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Sheila Ross
@42sross.bsky.social
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Hi, I'm Sheila! Kindness, compassion, curiosity, creativity, resistance. She/her 🇨🇦
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Hmm, it's missing something. I know!
The socks are wrapped in sock-printed paper, with a gift label that also features a sock/stocking. Maximum sock. My kid's name is obscured, but I signed the label with a poorly-drawn footprint.
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
42sross.bsky.social
What's that? Can't see the paper? Well here you go.
The socks are wrapped in colourful metallic wrapping paper festooned with socks/stockings.
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
42sross.bsky.social
This is the last of this wrapping paper and I can't believe I haven't done this before.
Wrapping up a pair of snuggly grey mohair socks for one of my kids.
December 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Look at this! I want to make dozens of them in different colours and give them to everyone I know (as if I have time for that). #sewing #quilting #vintage
From inside the 1977 quilt project book, instructions on how to make a quilted wall hanging that looks like a window. It depicts a hilly landscape in shades of green with blue sky and yellow sun. It even gives the illusion of curtains on a curtain rod. In the photo, the wall hanging is on a brown wall with a white wicker table in front. There is a white tea set and blue runner on the table.
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Something about the aesthetic of the mid/late 1970s (basically when I was a baby) is just delicious to me. Got this at a used book store yesterday for the cover project alone, though I'd do it in different colours. But the whole book is full of gems. #sewing #quilting #vintage
A 1977 Better Homes and Gardens Patchwork and Quilting book, subtitled "exciting quick and easy projects, quilting, patchwork, applique basics... Heirloom and contemporary designs". On the cover is a quilt made up of overlapping daisy shapes in lots of bright shades of red, blue, orange, yellow, and green.
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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One of my cats has the most perfect low, truck engine brakes-style warning growl and there are times I wish I had the same skill.
A grey tabby cat sits awkwardly on her bottom while cleaning herself, exposing her lighter coloured belly. She is on a blue couch with a rumpled grey wool blanket.
September 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Shot at the height of sweet pea madness by my partner shortly before our city experienced a weeks-long heatwave/drought. These #flowers were hit pretty hard; many vines didn't survive. But some pulled through and I'm still getting pretty but slightly raggedy bunches every few days. #bloomscrolling
A middle-aged woman with greying brown hair and glasses stands beside a bed of tall sweet pea vines with blooms of many colours such as pink, purple, peach, and white. Behind her are raspberry bushes and a cedar hedge.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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More garden treasures! Here is my latest Goth-ish arrangement. And what are those blooms in the foreground? See the alt text. #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening
An arrangement of flowers from my garden in an old pasta sauce jar on a brown tiled table. The bouquet includes red zinnia, darker red rudbeckia, fuchsia cosmos, purple and almost-black petunias, dark red nasturtiums, and some dark purple sweet peas, which I've been eagerly awaiting all season.
July 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Poor Olivia came out of the washroom with litter on her face again. My youngest compared it to having toilet paper trailing from your shoe. #cats #catsofbluesky

I did dust her off after the picture was taken.
Olivia, a 12 year old tabby and white cat with a pink nose and green eyes, sits on a grey stepping stool in a cluttered kitchen. She wears a blue collar and pink name tag. There is a sprinkling of sawdust-based kitty litter on her forehead.
July 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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These are seashell cosmos, named for the unusual petal shape. They're so cute, but the petals are very fragile and drop easily. #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening
The same jar bouquet of dark flowers, with particular focus on some fuchsia seashell cosmos blooms. They have petals that roll into tubes or cones, hence the name.
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Another dark palette bouquet! New additions include a sprig of buddleia (I know, please don't yell! It doesn't spread as easily this far north and I'm determined to keep it small and it's surrounded by tons of natives) and dark purple salvia. #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling
A bouquet of flowers fills a pasta sauce jar on a brown and beige tiled table. There are dark red nasturtiums, fuchsia cosmos, dark purple petunias, maroon pansies, and rich purple butterfly bush. Two pairs of gardening gloves, one dark green and the other with a lively multicoloured fruit print, lie in the background.
July 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Apricot sweet peas are relatively rare, and I ordered these seeds from the UK. Sadly, only one grew into a plant, and not an especially big one. But my goodness does it produce the most beautifully coloured #flowers . #bloomscrolling #gardening
A single sweet pea flower in the most perfect coral apricot colour. A dark green sandbox and purple lavender blossoms are in the blurry background.
July 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Also beginning to play with colours from my dark, "goth-lite" garden. #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening
Dark red rudbeckia, fuchsia cosmos, purple violas, deep red nasturtium, and deep-purple and almost black petunias, gathered in an old glass pasta sauce jar. The arrangement sits on a brown and beige tiled table, with a brown fake wicker chair in the background.
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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We have officially reached the point where I need to have a separate vessel for only sweet peas. Glorious. #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening
A top-down view of a bunch of sweet peas in many colours ranging from pure white, to pale pink and magenta, to lilac, bright coral pink, and apricot. A brown and beige tiled table is underneath.
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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More sweet peas every day... #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening
An old honey jar on a white table with brown railing and green bushes in the background. The jar is filled with pink cosmos, dark red rudbeckia, tiny white fleabane, and several sweet peas in shades of white, hot pink, and light magenta.
July 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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@garybrannan.bsky.social I feel compelled to share that a tiny pottery vase in one of my miniature projects contains all the cat whiskers I collect around my house.(you're probably really sick of being corrected about that, I'm sorry).
A 12th scale dollhouse kitchen with white cabinetry and appliances, fake stone flooring, and wallpaper with peaches on it. A wooden kitchen table with chairs is in the foreground. It is cluttered with several things: a glass bowl of fruit, a copper pot on legs, a fancy pink cake, and a bottle of Perrier. There is also a white pottery vase containing a bunch of discarded white cat whiskers.
July 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This, from yesterday. And today, the years first few sweet peas (not pictured). The scent is worth all the trouble every year. #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers
A glass pasta sauce jar is filled with pink cosmos, fuchsia and white dianthus, dark red rudbeckia, and electric purple gomphrena.
July 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Then June 28, throwing in new arrivals. #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling
An arrangement of pink cosmos flower varieties, dark red rudbeckia, and tiny white fleabane in a honey jar on a brown tiled table.
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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From June 27. Just one species of flower for this one!
Many cosmos blooms ranging from dark fuchsia, to peach, to pale pink tinged with yellow, arranged in a glass pasta sauce jar, atop a brown tiled table.
July 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Got a bit of a backlog on flower photos! From June 16. #bloomscrolling
A bunch of pink peonies; cosmos in shades of pink, lilac, and peach; and a few pale blue pansies arranged in an old glass pasta sauce jar on a white table.
July 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I promised myself that this year I would take more pictures of the flowers I pick from my garden over the course of the growing season. Here is the first arrangement of the year, with peonies, Siberian iris, pansies, and some interesting cosmos varieties I grew from seed. #bloomscrolling
An empty honey jar sits on a brown tiled outdoor table, filled with an arrangement of purple iris, pink peonies, pink and yellowish cosmos, and orange, purple and pale blue pansies.
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I started calling Tasha Squeedlee Dee - it came from @obviousplant Jazz Crabs. I have no idea why, it just seems to fit.
Tasha, a black and white cat with yellow eyes, is being held by a pair of hands in my living room. She looks slightly concerned.
May 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Amy, a grey tabby cat, sits on a somewhat ratty beige cat tree and stares out the window at a fresh fall of snow in Ottawa, Canada.
April 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I carefully folded, pressed, pinned, waited for the spray starch to dry, and sewed a quarter of the bottom band to this Halfmoon Atelier La Brea tee. Arrrgh! Is it super-obvious, or am I fretting over something most people won't even notice? I don't want to undo the seam; it's overlocked. #sewing
A partly sewn jersey top with gradient horizontal cloud print in shades of blue, pink, and purple sits on a sewing machine. The clouds point upwards on the main body of the top, but I mistakenly sewed the bottom band the wrong way so the clouds point downwards on it. Oops.
March 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Sticker buddies! This is Princess, because she can be fussy.
A Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0 sewing machine, covered in colourful stickers. One is the same rainbow as the OP. Another says "I got 99 ideas but I can't pick one." Another says "this quilter is a ray of fucking sunshine." One says "you are weird. I like you." Others are just pictures: a cockatoo eating a cucumber slice, a weird little man in a yellow hooded onesie with floppy ears, a snowflake comprised of raised middle fingers, a metallic koi fish, captain Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation using a sewing machine, a pun on his catchphrase "make it so".
March 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM