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Sometimes I come to YarnLab and find things like this absolutely perfect spider-silk thickness spinning on the wheel and it's so wonderful all I can do is marvel at it. #DHmakes

Super fine, very even colorful spinning on an EEW 6

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Until the AI Pants are done, we'll be displaying Michelle Ha's final project for Data Visualization with Textiles, where the mended holes represent past relationships and the embroidered stitches represent different toxic interactions. #DHmakes

Pair of mannequin legs propped up against a spinning wheel with mended jeans and colorful patchwork

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Whelp, the legs have arrived at YarnLab today (for displaying the Pants Manifesto on AI and Education) but... um... suffice it to say the pants, cut to my size, are gonna be culottes on this thing. #DHmakes

Quinn standing next to the legs, which come up nearly to Quinn's shoulder.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 13/10/2026

Sharing the Good Word of Broadsheets on my office door at Stanford. #DHmakes

Quinn's office door with a poster for the digital humanities program, a postcard that says sewing is magic, and the Broadsheets poster

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Another Tuesday putting in a little time as the Human at the Loom for a campus art exhibition. The piece I was noodling on last time is already hanging, and today I wove this very loose swishy thing in yellow that feels autumnal. #DHmakes

The finished design with lots of lonf floats in yellow

The woven piece in pink, green, yellow, and white from last time, hanging up

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 12/10/2026

Well, Fry... so how was your weekend? 😸 🧶

A half blind tabby lying casually in the trail of yellow yarn

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 10/10/2026

Another data point for the bingeability of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies", already halfway through my reread even taking breaks for highlighting, doodles, exclamation marks, and commentary. #EPFanEd

A bookmark about halfway though the book

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 10/10/2026

Drinking my coffee, having a quiet morning with the Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" with a lovely shout out to the @archive.org (which, upon reflection, has more pillars than my doodle gave it credit for.) #EPFanEd

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Very excited to have a @chloecumming.bsky.social owl of my own joining things from @artologica.net & @minouette.bsky.social & @halperta.bsky.social in my favorite corner of my room.🦉 🥰

Colorful paintings, letterpress, embroidery, and postcards fill a wall

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The Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" is here! Wanna be mailed the book to annotate your favorite parts? Fill out the form! You can also participate virtually by submitting your favorite parts and comments to the form & someone will write it for you! forms.gle/Kbq8ACzPqXCm...

Copy of Embedded Pedagogies with colorful gel pens and highlighters on a loom

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I cut the holes for the @neh-odh.bsky.social canceled grants yesterday and realized when you have too many same-sized canceled grants too close, the tiny snipped warp threads fall out. Apt, and not something I would have thought of before doing it. #DHmakes

Rigid heddle weaving in pink and red with giant messy holes and free floating weft

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/10/2026

3.5 hours, got through one stitch on the embroidery sampler project. 🫠 Felt like time to call it quits for the day. #DHmakes

A bunch of failed purple braid stitches and ons small row of fairly successful ones on the sampler.

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Having a big #DHtries day where I took the day off to hang out with my embroidery friends and catch up on our sampler, only to discover I'm so far behind and spend 2+ hours struggling with braid stitch. #DHmakes

Lots of failed purple braid stitches on fabric with squares

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/10/2026

Envious that Fry gets all the attention from the #DHmakes friends, Kiki goes for some innovative craft disruption by adorably chasing her tail around on some fabric I need to be cutting for the AI Pants Manifesto.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/10/2026

Was working on a Pants Manifesto on AI and Education with @nafpaktitism.bsky.social when Fry curled up next to the keyboard and decided to add about 10 pages worth of forward slashes and lime breaks to our document.

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Today was a day of miracles in YarnLab. For the first time in maybe 2.5 years, I successfully used the digital knitting machine and AYAB to knit a reasonably-sized design without it jamming or falling off or failing halfway through. I credit a boon from our probable new mascot, the snail. #DHmakes

A yellow machine knitted sign reading YarnLab held up by Quinn's jand with a snail ring

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Wore my @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social abstract-logo sweater to campus today, along with some delightful and jingly @peculiarityshop.bsky.social jewelry. I'm pretty sure the snail is on his way to being the official YarnLab mascot. #DHmakes

Quinn wearing a multi panel sweater top and eyeball shorts, eyeball and star/moon earrings, a purple necklace, snail ring, and rainbow sandals

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Still kind of a mess but I think I've 80% got the idea of the basic netted lace stitch. #DHmakes #DHtries

A snail ring entangled with the first row of lace netting in red

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