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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 9h

It is always good to clean, then repair.

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Alan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @bows4crows.bsky.social · 1d

Silk dinner dress, American, 1841

This is really interesting, right? The shape of the skirt seems fairly typical, but the top is unusual. Short sleeves, tapered fit, high collar - make it look severe, but also youthful. Lovely detailing down the front too.

#fashionsky #dresshistory #fashionhistory

A mannequin in a golden silk dinner dress. The skirts flow subtly outwards from the hips, likely with some support beneath. The top is tapered to the waist, with a high, circular collar. It has short sleeves (to mid-bicep) and beautiful detailing down the front (pictured separately).

Close up of the detailing on the front of the top in the first picture.
Fan shaped details have been sewn onto the midline of the top, running all the way from neck to waist. Each is about an inch high.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 18h

Y'all I made a shoe. My shoelaces won't get here till Wednesday and I still need to stitch the other one but it's a shoe! #quilting #sewing #shoemaking @bucklebee.bsky.social

A low top sneaker with no laces, the fabric is quilted and the upper is a blue fabric with bugs allover it and the tongue and toe are the yellow color way of the same pattern. The binding around the edges is red with dots.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 19h

One of the first integrated colleges which still has an income cap and students work to pay for their education too!

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 19h

Man Berea would be your JAM.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 22h

I am sad that I cannot encourage my friends to come visit me, I think you would like Lexington.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

It might just be down to the pan, I used ceramic, might put it in the dutch oven next time. Also will use frozen veg instead of fresh (I was out).

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

Needed more liquid and time but not bad.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

While it is not everyone's favorite, mush is within the range of acceptable textures for lentils!

MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

Giving this a go for dinner with a side of chicken, hopefully it'll go over well for the family.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you like, ate them raw, how can you cook them wrong?

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 1d

There is a certain point in your child's life, where a parent - especially one who is a maker, needs to understand that their child's Halloween costume is not about you.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 2d

I am planning on making some lined wool pants for this winter's office looks

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 2d

You literally live in the frozen North. I live way further south of you and I need fleece lined leggings.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 2d

Can't write books if you freeze to death in the hostile North. We can't be having that.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 2d

I think the worst kind of doomerism is the kind where childless people go "well I'll be gone before it all goes really bad" - it's triggering not because I have a child, but it reflects so little hope for everyone's children.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously

MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 3d

There's too many former attorneys and librarians writing romance to not learn anything.

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SlayBeans (or Stephen) @jaybeans.bsky.social · Oct 31

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

95 Reese's nailed to a door next to a pumpkin carved to look like Martin Luther

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 3d

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 4d

My Mom's beloved milk goat figured out doorknobs. That was slightly surprising to discover coming out of the bathroom.

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MakeReadGrow @makereadgrow.bsky.social · 4d

One of the systems let's you see books that the library doesn't own but could own, with a notify me button if they got them. I'm not sure if that counts as a request, I generally use the direct form from the library website.

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