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Complete Guide To (57) Almost All Types Of Fiber Arts With Photos

This guide covers 57, and counting, types of fiber arts. They are broken down into two major categories:

1) String work, which includes spinning treatments, knotting, lace making, weaving and needlework.

2) Felt work, which includes sculpture, string felt, fur felt, wet felting and dry felting.

Fiber art, in its strictest sense, is fine art made with natural or synthetic fibers, such as wool and cotton, to acrylic and nylon, where the resulting work is valued for aesthetic and artistic expression over utility. You could add that the artisanship and materials used are also an essential part of the creation.

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Today is mostly sunny and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I planted the first 2 of 6 'Patriot' hostas in the purple-and-white garden. These have green leaves with a wide white margin.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I planted 2 hostas in the forest garden.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I planted the last 2 hostas in the log garden.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I sprayed weed killer on the sprouting stumps in the parking lot.

I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. There are many more house finches now than last month.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- My partner Doug found someone to come out and remove stumps from the parking lot, path to the east edge of the yard, and in front of the shed. Also he's going to take down the last two saplings in front of the garage. We have price and a date for next Thursday. :D 3q3q3q!!!

I filled a bag with loose cans and other garbage that had collected in the parking lot. Still more to do, but it's a good start.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 3/12/26 -- I filled another bag with loose cans from the parking lot. I think that's all the small stuff that I can clear quickly.

I am done for the night.

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characters20in20 is a 20in20 community dedicated to making icons of characters from movies and tv shows. You have 20 days to make 20 icons about a character of your choice, based on a set of themes for the round.

Schedule: Round 21 sign ups are open NOW. Icons are due March 30, 2026.

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Lakota-Led AI Research at Bard College Explores Ethics Through Indigenous Knowledge

At Bard’s Wíhaŋble S’a Center, artist and scholar Suzanne Kite is rethinking artificial intelligence through Lakota knowledge—combining hide tanning, beadwork, dream research, and land-based practice to imagine a more ethical relationship with technology.

I'm reminded of Ash coding in ternary for Schrodinger's Heroes.

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SOPHIA ANNE CARUSO AS MISS GOLDENWEEK IN ONE PIECE SEASON 2

316 CAPS, DOWNLOAD

I really like this actress. So creepy.

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A few musical links, from various traditions:

A 1-hour mix of Chinese lofi tracks from Lofi Girl. Excellent. (via)

A 1-hour mix of jazz arrangements of traditional Iranian music. There’s lots more on the channel. Dig it. (via YT sidebar)

A 2-hour mix of the Pokémon Red/Blue soundtrack covered as Japanese jazz fusion. Ooo-kay then. (via YT sidebar)

---L.

Subject quote from Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin.

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I've been too busy to post, but my knee got a lot better in the last month, and I'm back to running. Google Maps thinks I did 4.5 miles in 45 minutes today, which, if true, would be better than I expected.

I still have a hamstring injury that I can't shake, from last May, and it does prevent me from walking or running long distances, but hopefully maybe I can eventually figure out what it wants?

What my knee wanted was a few days of sleeping with my leg unbent.

...If I had known that, I could have done that a year ago, and never gotten a hamstring injury in the first place! And I could have spent the whole last year running and walking and hiking. But it's always a lot of trial and error to figure out what my body wants.

Anyway, remind me that if I get to where I'm pretty sure I'm doing 6 miles, I should join the gym and start doing some cardio and uphill workouts. It's hard to do cardio in this flat-as-a-pancake neighborhood. I miss the hills where I used to live in Massachusetts. But at least the weather lets me run in February and March. And the gym is only 1.5 blocks away.

Other goals if I can get caught up on some academic projects: try out a roping course at the nearby climbing gym, see if I can get some useful skills for caving.

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LERA ABOVA AS NICO ROBIN / MISS ALL SUNDAY IN ONE PIECE SEASON 2

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I'm obsessed with her.

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A knitted cover which goes over the top of a round red mailbox common in the UK. The cover has a dark green base with a riot of 3D flowers of different types and colors on top.

I love finding post box toppers!

📍 Chichester, United Kingdom - March 2026

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subtitle that didn't fit in the subject line: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

I'm going to say this prominently because I think it has caused some confusion among reviewers: This is a book by two nonbinary authors and the title is Life Isn't Binary, and it is NOT (primarily) about nonbinary gender identity! If you want a book that is primarily about nonbinary gender identity, this book may not give you what you're looking for!

Instead, it is about problems with binary thinking in all areas of life. There is a tendency for people to view many things in terms of two categories in opposition. Male/female and cis/trans, yes, but also Black/white, straight/gay, privileged/marginalized, body/mind, emotion/logic, friend/lover, us/them. The book examines and deconstructs these binaries and more, and encourages thinking about who currently benefits from their resultant flattening of nuance, and what we could gain from framing concepts in a less polarized way.

The book is short but extremely densely packed with ideas. I read it as a two-person book club with

dragonque, and every chapter elicited fruitful discussion about its points and how they related to our own lives and experiences. I have known

dragonque for a long time and I feel like I got to know them much better through talking about this book!

I do think at times it can feel too dense and too short for the vast scope of its thesis. The authors can state in one sentence an absolutely massive idea that could itself be an entire book, and that's the only thing they say about it because they're already on to the next point. (The authors have in fact collaborated on several other books which sound like they may elaborate on some of the things where I was like, "so, that's all you're going to say about that one? okay!")

But I found the book very worthwhile and thought-provoking, and after returning it to the library I bought my own copy because I expect I will be re-reading it, referring to it, or wanting to lend it to people.

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Case: Netchoice v Wilson, 3:26-cv-00543, (D.S.C.)

Netchoice's litigation page: Netchoice v Wilson

Netchoice filed the motion for preliminary injunction on March 9. It isn't available on the docket in RECAP yet (and I'm over my threshold for PACER fees that will get refunded for the quarter, or else I'd put it there!) but it is available on Netchoice's litigation page: Motion for Preliminary Injunction. They haven't included the declarations, but here's Dreamwidth's declaration as filed, authored by yours truly. Because of the wild incoherence of so many of the provisions of this law, many of which were new because a lot of states have switched to using different model legislation, I had to write almost all of our declaration for this one from scratch (while recovering from a lumbar puncture, lying flat on my back in bed: never let it be said I am not completely extra about the lengths to which I will go to fight against this bullshit), so much less of it will look familiar than usual, but boy was I mad.

We'll let you know when the judge makes a ruling on the PI! And three cheers as always for the Netchoice team and for the outside litigation counsel team, who is Lehotsky Keller Cohn for this one and who put in massively heroic effort to get this filed as fast as possible thanks to the law taking immediate effect.

jjhunter

I asked a women named Sonnet
director of a poet's palm conservancy
what it was like to be in asynchronous conversation
with someone who was no longer there
the poet had risen each day to meditate in silence
and wanted silence for his mornings planting palms
now many unpublished manuscripts were being found
(as were many loving post-its from his wife Paula
working around his need for morning silence)
and his late-life handwriting was slowly, painstakingly
being decoded and transcribed
was it like finding seeds waiting like time capsules
for someday growing in the forest floor
or was it like being haunted

She spoke of the hundreds of books needing care
after decades' nurturing in that humid house
opening a book of eastern philosophy almost beyond saving
riddled with holes from book beetles' eatings
and finding on the next page a note in the margins from the poet
addressed tenderly to the beetles, saying
'you can have the binding, but please leave me the pages'

The palms he spent his life planting
and the poems he spent his life planting
and the pages of all those silent mornings seeding words
we are eager to hear now
may they continue growing in their season
may William and Paula Merwin's names stay living on our tongues

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cyphomandra

I have not written up an escape room for ages despite having done rather a lot of them - I think I'm up to ~65, including online ones, although those no longer count for TERPECA so I might have to list them separately. Anyway. This is my most recent, fitted into a flying visit to Sydney (fly over first flight of the morning, attend all day conference, check into wrong hotel, check into right hotel (same brand and area but with one crucial word different!), do escape room, sleep, attend all day conference, fly back on last flight of the evening).

Unstoppable!

You are a special forces group, code-name ‘Skyfall’ from the Australian National Security Agency and there is a highly classified mission for you:

You have received intelligence that a terrorist has placed bombs containing a mutated virus on a train soon to depart from Sydney.

With limited clues, you must discover which train it is, and defuse the bombs as soon as possible. You must act quickly to prevent a tragedy…

You're shown onto a station platform and given a credit card, and the first puzzle is to work out which train to catch and buy the right tickets. Eventually, you board the waiting train (an actual carriage) and, if you're successful in defusing the bombs, there's an extension to the room wherein you have to stop the train. The theming and the set were fantastic, the puzzles were good, and the whole thing was a lot of fun. My only negative was that the walkie talkie was unreliable - sometimes when you held down the button it transmitted your voice, sometimes it did nothing, and sometimes it did nothing and then beeped frantically for quite some time, arrgh. Lots of physical puzzles (I particularly enjoyed plotting a train route with multiple restrictions and working out a toilet flush code) and nifty details. It's an 80 minute room and I got out with just under 2 minutes to go.

I did ask for a couple of hints (two puzzles where I got stuck and then a third I was working on and got a voiceover telling me a bit more than I expected) and I did have to get a staff member to come in for the last puzzle, which was impossible to do alone. I have solo'd about ten escape rooms now and this is only the second one where I've had to get someone in, although there are certainly ones that would have been easier with someone else (I am thinking of the one where I had to do a DDR game with controls that were just slightly too wide apart for me to do anything other than lunge repeatedly, also the one in which the lights ran off a generator that had to be hand-cranked intermittently to avoid plunging everything into darkness). This one was similar, in that it had four controls that determined the movement of a point on a screen, each moving it in one direction, but there was no way I could reach more than two of them.

This is the first room I've done at Mission, although my sister's done one of theirs with a live actor (which I really want to try), and I liked it a lot. I am still on a UK escape room group and they recently advertised an escape room on an actual train, which sounded fantastic; this might not have actually been moving but it definitely had some of the same vibes.

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sophia anne caruso; one piece season 2 (+316)

“windshield wipers slapping time holding bobby’s hand in mine / we sang every song that driver knew”

Supernatural: Gabriel's Big Bang

Running update

lera abova; one piece season 2 (+551)

photo: ready for spring

Life Isn't Binary by Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi (2019)

Update, Netchoice v Wilson (South Carolina): motion for preliminary injunction filed

Poem: "Memories of Merwin"

Turkey Sausage Patties

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Unstoppable! Mission Room Escape (Sydney)

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