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Kate Montgomery
@katemontgomery.bsky.social
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Lawful tired. Long COVID-disabled crafter, medievalist, SFF/romance writer, avid reader, researcher, copy-editor.
They/she.
Occasionally also found at @[email protected]
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The tuna fish wanter has arrived.
A dark tortoiseshell cal stands on the back of a blue-blanketed sofa. She is VERY close to the camera and looking down to the left towards an off screen tuna sandwich.
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is the one I am currently wearing.
A pair of cats eye glasses sit on the cream arm of a sofa. They have a glasses lanyard attached, made of black onyx lozenge beads, black seed beads, and silver flower and ladybird charms.
April 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Well, they look and smell pretty good so far!
A close up on a baking tray of a dozen tall and fluffy looking golden brown muffins. Their tops are studded with goat cheese, walnuts, and raspberries.
April 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We hit the $1,000 mark today — out of a $1,600 goal.

From today’s update, have two bonus just for fun pictures of Eli’s dog Ianto, who adores toothbrush treats.

No cavities for anyone in this household!

gofund.me/f89b1f90
Ianto, a black and tan chihuahua, looks avidly at a toothbrush shaped dog treat being held blurrily in the foreground of the image. Ianto, a black and tan chihuahua, noms with focus on a toothbrush shaped dog treat. His front paws are splayed wide on a beige carpet while he noms the treat, facing down and away from the camera.
April 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I have four more colored stripes to go on this quilt, and then it’s “just” the sashing, trimming, and binding.

Pictured here are the first five stripes of twelve.
A close up on a partially unrolled quilt top. The quilt consists of wavy stripes of teal and bright pink, separated by 1” white stripes.
March 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Working on a quilt again after a LONG hiatus and wow, it feels great to be back at the machine!
#KateMMakes
a close up on a quilt in progress that is partially unrolled. the backing (visible on the rolled up portion at the top of the image) is deep teal. the quilt top features horizontal stripes consisting of elongated connecting diamonds, alternating with 1” wide white sashing. the quilt top is various shades of teal and bright pink. a close up on the solid teal backing fabric of the quilt showing the quilting pattern: thinly spaced lines of concentric diamond shaped stitching in coordinating teal thread.
March 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Catte onna shelf.
A skeptical dark tortoiseshell cat peers down from a window mounted shelf.
February 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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This morning’s small joy is a bobbin of nearly completed spinning.

BFL/silk, a neon rainbow that runs from blue to purple.

What’s your moment or item or image of joy today?
Close up on the nearly full bobbin of an electric spinning wheel. The yarn on it — fine and even singles — grade from right to left, peach to neon pink to magenta to deep purple.
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Hugely grateful that — after lying down in the dark for several hours — today’s migraine eased up enough for me to sit up and spin for a little while this afternoon.

The horrors persist, so it’s time to spin the good stuff.
BFL/silk in a bright rainbow gradient that goes from blue to purple.
A close up on an electric spinning wheel bobbin about 1/4 full of skinny singles that fade from blue on the left to neon green on the right in a patchy gradient.
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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(Reskeet with alt text)
A colored digital art line drawing of two doors next to each other. Above them hangs a sign reading: “Welcome to 2025, pick a door” The door on the left is labeled “disengage and hope it turns out ok for you” The door on the right is labeled “fight for what’s right” A dark-haired pale-skinned person in a blue, collared shirt is facing away from the viewer and opening the right-hand door.
January 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Quote reskeet a pet, plant, calm landscape, anything photo you took or art you did that makes you happy.

Ponky watching out for a chattering bird. (And ignoring the Human’s Hand Device being close to her face.)
A dark tortoiseshell cat sits loaf style with crossed front paws on a white crocheted blanket on the back of a sofa. She is looking to the right, ignoring the camera, out an unseen window.
January 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Ponky says: “Drink your water, take your meds, and pick your battles strategically!”

(Actually what she said was more like: “How dare you sit down on MY VERY OWN sofa, human!” but that’s what artistic license is for.)
A perfectly loaf shaped dark tortoiseshell cat with green eyes stares curiously at the camera. Her front paws are hidden behind a multicolored fleece blanket; the rest of the sofa on which she reigns supreme is covered in white blankets.
January 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Me facing 2025
(Depending on my energy level at any given time, it’s one of these two)
Paper craft style goose holding a knife in its beak, with the fake paper craft caption: Looking for homoerotic subtext And if I cannot find it, I will create it Stereotypical and haggard looking Viking man in a helmet with a shield captioned : Pick your battles Pick fewer battles than that Put some battles back That’s still too many battles.
December 28, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Bob from Bob’s Burgers puts on a black button down shirt while standing in front of a closet. It is captioned “Okay, fine. But I’m gonna complain the whole time.”
December 28, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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The auction for Trans Lifeline has raised more than $7,000 so far.

It runs until the 18th!

My 1-hour medievalist consult went for $350 for Romancing the Vote—at $70 now:
www.32auctions.com/organization...

Hand-knit socks went for $111 for RtV—at $60 now!
www.32auctions.com/organization...
A Medieval English parchment roll (Rot Add 9131) on a velvet lined wooden tray at the British Library. A pair of hand knit self-striping dark jewel tone rainbow socks on a wooden table. A pair of hand knit self striping socks in shades of brown and tan. A pair of hand knit socks with green toes and cuffs and a variegated white, brown and green body.
November 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. - the Talmud
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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I’m doing bespoke hand knit socks for this — like I did for romancing the vote!

www.32auctions.com/organization...
Seven pairs of hand knit socks, many self striping, laid out on a green blanket. A pair of hand knit socks laid out on a black desktop. They are purple and the legs are solid while the feet are striped. Ten pairs of hand knit socks laid out in two columns of five pairs on a hardwood floor.
November 10, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Such a good piece.

Read it.
Make time to sit with it.
And then keep planning.
So let's do things that fascists can't do. Let's not do things fascists want us to do. And let's refuse the fascist offer. Let's seek people whose lives are hard, and learn from them how to make it easier for them, and then do what we can to ease their hardship. When you encounter people who have made their lives comfortable by making it hard for others, learn what makes them comfortable, and make it uncomfortable for them. And let us hope, with a clear awareness of how grim things truly are, with a conviction that a better world is possible, and a determination to fight for it against those who wish to kill it. There are dark times ahead. But hope is a thing that fights in the dark.
November 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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A local mechanically inclined friend came over today.

He and my housemate IMMEDIATELY got distracted by my new Singer Featherweight and insisted on being allowed to re-wire the foot pedal and test it before doing ANYTHING else.

Thank you for your advice, @czedwards.bsky.social !!
November 9, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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What really got me tearing up reading this was how COMPASSIONATE it is towards her bravely shared vulnerability.

All too often we implicitly or explicitly mock or doubt the disabled.

This article instead reports and recounts with care and grace, and leaves us with this as its final message:
She's come to believe that the limitations imposed by her illness haven't made her any less of a writer. She's a different writer now, but no less ambitious or inventive. "Somebody said to me, pray the way you can and not the way you think you're supposed to, and I think it's the same for writing: Write the way you can and not the way you think you're supposed to," Clarke said. "I've only ever had any success by doing my own weird thing, following the path that's in front of me."
October 26, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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I have now seen the northern lights. Wow.
A nighttime sky, bordered by dark silhouettes of trees at the bottom. The sky is purple on the left and bright magenta on the right, with hints of bright white clouds.
October 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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Pleased with my progress on the first pair of bespoke socks for Romancing the Vote

Hoping my final three winners reply to my emails so I can get their (non-sock) items in the mail or their sock yarn selected!
A half-finished hand knit sock (it is knit cuff down to the end of the heel flap) arranged horizontally on a grey surface. The sock alternates grey and pink stripes
July 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Ponky would cheer for you but she’s too busy being flat.
A dark tortoiseshell cat splayed in a flat arc on a tan rug
July 10, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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What’s your sign?
Movie theater marquee letters reading “these can’t be the same men Dolly begged Jolene not to take” hung over two windows on a colorfully and geometrically painted red brick wall
July 4, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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Oh no, my cat, she is so flat.
A dark tortoiseshell cat with a light stripe on her chest sprawls in a long flat line on a tan carpet, eyes closed, one front paw extended further than the other.
June 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM