Welcome to Pac-Man week! We’ll be featuring Pac-Man-related crafts all week long.
Craftster user Glamis made this Pac-Man baby blanket with an entire Pac-Man screen shot. With polar fleece, she machine-sewed the blue strips and hand-sewed everything else. It’s perfect for baby geeks!
Heather Kostal posted her handmade Greedo toothbrush holder to Craftster way back in 2006. But I’ve just discovered it because I’m on kind of a Greedo kick right now.
Heather made this for her husband a few years before she even posted it. She used to have access to a kiln, so it is just hand-built clay, then kiln fired and glazed. She said they took it out of their bathroom because with arrival of both a dog and a baby, it was getting knocked around. Now that it has resurfaced, she realized they all have electric toothbrushes which can no longer be accommodated by Greedo’s bulbous head.
You don’t have to make an army of them, but why wouldn’t you? Check out this free crochet pattern, designed by Adorably Kawaii on Craftsy. It’s a beginner level pattern with pictures, and did I mention it’s free? I imagine it would be a great scrap buster too, and it would be easy enough to replace the safety eyes with buttons if that’s what you’ve got on hand.
Just this weekend my younger brother tagged me on FB with an article about the children’s book series Bunnicula, including the news that a new cartoon is coming out. Since the Bunnicula series was one of my favorite books as a kid, I wondered if there were any crafters out there that had shared their love of the vegetable sucking vampire bunny. I found this cute little plushie by username road_baby on Craftgrrl – Where Crafters Unite! Adorable.
There’s no tutorial that goes along with this photo, but on Urban Threads I did find a bunny plushie pattern that could be adapted (or made as is, it’s delightfully cute and evil) to more resemble Bunnicula.
Urban Threads has a cute, free printable plushie pattern for a vampire bunny.
Need a super cute gift for a youngling in your life? Look no further than this adorable crochet Yoda-inspired lovey by Kristen McCrory.
The little Yoda head gives your young padawan something to cuddle onto, while also toting around the ever-so-comforting blankie, all in Star Wars geek style. Win-win-win.
Make this Yoda blankie even more geek-tastic by watching “Star Wars” while stitching it up, so the Force is melded into every stitch. Which episode of the series would you watch while making this?
Side note: I noticed Kristen also has a mega-awesome Gir lovey in her Etsy shop – makes me think, “Aw, somebody needs a hug!”
Got some baby geekcrafting in your future? Check out these stellar space ornaments by Laura Chau! Hung all together, I think they would make a great mobile for a baby’s nursery. Or leave them as individual projects to hang on a space-themed tree for the holidays.
Laura is also a prodigious designer of other knit wonders – check her out on Ravelry, too.
