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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You coming to the October 11 Concert for Democracy, www.chicagomusicfordemocracy.com ?Come at noon for the Democracy Fair and snag a Singing Resistance flip book to help you sing along at the concert and at your next protest! Props to Singing Resistance Oak Park for creating these fab flipbooks.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The whole piece reads really oddly like a puff piece - a group worried about student screen time but not ai use? Admiring wonder that a 2nd grader can, with ai, make a video game that would have required 5th grade skills to create without it? I am comfortable with no ai in elementary schools.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My village started replacing the lead intakes three years ago and they still aren’t finished. Part of the problem involved mapping out where the lead lines were, because lead was used for so long in the Chicago area but homeowners would often replace them if the yard was open for something else.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sold in the first place I’ve been since last spring, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I needed the reminder that every little bit of us has a purpose.

Four colorful bookmarks made of silk scraps sewn together and
cut with pinking shears sit on a white gridded mat. One of the bookmarks reads “remains. Every Scrap Had a Purpose”

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dear CVS, It would be easier to shoplift than to get your self-check to register anything lighter than a tube of toothpaste. Stop understaffing your stores. Ned Ludd

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

See you, friends. We get there together or never get there at all.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

And most of the time they ask you those questions again, because surprise surprise they didn’t have extra time in their schedules to read it anyway. I may have lost on the “give us your credit card or you can’t come here” front but I’m sticking to No Homework rule for my medical appointments.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There’s a third screen shot lower in the comments that shows that if “normal labs” are mentioned, it stops recommending the services.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“What I lost was my faith in the American Constitution.” Today is the Day of Remembrance of the forced internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps via EO 9066. Internment happened within living memory. Stop it from repeating. _History and Memory: for Akiko and Takashige_, Rea Tajiri

kanopy.com

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I would say, forced into it by the market - the consumers who actually did want the things they buy to feel supportive of gay rights, of small batch makers, of Black businesses. The companies really didn’t like that consumers did, in fact, want business to care about what they believed to be moral.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thanks for being such a fab writer that I want to repost constantly.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Wait, wait, you forgot about when they told us Second Life was going to be the new and better way to teach/learn. And also drones were going to be delivering our packages.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Finally made something again, this time for someone who put up an ISO for beanbags. I have to add the beans and stitch them up but it felt good to work to help someone in my community.

Square fabric shapes make a rainbow across a grey ironing board.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Reading through this I am assuming it’s the distributor that sells to stores mostly in Minnesota and not for all the products listed sold everywhere. Also am amused that a returned check charge is listed on the first page.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

They’re letting women die rather than giving them appropriate medical care. You knew they were going to, and now they are doing it, and it is as bad as we said it would be. Remember for some places in Texas, the closest place to get an abortion is Illinois. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

propublica.org

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.

Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

No lawyers, no clergy, no showers, no beds. “Temporary detention” my ass.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Plus the people praying have been following every rule update so far - they moved the times when the mayor declared protest hours, even, so now those meetings hover around 11am instead of 8. Meanwhile ICE/BP ignores court orders and the state police push protestors behind barriers.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It sounds like the Feds setting up to argue that where the services are set up, they cannot be. But they know what it looked like when they turned St. Eulalia parish away and they want to try to push the protestors and any speakers & clergy far away from the bldg. Grr, the framing, indeed.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Proving once again that rich people and those who worship them are suckers. Then again I still haven’t figured out how they convinced the majority that our tap water was better if we paid for it and drank it from plastic bottles, so what do I know?

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oh dear, very recognizable. Thank you for the chuckle.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Hope your costume, sewn, made, collected, thrifted or bought, brings you happiness today. #SewSky #costume #craftiverse #sewist #halloween #StrawberryShortcake

A Strawberry Shortcake costume lies on a floor. There is a slouchy newsboy cap made in pink plaid and strawberry ditsy fabric (sewn), a white t-shirt with a strawberry basket printed on it (thrifted), a candy bag the looks like a paper sack with a green gingham lining and a strawberry pocket (sewn), a plaid skirt with large strawberry pockets (sewn), and green and white striped tights (bought new).

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My parents even introduced _new_ people to us this way. My childhood was full of people closer than Mrs/Mr but older than us and thus to be respected via Auntie or Uncle FirstName. This is confusing? I had 12+ “actual” aunties and uncles and then all these others. I still call them aunt or uncle.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Strawberry Shortcake hat, finished just under the wire for the start of a week’s worth of Halloween festivities.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Candy bag nearly complete. The chosen strap is a former belt but I expect to make some short handles as well, so I added 4 D-rings. Everything used this time was thrifted except the thread from Wawak. I may have to hit the hardware store for a post to make the strap adjustable. #sewsky #halloween

A candy sack in grocery bag brown fabric (former tablecloth) with strawberry shaped pocket in dark pink (former wool dress), white strawberry ditsy fabric (thrift shop), and green and white gingham (garage sale.) the top of the bag features red polka dot ribbon (thrift shop), and more of the gingham and strawberry fabric peek out as a folded lining. There are antiqued brass D-rings (thrift shop) and clips (thrift shop) holding on a strap made of a pink belt with pie-like cutouts (thrift shop.) in the background is the completed Stawberry skirt and you can see the strawberry pockets.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Strawberry Shortcake clearly needs a basket-y candy bag, no? There is a phone pocket inside and outside, it needs its boxed corner ears pressed down and a strap but I think it’s pretty fabulous. #sewsky

A bag made of fabric sits on a table of fabric offcuts. The bag is brown with a green and white gingham edge, with tiny strawberries on white trim, and a red polka dot ribbon run through some edging. There is a strawberry-shaped pocket topped with a bright pink strip and a green gingham strawberry leaf on the front.

The inside of the strawberry bag shows a green and white gingham lining and a white-with-tiny-red-strawberries pocket edged in bright pink. You can see that the bag is unfinished with two points poking up in the middle.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I feel like a conspiracy theorist but I swear that whole pre-election “let’s support Trump” heel-turn and Elon’s embedding in the gov’t was about their realization that AI was a bubble about to pop.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Halloween accomplishment! Lots of trial and error for the costume this year, but although it’s not the original vision I think strawberry skirt turned out well so far. It’s hanging out the hem today. On to the candy bag construction! #sewistsofbluesky #sewing #artistsofbluesky

A pink plaid 3/4 circle skirt with an unfinished hem hangs in front of a china cabinet. The skirt has bright pink strawberry shaped pockets with floral “seeds”, green edging at the top, and green gingham leaves. In the background you can see a vintage ticket marked “NASA Tours” on the upper left and bits of china within the cabinet.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

WILD that they charged the vet who had been saying “don’t give them an excuse” every time ICE/BP told us to move back, and who _was_ moving back. It seems very random and very routine for ICE, the pepper balls and tear gas and knocking people over only to press them to the ground and arrest them.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Saw an arrest mentioned in the article. The vet was leaving the street, headed towards the curb when he was knocked down. You could see BP struggling to choose if they should reach down, help him up as protestors behind him were trying to help. And then suddenly BP swarmed him and took him away.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

When I saw them put up the (now gone) fence I figured they were trying to get someone killed at that exit by pushing protestors back. All the signs direct you along the frontage to Beach and then Lexington to 25th, I didn’t even realize Gardner went through and I use that exit all the time.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I don’t think I have ever been in a crowd that big before. Chicago Tribune rpts 100,000+ but that’s low. We exited the field an hour+ after speeches (more people behind us!) Someone counting at the starting intersection of the march told us 300,000 at Grant Park. I can believe it. #lovechicago

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

❌️👑 View from above: peaceful crowd marching out of Grant Park and into the streets of downtown Chicago. #NoKings #HandsOffChicago

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

If I thought my body had any money, I’d sue it over its constant overheating and harassment. Also for whatever the hell it is doing with my stomach acid. I think it’s manufacturing drugs in there, and I am not above taking it to court.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Yeah, it’s difficult to pity people who thought someone would be able to make a living wage cleaning their house for $20. Cleaners are consistently underpaid, lack sick time or maternity leave or vacation. If you’ve only got $20 and can’t clean yourself, ask a friend to help and make them lunch.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“Most of the deaths were caused by toxic gas and the building's roof door being locked, the fire service said.” When people tell me they have to buy fast fashion because they cannot afford slow fashion, I want to ask “Who pays for your cheap garments?” bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16

The dead have been burned beyond recognition and officials have warned that the toll could rise.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

And I hope I see her at the fence and on the march and named in the amicus brief, even if she’s now in her late 30s. She was a good kid. We need everyone who was a good kid to stand up. The ones who didn’t become good until adulthood, too. All of us together, now.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My first year in a job, 25+ years ago, a teen lamented to me that she didn’t feel like there were many social issues to stand up for like the ones her parents had protested for. Like we had achieved Civil Rights law, mostly, and she was sad to not be part of a movement. I wish she had been right.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

How hungry are you, is there anyone inside, and do you have titanium teeth?

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

One of the things I notice is that protest is much less scary that you’d think from the videos circulating. Those attacks are real,they are bad, and they should be shared, but most of the protesting is standing there and sometimes moving out of the way, staying only as long as one is comfortable.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Border Patrol and ICE are allowed to wear gear that says “Police.” It’s bad for everyone that this is allowed - certainly bad for the police, who rely on communities trusting them to receive reports of crime. Bad for individuals, who don’t know who is trustworthy as a result.

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Bright Practical Fabric Art @brightpractical.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I am concerned about IL State Police appearing to help the Border Patrol. If your job is to protect the citizens peacefully protesting, you should be facing the threat, not the protestors.

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