Andrewism #29

"He's always so negative about his own abilities. I don't know why he has to be so self-defecating."
Translation: Self-deprecating
Best Part: 1. Said about a professor. 2. There is actually an entry in urban dictionary for self-defecating. (it's PG-13, otherwise I would link to it.)

Andrewism #28

"It's a good thing we have disposable thumbs."
Translation: Opposable thumbs.
Best Part: He always has great ideas! How great would disposable thumbs be?!

Crafternoon #5: Christmas Quilt and Fat Quarter Idol

First of all, I entered a fat quarter compilation challenge over at Sew,Mama,Sew! It was so fun to do, and probably the best job in the whole world would be to be in charge of making little packets of corresponding fabric. I wonder how you get to be really good at that.

Here's my entry with the theme of "Fresh:"

Even if I don't win, I just want to make a beach blanket/towel with all those fabrics!

My second crafternoon project today took me 3 months to complete. It's a quilt top I made for my mom for Christmas. I'm writing about it now because she sent it out to be quilted and bound, so now it is officially finished! I'm very excited about that, because if it had been left up to me, she wouldn't have seen a finished quilt until 2015 at the earliest.

I made an Americana quilt because while we were in Tennessee this summer, my mom and I went to a quit shop, and she told me she is always on the lookout for a nice Americana quilt. We found a few at the shop, but they were manufactured, and the "piecing" was printed on the fabric. Not as wonderful as a nice homemade quilt.

It's just a twin size. I only had to unpick 6 of the squares to re-sew them so the points lined up. And there is one "unique" square in there somewhere, see if you can find it. (I really just messed it up.)

And here is the finished product. The back is so fun, the quilting came out beautifully, and I love the binding! 

Excuse Me

Andrewism #27

"Man, if I get this internship, our lives could change in one fellow swoop."
Translation: One fell swoop
Best Part: It would be nice if a fellowship opportunity swooped in!

Crafternoon #4: Glove Bear

I made some friends invite me over this weekend for a crafternoon. I had high hopes for this seemingly simple craft I saw on Pinterest: the glove bear. I have a ton of cute gloves, and I thought it would be fun to whip one up at my friend's house, and of course, everyone there would think I was so cute with my cute glove bear. 

It looks like some kind of hybrid of a dinosaur and a sunburned human. Yuck. Creepy.

Original glove bear via Little Bit Funky, buried somewhere in the archives I suspect, since I never did find an actual tutorial. 

Paint Chip Projects

No, I didn't make any paint chip projects.

Not this:

via Maple and Magnolia via Pinterest

Or this:

via The Crafty Scientist via Pinterest

Or this:

via Papery and Cakery via Pinterest

I should mention that it's wasting the paint companies' money. Crafters all over the world are saving a fortune!

But some of the projects ARE really cute...