June
28
Search Results for: the hobbit
April
19
Knit Your Own Superhero, or Stormtrooper, or Hobbit
Nerd Knitting on Tumblr has a series of patterns for dolls, across a variety of fandoms. But what caught my eye was one of the most recent posts. With Great Knitting Comes Great Responsibility.
Spider-Man has always been one of my favorite superheroes. So I was even more pleased when I wandered over to the tumblr and found characters from Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Batman, The Hobbit, and even Captain Jack…Sparrow. The pattern is worked flat then sown up and stuffed to make the doll. The patterns build up from one another, so I’d say read a couple before you get started, but this is mentioned in each one. So get your needles and ‘Let’s put a smile on that face’.
January
19
Win a Free Custom Pendant from The Geekerye!
The Geekerye is a lovely little shop on Etsy that specializes in jewelry representing a variety of fandoms. The shop owner, Rose Brown, customizes these pendants with just about anything you could want. How about your name in Gallifreyan? She can do that. How about something from Supernatural or Sherlock or The Hobbit? She can do that too. Take a look at her shop, and be sure to head over to the KC Geek Corps Facebook Page to enter the free giveaway!
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December
27
Pattern: There and Back Again Story Scarf
Frivolite Handcrafts is at it again. This time with a Hobbit themed double knit scarf. There and Back Again Story Scarf, knits out the tale of The Hobbit. You read that right, Knits out the story of The Hobbit. You should go to the project page, just so you can read the fun little story that goes with the scarf. In the same spirit as The Hobbit, this scarf is enough to make you smile.
Again this scarf, like the day of the doctor scarf is double knitted so you see the pattern on both sides as mirror images of each other.
September
13
How To: Chainmail From Soda Tabs
If you’re looking for an easy way to make a medieval/fantasy/knight costume, look no further! Continuing in the Hobbit costume theme, one of the most interesting crafts I’ve ever done came from a tutorial I saw on Pinterest where instructables.com user quixotiCfluX demonstrated how to use soda tabs to form chainmail. I then used it as part of my husband’s dwarf costume, and it looked amazing!
I asked all of my friends to donate their soda tabs to the cause, and my husband was quite happy to increase his intake of Diet Coke. Using only a wire cutter to cut the top, and a staple remover to help me bend the tabs, which helps them fit together nicely, I managed to create some great looking armor for really cheap! The full tutorial and details are on my blog post, so go have fun! Remember, only 48 days until Halloween!
- Instructables.com tutorial
- Dwarf Costume Tutorial on HappilyGrim
- More Hobbits crafts on GeekCrafts
- More Lord of the Rings crafts on GeekCrafts
May
12
One Does not Simply Crochet Mordor….
… But one can crochet Smaug, the Golden, the Dragon of Erebor, or as Bilbo refers to him, Smaug the Tremendous. I have to say “tremendous” is appropriate for this crocheted version by ChrysN found on Instructables for it is truly a tremendous crocheted version of the famous character from The Hobbit.
Crocheted using yarn of the 3 and 4 weight categories, you could adjust the size using different weight yarn and needles. Crocheted Smaug is indeed a faithful rendition of the depiction found in Tolkein’s watercolor entitled Conversations with Smaug.