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Adorable Felted Pokémon: Squeeze them All

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Look at this adorable Pikachu that fits in the palm of your hand. Artist xxNostalgic makes these so that you can start your quest to catch them all in cutesy felt versions.
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You see that cute, egg-shaped Dragonite? He can be yours too. These are about 2.25 inches-tall and each are hand needle-felted with glass eyes attached. I’m not really a big Pokémon fan, but these guys are so adorable, I want them.

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They will cost you $26(USD)-$28(USD) at her Etsy shop and for that price you are getting a great quality, highly detailed little pet/friend that you can display on your desk or wherever. Each one is handmade to order, and they’re selling like hotcakes, so allow at least a month if you want one.

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[via Dorkly]

Santa Cthulhu: Deck the Halls with Boughs of Horror

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He’s making a list and checking it twice. God help those who have been naughty instead of nice. Santa Cthulhu’s coming to town! Artists Amy Rawson and Brian East make a new needle felted Christmas Cthulhu almost every year and this is the latest. In fact, it’s the fifth Santa Cthulhu.

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Santa Cthulhu is sitting in his Octi-Sleigh, ready to deliver toys to good kids and to drive the naughty one’s insane by just showing up. The Shoggoth pulling Santa and his sleigh is a nice touch. Who needs eight tiny reindeer when you’ve got a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light?

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Cthulhu Santa is about 11″ tall and is made of 100% needle felted wool, while the sleigh is sculpted from epoxy clay and wire, and Shaggoth is needle-felted with epoxy clay teeth and glass cabochon eyeballs.

The whole sculpture is for sale through Rawson’s Etsy store for $595(USD). Even the pricetag is frightening, though it does look like it took a ton of work to make this, so it’s worth it. I’d love to have this on my mantle for the holidays.

[via Neatorama]

Needle-Felted Shiranui: Okami Overload

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Despite its age and relatively primitive graphics, Okami is still one of the most beautiful, creative and artful games ever created. If you recall, the games protagonist is a wolf named Amaterasu. One of the other wolves in the game was Shiranui, who tragically dies in battle with the beastly Orochi. Artist Piquipauparro pays tribute to this beautiful and noble creature with what could be the most amazing bit of needle-felting I’ve ever laid eyes on.

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This 12″ long, 8″ tall version of the white wolf was handmade from wool and a little bit of wire for structure. It’s incredibly detailed, and includes all of those whispy red streaks and a “fire cloud” mane to make it even more dynamic.

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Check out bigger pics of this amazing bit of geek craft over on Piquipauparro’s DeviantArt page, along with some other cool creations as well.

[via Ian Brooks]


Alien Robot Costume Transports You Back to the 1920s

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If you never saw Fritz Lang’s classic science 1927 fiction film Metropolis, you owe it to yourself to watch this early bit of cinematic history, with its view of a dystopian future, dramatic costumes, sets and cinematography. While this costume isn’t pulled directly from that film, its style sure seems like something that could have fit right into the 1920s period of science fiction films.

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This “alien robot” costume was handmade using needle-felting and wire by Brooklyn textile artist Rae Stimson, and I have to say it’s quite spectacular. It looks especially great in these black and white photos, with the model all made up to look the part. The costume includes the helmet, collar, top, the skirt and a pair of matching shoe covers to complete the look.

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It’s available for $800(USD) over on Etsy now. If you’ve got a petite figure, and think you can pull off the look, you could be wearing this thing in time for Comic Con this year.


Carousel Tauntaun Doesn’t Smell Too Bad on the Outside

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Poor Tauntauns. Why must people always be slicing them and jumping inside for warmth? Or sticking them with a pole and mounting them on a carousel? They are one of the cutest and most useful Star Wars animals and yet they get no respect.

tauntaunThis adorable Tauntaun was created for the 2011 Stitch Wars crafting competition, by Mariangela Tan. It is a needle felted tauntaun/amusement park carousel. It is great work and she has lots of other cool geek crafts at her site too.

The detail is really nice on this guy. Just look at the ridges on his nose. I would love a felt tauntaun like this for my desk, but if I tried to make one it would just look like a blob.

[via Super Punch via Neatorama]