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Self Portrait Ski Mask

Posted in knitting oddities, links, tagged on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This post from Craftzine made me LOL: Made on a hacked electric knitting machine. Make sure you check out the awesomely geeky video too!

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More Knitted Biology

Posted in knitting oddities on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Check out the awesome anatomically correct knitted brain at The Museum of Fabric Brain Art. I love that it has a zipper for joining the two hemispheres! (Thanks Craft Magazine!)

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Knitting doesn’t belong everywhere.

Posted in knitting oddities, links on August 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »

A bar in London commissioned two designers to cover their interior with hand knitted and hand knotted cord. (more photos by Mark Wu) While I agree that the effect is nothing short of amazing, I can’t help but think that it will be a bitch to clean. Also, they might find they spend an inordinate [...]

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Teddy Bear Anatomy

Posted in knitting oddities on May 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It’s not exactly knitting, but check out this artist’s amazing portfolio. She uses needle felting to create life-like wool sculptures. Beautiful.

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More Biology in Knitting

Posted in knitting oddities on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

No WsIP to share today so how about some knitted biology instead? This gorgeous dissected frog is from CraftyHedgehog and the pattern is available for download on Etsy. (She can also be found on Ravelry.)

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Hello, Literoticans!

Posted in knitting oddities on February 4, 2008 |

I was going to post this on your board, but am too lazy to sign up for an account. I just wanted to point out that Knitty.com has a bunch of odd stuff to knit. My favorites? The knitted uterus and the knitted breasts. Enjoy!

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Um…

Posted in knitting oddities on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I am really not sure what to think about this… (Link via BuzzFeed, thanks!)

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More Knitted Biology

Posted in knitting oddities on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Remember this? And this? Check this one out:an anatomically correct knitted heart, complete with valves and chambers. Designed by Paul Magnusson of Whidbey Island. You can find the pattern for the heart here. Paul also designed a knitted hip replacement (scroll down for the hip) and some other neat stuff–a beautiful afghan, and even a [...]

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Extreme Knitting

Posted in knitting oddities on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Check out this lady in the UK. She is going for the world record in needle size, knitting with needles that are 4 metres long (that’s a little over 13 feet long for you yanks). Extreme knitting is an art that uses between 20 to 40 strands of wool in one stitch. The result can [...]

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And now…

Posted in knitting oddities on June 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »

…to continue our series on knitted biology, I give you: Knitted DNA from Kimberly Chapman “This is a knitted model of DNA, complete with GC/TA base pairs represented by orange-green bars with a pointed join and blue-yellow bars with a stepped join (because there weren’t enough stitches to make a wave or curve), replicating the [...]

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