MOAR T-shirts!

And some more Christmas pressies, this time for adult sized humans.

We'll start with my favourite of the bunch:




Some close ups of the V for Vendetta design:



I loves me an AT AT:



Leverage is back tonight! Woot!



Audrey's face looks a little faded in the pic, but it looks nicer with actual eyeballs.



A t-shirt for science geeks and X-Men nerds alike:



And a big cat chasing a gazelle or something...



As always, more pics here if you're interested.

Teeny tiny superheroes

So for Christmas I decided that all the small humans in my life needed their own superhero t-shirts. For the wee-est ones they're obviously more presents for the parents, but those over the age of four had quite the grasp on which symbols went with which superheroes. Indoctrinate the next generation of geeks early, I say!

All the designs were done with homemade stencils, and a combination of discharging dye for the pale bits, and fabric paint and pens. I was asked a while back to do a tutorial on making stencil designs and discharging dye which I'm in the process of getting together. The more people who prod me about, the quicker I'll get it done!

So, without further ado, I present my mini-heroes.



The Flash one is, I think, my favourite. Although I did have a minor wibble when it was finished about it looking printed and not actually appearing handmade, which is kinda the point. This prompted only mocking from my partner however, so no sympathy for me.



This Superman logo is a bit alternative in terms of colours but basically I started colouring in the wrong bit and decided to make the best of a bad job! Ooops. (No one tell the small human who received this pressie!)



I can never resist a tiny Batman logo!



Captain America. Nothing much to say on this one.



This Superboy one also came out great. There was a bit more freehand involved in this so I was worried it wouldn't come out well. But I never know nuffin' apparently. Seemingly easy projects turn out to be nightmares and things that concern me end up looking great!



Now this was an absolute nightmare. It looks fine from some angles, but from others it can appear mottled, almost tie-dyed. It's like (as I described here on twitter at the time) an undercover Green Lantern at Woodstock. I had previous problems with discharging dye on a green t-shirt, so I'm theorizing that it's something in the very nature of green dye to come out oddly. Shall experiment some more and report back.



More photos can be found over at my Flickr photstream here.

Star Trek Uniforms (I cannot think of a witty title... or even a bad pun...)

As may be quite obvious, I have been quite obsessed with making Star Trek crafts of late. At some point I will wean myself onto other fandoms and obsessions. In fact, pretty soon I will be asking for the wisdom of my internet friends to help me decide what the next cross stitch of head-melting-ly biggness will be.

But for now I present to you some nu-Trek uniforms that I would totally wear as a Halloween costume if I were doing the dressing up thing this year. But I'm not. So goodness only knows why I made them. Hopefully someone will want them!



So here's some Command gold...



Oh noes! It's a red shirt! She's dooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!



These are totally not the right boots for the look, but they were close enough at hand to give the right idea...



And here's a close up of the phaser on the trousers. I made a stencil of the basic phaser shape and then discharged the dye so that I could fabric paint the details over the top. Unfortunately discharging black from fabric is a bit more unpredictable than with any other colour, which is why it seems a little orangey in the middle. But it's not that noticeable with the naked eye thankfully.


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And you can see even more pics here.

Spaceship Stitched - the Enterprise is complete!

Nearly 33,000 stitches and four months have gone into this 42cm by 20cm piece of loveliness.

It's very pleasing to have finished a project and actually still like it. Goodness only knows what craziness I'll put myself through next. But for now at least I know that I like this ship. It's exciting!

This picture has come out a little blue for some reason, but I think it shows off the subtle changes in colour quite nicely.



This one's much more accurate in terms of colour.



And then this pic shows up my not always perfect stitching skills! But it does show the stitches close to their actual size.



And so she is finished! Hurrah!

And relax.... Until next time.....

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