I entered a contest...

In March I saw that the Austin Browncoats were having a contest to celebrate 10 years after Firefly began.

In case you didn't know, I think Firefly is the BEST show ever!

I even learned to knit so I could make a Jayne Hat!  I made my first attempt about a month after learning to knit, I was that determined!

There was an art portion of this contest so I decided to enter my Serenity Embroidery Hoop

When I made this hoop, I pictured Kaylee and Inara sitting by each other and making this together.  They both have different reasons for loving their Serenity and want to remember her in their own way. 

Well, I got 1st place!! YEAH! I'm so honored to have won this contest! I get some cool Firefly related items that I can't wait to get!

I've got some more Firefly inspired ideas for future Geeky Hoops to get started on soon!!!


PS I didn't get a chance to put together my week in pictures yesterday.  I looked at my pictures and realized that I didn't have a lot from last week anyways! I'll make up for it next week!!

A special request

My friend asked for a special present for her father for Christmas.  Since he is a Firefly fan, I thought this awesome mousepad would be perfect!!!

It's another hand embroidered Serenity with part of the theme song from the show.

I was so excited to get this finished. It took forever to find the right mouse pad to slide in the embroidery piece in, but I think came out perfect!!

And in case you aren't familiar with the theme song...

Let's Be Bad Guys!

I finally finished up my Jayne inspired coffee sleeve!

I'm so excited at how well it turned out! 

I've been finished with the embroidery for about a month and just needed to sew it all together to make the sleeve.  

It was just added it to my Etsy Shop, so feel free to snag it for yourself or another browncoat you love!

Embroidered Serenity

I am a huge geek and I am probably the most geeky when it comes to Firefly, one Joss Whedon's greatest TV shows!  I am not sure how many times I've re-watched the series but I know I have seen the movie in a theater 5 times (more about this later in the week!)

I also love my coffee.  My day always seems much better after a good cup or two or four. 

I needed to figure out how to combine these two things together - so why not make a Firefly themed coffee sleeve??

I wanted to include one of my favorite quotes from the movie (Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down) and had to have the ship Serenity on it.

So first I drew my own picture of Serenity to use.

I was pretty impressed with my drawing skills on this! I also transported it over to paint to make the lines darker so it would be easier to transfer to fabric. 

So then I got started on the embroidery! This was my first time to try it so its not perfect by any means, but I really love the way it turned out!

Next I sewed it all up to make it into a coffee sleeve and added some velcro and TADA! A Firefly Coffee Sleeve!!

I know it isn't perfect but I'm pretty excited with it! I have ideas on how to improve on it so I can hopefully add it into my Etsy shop when I'm ready to open!

If you have any embroidery tips you would like to pass on, please share them!

A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything

I made my first Jayne Hat!!!!  If you have no idea what that is, then please go find a copy of Firefly, the short lived Joss Whedon TV series and watch the episode "The Message"...

I used this Site for my instructions for making the hat. They were pretty simple to follow.  I will say that she means to use the stocking stitch on the ear flaps and not to knit on every row -- I made that mistake from reading it the first time.