Geek Crafts

On a recent weekend jaunt to Dublin, my lovely friend Gill was served this cup of amazing in The Art of Coffee, a little coffee shop she stumbled on. Gill assures me it tasted as good as it looked, once she had worked up the nerve to drink the masterpiece!

Coffee shop owner Ruslan recently won the 2012 Irish Latte Art Championship, and so is going on to represent his country in the World Latte Art Championships (who even knew such things existed? Wow!) so I’m sure we all wish him luck.

• The Art of Coffee shop website (includes a coffee art gallery)
• World Coffee Championships

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I just  found these absolutely adorable egg cozies over on Craftster! What a great way to decorate an Easter egg without having dyed finger tips and impatient little ones who just want to hunt eggs rather than carefully dipping.

Balatong discusses briefly how she made them and it is a great starter project for anyone who wants to step slowly into making and creating their own amigurumi. The only difference would be the stuffing inside, polyfil or egg?

Half A Dozen Egg Cozies – CROCHET.

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Friday Roundup

Just one more… Hmm? What? … Yes, yes, I know it’s almost time for the Friday Roundup. Just wanted to finish this lev… I am not! No way I’m addicted to… What? Just pause it and do the round up? Okay, but I’m not addicted to it!

Sorry, guess I had lost tract of time but never fear, for the Friday Roundup is loaded with some amazing patterns to create some fabulous Angry Birds creations (and I am not addicted).

Emjay Bailey, otherwise known as Nerdigurumi has crochet patterns available for free for both the Angry Red Cardinal and the Green Pig.

Knitter can find patterns for the pair as well as the Angry Yellow Bird at Knitterbee‘s blog.

Crocheters do not dispair because Laura Chua offers us a free download for the Angry Yellow Bird.

Michele Villa offers a pattern for a crocheted Angry Birds Cozy which can be adapted to size.

Crafts by Starlight has a pattern for a crocheted Angry Bird Black Bird Hat.  There are also links there for several other Angry Bird hats as well.

Lii Yan seems to have some sympathy for those frustrating Green Pigs and gives us a pattern for a hat.

Not into hats? Then how about an Angry Birds Tissue Box Cover by Donesia Margolis?

Suzy Vitale has created charts for knitting of the Red and Black Angry Birds.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some pigs to destroy… Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

• Nerdigurumi
• Knitterbee
• Laura Chua
• Michele Villa
• Crafts by Starlight 
• Lii Yan
• Donesia Margolis
• Suzy Vitale

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crafters love angry birds… FACT

Craftster user Miss Jols shares with us a tutorial on how to make the bad guy we love to hate (but secretly love to love, and would love to squoosh!) out of green fleece!

Don’t pretend you wouldn’t make 6 of them, pile them up in the corner and throw stuff at them until you’d knocked them all over…  no? … just me then …

• Go to the tutorial on Craftster
• More Angry Birds on Geekcrafts
• More Tutorials on Geekcrafts
  

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This week the phenomenon that is Angry Birds turns 2! To celebrate here is an Angry Birds Treasury! Be sure to click on the picture to be taken to the actual treasury.

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Via Pinterest.

Homemade Beauties By Heidi brings us this fantastic tutorial for an Angry Birds can toss game.

This is great, kinda like angry birds in real life… means you and the kids can have a happy green-pig-smashing-time even when you’ve lost the charger for your Ipad.

I’d be so tempted to tell one of those parent lies, you know, “this is how we used to play angry birds when I was your age.” That kind of thing.

• Go the the tutorial on Homemade Beauties By Heidi
• Angry Birds on Geekcrafts
• Tutorials on Geekcrafts

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