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It Might Be Easier to Make a Real Jabba the Hutt Than to Make These Jabba the Hutt Cookies

by Susana Polo | 12:09 pm, May 16th, 2013

The reward is definitely better when you make the cookies, though. And to be fair, Mike at Semiswet Designs is pretty upfront about the difficulty of this particular tutorial. I’ll just have to admire them in their visual form.

Previously in Star Wars

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How to Make Your Own Cosy Portal Pajamas, for Curling Up Next to Your Companion Cube

by Susana Polo | 3:35 pm, April 16th, 2013

Rachael at Instructables is really on to something here, with a simple pattern for making your own Chell jammies out of a few yards of orange and white fleece. Check out some in progress pictures behind the jump, and then head over to Instructables to see the whole how-to!

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Chelsea Bloxsom Embroiders Adventure Time, Venture Bros., Ron Swanson, and More

by Susana Polo | 10:18 am, March 15th, 2013

Pop culture seamstress and crafter Chelsea Bloxsom isn’t currently selling any of her beautifully felted and embroidered creations, just her plush ones. So we’ll have to admire her hoops from our own computer screens.

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Knit All the Nerd References (Into This Blanket)

by Susana Polo | 12:15 pm, March 11th, 2013

Leilaniac on Ravelry designed this blanket for her nephew to cover everything from the Muppets to the ThunderCats. That center square? It’s his name in binary. You had us at dinosuars, Leilaniac.

Previously in Crafts

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Cross Stitch Your Heart Out With These Fandom Sprites

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, February 5th, 2013

Has there ever been a more harmonious conflation of style and medium than the pixelated aesthetic popularized by early computer graphics and the comparatively ancient craft of cross-stitched embroidery? Perhaps the triple conflation of cross stitched sprites for popular cultural touchstones whether or not they’re related to video games. XStitchMyHeart has a great wealth of patterns for the cross stitchy nerd, or anyone who knows one.

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How to Make Your Own Combustible Lemons (Warning: Lemons do Not Actually Combust)

by Susana Polo | 10:15 am, January 31st, 2013

So you have this boss. And he’s been having a rough time, I mean, he’s always been kind of… volatile, but these days even his beloved secretary can’t keep him from emotional outbursts in front of his staff. And now he’s asked you to make him exploding lemons. So you do. Guy’s got enough on his plate, and, in any case, he’s working for the good of all of us.

Except the ones who are dead.

(DIY Portal 2 Lemon Grenade Tutorial by Epbot.)

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When Math, Science, and Embroidery Get Together, We All Win

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, January 30th, 2013

Can you recognize this just from looking at it? If you can, high five, because I got it too. It’s an embroidery design inspired by NASA photographs of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, by Pardalote on Tumblr. They’ve got a lot of their beautiful work up on their blog but this, and another STEM oriented one caught our attention. It’s a beautiful embroidered Voronoi diagram!

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How to Make Your Own Batgirl Tights

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, January 29th, 2013

Geeklicious has a DIY tights tutorial that, while time consuming and potentially messy, clearly produces beautiful results. Sounds like an activity best paired with a judicious afternoon of Random Dungeons. You can find the complete instructions and list of supplies right here.

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How to Make Your Bed Into Totoro

by Susana Polo | 10:12 am, January 23rd, 2013

As a follow up on my post about how to look like you skinned Totoro and now live inside him, I feel compelled to share Ivy G.’s incredibly simple Cut Out and Keep tutorial on how to make it look like you skinned Totoro and now sleep inside him.

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Plush Diablo and Tyrael Make for the Cuddliest War of Heaven Ever

by Susana Polo | 10:18 am, December 31st, 2012

Any casual observer of video games can figure out that the demon lord Diablo is the big bad of the Diablo games. Players will also be familiar with the angel Tyrael, one of mankind’s only allies. And as for that halberd weilding cow, well. There is no cow level. These Diablo, Tyrael, and Cow plushies were created by Arixystix, and while she has no plans to sell them on her Etsy shop, she’s thinking about selling a pattern for the Diablo. In the meantime, crafty Blizzard fans can get their hands on the pattern for this plush StarCraft Overlord.

(via Nerd Approved.)

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