Dog Bed

There are a few life skills that one should be able to do to have agency in the modern world. For example:

• hang a picture
• repot a plant
• iron a shirt
• make a household budget
• ride a bicycle
• change the oil in a car
• understand a floor-plan
• make a quilt
• hook up a stereo
• sharpen a knife
• knit a sweater
• write a letter
• etc.

Some of these, like changing oil, are ancient skills that are less germane today. Others, like prompt an AI, will be newly added. But, there will always be a list of tasks that are best handled personally, rather than outsourcing them at more cost, and reduced independence.

I haven’t mastered all of the things on my list, but I did manage to make a quilt from scraps — old jeans and a shower curtain — although I did have to pay 18 Stutz for the batting in the middle, so it wasn’t entirely costless.

Even though it is quilted, it’s not really a quilt, but instead a dog bed for an old girl who currently sleeps on the floor (even though she is contented to do so). She may reject it, but it’s the thought that counts, right?

While my siblings are Canadian lumberjacks, cutting down trees with their Husqvarna chain saws, I’m in an upstairs apartment using my Husqvarna sewing machine to piece together a rug, basically.