Geek Crafts

A sweater vest so geeky, and so crafty that it was submitted to us twice by two different people! The Happy Seamstress describes it on her blog as “the nerdiest sweater vest in the world” (because there are really chic, hip sweater vests?). She took a screen shot of Super Mario Bros. , made a pattern and knitted this amazingly geek-tastic Super Mario Sweater Vest for her husband, after dying her own chartreuse yarn to match the pipe and bush perfectly!

• Super Mario Sweater Vest

December twenty-eighth came and went, and most New Yorkers went about their lives, blissfully unaware that their city had been taken over by ten sultry, lingerie modeling, miniature monsters. For the next several days, these monsters would hide out in random, unassuming spots in the Big Apple, awaiting discovery–and when they were discovered?  Well, they did what any well meaning monster would do, they directed the finder to Find A Monster where they could find out their monster’s name, basic information, biography, and a coupon for Bare Necessities!

Find A Monster is taking guerrilla marketing to a new, and pretty geeky level. This was the first Find A Monster experiment, lasting a few days–but if you follow @findamonster on Twitter, you’ll be the first to know about the next Find A Monster campaign and get clues to discover a mini-monster of your very own. Why monsters, though? JPD Studios, the marketing company responsible for the New York City monster invasion wanted to combine art and guerrilla marketing–and why not monsters? When Krista, from JPD Studios spoke with me she said,

…we chose monsters for this project because there’s no predefined idea of what a “monster” is. This allows for the artists’ creativity to be fairly limitless and we can easily tailor the monsters to a specific theme. Our monsters range from scary, funny, silly, cute, pretty, sexy, evil. Plus, everyone loves monsters!

And isn’t that the truth? I can’t wait to see what the next Find A Monster campaign is, and what they’ll be wearing!

• Find A Monster
• Bare Necessities

Who’s everyone’s favorite Lovecraftian horror? Cthulu of course! Keep warm in this polar fleece Cthulu Scarf made by Rosaleendhu on etsy. What can I say? I am sucker for anything that makes big, evil villains look sort of cute.

• Cthulu Scarf

I saw this shirt and said “whaaaaaaaat?” but in a good way! President Obama’s approval ratings may not be sky high right now, but he sure can kick some zombie butt, and we all want a POTUS who can lead the country through a zombie apocolypse! Chris Piers is responsible for this awesome Obama Versus Zombie illustration that you can find on tee shirts and more at Tinaseamonster’s etsy store.

• Obama Versus Zombie

Wow - check out these great crocheted monster eyes slippers! I love them - too bad my wife can’t make me some (she lacks the skillz).

Premier Yarns has branched out into some geek crafts for us to enjoy! They created a pattern for these awesome monster eyes slippers you see above and are giving the pattern away for FREE on their website.

And… they have offered all Geek Crafts readers a discount on any purchases made at Premier Yarns - use the code OCTG33K during the month of October to get 10% off any purchase of Dream yarns (the yarn used in the pattern).

Now, go out there and make some monster eyes slippers and show us the finished result!

• Free monster eyes slippers pattern

Nicole posted these Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy jeans she did with fabric paint on her blog, Cole Can Craft. These pants are super-geeky-cool and who doesn’t love a pair of jeans that say “Don’t Panic” on your butt?

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Jeans