March
27
Nintendo Craft Contest
Happy Seamstress, home of the Super Mario Sweater pattern, is hosting a Nintendo craft contest. Click through for all the details.
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March
11
Quiltris 2.0
The Quiltergeek herself, Julie Ramsay, has been posting updates about her spectacular Tetris Quilt in progress… this is the second version she’s dreamed up, and lucky for us, she mentioned she might sell the pattern as a PDF in her Etsy shop!
Check out Julie’s geek category for lots more fantastic quilt projects.
February
25
Stitching Endeavor’s De-orbit Map
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.
January
18
Embroidered Monster Kitchen Towel
Craftster user Leilani79 embroidered this cute monster on a kitchen towel for a friend’s Christmas gift. The pattern is from Urban Threads.
January
11
Knitted Jelly Baby
If you really love Doctor Who, then you know that The Doctor really loves Jelly Babies, they’ve managed to be a favorite snack through several of his incarnations (most famously Tom Baker’s Doctor), and if you’ve ever had them before, you understand why. You can find this adorable and easy Knitted Jelly Baby pattern on Craftbits.
January
6
Super Mario Sweater Vest
A sweater vest so geeky, and so crafty that it was submitted to us twice by two different people! The Happy Seamstress describes it on her blog as “the nerdiest sweater vest in the world” (because there are really chic, hip sweater vests?). She took a screen shot of Super Mario Bros. , made a pattern and knitted this amazingly geek-tastic Super Mario Sweater Vest for her husband, after dying her own chartreuse yarn to match the pipe and bush perfectly!