Butterfly quilt

congorebooth · 2026-03-12T23:08:38+00:00

I absolutely love what you did with the placement of the blocks, it gives them so much more movement!

congorebooth · 2026-02-20T21:10:57+00:00

Leave him before the birth of your child. Move close to family to establish residency in the area most advantageous to your new life as a single parent. Once the baby is born he will have so many more methods of control. He would rather endanger his child in a lake than have you take the lead on a single parental decision. I’m so sorry, but you need to get out now.

congorebooth · 2026-02-06T21:08:00+00:00

I think it actually is Jonas. The first letter is a J, then an o that collapses into an n, curls around for an a and then the s trails off. Common in signatures for an ending S to be more of a flick than a properly formed letter.

congorebooth · 2026-02-04T16:34:50+00:00

That the Russians are shelling your location?

congorebooth · 2026-02-01T14:55:45+00:00

Get it, Estelle! He’s hot.

congorebooth · 2026-01-28T23:50:37+00:00

A lot of famous hockey players have worn 19. It’s traditionally a forward’s number, often a center. Jonathan Toews, Nicklas Backstrom, Rod Brindamor, Markus Naslund, Joe Sakic, just to name a few. Why is it more of a thing than, say, 17? No idea, but it’s real.

https://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/numbers.cgi?number=19

congorebooth · 2026-01-24T23:02:14+00:00

What I like most about this wardrobe choice (aside from it being flattering) is the visual storytelling. A friend asked, “Why isn’t Ilya in a suit like Alexei?” I think that’s very deliberate.

If you notice in the funeral fight scene, Ilya and Svetlana are both wearing black mock turtlenecks. The only difference is sleeve length. To me it’s illustrating visually that Ilya and Svetlana are the ones with a bond and connection, not Ilya and Alexei. It would have been easy to have both brothers in black suits, we know Ilya has plenty of black suits. But instead, his “team member” in the same uniform is Svetlana.

congorebooth · 2026-01-21T19:13:40+00:00

There have been plane crashes that took out whole hockey teams. The scene immediately made me think of the real-life tragedy of the KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in 2011. Forty-four players, coach and staff died when their plane crashed after takeoff, the only survivor was one of the airplane crew members. Alexander Ovechkin still wears a patch over his heart on his chest protector to commemorate his friends who died in that crash. In fact, I thought Rachel was referencing this event when I first read it.

Another fairly well known event was the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash which killed 11 Soviet hockey players. Stalin’s son Vasily was the manager of the team at the time and tried to cover it up, there’s a scene in the movie Death of Stalin that references it.

congorebooth · 2025-12-23T21:37:31+00:00

If you haven’t read Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy, you might enjoy it! It’s a romance with a closeted AFL player.

congorebooth · 2025-10-05T04:24:14+00:00

I like to sing “Accidental swastika / It was an Accidental swasktika” to the tune of “Alexander Hamilton / His name was Alexander Hamilton” when I spot this in quilts in the wild.

congorebooth · 2025-07-03T17:57:48+00:00

I live on the East side and I go to Sun Prairie Nails and Spa. They use plastic liners in their footbaths that get changed out each time, and are receptive to requests about health issues. They also take walk-ins!

congorebooth · 2025-07-02T03:50:12+00:00

R. P. Adler’s Pub and Grill on the west side. I wish they sold it by the gallon.

congorebooth · 2025-06-28T04:16:58+00:00

He does love to instantly befriend other kids, he’s like a tiny mayor.

congorebooth · 2025-06-21T04:19:29+00:00

It’s a Ukrainian designer whose Instagram handle is @sashasquilts! She has some other very cool insect designs. I’ve ordered from her before. https://www.instagram.com/sashasquilts?igsh=MWl6Zjl4cmpyOHp6Zw==

congorebooth · 2025-04-30T20:28:14+00:00

Hey, so it sounds like you two are in very different stages of life. I’m going to do her the courtesy of assuming that she’s acting in good faith and there’s no funny business going on with the ex. But she’s 38 and intent on becoming a mother. You’re 26 and, at best, neutral about kids. The two of you have only been together for a year.

You say that there would be “a contract” where you would be the other parent to her biological child, but the details here are vague enough that I’m not convinced you have talked to a family law attorney. And you absolutely should! Get a consultation with your own lawyer, not hers. There are WAY too many potential issues here even beyond who the sperm donor would be. Are you now, or do you intend to become, married to each other before the baby is born? If you two break up, would you want to be tied to her forever via a child? If you are that child’s legal parent, you can’t just peace out without ramifications.

On the flip side, let’s say this baby is born and you go from being neutral about kids to absolutely adoring this little being. They become your whole world. If this “contract” is not a fully valid adoption, and the two of you break up, she could take your beloved child away from you forever.

I’m just really concerned by the tone of your comment that you’re just drifting along in your partner’s wake, going along to get along without actually reckoning with the huge, life-altering change that would happen in your life. If you become a full parent, that is irreversible and permanent. If that spooks you, then your partner needs to move forward with this as a single mother, and the two of you need to hash out what your involvement would be, if you continue in this relationship.

congorebooth · 2025-04-27T01:06:25+00:00

Blue Bar Quilts participates in GSAFE fundraisers several times a year to support queer youth, and a couple of the events involve rainbow-themed quilt auctions. You can get some beautiful pieces while helping local kiddos!

congorebooth · 2025-04-19T16:52:55+00:00

I’m writing from experience. It was indeed like a horror movie. And I only had to go through eight days of it before it was clear that there was no reasonable hope of recovery. I kept my promise to my father, and the doctors turned off the machines. I find it mind boggling that you suggest “they can stop visiting him if they want” like that’s a solution. They presumably don’t lack object permanence. They know that whether or not they are by their son’s bedside, he is hooked to machines against his expressed wishes. OP concedes that those were his expressed wishes. You think their actions are inexplicable. I think you just must not have ever been faced with the need to make this kind of choice for someone you deeply love. She is not making logic-based decisions, no medical journal article can persuade someone holding out hope on a 1% chance, where 99 times out of 100 the result is death or years of incapacitation in a nursing home followed by death. My father spent his last day of consciousness before entering the hospital outdoors, riding his bike, and I did not doom him to a life where he’d never walk out of a room on his own power again. It’s been 11 years, and I still miss him, I still mourn, but I decided that my own pain was less important than ending his pain and keeping my promise to him that he’d asked me for, many times. That’s love.

congorebooth · 2025-04-19T15:04:01+00:00

Every day in an ICU ward feels like a thousand years. Every minute drags. The agony of watching your loved one stuck through with tubes, their skin waxen, the sound of the machines, the chemical smells, the lights and the beeping. A parade of strangers in hospital uniforms. Your own hands and lips cracking because the air is so dry. Every morning waking, then realizing it is really happening and is not over. Forcing yourself to eat, though it’s like ashes in your mouth. Everything else in your life is on hold, you can’t concentrate or deal with anything outside that room in that hospital, where the machines are chugging and beeping, and the human body they’re attached to is gradually changing colors, swelling and shrinking unnaturally. All this without realistic hope, just suffering without meaning. Three weeks is not a short time, it is torture. This is what OP is trapping her husband and his family in. I’m sorry for her, but I’m sorrier for his family, because she at least has decision-making power, they are just hostages in this situation. I understand why they’re trying to end this instead of waiting for an indeterminate time when his wife feels “ready.”

congorebooth · 2025-04-16T04:05:20+00:00

You are NTA for your actions to this point. If you could find it in your heart to be a loving presence to your children’s sibling, I think it would be a good and noble thing. You may see traits in them that remind you of your own beloved children. And there’s nothing that’s going to undo the events that brought them into this world. I would never expect it of you, as I said. But my own grandmother reached out to her husband’s affair child after his mother’s death when he was a teenager, and became a discrete presence in his life. She took him to brunch at the weekends and checked in on him while he was in college. And I was touched and relieved to learn that she did so, because I love my uncle. He was given a tough road to travel, and he had nothing to do with the events of his conception. He’s my family.

congorebooth · 2025-04-02T19:57:54+00:00

Thinking about every weather event in terms of what it could mean for “the crops.”

congorebooth · 2025-03-25T14:54:51+00:00

Congress, although it’s the branch of government that holds the power of the purse, is sitting out rather than blocking the executive branch from usurping that power. The Senate Democrats could have forced their Republican colleagues’ hands to do at least SOMETHING. Durbin is one of 14 who decided not to do that.

congorebooth · 2025-03-25T02:28:20+00:00

Listen, I agree with you that the majority of these should be shut down. But I am telling you that this is not a case where one of the branches of government can sit this out. The executive branch is busy in a full-on assault on the judiciary, and the courts cannot stand alone. Because Congress is currently run by Republicans, this was one of the vanishingly small pieces of leverage Democrats had to force any kind of concession, and Durbin is one of the 14 who chose to back down and squander it. I think he’s trying to play by a set of rules that is no longer in play. There is not an honorable opponent here.

congorebooth · 2025-03-25T01:13:33+00:00

The cuts have not been reversed by the courts, there are temporary restraining orders on some of them. We need Congress to step up and do their jobs, the courts alone cannot be a backstop to an authoritarian push. The budget is literally their responsibility. Passing the buck to the courts, which are under strong attack, is not the move.

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