Finished Legion of Everblight Battlegroup

Nick finished painting his whole Legion of Everblight battlegroup for WarmaHordes. I didn't paint these little guys but I did offer significant moral support. And I took the pictures. So here they are on my blog looking all cool.

There's Lylyth:

Four shredders:
  

  

And a carnivean whose head and arms come off so it can become a scythean or ravagore. Through the magic of magnets! I hope you're keeping up with the vocab, there will be a quiz.

They look almost jolly after you've stared at them awhile.

Christmas dart board!!! !!!!!

I got overexcited so Brian and I opened our Christmas presents tonight. He got me a super faboo wood dart board with metal lines and everything. The board bit even rotates so if the twenty wedge gets too holey you can scooch it over. We're totally going to have that problem. I won the inaugural Cricket game, it came down to a single 16. 

Pirate hat progress

I made some progress on my double knit pirate hat on Monday (Game of Thrones night, woot!). It's coming along pretty well, only slightly slowed down by the fact that double knitting is for chumps. Also I make Nick try it on every row just to see. Not quite there yet.The Jollyfish and skull charts are both from Ravelry.

Decade old Warhammer elves finished

I recently (re-)started painting miniatures after Tom introduced us to Warmachine/Hordes. Nick picked up the Legion of Everblight battlegroup and it all looked super fun, but I couldn't really justify buying a new set of minis to paint when I still have all my elves from high school. 

That's right, many moons ago Tiny Nell thought she would somehow acquire and paint an entire High Elf army for Warhammer. In the end, she assembled and partly painted about 20 minis before losing interest. We never played a single game. My little people languished in a box in the basement until I moved into a properly sized apartment and my mom evicted the last of my stuff. 

All my old paints were toast so anything requiring color matching had to be rebooted. I stripped all the half-painted heroes and chariots but decided to finish up the handful that had complete base coats. I read up on dry brushing and washes and used these fine little fellows to practice my technique.

 

Now, the problem with painting ancient little people who 1. you're never planning on sending into battle and 2. probably should have been stripped and repainted is: it's hard to know when you're done. Obviously, no one in their right mind would set up Brian's photolab to take shmancy images of unfinished, obsolete Warhammer figures. So... I guess that means they're complete. Yay!

The photo setup. Grass courtesy of Nick's Fibonnaci quilt extras, sky was another fabric scrap I had lying around. And here are my spearmen and archers all together, ready to rumble:

Cricket

Had a game of darts with Brian. He won, like he does. We play  modified rules to even things up: he has to call his shots but I can take slop. I was in the middle of an amazing comeback when he sunk his last fifteen. Jerk. :)

Civil war blocks done. :)

This blog brought to you by the fact that I have a smortphone now so taking and uploading pictures as I craft no longer seems like the most aggravating thing in the world.

I finished all twelve blocks for my Civil War table quilt. I made three each of four different blocks from The Civil War Anniversary Quilts by Rosemary Youngs. It has a lot of cool blocks but doesn't give measurements for the patterns. It was a good exercise for me to figure out how to actually make the blocks I picked (#'s 23, 91, 101 and 125). I tried to pick the fabrics so that each block would look distinct from its sister blocks. I think I mostly succeeded.

Next: add the sashing for each table segment. I want the quilt to expand and contract with the table as we add and remove leaves. I'm not sure how I'm going to join the segments yet, I want to use buttons but velcro would be less bulky and noticeable. But, buttons! I love buttons soo much. Maybe I can put buttons on the pillow cover I want to make next.