January Cornucopia

So, that was January. It was likely filled with a lot of Weather with a capital W outdoors which meant indoor time for lots of sewing, right? Just a guess. This is a cornucopia post filled with links to media, ideas, etc. that I consumed this month that are worth remembering and/or passing on. 

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If you want to make a quilt for Valentine's Day, here's a really cute one that isn't too hard if you can manage Flying Geese blocks.

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At the BAM meeting this month we had a speaker, Christina Cameli, and I was reminded to check out her free motion quilting videos on her YouTube channel. There's a lot of great stuff on there.

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This is a useful article (except for the pop-ups) about the various sorts of stabilizers. And in that article, they recommend another article from another website (without pop-ups thankfully) which is even more in-depth.

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If you ever look up recipes online and encounter those super long and ad-filled blog posts which make it hard to even find the actual recipe, I just learned about this technique, in your search bar type in : cooked.wiki/ and then right after the / paste in the web address of the recipe page you're trying to look at. It then returns just the recipe on a clean readable page. Thanks, cooked!

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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I listened to the very excellent podcast Holy Week, The Story of A Revolution Undone, it's about what happened in the months before and the week following his assassination. I knew some of this information, but the way this podcast puts together the history in context is visceral, moving and illuminating.

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On women's usage of the exclamation point! In the modern era specifically! Doing the work of tone with one tiny little punctuation mark.

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