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December 1, 2005 5:05 PM

Celebrity Mugshots in Needlepoint
posted by jrossi4r (18 comments total)

what, no peewee?
posted by es_de_bah at 5:08 PM on December 1, 2005

By page the end of page 1 I was itching for Nolte, on page 3 I was rewarded with technicolour spinning Noltegeddon in stich.

Awesome, if they are real. Something about the Jack White one looks like a plugin. If they are genuine then they should be photographed more naturally, they'd be more amazing then.
posted by fire&wings at 5:13 PM on December 1, 2005

[this is good]
posted by interrobang at 5:26 PM on December 1, 2005

Hilarious!
posted by batou_ at 5:34 PM on December 1, 2005

"Bless this mess."
posted by Marnie at 5:37 PM on December 1, 2005

That's lovely.
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:41 PM on December 1, 2005

technicolour spinning Noltegeddon in stich

I wanted to call it a Nolte mandala.
posted by mr_roboto at 5:44 PM on December 1, 2005

I want to frame one of these and hang them in my bathroom.
posted by kosher_jenny at 5:48 PM on December 1, 2005

Now if only someone would start carving scrimshaw portraits of serial killers, I could finally decorate my summer cottage.
posted by Lee Marvin at 5:57 PM on December 1, 2005

Awesome.
posted by cortex at 6:11 PM on December 1, 2005

Vince Vaughn looks like the Gerber baby all grown up.
posted by phoenixc at 6:55 PM on December 1, 2005

This would be infinitely cooler if, instead of selling the originals, she provided a pattern for the DIY set. Infinitely.
posted by ColdChef at 7:35 PM on December 1, 2005

wow. just wow. thanks.
posted by .kobayashi. at 10:10 PM on December 1, 2005

This goes in the Top 10 stupidest things I've seen online in 2005.
posted by Ynoxas at 11:10 PM on December 1, 2005

This would be infinitely cooler if, instead of selling the originals, she provided a pattern for the DIY set

You could probably do it yourself using knitPro. A few minutes in Photoshop tweaking the number of colors in the picture gave me something that might even be stitchable. (I'm an embroiderer myself, so I couldn't say whether my test file would work for needlepoint.)
posted by Vervain at 11:45 PM on December 1, 2005

They aren’t needlepoint (or necessarily criminals), but let’s not also not forget the classic celebrities made out of seeds.
posted by LeLiLo at 12:18 AM on December 2, 2005

Axl Rose = David Brent?
posted by biffa at 4:10 AM on December 2, 2005

Excellent
posted by Jon-o at 9:56 AM on December 2, 2005