Tongue-twisted

I've been going crazy on the sewing lately, with school starting up, I feel like I will soon have no time left. Although not having a slave-driver partner anymore helps. (And no, I'm not secretly bashing Jared, I called him that to his face. :) It was actually good for me in many ways, we made so much progress during that year and a half) Regardless, I have more time on my hands. Andrew and I are sort of dancing together, but we haven't practiced in... oh, three weeks? I'm just having fun with team for now, not sure yet if I really want to make the big push for tour again.
Oh, and I'm still sick. Yes, it's been a week now, but at least I'm getting better.
Oh, and I cut my hair! I love it.

So here's the deal: guess what's going on in France now... more strikes! Surprised? Me neither. You know how I know that? Andrew has started playing the French evening news, and I can't believe we didn't do this earlier. I love it, but it also makes me very nostalgic. (I miss France! Although our fridge currently has good bread, brie and goat cheese, so I can't complain too much)
And I'm motivated too; in my next reporting class I will definitely write and record my stories in English and French, so that maybe just maybe, someday I'll get hired as a US correspondent for a french station. Ha. That'll be the day. Right now the idea is terrifying... my vocabulary is becoming atrocious! I've begun to speak English in French, meaning that I say things the way I would in English but with French words, and this has got to stop. So I think watching the French news will help.

Halloween table-runner

If you (the two people that ever read here haha) are sick of halloween stuff, I apologize, cause I'm just getting started :)

I made yet another themed table-runner. They're just too much fun to make! That and the fact that they are relatively simple and don't require too much time make it perfect for my short attention span. So here we go:

All I used was left-over scraps from the Halloween door hanging that I made. Cut into a few different sizes (I ended up doing two wide strips and one thinner one).

I call these "monster colors": orange and black with purple and green. Perfect for Halloween :)
Sew together your strips:

Now comes the fun part! Armed with my newly-acquired skills in quilting (beginner's skills, but still... I think I'm hooked), add on batting and the back fabric

(black is probably best, but I used an off-white...  I think it's called muslin? Incidentally, in French off-white is literally called "broken white." haha) and pin together the layers. And now....

Freehand sew a spiderweb all over it! (With a freehand foot... check out this post for a brief explanation)

It would probably be cool too if the spiderweb started in a corner and spread from there, I just went with a central one to hold all the layers together. See, double function, how easy :)
Now bind the edges and you're done.

This will go quite nicely in the living room :)

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It's awesome to have a husband who makes you chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches when you're sick.

whine whine whine

Well, being back in school is nice-- it's fun to be back in team and all that. I got into a latin class, so that's exciting!

However, I had forgotten how much I hate lugging a bag around campus and running everywhere. But those rolling backpacks seem annoying, I think it'd drive me nuts. Oh and my legs are killing me-- I guess I was more out of shape than I thought.

And my physical science teacher reminds me of the dad in honey I shrunk the kids. He's cool though. the TA however is so full of himself it's ridiculous. At least he seems smart though, I'm sure he'll be useful.

And I'm sick like a dog. blegh.