Rebecca Diamond ✡️🧶🇺🇸🇨🇦
@rebeccadiamond
Just a rural-living, multi-crafting, neurospicy geek. All opinions are my own, and are plentiful / freely offered. Jewish. CSA Survivor. She/Her. Mama Bear to every letter of the alphabet except TERFs; they can fend for themselves.
Mother's Day presents - meet Gideon! I didn't name him after the character played by Mandy Patinkin but that's as good a reason as any I reckon; it's just what his name IS. Also, a new tea cup :D
I like big chonks and I cannot lie... Note: Yes she has regular visits to monitor her weight. The steroids for her skin condition keep her super-chonky! #CatSky
Replaced the cobbled together, 15 yo cat tree with this. All three girls like it except for the saucer bit - they treat it like a hellmouth 😆 #CatSky
This is the absolute funniest insurance company ad I have ever seen 😆 Yes, those are the initials of the local company. No, they never once ran it past a 12yo boy. Details blurred to protect them from their own ick 😏
I mean I could have worked some more on my embroidery this weekend but the weather looks like it will hit 60F this week which is basically summer and that means iced tea season. And duh, each new year gets a new mason jar cozy! Pattern my own based on Selbu motifs, handspun/commercial. #KnitSky 🧶
So…when I am knitting stockinette, this is how I knit: close to the needle, minimal movement. @kollagesquare.bsky.social needles, of course. How do y’all knit, #KnitSky?
Yes, this Jewish woman not only loves a quote from a Catholic saint, she loves it so much it hangs on her office wall right where she can see it when she breaks from work to stretch. (Also it apparently makes her write in the third person?)
In which my baby goat - aka Persephone - bleats for skritches. She does this at least thrice daily and not just on #Caturday! (Ignore the industrial fan on high in the background, the one that provides perfect white noise all through my home and lets me sleep at night.)
One of the ways I trick my AuDHD-brain into hydrating itself is to find a great cup, then add really fun stickers to it, so I get a dopamine hit each time I water my kidneys. :D Cup: Simple Modern (CERAMIC INSIDE NO METAL TASTE) Stickers: GayCrochetCo and SpoilsportStudio on Etsy #CraftSky 🧶
Made a little progress over the weekend - not much, but some. Another busy week ahead but at least I have something to look forward to in the evenings! #CraftSky
That time Papa Louis z"l, my beloved FIL, got a teeeeensy bit carried away with his gauge swatch :P And yes, he and I had so many fun years of knitting and doing other crafts together <3 I miss him. #KnitSky
Sometimes Shabbat is about playing with the embroidery you’ve been too busy all week to work on, alternated with retro gaming with your family. (Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii, and Resident Evil on PS2 because why not 😆) #CraftSky
Happy 1-Year-Anniversary-Of-Blocking-A-Dumbass to me! :D
Both types of Rosa Rugosa grow in my yard, and they are my very favourite part of spring and summer. So…here goes an attempt at embroidering them! (The Hebrew spells Ahava/Love.) #CraftSky
This is not at all my usual type of crafting but my son needed this, even if he didn't know he did until I presented it to him this morning :P He's been hard at work in rehearsals for community theatre, and opening night is tomorrow. #CraftSky
Remember the feeling as a kid when you got the *big* box of crayons? Dunno why I thought of that as I opened 447 skeins of floss 😏 #CraftSky
In which Philophrosyne reacts to The Horrors™ #CatSky (Ok, in reality it was time for 2pm snackies and I was almost 30 seconds late, but still.)
Finished! As in, the embroidery is done; still not sure what I plan to do with this piece. #CraftSky
Waiting, along with all other good people, and also holding firm in my resolve. Neddle Keeper is a repurposed enamel pin from @karenhallionkenney.bsky.social #CraftSky
Still plugging away at this - and while I wish I could finish it tonight, I am exhausted even after sleeping much of the weekend. Y’all know I’m tired when I stop mid-block! 😑 #CraftSky #DisabilityLife
Progress is being made! I had intended to add some purples but they are not pictured because I’ve not yet decided. Still no use case for this piece other than “Sometimes making a pretty is a nice change from screaming into the abyss as the horrors flicker on your timeline.” #CraftSky
Making up for the simplicity of satin stitch with All The Colours. Also, I have not done much satin stitch embroidery for decades but instantly remembered I prefer the railroad technique to a laying tool, and also remembered I am apparently a 12yo boy 😏 #CraftSky
Jussssst in time for Pesach - and yes the sewing is mangled, whatever, it works. Pan Pride Pomegranates for my son 💗💛💙✡️
Progress is being made! 3 pomegranates and then sewing it into a bag - by Wednesday. Why do I do this to me?! 🙄😆🧶 #CraftSky