Presenting: The Greendale Human Being

Last post for my power run of completed projects is the ever creepy, irrationally difficult to complete Greendale Human Being.

If you don't recognise this human being, then I suggest you go buy yourself a Community DVD and familiarise yourself quick smart. By far one of the funniest, smartest and craziest TV shows in recent memory.

This was meant to be an Xmas present for my boyfriend, but it took such a long time to complete he ended up getting it over a month later. I hunted high and low for an iron on 'G' or ready transfer (I don't have a printer to create my own), but gave up after 6 weeks of scouring stores and embroidered the 'G' by hand. Utter madness I tell you - took my inexperienced hands almost 2 hours :/

Now s/he might look a bit awkward and proportionately-challenged, but I think my totally hand sewn mascot turned out better than the ones on sale in the NBC.com store, and more like the actual Human Being. I will at least keep telling myself that...

Pixel cushion

More completed projects, this one a little different. Inspiration was courtesy of 3Sheets - I swear this cushion was made to appeal to me. After my amigurumi binge I wanted to try something a little easier that I could just do in front of the TV, and having started this new crafty life cross stitching video game pixel images, a pixel cushion made so much sense.

The cushion is backed with some scrap black fabric, all hand sewn with a 35mm cushion insert. I love the result, but am still far more in awe of the gorgeous colours from my source of inspiration - click that link up there if you haven't already!

Smaller projects

So during the 9 months of creating my amazing SMB3 World map, I stitched this little framed piece for my Nana's birthday. I made the pattern, but didn't design the flower myself - I think it was from a bit of Googling.

These little bows were made... just because I wanted to see if I could do it! I don't have a sewing machine, so the bows are all hand stitched (not that much is required), made from recycled upholstery samples from Reverse Garbage. The non-headbanded bow is a brooch :)

These little mini magnets were stitched on plastic canvas as breaks from the SMB3 map - Tetris didn't really require a pattern, and I can't remember where I got the Angry Birds patterns from - they took me forever to find though!