Wednesday 19 June 2013

LEGO fans?

 Why yes, yes we are. Well at least my son is. Don’t get me wrong – I loved LEGO® as a kid and love watching my kids play with it. But my son takes it to a whole new level. Particularly when it comes to LEGO Star Wars and LEGO DC Superheroes. We play with the bricks, play the computer games, we read the books, he wears the shirts, the pyjamas, the undies… need I go on?

So when planning ahead for his birthday in September, something LEGO was the obvious answer (beyond just the LEGO kits of course!). Naturally when a quilter starts considering gifts, it’s got to be something in fabric.

And so it started with some paper piecing patterns.

Lego DC Superheroes pattern sketches
Batman, Robin, Superman and Wonder Woman

We spent many hours playing LEGO DC Superheroes on the computer – so I started with the kidlets’ favourite characters from there. J saw them and got a bit excited but then said “What about Star Wars?”.And I was so looking forward to piecing Superman. Sigh.

Okay. Sigh. Make the kid happy. Guess it is for his birthday after all. Back to the drawing board. Star Wars. Pick your favourite characters kidlet! And the list started… and kept going… and going… and going. So much for my initial plans of a 4 block cushion. I’m thinking we’re going to end up with a quilt.

I’ve started with just five of his favourite characters so far though.

LEGO Star Wars characters
Clone Commander, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, R2-D2 and Obi-wan Kenobi

They are mostly paper pieced – but facial expressions will have to be appliqued/embroidered or drawn on with a marker. That is  to keep my sanity when it comes to piecing these guys! I’m thinking 10” blocks for the same reason.

So this is my current WiP or as far as I’ve gotten so far. Just when I think I’m right to start piecing these, one of the kidlet says “What about so-and-so character?” and I’m back to EQ7. I will happily admit though that Ahsoka Tano is beyond my skills. I tried, failed. So she will not be featuring on the quilt. It’s possibly Yoda might not either.

This far I’ve gotten with Yoda. Difficult his face is.

Yoda no face

In the meantime I have managed to get the rest of these patterns sectioned, labelled and started to be put them into PDFs. Including the Superheroes – even if I don’t get to make them myself! They are ready to be tested. Any brave volunteers want to help out?! Drop me an email and let me know which one of the above you like if you’re game  –(kristyqp at gmail dot com). Note: R2D2 and Wonder Woman have already been snapped up! :)

Eventually I will offer them all as freebies in my Craftsy shop - with the same conditions as the other LEGO patterns – personal use only due to copyright with the LEGO group and on this legalish note – add in the usual disclaimer that there’s no affiliation between me, my patterns and the LEGO group or the official Star Wars etc We’re just fans Winking smile).

I think I’m going to start with the Clone Commander. No idea why but he’s J’s absolute favourite. So much so he takes a little clone minifig to school with him each day (with teacher’s permission) as his fidget toy to keep him occupied when assembly is happening or other times it’s difficult to sit still!

Clone leader

Hopefully will have this one pieced and ready to share for the Paper Piecing Party on Friday. That’ll keep me accountable to try to get it done!

Wish me luck. Or something to do with the Force. ;)

WipWed

27 comments:

  1. These blocks are awesome! I just sent you an email about testing them out for you :)

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  2. Yoda do you must! These are FANTASTIC. I'm very jelly of your forceful talent!

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  3. I have sent you an email Kristy, I think I *need* a lego wonderwoman on something :)

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  4. I'd love to give R2D2 a go, I've sent you an email ;)

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  5. These are fab! I'm looking forward to see it pieced.

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  6. These are show stoppers Kristy!! So fun!! J is lucky to have a mum who can whip up a custom cushion/quilt that will make his Day ( or year for that matter :)

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  7. The Clone Commander is pretty dang cool - J has excellent taste. ;)

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  8. Hahaha I love these! Clever you are! I'm happy to give one (or more) of them a test, I'll drop you an email. I've taken a bit of a fancy to Wonder Woman (does that sound weird?)

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  9. I'd be willing to be a tester for your Star Wars ones if you have a lack of people (which I bet you don't, seeing how awesome these are!), I hope you will make C3PO and Chewbacca and Han Solo and most importantly Darth Vader, too?
    Oh my little brother would so looove a quilt with this! :D

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  10. You are amazing! They all look great! I love Superman's expression :D.

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  11. You are a fabulous mom you know that right?!! If you have Batman,I am willing:)

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  12. Those are so cute! Love the expressions.

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  13. Amazing patterns Kristy! Your son is a lucky boy to have such a talented mum.

    There was an article in the paper recently about the faces of Lego characters being less happy now since they started making film-themed figures. So if the embroidery on the face goes a little wonky that will be perfectly in keeping :)

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  14. My oldest son is a HUGH Star Wars fan (even at 23). Yoda and Darth Vader along with Storm troopers are his favorites.

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  15. Awesome you are. Tell J I am grateful for his obsession. My two boys LOVE Star Wars and Ninjago. My Duncan has written his book review on Return of the Jedi. I hear you on Asohka and will not even ask about Darth Maul but i do think a Vader is necessary.

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  16. HaHA! I love your Yoda voice! You are a very clever and creative lady!!!!

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  17. OMG. Absolutely fabulous. I am not showing my husband though, as he would demand a LEGO quilt immediately.

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  18. These are wonderful - there are so many kids and obviously husbands (comments above) who are going to love these :-)

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  19. Dibs on Leia!, though they are all awesome!
    Designing more of these you must!

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  20. These are truly amazing Kristy. I had a chuckle when I read Fiona's comment about Darth Maul! In the car on the way home from school today my six year old daughter was trying to convince me to make her a Chewbacca costume for dress up day at school next week. Apparently her class's dress up theme is animals. I'm certain that Chewbacca would be mortified to think that he was considered an animal! I'm flattered that my daughter thinks I can just whip up a furry, all-in-one-complete-with-hairy-fingers costume in a week. Her second choice was an Ewok!

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  21. I wish you luck - the whole Star Wars thing passes right over my head!

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  22. These are so awesome! I'd love to do Batman, if he's still available - my roommate is doing her son's stuff in superhero theme, so it would be super awesome to frame for her.

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  23. Really nice

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  24. OMG - you really have been a busy little bee! No wonder I haven't see you of late. These are looking fantastic - you are such a fun wonderful Mum!

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