn down where they fit.
New addition to the charity quilts: just finished a quilt top using many, many spare blocks and pieces.
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That’s #brainweaselbuster . Apologies to any Brian Weasels out there; I’m sure you don’t need to be busted.
Photo of a quilt top made of a checkerboard of alternating squares of black-background print fabric with an array of solids in all the rainbow colors. The colors fall in a line diagonally and are arranged in ROY G BIV order top to bottom in the first row, and shunted down one square farther in each subsequent row.
#brainweaselbuster today did not take as long as I expected, but is sloppier than I would like. My seam allowance was off when I sewed the initial strips together, so lining up the blocks for each row of the quilt was …. imprecise. It’s fine for a Paul Revere inspection**
Close-up photo of four quilt blocks which meet perfectly in the center. Top right and bottom left are a coral color, top left and bottom right are bold chopped up floral prints with bright colors on a black background.
When the Quilt Gods smile upon me, and my corners meet perfectly.
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Quilt top pieced into rainbows from strips of pattered fabrics in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, separated by wider strips of fabric (white background with pronouns printed in rainbow colors). The design repeats three times.
#brainweaselbuster of the day: a rainbow-riffic quilt top pieced from strips. Destined for a local lgbtqia+ community center for families and kids.
Photo of a group of 14 fabric hexagons: 4 red and white print ones in the middle, surrounded by 10 in very light blue and white prints.
#brainweaselbuster of the day: figuring out placement for my hexies and starting to assemble them. It will be interesting to see if I can get the papers out when the construction is done - cardstock may have been a bad choice.
Photo of the inside of my washer, which is filled with dark purple dye and has a huge piece of fabric floating in it. The parts of the fabric that are cotton are dyed a medium purple: the parts that are polyester are a light lavender.
#brainweaselbuster of the day: dyeing the final couch slipcover to match the rest of the rainbow-licious cushions. My washer is gonna be purple for MONTHS.
Macro photo of a houseplant with variegated pink/purple/white/green leaves. The center of the shot focuses on the tiny white and pink flower of the plant, which is in focus enough to see all of its Sexy Parts.
Today’s #brainweaselbuster is my Tradescantia, which loves my bathroom light so much it bloomed.
Photo of a quilt top, striped in red, yellow, two prints on white backgrounds, and red apples on black background.
#brainweaselbuster of the day: the world’s cheapest quilt top, pieced out of the super discount fabric strip kits from Joann’s sale bin.
Photo of a sunny log with several half-moon-shaped fungi attached. The central one is sort of bluish grey with a dark brown stripe around the curved edge.
A photo of fungus growing on a log. The fungus is two half-circles stacked atop each other. Both are shades of pearly oyster grey with thin medium brown stripes.
Yesterday’s #brainweaselbuster was a long walk at a local park, where the only things blooming or fruiting were fungi.
Photo that shows (top to bottom): - Out of focus rack of houseplants - Slightly out of focus set of four nesting crocheted bowls in multicolored yarn, alternating green and white - In focus cotton bowl in progress, being held in my left hand with a crochet hook in the top loop.
#brainweaselbuster of the day: wrecking my hands crocheting sturdy cotton nests for our local wild animal rescue organization. Making use of clearance yarn from before the Joannpocalypse.
Photo of a quilt top featuring colorful blocks on a patterned black background. All of the blocks are different colors, but each has a rectangular “door” in it of orange patterned fabric.
After a brief hiatus to go buy more backing fabric, #brainweaselbuster is back with a new scrappy quilt top. I’m really pleased with how this one turned out, given that it was a pile of off cuts of weird sizes round about dinner time today.
Photo of a quilt top made of squares in oranges and greys. Some squares have random color variation, some are plaid, some have stripes, some have dots, and some are printed with cartoon foxes.
#brainweaselbuster of the day was finishing up the orange and grey 5” squares I had sitting around on this charity quilt top. This is what happens when you mis-plan and have to add rows and columns to make it big enough to donate!
Photo of a quilt top done in squares in shades of grey, white, and vibrant orange. Many of the squares are plaid, while some have orange cartoon foxes on grey backgrounds.
#brainweaselbuster of the day - cut and pieced this foxy quilt top for charity. I have enough squares left to make at least one more in a similar color scheme, so that’s tomorrow sorted.
A photo of two ferrets in a large cage. One is cream-colored and the other is more mink-colored. They are both nosing at the bars and are very interested in attempting to eat my (not shown) fingers.
Today’s #brainweaselbuster was a trip to the pet store where I got to see these handsome furry slinkys. No, I do not need ferrets. But these were surprisingly active and curious, and it made me smile.
Photo of an unfinished quilt top in the traditional “rail fence” pattern. Three fabrics - a red background with small white dots, a white background with large white dots, and a red and white gingham plaid.
Today’s #brainweaselbuster is a rail fence quilt top that I would have finished before bed if not for the small incident that required a seam ripper. As it stands, I have five seams left to sew tomorrow.
Photo of Jenny Lawson’s book “You Are Here,” along with book-themed fabric and an autograph on plain muslin fabric.
My #brainweaselbuster for today was a drive to Columbus to see @thebloggess.bsky.social speak and get her autograph for the quilt I have been working on for (checks notes) almost 20 years. It was a wonderful way to spend the day!
Photo of a pile of binding strips striped in rainbow pride colors.
Photo of random lines intersecting to form a 5-pointed star. Lines are rainbow colors of stitching; background is light colored solid fabric.
Gonna be away from my craft room tomorrow, so I pushed hard to get two quilts quilted and bound today. Two #brainweaselbuster photos for today: the happiness of proud binding strips, and an accidental star in my random lines quilting.
Photo of a turtle chilling in its food bowl, surrounded by chopped vegetables.
Today’s #brainweaselbuster : when I went to Lake Erie Nature and Science Center to drop off the rehab nests I had made, I found what I want to be reincarnated as: an indoor turtle who can sleep in its food dish under a heat lamp. That is living the dream!
A photograph of my view of a stage, showing how close my feet are to the stage. The set is a white scrim background with several ropes hanging in front of it, and the stage is made of various wooden ramps in the shape of rolling waves.
Today’s #brainweaselbuster :
Tickets in the front row to see Peter and the Starcatcher at #greatlakestheatre . I love being sweated upon by actors!
Close up of a quilt top in progress - squares of pink/orange/white patterned fabric at the bottom, squares of multicolored orange and green in middle and top.
Photo of a stack of three colorful folded quilts.
Continuing with #brainweaselbuster projects: first three charity quilts washed and ready to ship; next one is pinned and ready to go.
Closeup photo of an unfinished quilt - bright colors, meandering line of quilting scribbled all over the top
Today’s #brainweaselbuster : finished a second charity quilt and finished the quilting on a third for this week. #quiltsforkids is going to be getting a BIG box from me when I’m done using up scraps.
