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Improving on the knit Dalek
I blogged "Extermiknit!", a knittable Dalek, back in 2007, but it turns out that an even cooler knittable Dalek of the same name was created on Feather and Fan in 2010, with an opening hatch...
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Hand-knit superhero costumes gallery show in Knoxville
Mark Newport, whose hand-knit superhero costumes have been mentioned here before, has a gallery show at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's Ewing Gallery. I really love these pieces -- they'd...
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On knitting 50 life-sized bees
Hannah Haworth found herself in the enviable position of having to knit 50 life-sized bees, which she did, and celebrated their completion with detailed notes and lovely photos. Remember when I...
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The US Olympic Committee has apologized for describing the knitters' Ravelympics as "denigrating" to real athletes. Ravelympics are an activity on Ravelry, a community for knitters, in which members...
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Knitted monster masks
Etsy seller Tracy Widdess's "Brutal Knitting" project features a number of truly remarkable soft, knitted monster masks. Brutal Knitting (via The Mary Sue)
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Knitting as computation
K2G2 -- a wiki for "krafty knerds and geek girls" -- has a marvellous series of posts about "Computational Craft" through which traditional crafting practices, like knitting, are analyzed through the...
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Knitwear for the Brady Bunch
Sadly, several knit garments from the first edition of Barbara G. Walker's Knitting From The Top (1972) are not included in the most recent addition. I can only assume they were omitted by mistake,...
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Knitted anatomical dissections: readymade or DIY
We've featured the lovely knitted dissections of Aknitomy before (previously), but its proprietor, Emily Stoneking, keeps on turning out whimisico-scientific knitted fancies that please the eye and...
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A brief history of yarn in video games
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that he would rather take up knitting than review video games—as though the two were mutually exclusive. Lately, it seems like that couldn't be further from...
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Intricate crocheted wire heart by Anne Mondro
Artist Anne Mondro uses narrow-gauged tinned copper wire and other materials to create works like If I can stop one heart from breaking. (more…)
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X-Me Collection turns furniture into cross-stitch canvases
Ellinor Ericsson's X-Me Collection weaves colorful tubes of fabric into Nordic style furniture with latticed birch backs, adding a touch of whimsy to the clean design. (more…)
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104-year-old crocheter yarnbombs her town
Grace Brett, 104, is part of a guerrilla crochet group called the Souter Stormers who yarn bombed landmarks in Selkirk, Ettrickbridge and Yarrow, Scotland. The installation was tied to an arts festival...
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Detangling enthusiasts trade snarled yarn to tease back into order
Online communities like Ravelry's "Knot a Problem" invite knitters to ship them their most tangled yarn, which they patiently unravel and wind into usable skeins, as a kind of knitting-adjacent hobby,...
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Rescued elephants get giant knitted sweaters
Indian conservation group Wildlife SOS has a team of knitters that could put your grandma's afghan-making skills to shame. They create these colorful knitted sweaters for elephants in their care. (more…)
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These 'temperature blankets' show a whole year's worth of weather!
All you knitters or crocheters, this one's for you: temperature blankets. The basic idea is that, every single day for an entire year, you'll stitch up a new row (or square or circle or other shape)....
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Have you seen this ugly clown sweater?
These clowns I know were having a yard sale Sunday, so I swung by. I picked up a sweet plumed marching band hat, a pair of tinted goggles for Burning Man, and a really cool long cloak, also for the...
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Check out this hand-knit Pac-Man Icelandic peysa
This woolen Pac-Man sweater, an Icelandic peysa, popped up in my Facebook feed on Wednesday and it made me squee with delight. It's the handiwork of my friend Christine Clarke. She told me that her...
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Don these slippers inspired by Marty McFly's self-lacing sneakers
You probably missed out when Nike auctioned off 89 modern-day replicas of Marty McFly's self-lacing sneakers, but that shouldn't stop you from having a pair. While they don't tie themselves, these...
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This indoor bike can knit a scarf in five minutes: Cyclo-Knitter
To stave off the cold and boredom of waiting at the train station, Dutch design student George Barratt-Jones made a pedal-powered knitting machine that can whip up a neck scarf in five minutes flat....
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Machine-knit Cyber Scarf ships with its source code
I'm really digging this retro-styled reversible Cyber scarf ($109) by Seattle-based KnitYak, maker of "generative mathematical" machine-knit goods. The yarn used is a 100% machine washable acrylic in...
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