Touchdown at the Newest Bluestocking Inn. Pudding, cups of tea, the vegetable garden coming into its own, and gerbils beautiful gerbils all furry.

[DeanElderberry]

All females welcome for intelligent discourse and non-harmful comestibles.

That’s gorgeous, @FuzzyPuffling.

How could you temporarily forget that you quilt?😄

Some of us, like me, don't do any needlework at all and admire those who do.
I hope you'll post photos of some of your quilting for us to admire.

Sometimes we talk about languages and sometimes we talk about tractors and sometimes about dogs and cats, but I think it's fair to say that crafts, esp the needleworky kind, are a regular topic. Often with photos
I just glanced at the new posts that appeared while I was typing this, and there's an example of just what I was saying - that's beautiful, Fuzzy!

Oh isn't that gorgeous!! I'm in awe of the geometry... I tend to do very large, bed size quilts with a lot less geometry. I find piecing very frustrating, hence the learning to hand quilt so I can start a whole-cloth quilt.

@DeanElderberry I've just realised I misread your opening post. I thought it said intelligent discourse and non-intelligent comestibles.

I'm not sure which version I prefer.

The coffee is gratefully received and I will sign with pleasure!

(For Gertrude's sake, do not search the gifs using coffee gerbil as a search term. I have learned my lesson)

I can knit (sort of) but if I started a scarf now, it might be ready for winter next year. Maybe.

Cross stitching is more my line but my backs are not neat, I fear. More a morass of tangled threads.

I wouldn't worry, some of them like to pretend they're cushions.

Well, I know more about the dark side of the moon (being topical) than I do about tractors, but I am interested in languages, and fascinated by etymology. I have, in the past, studied Spanish, Latin, German, and Welsh. Just starting to think I must get back to my Welsh, join a group, see if I can still form a coherent sentence. There's a pub group starting up near me, so might go along next week.

I have enjoyed following some of your language discussions.

Hello @Waitwhat23 and @AngleofRepose

Welcome to the Bluestocking, the last bastion of sanity and sense (occasionally) among the chaos of the FSG threads.

Bar gerbil, I'll have a hot chocolate, with a shot of Tia Maria please.

Thank you for the history synopsis. I seem to remember the beginning of the t-shirts but found it as baffling as the Mornington Crescent threads.

I (cough) actually have a soft spot for Guinea Pigs (though I like gerbils) - would they be allowed in this salubrious establishment? Perhaps as snack distributors?

I've never tried cross stitch, but did dabble in something called Bargello needlework yonks ago. Yes, the back was messy.

More about the cosmology of the Bluestocking universe - it is located in a place called ... sorry I don't remember, somebody will have to fill in that gap, which is at the foot of a hill called Peak Woo. Which turned out to be a semi-active volcano in a past thread😮but it seems to be dormant again now, don't worry.

It is women-only, but there is one exception: a male dachshund called Colin. I've no idea why. Maybe he lived her before the Bluey took over the premises, or something..

There's a pub for blokes down the road a bit called The Staunch Ally.

Finding that gerbils were so much fun, we then started acquiring other cute animals - capybaras, who do the maintenance around the place; a red panda called Rosie who does domestic visits with hugs for those who need them; a giant wombat who does the accounts, I think; basically anything cute that a Bluestockinger sees a photo of and goes aaaawwwww! can end up here.

I introduced the Husky Rat because .... well, need I say more, look at this for cuteness

It's gorgeous. And so comfy.

I have explained about Colin before - I accidentally brought him to a Bluestocking in about 2017 and he’s been here ever since.

Is your cushion machine sewn or hand sewn? I didn't have my own sewing machine until I was about 30, so everything had to be done by hand. It takes ages, endless!

Of course I looked. It was going quite well until the exploding one!

Gertrude is currently in the staffroom and has come over all giggly! You've made a gerbil very happy.

This is my moment ... Harriet! Awwwwwww!

Anyway, bonsoir! No pudding for me, thanks - I’m full of coq au vin and trying hard not to lapse into franglais. While you lot were all flying I arrived via tunnel.

I am guessing it has elements of L-space also or would that not be ideal from a security point of view?

Colin seems very sweet - he would very much suit a bow tie collar.

The guinea pigs garden.
Beatrice Potter showed them doing so. See images from the gardens this very afternoon...

Oh, and I've also been listening in to your bird discussions, and how to tell one little brown job from another. I have a wren in my garden that is so tame now (or, used to me) that she comes up to explore the potted plants on my patio, right under the kitchen window. And a Goldcrest, and a Robin with a parasite under his eye, who gets under my feet, waiting for food,while I am trying to dig. And various others, including a Sparrowhawk

@FuzzyPuffling and @AngleofRepose Clara's got the crew working late. The quilting nook should be ready by breakfast.

Thanks for the welcome!

Right on L-space and Colin. The former probably connects to the BS via a paternoster which only women can use.

I hand-quilted a quilt once. Never again.
I found the tying technique suitably speedy.

But if you want to do whole-cloth, then you have to do it by hand, really.

I haven't made a quilt in... probably 20 years.