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Liz

@smithdrygoods.bsky.social

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GenX quilter, artist, crafter, caregiver. Married, childfree, sugar-free (keto). Masshole of a sort. Somehow both a complete downer AND a laff riot. http://SmithDryGoods.com

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · Dec 10

This tiny quilt (32” x 48”) is officially my favorite thing I ever made 😊 It incorporates my love of scraps & color theory in a way that feels very ME. It was a very challenging puzzle I enjoyed. I will pursue this technique further! #QuiltSky

A small quilt in the double four patch pattern which is constructed of smaller squares and larger squares arranged in patterns of dark and light so as to create diagonal stripes in small dark fabrics from top left to bottom right, and the same but in light fabrics from top right to bottom left. The light squares are various cream colored prints while the darker prints smoothly flow from teals and aquas at the top through browns, pinks, and purples toward the bottom

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 8h

Literally, baby quilts aren’t actually for the baby to enjoy, they’re for the parents!

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 8h

I can hear this picture 😢

NPR @npr.org · 12h

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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maqart55 @maqart55.bsky.social · 12h

It's done! It's done! It's done!

My first ever pieced quilt.

Husbun calls it "The quilt of a thousand days..."; in fact it only took about three months. 🤣

Trying it out on the bed tonight!

A brightly colored pieced quilt hanging from my clothesline, with woods behind. The quilt pattern is rows of flying geese (rectangles comprised of one large and two small pyramidal triangles) in colors ranging from dark purple to orange to red to coral, pieced nose to tail. In the center of the quilt, the geese meet to form a star. The geese rows are separated and bordered by strips of bright yellow and orange.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 8h

I would BLANCH if someone told me that. Say thank you and zip it!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11h

As far as coats go, it’s been a very chaotic day for the people of the greater Boston area. A high of 54 is a very incoherent temperature for us sartorially.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 11h

Lil too…intense imo

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 11h

😳

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 15h

Today, I have to mark the occasion bc it was the 1st time in my entire 56 years that a contractor apologized & moved his truck out of our private parking space. (Don’t give him too much credit because there are 2 no parking signs clearly visible, & he still tried it) But he’s the 1st to not fight me

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 20h

She told me voting makes her feel like a person 🥹

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 20h

A win! Nice

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 20h

Researching candidate positions so I can explain them to mom so she can vote in the local election.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 1d

Bathroom bouquet and my special funny sitter :)

a photo of a small bouquet of flowers I grew, including 2 pink zinnias, 2 yellow coreopsis, 2 light purple scabiosas, and 2 red dahlias

photo of my cat, a brown tabby shorthair with amber eyes, sitting like a weirdo. I love her so much

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to a biography of Andrew Jackson and the number of times I’ve muttered “THIS asshole” is off the charts

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

lol omg yeah capital NOPE

Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

I texted that too

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a fundraising text from Moulton, hit “Delete & report junk” #massachusetts

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the Squirrel Buster, works!

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 1d

The 3-day nor’easter flattened my marigolds but it’s very pretty out there this morning 🌱

A very pretty peachy dawn seen though a green side yard of a red house.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

These chairs in the Leonard Joel auction catalogue this week look like they were drawn by Saul Steinberg, or Jean-Jaques Sempé, or Louis Bemelmans, who did the Madeleine books ... #cartoon #chairs

Some very curly French-y wrought iron black chairs against a grey background, that look like they were drawn by a cartoonist.

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Erin Golsen @erininkentucky.bsky.social · 1d

Zero wishes you a wonderful #WhiskersWednesday.
#cats

Zero, handsome tuxedo cat, gazes into the distance while showing off his magnificent whiskers.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 2d

The Jungfrau peak catches the last rays of sun over the Lauterbrunnen valley. 🇨🇭 📷

A large snow covered peak on the left glows orange. To the right a glacier carved valley sits in shadow.

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Liz @smithdrygoods.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just