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11/3/26💙⚜️🐅🐈‍⬛🐴🐓🦆🧘🏻‍♀️🌻 blue dot in red MS, just north of the Gulf of Mexico-Stay Salty and Resist! Love animals and nature. Plant native!

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy #Caturday
Emmett taking his first nap of the day after eating a hearty breakfast and a round of catnip mouse fetch on the screened porch

Ginger and white cat sleeping on his side on a quilt with purple flowers. There’s a pillow behind him that has brown, tan and dark red flowers

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 8h

When I’m not sure what hashtags to use I look for pictures with similar subjects and see what they use.

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 9h

#Nature
#Landscape

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 9h

Such beautiful scenery! Where is this?

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 12h

My phones plant ID (which is sometimes wrong) says it’s this
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Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses - Russian thistle

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty, but I see those thorns! Do you know what plant that is?

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

We had so much rain this past spring and I had holes in my old rubber boots. Had to save up to get a pair and as soon as I did, drought🤷🏻‍♀️

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when he adopted that cat. He posted about it on x and his number of followers soared! I wish he’d come over to BS, his pics of space are incredible!

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 1d

I took my mom to the quilt show yesterday. I get my love of the media from my mom, who made quilts when I was little and encouraged me to make my own. The show is both intimidating and inspiring. I could NEVER make these quilts, but they definitely makes me want to keep working on my own. #quilts

A quilt depicting a stone cottage with appliqued flowers all around it. It has a green ribbon around it. The artist's statement is:

Family
(63” x 48”)

By Yoshiyuki Ishizaki of Ashiya City, Hyogo, Japan

Artist Statement: Adding embroidery to appliqué makes all the difference. It seems like the more effort that goes into it, the more gorgeous it becomes.

Design: Original Design

Techniques: Hand appliqué, embroidery, and quilting; trapunto

A quilt depicting a raven with it's wings out on a leafless tree, behind it is a clock nearly striking midnight.

The Visitation
(79” x 78”)

By Ricky Tims of Branson West, MO, USA

Artist Statement: Original hand-dyed fabrics were assembled using curved piecing (not paper-piecing). The raven was created with bobbin-embroidered feathers and invisible turned-edge appliqué. The moon is from an original photo that was digitized and printed. The raven symbolizes foreboding darkness. The clock suggests using time wisely. The tree represents wisdom, not dead, but dormant. The quilted leaves suggest spring will soon emerge. The time suggests midnight approaches, but a new day will dawn.

Design: The tree was, in part, derived from my words via an AI source, with all other elements being original, layered, and combined by me to create the whole.

Techniques: Hand embroidery, dyeing, and painting; machine piecing, appliqué, embellishment, embroidery, and quilting; original digitized quilting; digital printing; professional fabric printing

A quilt of blocks of colorful flowers and critters on a black background. 12 smaller blocks surround a larger one.

Color My World
(81” x 81”)

By Karen Kay Buckley of Carlisle, PA, USA

Artist Statement: This quilt started with the Bluebird block as a teaching project, and then I wondered if I could create a larger quilt with this concept. Each block contains a critter (insect, animal, bird). Some are hidden and others are obvious. After finishing the blocks, I designed the center and planned to include all the critters, but I could not find the right place for one of them. Can you figure out which one is missing from the center?

Design: Original Design

Techniques: Hand appliqué and embroidery; machine quilting

Tricuspid Biomorph #2
(64” x 81”)

A quilt that is waves of color in blues and greens and purples and yellows with intricate quilting on each wave. A small hummingbird is appliqued to one of the waves toward the bottom, and there is a meeting in the middle that evokes a seed pod. There is something very plant like that is evoked from this image.

By Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry of Port Townsend, WA, USA

Artist Statement: For this quilt, I resurrected some designs based on doodles I drew inside radially symmetrical hexagons in 1995. In CorelDRAW, I placed the hexagonal shapes in a rectangle, extended the lines within the hexagon to the edges of the rectangle, then tweaked them until I had a line drawing I liked. I filled the spaces between the lines with color gradations and images of fabric I hand-painted with dye. The hummingbird was added just for fun.

Design: Original Design

Techniques: Hand dyeing and painting; machine piecing and quilting; digital printing; professional fabric printing; digital design; digital painting

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

There are many different types of asters (not sure what type this is) My purple ones aren’t blooming yet, but I’ll post a pick of them when they do.

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mindi @flawdbizkit.bsky.social · 1d

pearl crescent butterfly on a purple zinnia

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 4d

Oct 18
#NoKings
#Mississippi

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 4d

#Mississippi

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely!

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marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social · 2d

The annual stare-down between the skeletons and the living, St Charles avenue, New Orleans

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SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings
#Mississippi

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 22d

Gulfport,MS
No Kings march and rally. Dan M Russell Federal Courthouse
Annex, 2012
15th street

Ad for a No Kings rally in Gulfport Ms 9AM, Oct 18

SWein @sweincat.bsky.social · 2d

#NativePlants
#Nature
#Bees
#Butterflies
In my backyard today. I leave an area for nature to do as it pleases. This aster is around 4’ tall and was full of all kinds of bees,wasps and butterflies

Small butterfly on top of an aster flower

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m