The most popular post here on Geek Crafts to date is our 13 Geeky Baked Goods and this is a great example of a geeky cake. Flickr user TraderZed submitted this Boo Mario cake. I’m not really sure who Boo Mario is compared to other Marios, but the cake is great! Very impressive fondant work.

• Boo Mario Cake
• Boo Mario

Flickr user michellerheaume submitted her awesome Super Mario amigurumi dolls. Click through to her Flickr photostream to see some really great ones, including this Piranha Plant.

• Super Mario Piranha Plant Amigurumi
• Nintendo Super Mario Characters Mens Photo Sheer T-Shirt

Craftster user Cya made this great 8-bit Final Fantasy patch on her embroidery machine. Being a fairly new owner of an embroidery machine, I am super impressed that she made something with so many different colors… not easy on that machine!

• Final Fantasy Patch

Craftster user RachelKristin made this fun Super Mario cross-stitch with Raccoon Mario, who I always think is so cute. She says,

it’s mario flying above his enemies! at first i was going to do caped mario but then that would be getting into 2 different mario games on the same project & i can’t have those kinda discrepancies.

• Mario Cross-stitch
• Nintendo Super Mario Tanooki Suit Green T-Shirt Tee

How amazing is this? Flickr user Cross-stitch ninja cross-stitched this completely awesome map of the first world in Super Mario Brothers 3. Click through for some close-up shots.

• Mario Brothers 3 Map in Cross-stitch

Here’s a great Mario craft from Craftster user ConfusableBlonde: she embroidered different sprites on plastic canvas. A lucky swap partner will get add this to their home decor.

• Mario Tissue Box Cover

Stitch by stitch and pixel by pixel, cross stitch is a great medium for geek crafts! Get out some graph paper and markers and see what kind of designs you can come up with.

The IT Crowd Cross Stitch

Flickr user a440 is a lucky guy. His wife cross stitched this based on a photo of the introduction to the UK sitcom The IT Crowd. The guy on the left is even wearing a Space Invaders t-shirt!

• The IT Crowd Cross Stitch

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Flickr user Pixel Bit has gone cross stitch crazy! She stitched tons of buttons with different video game sprites on 20-count Aida fabric. For those of you who don’t cross stitch, 20-count is super teeny tiny! Click through to see them all individually.

• Cross Stitched Buttons

Here are 13 excellent examples of baked geekiness…tasty, too! I need a snack now.

All Your Base Cake

edalytical’s girlfriend Jess made him this funny cake. Roses are #FF0000, indeed.

• All Your Base Cake by edalytical

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Alice at Wonderland posted about this awesome, awesome, did I mention it’s awesome? NES coffee table by Kyle of Ultra Awesome. The best part? It really works! Kyle was kind enough to share instructions and step-by-step pictures of his masterpiece.

• NES Coffee Table [via Wonderland]