I decided to try my hand at designing some geeky paper snowflakes. After thinking a bit about this year's happenings in geekdom, I decided to go for Wonder Woman and Pokemon as my subjects. I know there are already a few Wonder Woman templates out there but with the new movie coming out soon I wanted to try my own version. My husband and a bunch of his co-workers were super excited about the release of Pokemon Sun and Moon so that seemed like an obvious and relevant thing to try. I had meant to make even more with other themes after that but time got away from me.
This was my first Wonder Woman attempt. For the most part, I think it turned out well but I thought giving the lasso more loops would make it fancier.
This is the revision. I really like how it turned out. I cut it out of tissue paper to make it easier to cut the tiny bits but that made it very flimsy, so if I was going to use them to decorate I'd probably use an Exacto knife to cut it from regular craft paper.
Then I moved on to Pokemon Sun and Moon. I started by making a snowflake with the Moon symbol on the outside. I didn't ever cut the center out which would have made it better but I still feel like it needs a little something in the center.
The second Sun and Moon snowflake where I placed the symbols in the other order. I like this version better because I feel like the Sun points on the outside make it more flake like. This one got folded a little bit unevenly so some of the outside points ended up cut off.
In other new, I've been sewing pillowcases. First, made a couple of simple ones as a gift for a friend of ours, using Pokemon fabric.
When we were first married I put up a string of lights on our four-poster bed at Christmas time but our current house doesn't have high enough ceilings for us to have the posts on. So when I found this amazing Star Wars Christmas fabric I decided we should make a pillowcase set to dress our bedroom up for the season again. I used a Star Wars font to create the embroidery designs for the edges, but right now only one of them is done.
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| I just need to finish trimming the jump stitches. |
The other should be finished soon, and I'm also planning to make a sign for above the headboard using this design from Urban Threads. It will be stitched on the same purple fabric from the pillow borders and I'm replacing the pink hearts with a lavender.
Our tree is up and it has lights. So far it seems like Gilgamesh is going to leave it alone. He does bump it with his tail accidentally as he walks by and occasionally tries to drink tree water. I am going to try and add a few ornaments later today but nothing too low where it might get knocked down by a frisky puppy tail. Also, our cats will have to deal without the tree skirt. They love sitting on it like a blanket and watching the lights but Gil keeps trying to chew up anything fabric/ blanket like so I don't think we're going to put it out.
If you like the snowflakes I made please check out this post from last winter where I collected patterns for various geek snowflakes from around the web.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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