Geek Crafts

I don’t know what life would be like without coffee–and I don’t want to. The best thing about CraftieRobot’s Caffeine Structure Messenger Bag is that it provides a way to carry your laptop and current reading selections, advertise your geekiness and show your worship of the caffiene gods all in one easy to use bag. Love it! Find it at CraftieRobot’s etsy shop.

• Caffeine Structure Messenger Bag

Space geek extraordinaire Rachel Hobson live-embroidered the space shuttle Endeavor’s de-orbit pattern as it returned to Earth this week. She’d already covered the Endeavor’s launch for MAKE: live from Houston, but welcoming it back with live-crafting is taking it to the next level!

Rachel says,

How could I not stitch the deorbit map of the first shuttle I’ve seen launch? I didn’t want to jinx her landing, though, by stitching the first deorbit map only to find that she was delayed or rerouted to some other location.

Just more than one hour before she was set to land, she was given the all clear for weather and the go ahead to execute the deorbit burn that would commit her to landing. I literally jumped out of my chair, ran to my craft room and gathered my supplies. I had one scrap of black fabric, perfect for the background. I grabbed one of my many containers of embroidery floss, and it just happened to have every color I needed. I printed the map, transferred it with carbon paper and was off.

• Stitching Endeavor’s De-orbit Map
• Rachel in Space at MAKE:

I found this Crocheted Saturn V from Ms Premise-Collection in the Geek Crafts Flickr pool and my nerdy husband summed it up nicely:

“Whoah, that’s awesome.”

• Crocheted Saturn V

Geek Crafts reader Sarah submitted this super cute amigurumi Tiny Einstein from Craftser user Nostrum. Click through to see Tiny Einy in another outfit.

• Tiny Amigurumi Einstein

Craftster user rangerbeth made some great science nerd bibs as a gift for a professor, including this hilarious one with Poop spelled out with elements. Click through to see the rest.

• Elements Poop Bib

There’s something about crafts in the likeness of real people that cracks me up, so I’m very amused by this. Craftster user Rinoa1024 made this etched glass with Carl Sagan for her boyfriend.

• Carl Sagan Etched Glass