Looking for some alternatives to crazy Christmas commercialism? How about making prezzies this year? You could check out Craftster.org for some inspiration, like this adorable project, Yoda ears for the fashionably geeky baby:
Or you could whip up some mittens with a pocket for an iPod:
Greg Der Ananian’s Bazaar Bizarre: Not Your Granny's Crafts! has some neat-o geeky projects, too.
I’m fascinated by how Xers and geeks have taken something so traditional as yarncraft and turned it into something funky and fun and hip and cool (my favorite knitting domain name? knithappens.com). But crochet artist Patricia Waller takes yarning around to a geeky zenith, with projects like this:
Waller’s projects are individual works of art -- you won’t find instructions for making them at her site. But go take a gander anyway -- she’s delightfully demented, and obviously a geek.
