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Molecular

My sister Laura and I thought it might be fun to decorate some of our handmade gifts this year with a little molecular embroidery. We decided to make up a little quickie free pattern for everyone with our two favorite molecules – caffeine & water. Water is much smaller to stitch, of course – and either design would be cute on bottle cozies, bags, coasters, etc…

Molecular
water of life…

For the insulated java jacket above, I traced a paper one from the coffee shop and added about an inch on all sides. It overlaps in the back with velcro, and is fully reversible! Here is a great tutorial on Flickr. The smaller caffeine pattern fits nicely, and my sister will get this in the mail soon for helping us all out :)

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16 Comments

Ok, so that is the coolest idea ever !! One of my BILs is a Science Teacher, and a caffeine addict, something w/ this embroidered on it would be PERFECT.
You rock in all your nerdiness ;-)

Posted by Luvkids334 on 17 November 2008 @ 1pm

What a cool idea…I love it.

Posted by Kristin on 17 November 2008 @ 2pm

OOh… I love that. Since I am NOT crafty, are you going to be selling that (or other coffee cozies) on your Etsy site? My sister loves her Starbucks every day and I need to give her one of these for Christmas!

Posted by Lisa on 17 November 2008 @ 2pm

Love it, love it, love it!! I think I just found my hubby’s Christmas gift. Thank you!

Posted by Megan on 17 November 2008 @ 3pm

OMG! Brilliant! I’ve scheduled a link to this post to go live on my blog in about a half hour. I hope it brings you a few extra clicks.

Denise
http://needlework.craftgossip.com

Posted by Denise Felton on 17 November 2008 @ 4pm

I love it! Bean, thanks so much for sharing. I picked up a 5-pack of $20 Starbucks cards at Costco for only $79 last week, and this will be the perfect gift to go with each card!

Posted by Amy on 17 November 2008 @ 4pm

I think this is a good idea. And using molecules, certain ones anyway, can help one’s creative energy get way and the hell jazzed up. Which is fun.

Posted by Bascom on 18 November 2008 @ 12am

This is so cool – I love this! What a great place to do a small embroidery design.

Posted by Terriaw on 18 November 2008 @ 2am

I just love this. I’ve been wanting to make some coffee cup cozies. Maybe this will give me a jumpstart.

I just responded to your comment on my blog, but thought I’d copy it here:

I agree. Now, I didn’t know Hitler personally (or any psychopath/serial killers) — maybe they were lovely sweet little babies. All I know is what I’ve heard of them in later life. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? I very much hope that everyone is “fixable.”

The Manic Monday questions are available here: http://manicmondaymeme.blogspot.com/

Posted by Heather on 18 November 2008 @ 3am

that is “sew” darn cute! i might have to borrow your pattern, but i don’t have a clue how to embroider the molecular structure. unfortunate, since i have a coffee drinking chemist for a father!

Posted by nea on 18 November 2008 @ 6am

Nice to *meet you* and thank you for sharing this cool tutorial… I really like the theme!

Posted by Natalie on 26 November 2008 @ 4pm

I love this pattern! I wanted to embroider the word ‘sweet’ and a glucose (sugar) molecule on some baby booties because my old high school chemistry teacher just had twins. I couldn’t figure out how to design the molecule to look decent. This is just the thing!

Posted by Sarah Heacox on 26 November 2008 @ 5pm

Very nice, thank you! I’m going to make one for my brother who works in the molecular biology department at a university.

Here’s a link from sew mama sew to a coffee cozy tutorial for cuff part:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14892851@N05/sets/72157602905225307/

Happy Holidays!

Posted by Lisa on 26 November 2008 @ 9pm

That is too cute!

Thank you for sharing the pattern, I think it’s perfect for my kids to make for each other!

Happy Thanksgiving!
~ Jes

Posted by jessicasews on 26 November 2008 @ 9pm

I love this SO much! Thanks tons for sharing this with us. I’ll be linking!

Posted by Rachel@oneprettything.com on 29 November 2008 @ 5pm

Thank you! That is great, I will do something with that embroied for a friend who works at a genetic research lab :)

Check my blog as well http://www.natty-crafts.blogspot.com

Much Love
Natty*

Posted by Natty Lioness on 30 November 2008 @ 12pm