Geek Crafts

If your Winter wasn’t quite creepy enough, or all that snow has driven you to madness, perhaps you should reflect it, with a pair of these fabulously tentacled Cthulhu mittens! This pair was knitted by knittitude as part of Nerd Wars on Ravelry and made it to the finals of the best in round two.

This free pattern was written by Diana Stafford (you may remember we shared her One Ring scarf pattern earlier this year) – truly a great, all-round, geeky knitter!

• Cthulhu Mittens pattern on Ravelry by Diana Stafford
• Cthulhu Mittens by knittitude on Ravelry
• More Cthulhu crafts on GeekCrafts

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Mmmm…toasty braaiiinss! Check out this amazing zombie embroidery by Flickr user Darizard! It’s the perfect combination of cute and creepy. And believe it or not, this was only her first try at embroidery!

• Zombie Campfire embroidery by Darizard
• More zombies on Geek Crafts
• More embroidery on Geek Crafts

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Halloween is getting closer and closer, so I wanted to celebrate with an homage to one of my favorite horror movies…

They just don’t make them like they used to, right? 1970s horror was great at mixing creep and gore. Shove Mink has more terrifying stuff in her Etsy shop so if horror is your thing, be sure to check it out. These are art pieces, which is one reason why this is not meant for kids. Also nightmares.

Oh, Sex Pistols fans, you’ll find a pretty amazing and twisted memorial there as well.

• Exorcist play set on Etsy 
• Shove Mink’s Etsy page

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It’s certainly showing my age to say that I remember the ads coming out during the September and October of my senior year of high school for The Nightmare Before Christmas and being so. very. excited.  I don’t recall a time before or since that I so eagerly anticipated a movie and had it live up to my exceptions so completely.

Obviously, lots of time has passed since then. Burton decided to make that horrible adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (>>shudder!<<) BUT… he’s got another movie (Frankenweenie) coming out this weekend and it is claymation and I’m going to give it a chance because it looks adorable and creepy and everything else I love about this time of year.

As an homage, I decided to post these really cute painted shoes, featuring the only lovable 2-faced politician and Jack and Sally during a moment of romance.

Check out Tracy Pierce’s page on Etsy to see more angles. Look out for Oogy Boogy!

• 2 Happy Feet on Etsy

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Look, I’ll be honest with you. I’m not at all into amigurumi. More power to you if you are, but they are not my thing. But I stumbled across this little Amigurumi Buffy and was enchanted. I mean, seriously, look at how cute she is! I just love the little smirk and the little crocheted stake. Such an adorable little slayer.

• Amigurumi Buffy
• Skeeboo Productions’ Etsy Shop

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Oh Instructables, you never disappoint…

This week Instructables user ZombieGorilla has posted a tutorial on how to make a massive Lego Skeleton! Because EVERYONE needs one of those in their lives!

There’s not much else to say really… GIANT LEGO SKELETON… beats garden gnomes and fake flamingoes any day…

• Giant Lego Skeleton tutorial
• More Lego on Geek Crafts
• More tutorials on Geek Crafts

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