LTL is 1 year old!

Little Thunder Lizard turned one year old May 30th, and like a bad parent, I missed it because I was too busy fussing over my infant child, Chickhammer. Shame on me.

Keeping up with two blogs at once has been a bit of a challenge, but I think I've started to get the hang of things. It helps that they're on totally unrelated subjects. However, there hasn't been much crafting going on in this place for a while now. I aim to change that, but right now I have a little dilemma- it appears that Singer has discontinued my sewing machine, the L-500.

This seems to explain why the foot I wanted was out of stock. But, there are several accessories (including the exclusive-to-my-machine bobbins) that I need. I can't quilt without that darning foot, and I have two tops that need quilting! I've had bad luck buying feet in the past from non-manufacturers, but compounding the problem is that these accessories seem hard to find now. Hopefully I can come up with the right feet soon!

A Little Shake Up at LTL

After much thought, I've decided that it's high time to split up Little Thunder Lizard into two separate entities, this one focusing on quilting and crafting and my new one focusing on wargaming and painting. It is with tremendous excitement that I introduce to you:

All the Warhammer and gaming posts from this site have been moved over to the new site. In about a month's time, they'll be taken down from here and only on Chickhammer. After that, it'll be back to quilting, crafting, and cooking.

Getting the new site pulled together took up most of my weekend, so it'll be a few days until I can get back to posting. I have some fun things waiting in the wings, including a delicious marinade that I tried this weekend. I've been devoting most of my time to painting the last few weeks, so it's high time I got back to sewing.

Homespun Honey Quilt, part 2

I've finally sat down and spent some time putting the top together. Lately, I've been a little too caught up in my other massively time-and-money-consuming hobby, Warhammer 40,000. It's a game you play on a 4'x6' mat with metal and plastic (and now resin) miniature models. You have an army of about 30-80 models, and your opponent has any army of their own and you battle.

It's about a hundred times more complicated than that, but it gives you an idea. There are several different armies you can choose from, and I've just switched from Chaos Daemons to Chaos Space Marines. That means I have about 60 models to glue together and paint. Most of them are assembled, but trying to paint them, and paint them well, is rather time consuming. Anyway, back to quilting.

The top is all but together, just have a few more strips to put together, although I haven't gotten to a photo yet. I'll get one eventually. It was just a matter of sitting down to do it. I am really happy with the way the arrangement of colors came out.

I stuck to the green/blue/red so it would have a more rustic vibe. I don't think Hubby-to-be will care, but it's more manly than the blue and white wedding ring quilt he uses now. I say he because we can't civilly share blankets. I like to bundle up in as many blankets as I can find (he calls me a burrito) and he likes to throw them on the floor. So, we use separate quilts so that we can actually comfortably sleep.

I will eventually load it up onto my Flynn Quilting Frame and quilting it up so that Hubby-to-be can use it once the weather turn colder.