Bender: "What's the matter, did somebody die or something?"
Leela: "Kif's dead, Bender."
Bender: "Nailed it!"
Leela: "Kif's dead, Bender."
Bender: "Nailed it!"
One of my man's favorite shows is Futurama. I don't usually craft anything for him for Christmas or his birthday because I'm always knitting in front of him and just give him the thing I made him when finished. I decided to plan kind of a big project for him to open up Christmas morning.
When I decided to do this theme from the episode I, Roomate, I discovered there was a shocking lack of Futurama cross stitch ideas out there (at least I couldn't find much!) so I created all these in Excel, and I found free 8bit fonts through Dafont.com (listed below each picture). It was a little hard to photograph in the hallway I put them in. Enjoy!
Font: LL Pixel
Font: Minecraftia
Font: Hachicro
I dyed this aida cloth blue (and, consequentially, about 1/5 of my kitchen in the process) with Rit dye.
Font: Brandi Alexander
Font: Pixeljosh6
Inspiration images:
Additional notes: 1) I messed up a little on the Water Fountain. I should have centered the words instead of putting them to the left. 2) Obviously many of the designs were rounded or had circles, and I had to make them more blocky. 3) I definitely took the most creative license with the Public Library, which was a pain in the tuckus. I couldn't do the circle around the words without making it HUGE, and the open book in the design was nearly impossible with the small design of the letters (I went through about 3 ideas before landing on upright books with little Xs on the spines). Also I had to outline the letters because the yellow I used was hard to read against the white.
Also, I use a technique I read on Young House Love when I'm planning to hang multiple pictures, where I cut a template with paper (leftover Christmas wrapping!) and put it up on the wall. I hammered nails directly into the paper and just ripped them off when I was done. Their post is right here.
They turned out amazing!! Bender is my favorite, but I think the Water Fountain one is my second favorite. Also, that paper/nail tip is excellent.
ReplyDeleteLove it with the matting. They look so awesome and I can't wait to see them in person. :D
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ReplyDeletedo you have a patter for Bender?
ReplyDeleteHi Piper!
ReplyDeleteI have an excel file with the Bender pattern and another one with the other patterns. Shoot me an email at twelvedaysold@gmail.com and I'll hook you up!
Actually, you may be able to access it from this link:
Deletehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/fd33xepkseuunmo/Bender.xls