Encouraging people to create their own craft by giving them a little help is a fabulous way to shove nervous crafters in the right direction. Embroidery is one of those things that can be a bit overwhelming if you don't know where to start. So how does connecting the dots embroidery style grab you?
The Leethal site is a combination of all things crafty and otherwise from hand dyes to feeding the ducks in a Portland park. I challenge anyone to wander through it and not find something that want to whip up in their own crafty mitts.
The Connect-the-dots Stitch Sets, which come in four themes: Cryptozoology, Craft Tools, Woodland Creatures and Dinosaurs, feature four images with a fifth mystery image that is only obvious once you've stitched it.
You can find out a little more about the set on the Leethal blog here and get your paws of them in the Leethal shop.
Last week, I featured a rather large
Mario Needlepoint scene that I made to frame and hang up on the wall. This week, I thought that I would feature smaller, scaled down versions of that needlepoint that you can wear as a pin or brooch. I have created several needlepoints of video game characters, such as this one from the Duck Hunt game for the NES. These only take a couple of hours to make, tops (as opposed to the more ambitious large Mario needlepoint!) After creating the needlepoint, I created the back where the pin would be located. I cut out a piece of felt for the back, and then a smaller piece of felt where the safety pin would go. I stitched the safety pin to the back of the felt to hold it in place. Then, I stitched the entire back piece to the front needlepoint.
It's as easy as that! You can apply this technique to any kind of small needlepoint that you'd like to turn into a brooch. Also, check it out: the geeky brooches in my Etsy Shop.
As Cecil B. DeMille put it “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without".
Bonjour, I am Malorie, a 22 year old South African who has made the sunny, tropical island of Mauritius her home.
For as long as I can remember my drug of choice has been creativity and if brought forward to a court of law the charges laid against me would be: painting, drawing, pottery, knitting & crocheting, jewellery making, sewing, cross stitch, embroidery, decoupage, mosaic and basically fabricating something of some sort. I am also guilty of hording everything and anything that can be somehow transformed into a work of art or craft. I love experimenting with all sorts of materials and also enjoy combining them i.e: drawing with shoe polish or combining powder paint with wood glue.
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Looking to geek up your fridge? Here are some Tetris needlepoint fridge magnets that I created for my love of the game. I first created them for a video game related craft swap on the Craftster forums and later brought them to my shop on Etsy. I made a different fridge magnet for each different Tetris block in the game in multiple different colours - seven in total. Each block is handstitched in needlepoint and there is felt on the back to hide the stitches. Attached to the back is a strong magnet so you can stick them on your fridge, inside your locker, or anywhere else magnetic where you'd like to show off your geek pride!
Lauren of Lost Mitten is a bit of an authority when it comes to geeky crafting, and browsing her site is like walking through a soft version of Gamespot.
There's been a lot of excitement about her recent Nintendo DS case, but I was particularly taken by her needlepoint Pac Man fridge magnets, which reminded me a bit of the Space Invaders tile graffiti that's all over major cities by a mysterious Banksy-like figure called the Space Invader. So simple - yet so immediately effective and iconic. There's also a bubble bobble set, but the pixel-like nature of needlepoint means it would be possible to try almost any video game character (before about the year 2000, at least - after that it all gets a bit fiddly).
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