Etsy user Tiny Tangerine, aka Kelly Burghardt, knits these adorable baby hats. My favorite is the cow hat. Craftzine has a great interview with her or you can just click on the link and look at her great gallery of work.

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All you science-lovers on Neatorama should appreciate this great sweater featuring the Periodic Table of Elements. The sleeves feature fungi and bacteria names. The creator made it for her husband, a microbiologist working in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Sure it’s a little bit morbid, but at least it’s creative (remember that line?) Etsy user Emily Stoneking created this knitted lab rat and put it on a real dissection tray that we all surely remember from high school. At least this particular "dissection" doesn’t smell bad at all: Link

If you like that, check out more geeky Knit Art and Yarn Graffiti and 176 Great Geek Approaches to Design, Art & Technology at our pal Web Urbanist – Thanks Mu!

A group of ladies in England have knitted their entire village – to scale.  Dozens of pictures at the link.

…every inch of this village – Mersham, in Kent – has been lovingly knitted by a small group of very twinkly ladies who started 23 years ago with a couple of cottages and some pigs, and ended up creating more than 60 properties, complete with wheelie bins, outdoor loos, gas tanks, cars in the driveways and even a smart red telephone box.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

Look closely: that’s a wonderful OWLS sweater, made by Kate Davies of needled blog (who’s offering the pattern for free). The buttons really made the design pop! Link – via NotCot

Our very own Jill Harness found this and other fun burger-related items, as posted on her neat article at InventorSpot: Link

Do you have trouble finding your keys?  Can’t remember names and faces? 

The BBC News reports on a study to be presented to the American Academy of Neurology that concludes that people who keep themselves mentally active between the ages of 50 and 65 have a better chance of delaying the onset of dementia than people who watch television. 

Reading, crossword puzzles, knitting, quilting are all activities that keep your brain active.

Spending a significant amount of time watching television, researchers found, may actually speed up memory loss.  So if you knit, turn off the TV.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.

…they told me about the magical star sweater they needed – it would have to sparkle. I went on a tireless thread quest for about a month – finding everything from stainless steel thread to paintable sparkles and then set about knitting swatches and sending them to Laika. None of them looked right on screen and because of a time issue, it was looking like my hopes of making something for this wonderful project were fading. In fact, at one point, they told me that they were going to have to start shooting soon and would not be able to wait for me to find the right combo of threads.

Soon after that email my mom came over with some holographic thread and said, “Althea, I really think this will work on the sweater for Coraline.”

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by JJA.

Ask your granny to knit you one of these, A Guitar Hero scarf makes knitting more awesome than you could ever have imagined.

And I’m even having trouble deciding on which song! Should I go for a fun 80’s song, a hard rockin’ metal song, or a classic oldie. I love them all! Argh. Anyone have any ideas on how to get an accurate depiction of part of a song?

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own adorable character from Little Big Planet, here’s your chance to knit your own. If you’re really good, you can even customize them like you do in the game.

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If you start knitting this now, you too can have your very own "Sexy Turkey Hat" for Thanksgiving 2009.

Etsy seller Angela Catirina, who is a force to be reckoned with in the world of crafts, is selling the pattern to this unbelievably awesome headwear (I dare you to find something more awesome, folks): Link | More about Angela at ExtremeCraft

If you need to send someone a message, sometimes the only thing that will get through to them a bloody horse head. If you’re like me though, that sawing through bone of a prized race horse is just too messy and requires too much elbow grease. So here’s a vegan-friendly option for all you aspiring mobsters, knit your own decapitated horse head with this lovely pattern.

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You may have seen Alex’s crocheted bunny body suit, but I’ll see that handiwork and raise you Urban Knitting. Trees, street signs, statues and gas stations, nothing is safe from these rebels of the wool.

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