Alie Ward

And this one, a little bonus, just a little bonus dropping in your feed.

It's just Chaka Block with advice and encouragement and a call to action to make some cool stuff out of scraps in an effort to calm your nerves and buy less stuff and make more art.

Now, QuiltCon 2026 happened just a few weeks ago in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I've been tagged in so many posts from that since last episode.

The scathing political quilts there, just brutally wonderful.

Beautiful.

Leave it to crafters to change the world.

Highly recommend checking out some QuiltCon 2026 quilts.

Last week, we went deep into the context and the history of quilt making with museum curator Olivia Joseph, author and quilter Joe Cunningham, and fiber fine artist Luke Haynes, who made me a quilt that is up on our Instagram that's amazing.

He also made a small quilt pattern for oligite quilters, novice and expert alike, to try.

That's linked in our show notes.

Also in the show notes, links to Smologies, our short form and KidSafe episodes that live in their own podcast feed, wherever you get podcasts.

Ologiesmerch.com, which has new designs with protest art with 100% of the proceeds going to the National Immigration Law Center.

Also linked is our Patreon at patreon.com slash ologies, where you can support the show and submit questions before we record.

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Also, thank you so much to listeners who leave reviews, which help boost the show so much.

I do read all of them.

And thank you, DNA Sprouse, for this recent one saying, my small talk has never been more unhinged or informed.

P.S., they say, I learned about nominative determinism from this podcast and had the humbling realization that my name is Danae and I teach students about DNA all day.

Make of that what you will.