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.
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!
Check out this amazing work of cross stitch. Craftster user postfeminist stitched this meticulously detailed portrait of Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life. She says she’s working on Elvis Costello and others. I can’t wait to see more of her work!
Want to make your own Ms. Pac-Man crafts? Head over to Lots of Patterns and get this vintage Ms. Pac-Man Cross Stitch Booklet. This Millcraft booklet from 1981 includes three different designs.
Holy carp, the detail in this blanket is amazing!! Romelnq recently posted this image to Imgur, saying that after five years, the blanket was finally finished. However, Romelnq was just the poster. Romelnq’s wife was the creator.
The black and blue background was crochet (with an H sized hook) and the rest of it was cross-stitched over. You can see a series of progression shots here. For a size comparison, Romelnq said in an earlier post that the “1991” at the bottom of the blanket is about as big as a banana, so we got our scale after all!
