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In what seems like forever and a day ago, I promised to post pictures of the wonderful Wireopoly that [info]rooferrocks made us as a gift. And so finally I get around to showing off her genius blending of Monopoly and The Wire.

I had also said I would write the "standard internet nerd essay about why [The Wire] is the best thing ever on television" but I think many other people have said it so much better than I ever could. So I will just briefly point out a few things before I get to the pictures:

  • Charlie Brooker has many thoughts on the awesomeness of The Wire.
  • It has practically become the official TV show of The Guardian.
  • It's Obama's favourite show.
  • I bloody love it. And people rarely point out how funny and entertaining it is. A dark kind of funny, but funny nonetheless. "You're supposed to be the good cop, dumb motherfucker!"
And so onto pictures, a few here and (loads and loads) more behind the cut.

wireopoly1

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wireopoly6

Buyer's market out there. - Templeton )
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enterprise blue white
As may be quite obvious, I have been quite obsessed with making Star Trek crafts of late. At some point I will wean myself onto other fandoms and obsessions. In fact, pretty soon I will be asking for the wisdom of my internet friends to help me decide what the next cross stitch of head-melting-ly biggness will be.

But for now I present to you some nu-Trek uniforms that I would totally wear as a Halloween costume if I were doing the dressing up thing this year. But I'm not. So goodness only knows why I made them. Hopefully someone will want them!

Previews:

science2 st3

Some more (quite large) pics behind the cut )

And you can see even more pics here.


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On Jan Moir and the Daily Fail

  • Oct. 19th, 2009 at 3:30 PM
dance, fury
The rage of Friday has subsided and instead I will choose to focus on how much love I have in my heart for Charlie Brooker, Derren Brown and, of course, Mr Stephen Fry. And bizarrely, Janet Street Porter. That is all.

ETA: And Dave Gorman too.

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lensflare, enterprise, star trek
Nearly 33,000 stitches and four months have gone into this 42cm by 20cm piece of loveliness.

It's very pleasing to have finished a project and actually still like it. Goodness only knows what craziness I'll put myself through next. But for now at least I know that I like this ship. It's exciting!

A wee preview:

enterprise 2

More pics (some very large) behind the cut! )

And as this is the first time I've used my new mood theme I'll take this opportunity to credit: [info]saxa246.
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Drive by update

  • Oct. 7th, 2009 at 5:31 PM
enterprise blue white
I have just 15 stitches and some backstitching to do on my Enterprise cross stitch, so I won't post a pic until it's done. Promise not to take as long to post that as I did with the Magnificent Flying Petrelli! Very, very excited for it to be complete. And then I'll have to work out what the next giant-ass project that will melt my brain will be...

And I finally chose a Star Trek icon! Woohoo! (Well, not so much chose as "narrowed it down to 2 and then said, screw it, I'll use both.")
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More Trekkie Goodness...

  • Oct. 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 PM
serenity
Whilst trying to not let my cross stitch Enterprise drive me insane, I've been letting myself be distracted by making some more t-shirts. But the lure of Star Trek managed to get in there too.

I'll post some of the other new stuff later (followers of my Flickr stream or Facebook page will have already seen them) but for now here's a Next Generation type uniform t-shirt and my very own GQMF top.

Previews:

tng4 stlogo2

More under the cut... )



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Approaching the Final Frontier

  • Sep. 28th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
exploding crotch
Nearly there... Oh so nearly there....

Brain melty...

eyes squigly....

I clearly am not good at the end game of large cross stitch projects. Will attempt to borrow a better camera for pictures when it's finished as these just aren't coming out well at all. Both nacelles are done though, so I should focus on the happy that is that.



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Teeny tiny tees

  • Sep. 24th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
staff meeting
Why do things become automatically cuter when they're made for small people? It's a mystery to me. But a cute one!











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To Seek Out New Stitches

  • Sep. 8th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
smirking coach
I used to have a bit of a love/hate relationship with this old blogging malarkey, but now I'm getting to quite enjoy it. Mostly because every time I start to post an Enterprise update I feel like I haven't done much of late, but then I check my last post on the subject and see just how much more is filled in. It's quite encouraging. But I still think the last few weeks of any large project is my achilles' heel. The beginning is just so much more fun. Shapes appearing as if from nowhere seems so much more satisfying than filling in the details. However, I am allowing myself to add dark colours now and I've made my feelings on pale colours pretty plain by now (I know, why on earth would I think an almost entirely pale design wouldn't drive me mad? I am a fool to myself, that's why.).

Excitingness of the week comes courtesy of having completely completed the port nacelle. I took out all the guidelines there since I don't need them anymore and I'm rather pleased with how it looks.

Picture time!



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Badge Giveaway Winner

  • Sep. 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 PM
mario

And the winner is...

Drum roll please... )

More giveaways to follow soon!
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Giveaway reminder!

  • Aug. 28th, 2009 at 5:17 PM
mario
Only 3 days left to enter my badge giveaway, details to be found here. The competition closes midnight GMT on Monday (which is 8pm Monday, Eastern Standard Time, US). Good luck!
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Crafty (Space)Craft Cross-stitch Continues

  • Aug. 19th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
mario
I appear to have lost some of the momentum I had previously with this project, but there's not that much further to go now. I trundle on. I may even allow myself to do some dark colours soon and I always like them much better than the pale bastards.

Oh dear. I appear to be anthropomorphizing individual stitches in a craft project again. That might not be a good sign...



Remember to post a comment (any old comment will do) in this post for a chance to win the badge of your choice!
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Giveaways a-go-go!

  • Aug. 7th, 2009 at 11:42 AM
smirking coach
Do you fancy winning a custom cross stitched 1" badge of your choice? For absolutely free? Well, now's your chance!


 
Every comment left in this post between now and the end of August* counts as an entry. Anonymous commenting is enabled, but please leave a blog address or email address to identify yourself. It's one entry per username but you can double and/or triple your chances by also posting on the Anonymity Blaize Facebook wall, or you can tweet with the hashtag #BlaizeBadge.

To see more badges, have a look at these entries here, or the facebook gallery here.

More giveaways will follow this one!

*Entries count up until midnight GMT 31st. August.
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Geeky tees a-plenty

  • Aug. 6th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
mario
Have been on quite the T-shirt making binge of late. Pictures of Star Trek, Star Wars, Buffy, Batman and Doctor Who inspired craftyness await you after the cut.

Preview:



Clickety click )



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SpaceStitch

  • Aug. 3rd, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Omar
Wheee! You can actually tell there's more than one colour in there now. Just barely, but still, it's exciting enough for me.

She's looking real purty. I am a happy stitcher right now.

Still plenty of stitching to go though!



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Make It Sew!

  • Jul. 25th, 2009 at 3:13 PM
serenity
I cannot believe that a pun that terrible had not occurred to me yet. It's Dad-joke levels of awful/awesome. Awfsome?

And so we encounter the nacelles part of the experience. You can see the width of them now, but not the length - it still has quite a ways back to go! (I swear nuTrek Enterprise has longer nacelles than the old one but I haven't investigated this properly yet.) 

Having done this much I must downgrade my estimated time til completion. It's going way faster than I had thought and I could even be finished by September at this rate, although I'll bet on October for now just in case it all goes horribly awry.



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serenity
Stitchety, stitch, stitch. Ho hum, few things to say really, other than it's ticking along nicely. Should be finished by October or November at this rate. I'm a little concerned that the colours aren't looking quite as distinct as they should, but maybe colours blending into each other is better than them contrasting too dramatically.

Shortly after I took this picture I started out onto the nacelles, in order to save my sanity and to keep liking this project, so the next update should look quite different.



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Star Stitching Across The Universe...

  • Jul. 17th, 2009 at 3:07 PM
mario
Cracking on at a fair pace again this week. (Have recovered from the brilliant depressingness that was Torchwood, but have a suggestion for the Beeb; all harrowing programming should be followed by a half hour on BBC3 of puppies chasing their own tails and kittens falling over. It would help me cope no end. Maybe lolcats should have their own TV station.)

The entire shape and structure of the saucer section is there now, and I'm really pleased with how it looks. I know this picture isn't of the greatest quality but I swear there are 4 different colours in there, and not a one of them is white. As of today I'm still working on filling in the lone "one here, and one here, oh and one over there" type stitches, but I may make a start on the nacelles quite soon. I want to keep myself enjoying this project for as long as possible!



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Stitchy stitch stitch...

  • Jul. 12th, 2009 at 1:26 PM
mario
Brain killed by Torchwood: Children of Earth.

Russell T Davies is an evil genius.

Somehow managed to do some stitching this week between sobbing and yelling at the telly like a crazy person.



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Warp Speed Stitching Ahead

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 2:26 PM
serenity
I really need to get a Trek icon. But there are so many good ones out there - how to pick? Do I want a fan-girly one? Or one of the Enterprise? And who gets jettisoned from my current icon set? I probably don't need three Flight of the Conchords ones, but which one to lose? Such difficult geeky choices to make...

Again I'm failing to update my progress here as much as I meant to. But the progress is strong and I am actually really enjoying this project. Clearly this is empirical proof (if proof were needed) that Star Trek is better than Heroes. Got quite a kick the other day out of realizing that NCC-17 and a wee smidgen of 0 and 1 are starting to make themselves clear. I like this ship. It's exciting!


 


 


 
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