it's frakking over. and bsg inspired crafts.

So, I was totally having a one person crafting frak party all weekend. It involved watching both parts of the BSG finale and BSG inspired crafting. (The finale was simultaneously satisfying and unsatisfying. Is that possible? I don't like it when anything ends, so maybe that's part of why it was unsatisfying (Hey, I've held off watching the last couple of Six Feet Under episodes for almost a year now! I know how it ends though. Heh.), and space battles aren't really my thing (I like them well enough, but I don't need an hour of it!) Some of the character arc resolutions were a bit too brief (It felt like everything happened too quickly.) I'll probably like it better on re-watch. I was reading some comments/reviews about the finale and I laughed when some people compared the second half of the finale to The Return of the King because just when you think it's going to end it. Just. Keeps. Going. I laughed because it's true. I'm like, "Aw, it's over. Wait, there's more. Oh, now it's over. No, it's not! Godsdammit! Stop toying with my emotions!" The last three minutes, however, had shades of Steven Spielberg, which is unfortunate. You can't win them all.

Anyway! Back to crafting. This BSG inspired crafting project had been eating away at my brain for the past couple of months. The original idea was slightly different (less functional and involved more hand embroidery than I probably could have managed - I'll try it eventually), but then I discovered machine letter embroidery! (Thanks, the workroom!) The outcome of my painstaking effort is below. I originally wanted to make it dark/navy blue so it was more BSG-y, but I didn't have enough blue wool fabric. I had lots of brown though. So I decided this would be my New Caprica version (since it was all muddy and dirty there.) Although, it works perfectly as we wait for The Plan to air - commemorates the ending of BSG and reminds me that I have the movie to look forward to. Yes.

Okay, longest, rambling entry ever, sorry (I'm trying to learn how to edit the html template to insert cuts on here, but it's killing me. Maybe next time.) On to photos.


Sometimes you have to roll the hard...


Six (French knots! I was going to sew some dots on, but it didn't really match the font of the text, so I ended up doing some hand embroidery after all, which ends up being classier. This combines BSG and gambling - which, I guess, would have more to do with the original series, what with the casino planet and all. I've never watched it, I'm just saying. The quote is all New Version Adama (as far as I know.))


Yes, there are robots inside. (Is there anything this fabric can't do? It automatically makes everything classy.)

Too bad it's slightly wonky - it'll be better next time!

I have other BSG inspired crafts. But it involves books, so you can guess what that is. (I'm too lazy to take photos now...)

xfiles re-watch day (formerly st. patrick's day)

Another "holiday", another x-files re-watch day!

It just so happens that St. Patrick's Day and x-files share an official colour: green.

Look at the awesome x-files cookies*! Of course I didn't make the cookies. Yaz did, naturally. I just helped decorate. (I am particularly proud of my Fox and Dana ones - look at my awful icing penmanship! We have more ideas for our next x-files re-watch.)



Yeah, it's all right. My ass broke the fall.


Maybe his luck is the X-File.


Come on, Mulder. This guy just got lucky. There's no X-File here.

*Apologies for the awful, dark photos. x-files is the best, so these had to be posted.

furoshiki

If there was one thing I was going to make this weekend it was this furoshiki.

Although, technically speaking, I didn't actually "make" it. All I did was finish a fat quarter (which I didn't even cut since I bought it that way - yes, I'm that lazy!) with a rolled hem (which wasn't done very well, because I'm extremely impatient and I wanted to have something done after weeks of dicking around with ideas and having nothing to show for it.)

So, furoshiki it is!

interfacing

I didn't know interfacing came in black. I feel so ignorant!

Anyway, I used it (and this fabulous fabric) to make a patch to fix up my sister's coat.


In other news, I'm (still) feeling a little sore (physically and emotionally) from playing wii sports. I can't believe it thinks I'm 50. Fifty!

chocolate day, drawing fashions and frocks (or, what's in my parents' basement )

Happy post chocolate day everyone:


Guess what I did on chocolate day? That's right, I watched the X-Files. Since tomorrow is another "holiday", I will also commemorate it by watching the X-Files.

I was rummaging through my mom's fabric/sewing stuff in the basement today and I found this gem:



I don't know where she gets these things, but 83% of the time they're unintentionally hilarious. My favourite is the Summer and Afternoon Frocks:

february 8th and 9th

This blogging business is not going so well because I'm lazy. The weekend is fast approaching (in approximately 1 hour and 22 minutes) and I haven't even blogged about the last weekend yet. Anyway, enough of this nonsense.


On Sunday, I managed to go to the workroom for the Love & Rummage Trunk Show, bought a few neat things, sat around on the workroom couch for a while and took some photos.

And then OT and I walked down Queen street randomly taking (more) photos and window shopping (mostly because the stores were closed). We ended up at a Vietnamese/Chinese Restaurant for dinner.



On Monday, I was back at the workroom for the Snap Coin Purse workshop. Shown below is the fruit of my labor (trust me, there was a lot of laboring - mostly of the eye straining variety.)


And now we're all up to speed because there isn't much to say since I didn't burn any toast this week.

killer icicles and deflated logs

So... this is what I did all weekend. I watched the crazy enormous icicles at my parents' house melt (my mom was glad they were melting because she was afraid that if we went outside they would fall down on us...! I told her they would be a good booby trap for trespassers... She did not appreciate my defense of the killer icicles. I liked them!)


And then I worked on this fabric log. It's sort of a bag to hide stuff in. I think I'll make an actual cushion like this as well. I learned that I'm not very good at sewing circles when there are five layers of fabric. It's really hard. (And I may or may not have broken a needle while sewing near the zipper because I was impatient.) Anyway, it looks deflated in the photo because there's nothing in it yet. Maybe I'll get a better photo when it's actually in use. I don't know what's up with this computer screen, but my log looks like it's the same colour all over! (I'm not using my own computer at the moment, so everything looks off. Or, maybe I should just take photos in better light.) It's supposed to be darker on the "outside" (the bark part) and lighter on the "inside" (the end parts.) Well, just imagine that it looks like a real log. Except made out of fabric.

I also drilled holes in a bunch of boards for more book making good-times. I couldn't take a photo because I was using a drill. Safety first and such.

All in all, a productive weekend was had by everyone.