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the leisure behind the labor (opens the original)
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This piece is part of my ongoing inquiry into Labor & Leisure. As a companion project to this series, I am making a queen-sized quilt without a sewing machine. You’ll find a quilt update at the bottom of this post.You can read the whole series here. Subscribe to follow along with future posts. The Patchwork Hearth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider
Labor of Love: Hand Sewing a Quilt (opens the original)
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This piece is part of my ongoing inquiry into Labor & Leisure. You can find the whole series here. Subscribe to follow along with future posts. The Patchwork Hearth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="b
laborious commitment to the process (opens the original)
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This piece is part of my ongoing inquiry into Labor & Leisure. You can find the whole series here. Subscribe to follow along with future posts. The Patchwork Hearth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="b
Labor & Leisure: back to school...kinda (opens the original)
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It’s September, and no matter how many years that pass when I’m not in school, I still get the itch to throw my backpack over one shoulder1 and head out the door to class.I’m not super online anymore—I’m coming up on six months with no social media, business or personal,2 but I am online enough to have noticed the now very old trend of the “perso
Summer So Far: A Recap + A Practice (opens the original)
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I kind of hate the impulse to start out newsletters with “Wow, sorry I haven’t written in so long.” But here we are in late July, and I’m deeply aware of the fact that it has been exactly 84 days since I wrote something new on the “Patchwork Hearth,” and 46 days since I told you about something I wrote for someone else.1Since I’ve been personally and business…ly off social media, I have found myself out of the swing and the min
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