I feel like I should be cleaning up this place a bit, stuffing stray underwear under the couch and tucking dust bunnies under the rug.

My Wil Wheaton/Diesel Sweeties cross stitch seems to have garnered a bit of attention, primarily thanks to Twitter, and suddenly, there are people! Looking at my barely-updated website! Commenting! And it’s admittedly pretty cool.

So cool, in fact, that I might just stitch up another WW/DS and send it to Mr. Wheaton himself. I mean, if I stick it in an envelope with his name, surely the postal system will know where to send it, right? How many Wil Wheatons can there be in the world? I want to put something together for DS too as a huge thanks for being awesome and not cutting my tires for using their art for my own domestic purposes.

Plus, I really like cross-stitching.

If you think my little project is interesting, you should see what’s being done by people far more talented and original than me. I somehow stumbled across cross_stitch_ninja’s Flickr account and fell in love with the Space Invaders needlepoint; oh, and the truly epic Mario map. Then I found this super terrific Ms. Pacman cross-stitch. From there, the ideas started flying and, when the dust settled, I found myself staring at the DS portrait of Wil Wheaton. I ran it through PCStitch, spent far too much time tweaking it and came out with my final pattern.

Two other geek craft blogs to check out: Sprite Stitch and geekcrafts.

So, anyway, I think my next cross-stitching project will be… wait for it… the four characters from Gauntlet! I came across this article from boingboing and put the image through PCStitch. It’s going to be kind of big and incredibly time-consuming but I’m super excited! My fingers will be bleeding and I’m sure I’ll be cross-eyed from staring at the fabric but dammit, I will have a Gauntlet cross-stitch!

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