Oh cross-stitch. Where have you been all my life? It's my new obsession. It completely feeds into my A-type personality and mathy-brain needs. I've done so much stitching over the past year and I still have a number of projects either partially finished or planned for the future.
After seeing Holly show off a finished cross stitch at a VMQG meeting, I rushed out and bought a pattern from
weelittlestitches -- The Big Bang Theory cast. I stitched up Penny first and it was the most gratifying thing. All the counting! Precision! Nerdy-ness!
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The start of it all... Big Bang Theory cast by weelittlestitches |
The BBT one was given to a friend. Next I did Buffy. Because I love Buffy. And I wanted to make one for me. Look at that wee little Spike! And Xander's eye-patch! Even Buffy has Mr. Pointy in her hand. I'm still pondering taking this out of the frame and captioning it "She saved the world. A lot."
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer |
One of my other favourite TV fandoms is Firefly. As in "I can quote the dialog" kind of fandom. This particular pattern I found for free online from a
fellow Vancouverite Browncoat who blogs under the name cthulhucrochet. It was a lot more challenging than the weelittlestitches patterns because it involved half-stitches as well as a ton of outline backstitch. I adore how it turned out, especially the "Big Damn Heroes" text at the bottom.
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Little weeble versions of Firefly. Jayne's hat just kills me. |
For Riley's birthday last year, I combined 3 different weelittlestitches patterns to make this huge one of Harry Potter and Friends. From left to right we have: Mad Eye Moody, Tonks, Lupin, Sirius, Hagrid, Hermione, Harry, Ron, Dumbledore, Ginny, Fred, George, Luna and Neville.
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Harry Potter and friends -- weelittlestitches |
Also from weelittlestitches, I did up the cast of Star Trek:TNG. This one went to a friend but I'm definitely going to remake this one for myself as well.
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Star Trek: TNG cast done for a friend. |
I also have experimented with plastic canvas ... I used some and did up this little 16 bit Yoshi (based on an image I googled). Then I stuck an adhesive magnet to the band and wee Yoshi now lives on my fridge.
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Yoshi fridge magnet. |
Another free pattern, this one from Dorkstitch... this one is the 2 "standard issue nerds!" from British comedy The IT Crowd. This also went to a friend who is a huge fan of the show.
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Roy and Moss and the famous catch phrase from the IT Crowd. |
The other great thing about cross-stitch? Compared to quilting, it's an EXTREMELY affordable hobby. The embroidery floss and Aida cloth are both really affordable. That and the speed at which I can make things results in this being a perfect craft for gift making!
xoxo
Heather
Heather, your cross stitches are just awesome. (I'm a Firefly fan too - not at your level, but a fan nonetheless.)
ReplyDeleteThanks Felicity!!
DeleteI really love these. I hadn't seen these patterns before, they're brilliant. I have a weak spot for cross stitching too!
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