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Meeples and Monsters from Becca's Crazy Projects

In case you don't know, I love a good board game Kickstarter. Meeples and Monsters from AEG is one of those board games.

The finish on everything in this box is just awesome! Look at these bags. So many times everything in a Kickstarter project is great except they cheap-out on the bags for dice, or pieces. These are big enough to get your hand into easily.

Printed meeples are necessary for this game but they add a little to the overall finish. Yes, some of those are just gray, which is intentional. We call those the drunken meeples ...

added by Becca 2 years, 9 months ago. under 2022 , board games , friends , game , gaming , geeky , kickstarter , shopping

Game Night from Becca's Crazy Projects

It has been over a year since we sat down for in-person dinner and games with our friends. Saturday marked the first weekend everyone was fully vaccinated so we celebrated with dinner and games.

I only have a few photos as we were having too much fun playing games and catching up. This is the board for Canvas, a card drafting strategy game. It was quick to learn and kept us entertained. The base game is available on Amazon (link at the end of the post).

This is a view of the table when we played Mountain Goats. This was ...

added by Becca 3 years, 6 months ago. under 2021 , board games , friends , game , gaming , geeky , kickstarter , shopping

Multipass from Becca's Crazy Projects

When I saw this recent embroidery design release by Off With Their Threads I raced to the website to buy my copy. This is such a great geek project. After trimming some slivers off my card, it holds my vaccine card perfectly.

I was so glad I found this gray vinyl in my collection. Perfect for this project. This design fits in the 5" by 7" hoop and stitches out pretty quickly.

I backed mine with coordinating gray felt. I think I'll use vinyl as backing on the next one.

added by Becca 3 years, 6 months ago. under 2021 , brother , crazy , embroidery , geeky , machine , maryland , md , project , projects

Don't Blink Poncho #2 from Becca's Crazy Projects

I recently shared my first Don't Blink Poncho. After looking at it for a week, I decided I needed to make another so at least some of the wording would be right-side up.

While the fabric has that tossed/scrambled look, I think it looks better on this one than the last.

Here they are side-by-side. The left is the first one I made (I think the words look upside down). The right is the second one (I think the words look right-side up). Now I have to figure out what to do with one of them. I certainly ...

added by Becca 4 years, 7 months ago. under 2020 , crazy , fabric , fleece , garment , geeky , maryland , md , poncho , project , projects , sew , sewing

Don't Blink Poncho from Becca's Crazy Projects

Continuing to work on projects that I have just waiting I decided to make a poncho using this fun Doctor Who fabric I bought on sale last year. A print this size deserves to be something big that doesn't chop up the print.

The first thing I had to do was clean off some of this workspace. Cutting fabric for quilting isn't difficult with less space, but when it comes to cutting fleece for garment sewing I need room and less clutter.

Afterwards there was space to work and and think. Sometimes the clutter gets in the way ...

added by Becca 4 years, 7 months ago. under 2020 , crazy , fabric , fleece , garment , geeky , maryland , md , poncho , project , projects , sew , sewing

Machine Embroidery from Becca's Crazy Projects

I've had my eye on this machine embroidery design for a while now. I have plenty of gamer friends that would use one of these fun and easy to take along dice trays.

Two layers of durable vinyl and some fun embroidery make this a quick and durable project, perfect for gift giving. The design is from String Theory Fabric Art. Direct link.

Tools and supplies (affiliate links):
Fiskars Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat
Fiskars 4-inch Curved Craft Scissors
Fiskars 8-inch scissors
Magna-Glide bobbins (absolutely the best for my embroidery machine)
KAM snaps
Pellon Stitch-N-Tear

added by Becca 5 years, 1 month ago. under 2019 , brother , crazy , dice , dragon , embroidery , game , gaming , geeky , machine , maryland , md , project , projects , snap tab

Geeky Sewing from Becca's Crazy Projects

I've been thinking about adding an applique Gengar (you can do a Google search for Gengar Pokemon to learn more) to a small project bag for a while. Over the last few weeks I've been working on the machine embroidery design. Creating your own applique designs can be both rewarding and frustrating.

It took four tries for me to get to a point I thought it worthwhile to stitch one of these onto anything beyond muslin. It still isn't perfect, but I was going to end up throwing it all in the trash if I didn't ...

added by Becca 5 years, 1 month ago. under 2019 , bag , brother , crazy , embroidery , geeky , machine , maryland , md , project , projects

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