"We live in a space ship, dear."

 

Day One of stitching Serenity.
 

There's four different colours in there so far. Honest. Me and pale colours look set to resume our grudge match. But she's smaller and therefore this should be less head-hurty than the Enterprise.

 

One day soon she ought to look like this:

It's been a bit of an odd week for me, and so all my crafting plans have been somewhat randomised.

My plans to cross stitch Ripley wearing the power-loader thingy from Aliens have been rather waylaid by my inability to find a high enough quality picture from that scene. Not only do I need a picture of just the right moment, but it also needs to be a pretty huge photo in order for me to make some changes to it so that it'll work all pixelated. My google-fu has failed me so far. I may have to resort to making my own screencaps from the DVD. I think I know how to do that. Eeep. The delay has made me move forward on my plans to cross-stitch Serenity though, which I've been meaning to do ever since I started the Enterprise one.

On the plus side, I saw Flight of the Conchords on Saturday and they were fantastic. More thoughts and pics of my homemade Conchords t-shirt (I could not help myself!) soon!

In the meantime, these two Watchmen badges came out quite nice. I think I need to adjust the colours in the Rorschach one (the purple and the orange both need to be browner) and maybe the smiley would look better if it were a stitch or two bigger so it goes right over the edges of the badge. Or maybe I just need to align it a little better the next time I put one in the badge making machine!

I have a terrible tendency to pick up a few extra t-shirts that grab my fancy whenever I'm getting something for a custom order. So a couple of weeks ago I rounded up all the random shirts piling up around my craft room and decided to come up with something simple but cool to actually use them for.

And thus this happened:



This one's my absolute favourite. Both the stencil and the printing worked out so perfectly, and the design's really clear and sharp, as you can see here (although that pic doesn't capture the gold as well as this one):


A comics' fan geek:


Another Lord-of-the-Rings type geek:


This Blade Runner-esque geek came out with a weird ragged white border which you can see better here. I think the stencil must have contracted some while the white base was drying. It's totally unintended but I actually really like how it turned out.


Matrixy geek:


Buffy geek (why do I keep making Buffy type crafts on bright pink? Buffy isn't a hot pink kind of show, so why do I keep making that association? Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C.) :


And of course we need an Angel one to go with:


A Supernatural geek:


Star Wars-y geek:


A Battlestar Galactica geek (while I was working out the font I also made a shirt with 'frak' on it, which I'll post soon):


I am so keeping this one for myself:


Oh hai, nerd! How did you sneak in here?


Why on earth did I ever buy a day-glo orange t-shirt? Why?


More retro geekery:


Back to the Future:


Again, Terminator doesn't make me think purple sparklyness but for some reason this made sense to me at the time:


This Aliens geek has a gold trim to it, which doesn't show up so well in this pic:


Yet more Lord of the Rings inspiration (so much good typography in the books and the movies!):


And of course there's geeks aplenty for Star Trek, in original series, the motion picture, and next generation flavours:






And then I had to print some bags too:





As always, there are more photos at my Flickr album here. And since I'm being particularly shameless today I'll point out that most of these t-shirts will be available to buy from my etsy shop here. Custom orders are always appreciated - if you want something uniquely geeky to you, I'm happy to make it!