If there is one thing I love, it is a great Doctor Who craft, and as I anxiously await Matt Smith‘s premiere as the new Doctor next month, Kim2.0 is filling the void left by Tennant‘s departure with this great Wooden TARDIS she made from birch & balsa wood and posted on her blog.
What do you do when you just can’t get all the upholstery stains off of a beloved piece of furniture? If you’re Zombina Skeleton, you make that furniture into new friend named, George. Zombina posted her Monster Chair on craftster, where it was dubbed “Chairy from Peewee Herman‘s Playhouse’s evil cousin!”. I like George, I just hope he doesn’t eat Zombina’s dog.
One of our favorite submitters (is that a word?), Dawn A. Crawford sent in this creeptastic 9 Soft Sculpture from her blog, Crap I Make. Whether you enjoyed the post-apocalyptic, burlap doll story, you have to admit this little guy is pretty well made and very creepy. The details are great, too, with a working zipper and hand-sewn “9”.
Arrrrrrrrr, matey! Kristan Hemingway submitted this seafaring Pirate USB Drive that you can find in her etsy shop, hemingwayfun. She made him (along with other fun designs, including a penguin!) out of a hard vinyl with help from her father-in-law.
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!
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.
