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Arctostaphylos Regismontana
@arctostaphylos-r.bsky.social
Retired RN JD, mom to adults. Interests include fiber arts, health care, epidemiology, law, politics and biomedical ethics.
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I mailed this potato chip batik quilt to my cousin in another state for her first grandchild. Despite tracking and a signature requirement, it vanished en route, never to be recovered. Yes, the post office paid the insurance, and yes, I promptly mailed her a different quilt, but 😠😡🤬.
#quiltsky
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I finished two 45"×45" quilts from my pile of tops; they are similar, but not identical. Someone had put 218 2.5"×2.5" 19th century repro squares in a ziplock bag & tossed them in the free bin; the bag contained enough patterned squares to make two tops with two squares left over! #quiltsky #quilt
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
New protest sign!
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
PREACH!!!
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
September 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My latest protest sign. The center symbol is the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety pictogram for "can cause death or toxicity with short exposure to small amounts," which seems apt.
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank you! I hate wasting even tiny pieces of fabric, but collecting enough to produce a quilt takes a ridiculously long time. Ask me how I know this. 😄
September 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I made 12 8"×10.5" quilted mug rugs for a charity fundraising event. The batik HSTs were left over from making hearts, while the 3 color QSTs were left over from snowballing HSTs. These tiny orphans are perfect for mug rugs!
Ditch quilted with a walking foot.
#quilt #sewing #art #recycle #fabric
September 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mine gave me a "$10 off a $20 purchase" coupon yesterday after my flu and covid shots. Did yours?
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just got flu and covid shots via a same day appointment at CVS. Marked safe from whatever insane nonsense RFK Jr. is spewing today.
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This week's protest sign.
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Last week's sign. It must have struck a nerve, because the moment I arrived at the protest, a man shouted from his car, "NO HE WASN'T!!!" My dude, I know their relationship was more complicated than that, but I can only fit so much text on a sign. My orange marker was running out of ink, so... 1/2
September 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm making nametags for some of the volunteers at the nonprofit where we all work. The fabric is a 12"×12" linen square and can make six nametags. I've completed three so far, and am currently drawing a pattern for the fourth on graph paper.
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My latest protest sign. I must have hit a nerve, because the moment I arrived, some guy in a car spotted my crude masterpiece and shouted, "NO HE WASN'T!"

My dude, I understand their relationship was far more complicated than that, but there's only so much I can fit on a sign...
August 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New sign for this week's protests.
August 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Trump has already given his base his playbook for the coming health apocalypse:
August 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Chris, no matter how often you kiss Trump's posterior, he's never going to love you.
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
August 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New protest sign, because the Epstein files continue to be hidden by those claiming to make America great again.

"You really don't care who you offend, do you?"

No, I do not.
August 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is asparagus asparagoides, also known as bridal creeper, a South African native herbaceous vine in the Liliaceae family. The emerging plants are deceptively tiny; around 87% of each plant is underground. 1/6
#invasiveplants #gardening
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Nah, better that his loud and obnoxious views warn sane people to keep away.
August 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New protest sign.

A pertinent insight from Lady MacBeth: "Yet here’s a spot. Out, damned spot, out, I say!..What, will these hands ne’er be clean?...All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!"
August 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New protest sign. I thought it obvious, but a passerby asked what my sign meant. "What does the SoL symbolize?" I asked. "Freedom!" she responded.

When I recited Emma Lazarus's, "Give me your tired, your poor..." and described ICE's activities, she said, "But we shouldn't welcome immigrants!"

🤦‍♀️
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM