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Free mini Mario Mushroom & Invincibility Star amigurumi patterns

Michelle — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:00:54 +0000

Earlier this week I gave you a roundup of some of the best Christmas decorations for geeks. However, as wonderful as they all are, it can’t be denied that us crafty types can never resist the opportunity to do it ourselves! So I give you, not one, but two free patterns to get you crafting up a storm this festive season with these mini Mario mushrooms and invincibility stars from Amy’s Odyssey.

Who could possibly resist the sight of these cute little crochet fellas peeking out through the branches of their Christmas tree this festive season? If you make plenty you could even string them together for some totally dork-tastic Christmas bunting!

But please do remember, mushrooms are for life not just for Christmas, so be sure to find them a new spot to live once the tree comes down!

What are you waiting for — go get hooking right away!

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Star Trek Potholders and Buffy Love: the best of the craft blogs

Michelle — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:40:25 +0000

I am starting to imagine a very Harry Hill-style jingle for this weekly roundup of the best projects and news from the craft blogosphere. Let’s all sing it together, it’s time for ‘craft blog highlights of the week’.

Thanks to the fab folk at Geek Craft I’m able to sneak in yet another free pattern this week with these crocheted Star Trek potholders from Off the Hook Astronomy
Although not strictly crafting, this week Craftzine have been treating us to some rather tasty treats featuring some gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes from new book Cooking For Geeks by Jeff Potter. I think I will be giving the Butternut Squash Soup and Sage Rush Cocktail a go!
I am totally smitten by the uber-geeky Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF cross-stitch by innergeek which I stumbled across in the Geek Craft Flickr group pool
And finally over on MrXStitch, beefranck gave us an almighty stitchgasm sharing this Buffy the Vampire Slayer cross stitch by buffyfan1977

As ever, don’t forget to let me know if you are blogging about craft or sharing projects and maybe you’ll see yourself in our craft blog roundup next week!

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Free Despicable Me minion amigurumi crochet pattern

Emma Cossey — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:55:44 +0000

This autumn brings another 3D animated extravaganza with Despicable Me, a movie about a supervillian (Gru, voiced by Steve Carell) who hopes to pull off a heist involving the moon. The only thing that stands in his way? Three little orphan girls who wish to adopt him as their new dad.

Gru has an entire army of minions, who resemble this cute little fella on the right. Looks like a baby version of Beaker from The Muppets to me.

Despite the fact that the film has only just been released in the US and won’t be released here until October, WolfDreamer has already been able to create an amigurumi of the quirky character, and provide a free pattern for those of you who want to recreate him.

Want to see the character in action? Here’s a short trailer from the upcoming animation.

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Free Domo-kun amigurumi pattern

Emma Cossey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:10:10 +0000

Domo-kun is a popular character in Japan where he acts as the mascot for their NHK TV station and the star of his own TV show in the US. According to the stories, he hatched from an egg and suffers from a locked open mouth, hence the crazy look.

He’s become a bit of a cult-figure now and the crafting community has really got behind him.

The rather brilliantly named Nerdigurumi has created an amigurumi pattern to create this angry-looking fella, which they’ve kindly offered for free.

You can find more amigurumi patterns here, including Lemmings, Mario and Astro Boy.

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Free Lemmings Amigurumi crochet pattern

Emma Cossey — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:41:34 +0000

You know you’re a child of the 80s if you….spent hours addicted to the platform game Lemmings.

For those of you who didn’t whittle away large chunks of your day playing this PC game, the concept was to persuade a line of green-haired little people to make their way to the target whilst avoiding fires, blades and gaping holes. For those of you having a nostalgic moment, you can play the game online here.

Crochet fans can now recreate the game at home with this free Amigurumi pattern from PlanetJune. She’s even uploaded the patterns for each of the different tools for the little fellas.

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Dork Craft: Mario Amigurumi

Emma Cossey — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:00:54 +0000

Mama Mia! One of the most famous gaming characters on the planet has been recreated in crochet form.

This Mario Amigurumi has been created by WolfDreamer off the Hook as part of a set of SuperMario characters including Goomba, Luigi and the Mushrooms.

This is a free pattern, so you can get cracking on creating the whole cast of Super Mario, which would go nicely with the Mario wall decals we covered recently.

Wolfdreamer has some great dork-inspired free patterns, including several Sonic and Pokemon characters, so it’s worth a bookmark.

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Astro Boy gets the amigurumi crochet treatment

Emma Cossey — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:00:33 +0000

The latest animated series to get a big screen makeover is Astro Boy, a sort of modern take on the Pinocchio story. The film follows Astro Boy, a robot created to replace the son of a scientist who died in a tragic accident, rejected for his lack of emotions.

The original Japanese Manga TV series of Astro Boy was shown back in 1963, and various versions have been seen across the globe since.

The craft community are clearly fans of the robot boy too, and Etsy seller CraftyisCool has created a pattern to make the Astro Boy Amigurumi ($5) on the right.

You can find more information on the animated movie here.

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Dork Craft: Wicket the Ewok Amigurumi

Emma Cossey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:19:20 +0000

If, like me, you’re extremely disorganised and you’ve left most of your present shopping to the week before Christmas, you might want to consider getting a little crafty.

I loved the Ewoks in Star Wars, so this crochet Wicket the Ewok Amigurumi really caught my eye when I was reading through Geek Crafts.

It’s by mum and crafter Lucy Ravenscar, and she’s shared the PDF pattern, so you can create him at home.

Have a browse through the rest of her patterns too, they’re all influenced by her children’s requests.

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Doctor Who craft, crochet and cooking

Emma Cossey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:48 +0000

Crafty geekness is nothing new to us at Dork Adore.

We’ve already looked at how you can make Bella’s gloves in Twilight and found some Where the Wild Things Are crochet patterns.

Doctor Who fans take geek crafting to a whole new level, thanks to the hundreds of characters and monsters that make such great DIY projects.

CraftZine have the pattern to make these adorable Adipose Monsters on the right (also known as the Living Fat)

For those with a sweet tooth, Flickr user alicia rae has created this Dalek cupcakes for the last Doctor Who finale.

Never have I wanted to exterminate a cupcake more.

The demand is so high for Dalek based cake products that they’ve created a Flickr pool for all the monstrous masterpieces. Have a look at this realistic looking Tardis birthday cake from Dooogewalah.

The wartime Keep Calm and Carry On poster seems to be everywhere at the moment, and there are plenty of variations on the theme.

This Tardis based version is definitely one of my personal favourite alternative versions though, even if they have pushed their luck a little with the length of slogan.

Grab a decent frame and you’ve got the ideal present for a Doctor Who fan.

You can buy it from Etsy seller Tuffin Industries for $10.

Fancy making your very own Doctor Who and Tardis, to go with the Adipose monsters?

This Amigurumi Doctor Who and Tardis is based on the very first Doctor, William Hartnell.

The crafter who created this, piexelatedmushroom, has kindly shared the crochet pattern, which you can find on her website.

She’s included the patterns for several of the doctors on the right hand panel, along with the Tardis.

She’s also currently running a blog giveaway to win a hand crafted plushie from her shop of the most recent Doctor, David Tennent, in his famous spectacles, tweed jacket and red trainers.

Finally, thinking ahead a few weeks, we’ve got a festive Dalek!

Sporting a festive red hat, the Dalek can hang from your tree and freak out your family.

It’s from Etsy store HeadofHeather for $8.

The store also offers these ghoulish Ood earrings. Nice.

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Lafayette’s True Blood afghan crochet pattern

Katie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:29:26 +0000

True Blood is a great source of crochet crafty goodness thanks to an embarrassment of afghans, which seem to adorn every sofa on set.

And if you’d like to get yourself kitted out with Lafayette’s chosen granny blanket, the kindly Betty McKnit has added a free pattern to her Ravelry page.

Or, for those without a Ravelry account, you can get it direct here: Lafayette’s Afghan.

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