Domestic Geekdom Highlighting recipes, crafting, and art projects, Domestic Geekdom is your source for exploring your creativity at home—with that geeky twist you’ve been looking for!
Highlighting recipes, crafting, and art projects, Domestic Geekdom is your source for exploring your creativity at home—with that geeky twist you’ve been looking for!
Sep 02 2026
12 Tools to Make Knitting, Crochet, and Cross-Stitch More Accessible for You
I’m a member of a few online crafting communities, and there was a discussion the other day on a cross-stitch Discord regarding vision problems and magnifiers. As I scrolled through the conversation, I reflected that there is a lot of knowledge in these groups that could be really helpful for…
May 30 2026
A Sci-Fi Bar Crawl Through “Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book”
The Mass Effect video games are some of my favorite sci-fi content and one of my partner’s favorite video game series (we named our cat Tali!), so when we learned about Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book, we were pretty excited. There are a number of bars in the games that serve as backdrops…
Feb 14 2026
Explore the Culinary World with “Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide”
The first Tomb Raider game was released in 1996, and the franchise is still going strong today. In addition to a long list of video games spanning many platforms, the franchise also includes movies, comic books, novels, an anime, and even a cookbook: Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide…
Jul 02 2025
3 Cookbooks to Get Young Geeks Going in the Kitchen
When I was a preteen, I had a cookbook that was designed to help young people learn to cook: Kids Cooking: A Very Slightly Messy Manual. Sadly, it’s not in print anymore, but I remember being obsessed with it. It’s probably part of the reason I like cooking so much now (that and my inherent enjoyment…
May 04 2025
3 Galactic Cocktails to Help You Celebrate Star Wars Day
Sometimes a pun sticks in your head and you can’t shake it until you’ve followed it down a rabbit hole of deteriorating silliness. These cocktails are the result of “Palpatini” getting stuck in my brain, though admittedly only one of them is based on a martini (and, as it turns…
Apr 17 2025
How to Get Started with Indoor Kitchen Gardening
With grocery prices on the rise, I recently decided to try my hand at growing some vegetables myself. Since Minnesota winters tend to linger well into April or even May depending on the year, I thought I would begin with some plants that are easy to plant and grow indoors.
I do not have a great track record…
Apr 14 2025
6 Twin Cities Stores to Meet Your Fabric Needs
For decades, Joann Fabric and Craft Store was a reliable resource for crafters of all sorts. Ask any sewist, knitter, scrapbooker, or artist, and it’s assured that they can relate any number of fond memories about finding supplies there for this project or that. Since the announcement that Joann…
Feb 16 2025
5 Books to Help You Knit and Crochet Like a Geek
One of my favorite things to do at the library is to just browse the shelves. My usual go-to is the fantasy/sci-fi section, but I also always check out arts and crafts, where I sometimes find real gems for patterns or even entire new crafts to learn! Two of my main hobbies are knitting and crocheting, and…
Jan 15 2025
Cook a Feast Fit for a God with the “God of War” Official Cookbook
At first blush, a cookbook based on the God of War video games might seem like an odd choice. But in the most recent installment in the series, God of War: Ragnarök, there are actually a few scenes involving cooking or sharing meals, and there is an entire quest revolving around finding ingredients for…
Dec 09 2024
How to Knit or Crochet Chain Mail for Cosplay
Several years ago, I made a chain-mail hauberk for a Legend of Zelda cosplay. It was steel rings in a simple four-in-in weave, and it looked pretty dang good, if I can be allowed to pat myself on the back there. However, it also weighed 13 pounds, and wearing it was desperately uncomfortable even though…