Somehow, I made time to design a robot cheater quilt pattern for Spoonflower’s fabric contest. Besides creating the quilt block pattern, I also created several fabric patterns that go inside the blocks.
Since the theme was “robots” I definitely had to make some science and mechanical patterns! I also wanted to use some florals to be ironic, but it was too crazy mixing florals with machine gears.
The entries will be open for voting next week!
Happy Leap Day!
Do you guys remember that reality show, “America’s Next Great Restaurant”? In one of the episodes, the contestants had a kid challenge, and part of that meant they had to come up with toys for the kid’s menu.
Guess who sewed Pita Pete.
Anyway, I stumbled onto some NSFW but hilarious reactions to Pita Pete. Even though I didn’t have a hand in Pita Pete’s design (I just did the sewing), I love that people have raunchy things to say about something I made.
This year, I made no New Year’s resolutions during New Year’s. Some big changes happened, and I really needed to pad myself with a few weeks’ worth of time before I could wrap my mind around goals.
This blog became little more than a sporadic tap of the “Reblog” button — which is fine for a Tumblog, but I’d really like to show some neat things instead of only regurgitating stuff that’s gone around the Interwebs. So, now, long after New Year’s, I’m working on my resolve to post more neat things.
Here’s a first neat thing:
It’s a sweater vest made by my grandma about 25 years ago. My mom found it and showed me when we were talking about crafts/skills that people no longer learn due to lack of need.
My grandma learned to knit and sew all on her own (the need was high!), so I find it amazing that she knocked out these cool deer with the intarsia technique. I love that some deer have way thicker necks than others; the imperfection is wonderful!
Since Grandma was self-taught, she had this haphazard way of approaching things — like not prescribing to the logical “measure twice, cut once” approach. She never really measured at all, actually, just kind of eye-balled. That’s probably the reason why this vest, made for a three-year-old, fits the adult me pretty nicely.
Still, I love it. Thank you, Grandma!
Click through to this link, and you’ll put your happiness into orbit.
Orbital patterns and time-scales of the planets of the Solar System, set to wonderfully hypnotic music.
(via whitevinyldesign)
(Source: jtotheizzoe, via proofmathisbeautiful)
I didn’t know that macaws had such feathers on their face and such beautiful eyes.
Science lesson in six tweets from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I’m in cold weather and, naturally, my thoughts wander to gelato in warm, sunny summertime Paris.
Here’s what the hand-made ones looked like.
Happy holidays!
I hand-crafted cards this year for family, friends, and clients. The version that friends and family got featured our pets and household droid. I liked it so much that I went all out with a digital version. So here’s a gift from me to you:
iPhone Wallpaper light / dark
Desktop Wallpaper light / dark
© Dana Chen. For personal use only, yada yada yada.
