I have a mostly typical if somewhat slightly dorky desk. It has a phone, a computer, a pencil holder, a slightly suspicious-looking robot, Cthulhu, and a keyboard.

OK, maybe your desk doesn’t have paranoid robots or cuddly gods of the netherworld, but I bet yours has other things. And I bet yours is missing something just like mine... something to rest those weary wrists on! And maybe something to up the geekiness level of your desk to new heights. Trust me, with this project, your desk will be the lord of geek. In a good way, of course. We at Urban Threads only take a positive view on geeks.

So, we’re going to make the geekiest wrist rest your desk has ever seen, in a few easy steps. It’s comfy enough for any computer, and dorky enough for lolcat lovers, meme-followers, and nerds of all flavor. The kitty rest we’re going to make is like longcat's long-lost cousin or the nerdy programmer sibling of keyboard cat.

We’ll need about half a yard or so of fabric, with matching thread, and a big ol’ bag of rice. If you decide you want to go the ol’ fashioned way like me and hand embroider, you’ll also need floss, a needle, and an embroidery hoop.

You will also, of course, need some dork-worthy embroidery. For this occasion, I’m going to combine and separate two different designs. This is, of course, plenty easy to do with hand embroidery. If you’re doing it with machine embroidery, it’s also possible, you just have to watch which stops you sew.

In this case, I’m taking the nerd glasses from “talk nerdy to me," and the text from “adorkable."

So, once you know the size of your cat, you can figure out how large you want your embroidery to be, and print and transfer accordingly. I’m starting with my little nerdy glasses. Be sure to leave enough space around the glasses for hooping.

Once you’ve stitched your kitty glasses, just add a nice small triangle for the nose.

Measuring out the space you’ll need for the kitty body, trace your “adorkable” design (or any other) and hoop it up and embroider it too.

Before we stitch the two halves together, we need some kitty ears! Fold some fabric in half and cut two small triangles for ears. Stitch along the edges of the ears and turn them right side out.

Put your two kitty pieces together right sides together. Carefully pin your ears pointy side in.

Now it’s on to filling our kitty with rice. Kitties get nice and plump on a steady diet of rice.

If you need some help filling him up without a mess, try making a little funnel out of scrap paper, and filling the rice up that way. After he’s full, use a small stitch to sew the gap up nice and tight.

I have to admit, this might be the weirdest photo I’ve ever taken for a tutorial.

Now, a kitty body needs kitty legs, and kitty probably wants a tail too. Cut some long legs and a nice long tail, making sure you leave enough width for seam allowance.

You’re going to want to make these a lot longer than you need them, so you have plenty of room to stitch them into your kitty.

Tip your legs so the rice gathers at the bottom, keeping them clear from your stitching. Stick them back under the machine and sew them shut at the open end.

When you’re done you should have four nice kitty legs and one nice long kitty tail.

Pin both sides together, taking care to pin the legs in place. Sew a seam around the edge twice to make sure no rice leaks out, making sure to leave a small gap along the long edge so you can turn it right side out.

Once it’s turned right side out, you can fill the rest of your kitty with rice. Fill him till he’s nice and full, but remember, he doesn’t need to be a fat kitty, just a little bit flat kitty. Once he’s full enough, stitch the gap closed.

Finally, place your kitty upon his rightful throne of dorkiness, right on your desktop. He’ll hang out in front of your keyboard, like a good little keyboard cat, until you’re ready to get to work.

Keyboard cat is ready for action and my wrists finally have a place to rest.

My workspace is appropriately geeky now, and in a short time, I’m sure yours will be too. Viva la keyboard cat!