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November 26 ~ Gifts for Science & Tech Lovers
| How will the science and tech lovers on your list get the binary scarf, dodecahedral bag or molecular embroidery they need unless you create it for them this holiday season?! |  |
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Molecular Embroidery Bean from Coyote Craft (and her sister!) created some PDF Molecular Embroidery Patterns for you with their two favorite molecules: caffeine & water! |
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Charging Basket Elizabeth from oh fransson! has a nice Charging Basket Tutorial for all of those cords! |
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Binary Scarf Christine created this very cool Binary Scarf Pattern for Knitty. She estimates that it holds 122 bytes of data (if you’re unfamiliar with binary digits, click over for a nice explanation). |
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Computer Keyboard Wallet Ryan McFarland from www.zieak.com shares this Computer Keyboard Wallet Tutorial on Instructables. |
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D12 Handbag Lenore from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a DIY d12 Handbag Tutorial for you. With fabric, iron-on numbers, washers and a magnet you can make a dodecahedral handbag for someone on your holiday list! |
Don’t miss these related tutorials from the SMS archives: Tech Gifts.
Here are just a handful of fabrics we love for some of these projects. Click on the fabric images to visit the Sew,Mama,Sew! shop:
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Journals from la paperie & cozy There’s still plenty of time to request a custom journal from Beverly at la paperie & cozy in Nova Scotia. You can probably find the perfect choice in the shop right now too; we love the Einstein journal, but they’re all truly beautiful. |
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Coffee Liqueur Beth Anne from The Seventh Level of Boredom has a Coffee Liqueur Recipe which she says is, “Irreplaceable in my culinary repertoire…” |
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Holidays at Home and the Handmade Holidays photo pool! |
Win It
Quilting Arts Gifts 2008
From the publisher:
Our second annual QUILTING ARTS GIFTS issue is bigger and better, with 148 pages full of fabulous projects to make for the holiday season, including home décor, decorations, and gifts designed and created by some of the world’s best art quilters.
This super issue features:
• 35 seasonal projects for quilted gifts and home décor
• Sensational stocking stuffers: our editors’ favorite tools, gadgets, and more
• 7 holiday patterns to celebrate the season
Again we’d like to thank Interweave for contributing this fantastic prize. Sewists from beginner to expert will appreciate the myriad of beautiful projects. With everything from mini quilts to book covers to a fabric gingerbread house, you’re sure to find plenty of ideas for everyone on your gift list. Comment below for your chance to win.
More Handmade Holiday Ideas
25 ~ Cooks
24 ~ Whimsical
23 ~ Fit Friends
22 ~ Eco-conscious
21 ~ Holidays at Home
20 ~ Gift Exchange
19 ~ Grandparents
18 ~ College Students
17 ~ Girlfriends
16 ~ Dads
15 ~ New Parents
14 ~ Holidays at Home
13 ~ Multi-taskers
12 ~ Sports Fans
11 ~ Bookworms
10 ~ Elementary Kids
9 ~ Snow Fiends
8 ~ Teachers
7 ~ Holidays at Home
6 ~ Pet Lovers
5 ~ Crafters
4 ~ Music Lovers
3 ~ Babies & Toddlers
2 ~ Travelers
1 ~ Tweens & Teens
We respect the copyright of all crafters. All links and photos from blogs on our Handmade Holidays posts are used with permission.
Those are all great! I love the molecular patterns. I so have to make some
Love that journal and that would be a perfect gift for that guy in my life who likes journals.. maybe
Okay – these just made me laugh. I can’t believe there are so many wonderfully creative people in the world. Thank you for sharing.
I like a lot the computer wallet. It would be perfect for my computer geek husband. LOL.
lol i know just who to make and send that dice bag too!!!
You all are amazing with the amount of items you are discovering and presenting. I know a certain geek daughter who will be getting some geek gifts this year…thanks for the inspirational spark! I think this is probably my favorite one so far…
Love the charging basket! That would be great for families too
Hah! The Molecular Embroidery Patterns put a smile on my face this morning. Too cute!
Hmmm…interesting ideas today. Loving the fabric choices. I’m definitely a polka–dot type of gal.
As a science lover myself, I LOVE today’s theme! I think I’m going to have to make the coffee cozy for my dad because I love chemistry, even if he doesn’t. And I will also have to make up some of those cord baskets after Christmas for my hubby – he has endless bunches of cords, usually spread all over the floor.
Once again, you prove that you can find something everyone on our list… and this Geek theme suits us perfectly!
Love that beautiful journal !
WoW! Such neat ideas! I love the coffee warmers!
These are the most unique and cleverest gifts I have ever seen for the techie’s in my life. So cool! I can’t choose one that I love any more than the others… they are all fabulous and have been added to my list of future projects.
I must have it
Time to add it to my wish list if I don’t win!
Love the binary scarf!
As a science lover, I have a special love for today’s crafts.
These are clever gift ideas. I would love to win the Quilting Arts magazine!
I love the Charging Basket. What a great idea!
The charging basket and keyboard wallet look way too cool. I’m checking out those tutorials now. Thanks to Sew, Mama, Sew! for doing this again this year. And to Interweave for donating this prize. I’ve been thinking about this issue, but haven’t brought myself to spring for it. I’d LOVE to win it!
Love the charging basket. I’m going to make one ASAP. The magazine looks awesome too! Thanks for all the information.
I LOVE the molecular emboidery! My husband is a chemist and I think he would get such a kick out of it…if only I was smart enough to figure it out without his help.
I look forward to each day’s addition to the 2008 Handmade Holidays… and I am never disappointed! Today was no exception. The d12 handbag is… heck, I plan to make it for myself after the holidays! Thank you thank you thank you for all the work that has gone in to making this month so amazing.
I simply must find time to make those charging baskets–so nifty!
My boyfriend is definitely a “techie” and I think he would LOVE that keyboard wallet. Thanks for the great ideas!
I have been wanting to make that charging station box for awhile… I need to get on that!
I love the charging basket. I think I might need one of those for myself!
Love the wallet! Possibly a gift for our holiday party at work.
coming from a science background, i especially love the caffeine coffee cozy. how clever and fun.
The charging basket is a great idea. Thanks!
More brilliant ideas!
I anticipate each new post.
The binary scarf totally cracked me up! I can just picture Keanu Reeves wearing it in with his long Matrix coat. Too cool!
Margaret
mshirah@mindspring.com
My husband, a computer programmer, is so getting one of those wallets in his stocking.
Very original ideas! You guys keep so well at it.
I wish I knew how to knit! that scarf is adorable!
this post makes me laugh! i love the wallet! too funny!
LOVE the molecular embroidery and would love to win the quilting arts gifts!!
Love that journal!
Love the charging basket and the caffeine cozy.
These would be perfect for my SIL and BIL–both grad students in chemistry. Thanks for the ideas!
Can’t say the gift ideas thrill me today but I would like that magazine. Always has cool stuff in it.
that magazine looks amazing!
These ideas are so clever. The scarf in particular made me giggle – I know a few computer “nerds” who would look spiffy in that one!
I really love the charging baskets…such a great idea!
My brother makes coffee liqueur every year for us, yum! I made amaretto too, the recipe is waaaay back in January on my blog.
i love the molecular coffee cozy! i just alerted my DNA doctorate student friend of this!
My brother-in-law will be the benefactor of this post. Thanks so much!
That scarf is soooo very cool!
Must have that coffee cozy! It’s what every chemist needs!
those journals are to die for! thank you!
My computer loving son would love that wallet…and I just threw out an old keyboard. Bummer.
Oh, my. As a scientist myself, this totally cracks me up. I’m sorely tempted by that embroidered coffee cozy. And the cord basket is a great idea (and really cute, too!~ do you think I’d have to make it less cute to give it to my husband?)! LOL =)
This would be my category: geek alert here!
i love those embroidery patterns! i’ve bookmarked several of these projects…
Love that dice bag!
Totally drooling over the magazine, so….PICK ME!
Thanks for helping out with my gift list this year – the selection of tutes has been GREAT!!
Karen G.
Texas
i have been pondering how to make a charging basket. thanks for doing the work for me!
I love the science theme – it’s so perfect for my husband! Thanks for the ideas!
love all the ideas!
those are fun gifts, the scarf is just too cool!
I like the charging basket!
I love the coffee cozy. hehe!
I saw the molecular embroidery on Bean’s site and loved it so! This means I have to learn embroidery now because a few people on my list would appreciate that cozy. Can’t wait to try the others, too.
Those journals are gorgeous!!
ok…the binary scarf is tooooo much! but super fun.
I LOVE these, today! May have to play around with the possibilities of the molecular embroidery…Thank you!
Love the binary scarf! If only I knitted!
so many nerds, so little time… i’m thinking some of these gifts are going to have to be for next year…
I love them all, I really love the coffee cup cozy and the charging baskets….I could use them right now.
I love them all, I really love the coffee cup cozy and the charging baskets….I could use them right now.
very cool! loving the handbag! thanks
Awesome ideas once again! Can’t wait to put that embroidery on a coffee cozy. And those baskets look like they’d work for a lot of organizational purposes.
I cannot tell you how much i LOVE this post! I’ve actually already started on the caffeine cozy at top for a good friend – I’d spotted it on her blog a couple days ago and thought it was perfect, and now it shows up here! I’m such a nerd and so are my friends, this is super perfect for us. Thank you!!!
I never knew there were so many crafts for the computer lovers in my life! Thanks!
Wow, what a great prize! I like the homemade coffee liqeur
I don’t have many tech and science people on my gift list, but I really like the binary scarf. And the baskets are adorable.
I LOVE the d12 purse!
I want to make that basket.
cute charging basket!
What a unique category – I hadn’t even thought about science-themed gifts before. Everyone I know is artsy and literary… but these are really cool!
These go on the list for the DH
ah, my d&d friends are definitely getting those dice bags, to hold all of their dice, of course.
Great idea’s my hubby is a Computer techy guess what he’s getting for Christmas and his 6 fellow employees….
Great looking baskets, though ours would be sure to fill up with cats and children before chargers…
How perfect! I’m a molecular biologist and have a lot of science “geek” friends who will get very excited about the molecular embroidery. Love it!
Great ideas – love the basket!
A fantastic medley of techie gifts : perfect ideas for the gadget boys in my life – my lovely husband and two gorgeous sons who are about to apply their technical skills to domestic life as I am due to go into hospital and will need to convalesce (what a deliciously old fashioned word!) when I come out!
Again great ideas! The molecular embroidery project is perfect for my BIL.
Hmmm just debating whether my maths graduate brother would like a dodecahedral handbag? Maybe I could just tell him it was a strange shaped pencil case – I think he’d go for that!
Love the Charging Baskets and the journals are gorgeous.
Thanks again
The D12 handbag is simply génial!
that binary scarf is killer. thanks!
Love the wallet & cozy…such great projects…thanks.
I am such a nerd, I’d love all these gifts for myself!!!
Thanks again for a great selection of ideas.
so many great ideas! now if i could only find another 10 hours in my day . . .
All of my geeky friends will love these ideas!
How original! The charging baskets are great!
WOW!! I LOVE the wallet! Perfect for any geek.
I love all the crafty ideas in your blog. That coffee sleeve is great, and I really like the charging basket.
So much great stuff today! I want to make it all.
The binary scarf is perfect for my geeky brother or husband! Now if I could just find the time to learn to knit!
I guess not enough of my family is into science- but a fabric gingerbread house would be a big hit!
As soon as I saw the charging basket I thought, “I have to make that!”
Love that wallet! My dh and I have to make it for him some weekend!!
That leather journal is beautiful!
I had a recipient for the D12 bag before I even hit the link. LOVE today’s theme!!
Ahh – love these gift ideas! Especially the charging baskets and the wallet… and the scarf when I’m a more experienced knitter.
I’m off to spend money and time on the journal site…and loving the wallet and scarf, so creative.
I love the molecular embroidery! What a fun idea… maybe toiling through organic chemistry in my previous life has some perks after all!
Oh, I am sure my DH would love the scarf!
How awesome is that Molecular Embroidery!?
These are all great ideas!
These tutorials are all so creative! _Love_ the binary scarf!
Great ideas! Thanks for giving us so many gift ideas! I love it!
I think the Coffee Liqueur might just go to the top of the “to do” list. Well, the “to do after Thanksgiving” list, I do have plenty of pies to make before then.
I love the D12 purse…I know someone that it would be perfect for.
The charging basket is a great idea. I never thought about organizing all those cords in one basket!
love the charging basket! although it might not be used just for charging cords…maybe for stacks of apples, onions and garlic in the kitchen too?
Wonderful! Thanks for the tutes!
That charging basket tutorial has been on my list forever! Thanks for the reminder!
This gifts are great for so many on my list. Thank you.
Lots of cool things this time around…love the charging basket…
How fun, to see the dice purse after seeingSO many of those dice! Great ideas =)
great ideas thanks!
I love those charging baskets, but I don’t think I have the patience (or the expertise) to make one. Maybe one day…sigh.
The binary scarf and molecular coffee warmer are really neat.
I think I want one of those embroidered coffee cup sleeves for myself! Thanks again!
I would like to make the Charger Basket. I really like the look fo it. That Quilt book looks like a great prize.
Oh my, homemade coffee liqueur, that’s awesome! Making it myself will be the best way to have it exactly to my liking. Thanks for the link to the recipe!
Also, that molecular embroidery is a fun idea! That coffee cozy would be perfect for my (geek and cafeine addict) boyfriend!
Great charging basket…love it!
coffee liquer…interesting!
As a teacher – I have to say that I’d love that purse. I could keep my dodecahedron dice in it! Kids LOVE those dice.
I never thought I’d see molecular and embroidery in the same sentence.
What a cool project!
Fabulous finds as usual! That journal is wonderful!
The journal is beautiful…I would love one!
Great gifts for the guys on my list!
The molecular embroidery is great! And easy too.
Wow! You’ve thought of everyone!
love the cozy!
I’ll definitely be making some of those charging baskets! So many great ideas – thanks again!
I just love Elizabeth’s work. Thanks for sharing so many wonderful ideas. :~)
Thanks for all the great ideas and awesome giveaways!
That magazine looks very inspiring!
i love the coffe cup holder, my husband could use that .
love the molecular embroidary
The charging basket is great! Can’t wait to make one to keep all those cords from snaking across the floor. I may have to try the coffee liquer, too. Yum!
I love the baskets. I am going to head on over and check them out.
I adore the binary scarf – that is really clever!
These are PERFECT for my Biology-major cousin. I was wondering what to make for him this year, and these are great!!!
I’m a sucker for the molecular embroidery…functional and funny. And smart. I guess.
I showed my sister the coffee cozy, and she immediately exclaimed that i HAD to make her one!
What great ideas for some very hard to sew/shop for people. I’ll be coming back to this post.
Lorrie
Another set of great gift ideas
I like the phone charger caddy.
Thank you for not giving today’s post the title “Gifts for Geeks!” Personally, I could be characterized as such…
The journals are absolutely beautiful. And the recipe for coffee liqueur looks like a great gift idea-easy to make and unique. It would be great paired with the vanilla extract recipe from an earlier post.
Charging baskets are a great idea.
I love that charging basket, great idea.
Everybody needs a charging basket & I really love that scarf!
The basket is great!
I just tried finding this magazine from our local independent book store. This would be great!!!!!
I want one of those charger baskets for myself! So cute!
The charging basket is soo beautiful!!
you guys think of everything!
Great ideas for those hard to shop for people! Love the scarf – if only I could knit…
Funny gift ideas. The coffee collar is sweet.
I need to make one of those charging baskets for myself – they are so cute and such a great idea!!
I love the charging basket – how fab!!
These are all soooo cool! Geek is so chic these days.
My husband gave me a binary blanket for the first Christmas that we were dating. The binary scarf would be great to make for him!
The patterns are great! So clever!
The handbag is incredible. As a math teacher, I might just have to make it for myself.
Wow – thank you for all the nice comments about the wallet. And a big thank you for featuring it!
Wonderful gifts. I have quite a few techies in the family and they would love some of these. Thanks!
I think the coffee cozy is great!
Too bad I live in Florida because my favorite gift is the binary scarf.
Love the keyboard coffee and the coffee liquor recipe!
That keyboard wallet looks very funky! and the D12 handbag looks very tricky
Such fun ideas!
This section makes me chuckle – love the binary scarf and the chemical coffee cover! You can be technical and crafty cool! I haven’t seen the mag before, but looks really interesting – hope I win!
I’ll have to try the liqueur! Thanks!
Love the baskets!
The charging basket was on my to so list, amongst a tone of other projects :0)
I love the basket. I need all the organizational help I can find.
About the only thing at my skill level is the molecular embroidery—it’s really cute!
That is the coolest journal I have ever seen!!!!
I am enjoying each day’s gift ideas.
I’d love to make the binary scarf for my Dad, but it’s beyond my very basic skills at the moment. Maybe next year
love the wallet!
i’d like to make myself one of the handbags!
Love the twist on the coffee cozy.
Great! I know so many geeks that would love this stuff.
Awesome! great ideas. Thanks for another wonderful day of ideas.
you all keep me very busy. i love that!
So cute!
I love the charging basket…what a great idea!!!
More great tutorials. Thanks!
These are great!! I have some many tutorials to try, thank you so much for sharing these with all of us! Happy Thanksgiving!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the charging basket!
I don’t even know which I’d want to make first! My husband and I are both engineers, so geek gifts are a great suggestion! There are so many so creative people out there! Nice work!
I love the molecular embroidery! I think I’ll have my kids help with this. It’s educational and fun. Great idea! Thanks for the free pattern, too.
I love that leather journal! I need one!!!
I love oh frannson’s charging basket. It was already on my to-do list
that charging basket is such a great idea. much better than the plastic bin I’m using now!
Great ideas! Unique gifts for techies can be hard! I love the wallet!
The wallet is really cool! That magazine looks neat too
I wonder if my husband would actually wear a binary scarf if I made it for him….
I am going to have to make one of those charging baskets. Great idea! I would also like to win the quilting magazine!!!
I adore the ideas! Binary scarf cracked me up! I also like the dog jacket in the magazine. I need to see if I can find it at my local bookstore.
The molecular embroidery project is brilliant!!!!
mmmmm cofree liqueur!!!!!!
Oh lovely
That wallet is way cool!
This is my favorite gift post yet. That coffee cozy rocks!
If only I could knit! though, I’d love to have that magazine!!
I love molecules…I received a tea towel and i love it!
Clever, clever…
My older brother does encryption for cell phones, my younger brother is a physicist, my sister in law is in chrge of her city’s IT department, my neice is working on a masters in math/statistics and my husband is a software engineer. Today’s ideas are a life saver……and just for the record, I’m the creative one in the bunch…Math is just something you do to get where you want to go creatively!….Ahhh but I love my sweet lil’ nerds
I want the molecular coffee warmer. Too cute.
The journals are beautiful and Im making some cofee liqueur tomorrow!
wow, thanks for all the awesome comments on the embroidery pattern! I hope everyone’s gift recipients get a good chuckle, and plenty of use out of their coffee cozies!
These are interesting.
Oh, I wish I was skilled enough at knitting to make that binary code scarf – love it!
Great idea for the charging basket.
love the charging baskets… nothing better than beautiful organization.
Sort of just starting out quilting that magazine would be a great contribution to my quilting supplies.
The wallet is the perfect gift for my husband and computer geek son
Wow! Must try that dodecahedral bag. But I’m always open for more inspirational sewing ideas in stylish magazines…
The charging basket in particular will be so useful for so many people I know. Camera leads and remote controls could be tidied up too!
Very cool!! Thank you!!!
Love the charging basket! Thanks for all you share!
Scientists in the house! This particular scientist loves the idea of a fabric gingerbread house.
I know the perfect guy for that wallet. That is to fun. And I need those charging baskets. They may have to wait until after the holidays though. Thanks again for all the great ideas.
My husband is a scientist. These ideas are great! We have a coffee mug with the structure for caffeine – never thought of embroidering it though. Oh the possibilities! Beth
Love the molecular designs…I know just the person!
You don’t even have to be a techy to want that charging basket – I hate ugly cords, but I LOVE fabric baskets! So cute! And that D12 handbag – genius! My husband is the science geek, but I would love to carry that little bag around myself!
Such creative ideas! That handbag is cute!
I’m intrigued by the idea of making coffee liqueur. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Love the scarf. Knitty is so great.
I have a couple of computer geeks in my life, they’ll love the wallet for sure!
my husband has a collection of dice, i’m almost tempted to make the d12 bag for him to carry them to games in!
That molecular embroidery is too cute!
My brother, the self-proclaimed geek, would get a kick out of all of those ideas!
Cute! cute! cute!
Oh, these are neat! I love things that are off-the-beaten-sewing-path. I especially love the molecule embroidery… that’s going on my list.
Loving that scarf!!!
being married to a science / tech guy, i can appreciate all of these gifts as good options!!!! thanks for posting.
The molecular embroidery is BRILLIANT !!! I have to make one or two of them.
The charging basket is so cute…great idea!
Love the charging basket! Another great day of ideas…
coffee liqueur?!!! i can’t wait for that! thanks for all the great ideas. so helpful for xmas.
Neat wallet!
I love the molecular patterns.
Oh, so many great ideas, thank you!
coffee liquer sounds good!
oh my! What great Ideas! I’m a scientist first, crafter second. Now I know what to make my friends:) these are great!
I’m loving the D12 handbag. And the charging station. So many cords everywhere! This is a great idea.
Love the charging basket and am looking forward to trying it out.
I love the cup cozy (this is coming from a microbiology major!!)!!! And the coffee liquor will definitely be made this season! Thanks!
ok- that charging basket is a must have!
Thanks for the reminder on that charging basket! I book marked it before but have still not made it. Thanks!!
Those charging baskets are a great way to practice stippling.
I love them all!! Thanks for the great ideas!
those charging baskets are dreamy, LOVE them!
What cool ideas. Hmm, I KNEW the old broken keyboard would have a purpose if I kept it long enough…
That molecular embroidery pattern is just too cute. My bff would just get a huge kick out of that.
What a CUTE handbag, very orginial.