Come stargaze on North Egg

EDIT: Closed. Thanks for the visits.

It’s a fun night on my island! We have heavy meteor showers and a visit from the space chicken. Come wish and enjoy. Plus, Bea is in boxes; she’s very sweet and her house is all about soup, so if you’d like a new resident, feel free to grab her.

Otherwise, just run around and commit any mayhem you like: shake trees, pick flowers and vegetables, and pick up gifts. If it’s dropped, it’s dropped for you!

Turnips are at a respectable 203, and everything in Nook’s is fair game. If you have a moment to water the red pansies by Resident Services, I’d appreciate it.

Say the word if you’d like to come and I’ll DM the dodo.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 6 days ago
▲ 6 r/Colby

How high can beds be lofted?

Hi there. I’m wondering if anyone can share a measurement of how high the twin beds can be lofted without using additional risers. I’d like to know what the clearance is on the lower rail. Please share if you know. Thanks.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 11 days ago

Spots on swamp milkweed

(Central VT, zone 4b.) So some of my swamp milkweed has browny-purple spots around the edges of its leaves. This stand is in full sun, planted last year. It colored itself last summer, too, and I initially worried that it would kill the plants, but they happily sprouted again this spring, no worse for wear.

Another stand in my garden just a few yards over has a little more shade and isn’t spotting up like this. This makes me wonder whether the spots are just a sign of sun exposure, rather than some kind of disease.

Maybe relevant, maybe not: the spotless stand has several caterpillars now. On this affected stand, I’ve seen only one, with very limited evidence of leaf-chewing otherwise.

I’d love any advice you have, please and thank you.

u/lilblackcloudinadres — 21 days ago

Is MeteoNook useful anymore?

I used to have a good handle on my weather seed, but lost track of what it was. Now, trying to find it again, I’m finding MeteoNook wildly unreliable. I get real close, with double rainbows lining up on a couple of days, and then I try looking at just one more day…then bam, out of alignment.

I’m using only obvious weather events — double rainbows, thunderstorms, and such — to track, so there’s not much room for ambiguity. Has anyone experienced same?

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 1 month ago

How do people make FPP patterns?

I’m so intrigued by some of the elaborate quilts I see here made with FPP. If you make original one-off patterns, or patterns that you eventually sell, what’s the process? How do you go from a picture in your mind to a pattern that has several hundred pieces? What tools do you use?

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 1 month ago

Turnips at 511. Come do a capitalism.

It’s raining on North Egg, but until noon ET, bring your vegetables anyway. Feel free to run around the whole island, shake trees, pick flowers and produce, and grab any little gifts you see lying around — if it’s dropped, it’s dropped for you! Dodo is 04GLK.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 2 months ago

How to handle the edge of the woods?

I live on a wooded lot with a grassy clearing where the house is. I’m trying to decide how to handle the interface between woods and grass. In a couple of places, I have beds where I’m diligently trying to showcase some…less obnoxious…natives, but I’m struggling to keep those from being overwhelmed by the wild grape and cinnamon ferns that grow beyond them. The grape is especially pushy; only last summer did I discover that there’s actually a stone wall in that part of the yard that they’d completely overgrown. (Hence the existence of the beds at all. I figured why not. HA. Ha ha ha ha. Sob.)

It would be easy enough to just let the woods be the woods. However, someone somewhere — former owner? neighbor? demon hellspawn? — once planted vinca, and that’s infiltrated everywhere. Additionally, field bindweed. So. Much. Field bindweed. I can’t clear any of it without managing at least some of the grape and ferns.

I’m considering a line of stone at the back of the bed just to delineate for myself where the back edge of it is — past which I’ll just make this face 😑 and let it go. Is there a better way? Should I just let the grape go ham on my baby jacks-in-the-pulpit, enchanter’s nightshade, and so on?

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 2 months ago
▲ 11 r/tiedye

Soda ash for ice dyeing

Hi there. Planning my ice dyeing maiden voyage, and I’m wondering if it’s enough to soak my T-shirt in soda ash before dyeing, or if I should also sprinkle some extra on top once I’ve layered on the ice and dye. I’d like a fairly vibrant color. Please advise! Thanks.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 3 months ago

I updated my iPad last night to iOS 26.4.2 and now Wingspan won’t load at all. I get as far as the splash screen and then the app quits outright. Anyone else? Ideas for a fix? Thanks.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 4 months ago
▲ 1 r/dyeing

Advice, please! I have a bunch of white cotton T-shirts with a silkscreened design on them. I’d like to dye them so the body of the shirt is no longer white — solid colors only, no tie-dye effects or anything. What do I need to know, please?

I’m a quilter who’s experimented a bunch with fabric in general, and I’ve used Procion dyes before on cotton and silk, so I’m familiar with scouring, mixing colors, and so on. But I’m wondering if there’s anything special to consider about the fact that these shirts have a screen print on them.

I’d appreciate any hard-won wisdom you can share before I make dumb mistakes. Thanks.

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u/lilblackcloudinadres — 4 months ago