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Craftster user TroubleT made this wonderful Father’s Day gift for her husband, a Portal fan. They’re a rather clever and appropriate use for embroidery hoops, don’t you think? Link -via Geek Crafts
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As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostalgic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin.
Lauren DiCioccio’s New York Times needlework project gives new meaning to the term “embroidering the truth”.
Link - Via Dudecraft
This great needlepoint work was created by Tennessee artist, Jacquelyn Royal. If you like her work, there’s more on the site, but I don’t think any of them look nearly as real as this one.
Never before has Jabba looked so sensitive with his deep brown eyes and sweet little stuffed bunny. He’s part of the Star Wars Exhibit previously mentioned on Neatorama.
This is one of the strangest craft projects I’ve ever seen. Becky Stern says she plans to continue working on different segments of the MRI to see how her project will turn out.
You may have seen Alex’s crocheted bunny body suit, but I’ll see that handiwork and raise you Urban Knitting. Trees, street signs, statues and gas stations, nothing is safe from these rebels of the wool.
