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No matter what, The Little Red Plane Would be an impressive stop motion animation due to the level of attention put into its creation. But the fact that it’s made out of knit and stitched creations only makes it even more stunningly impressive.
Video link via Craftzine
Yes, sadly, this is a real book. I guess we should all be glad that it’s been discounted heavily. The Amazon reviews are harsh, which we fellas should take as encouraging.
Link via Urlesque | Photo: Flying Scotsman
No cutesy knitting here. Tracy Widdess’ custom knitted "Brutal Knitting" masks are inspired by "creepy sci-fi and horror." Take a look (and I’ll see the one on the right in my nightmare tonight!): Link – via Cakehead Loves Evil
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I don’t know about you guys, but I would absolutely love to have my own knitted Tardis blanket like this one, created by Flickr user hedoknitstic. Aside from the obviously awesome style it adds to your room, how cool would it be to get to tell everyone that your bed is bigger on the inside than on the outside?
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Ordinary LEGO bricks just aren’t heavy enough to hold back a door (although you can wedge them in between the door and the floor). So Instructables user lizzyastro knitted a cover for a brick, using bottle caps to form the knobs.
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Plarchie is a 8-meter long squid knitted entirely out of plastic bags! Deadly Knitshade made and displayed him at London’s Natural History Museum, where he also posed for pictures with a statue of Charles Darwin. See more pictures at Whodunnknit. Link -via Ectoplasmosis
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Why are you wearing a plastic insulated electrical cord around your neck? Nguyen Le, a photographer and crafter in Brooklyn, made one out of cotton and wool yarn that is probably a lot more comfortable.
Link via Geek Crafts | Le’s Blog
So, do you want to throw snowballs, or are you just going to look at those cute little hedgehogs on your hands? These hedgehog mittens aren’t for sale, but you can get a kit to knit them yourself! Link -via Laughing Squid
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Blogger Acornbud knitted a toilet paper roll cozy shaped like the titular character in the anime movie My Neighbor Totoro. At the link, you can view detailed instructions on how to make your own.
Link via Geek Crafts
Previously:
Totoro Cat Bus
Totoro Bento Box
Comments Off If you’ve ever spent long hours knitting socks and sweaters, you’ve probably wondered if it would be possible for a machine to all of this work that you are forced to do by hand. Well, then, good news! YouTube user correx37 built such a device.
via Technabob
Tara Wheeler knits Doctor Who paraphernalia, especially the scarves worn by the Fourth Doctor. She’s also created TARDIS socks. Since they’re bigger on the inside than the outside, they have a slimming effect. At the link, you can find the pattern so you can make your own.
Link via Comics Alliance | Photo: Tara Wheeler
Ben Cuevas knitted a realistic human skeleton. He calls the project “Transcending the Material”, and made it while in an art collective called the Wassaic Project. There are eleven more pictures at the link. The level detail on the vertebrae is amazing.
Link via Make | Photo by the artist
Providence, Rhode Island-based artist Dave Cole specializes in large-scale knitting. Recently, he created an enormous knitted piece covering an old bridge in Melbourne, Australia:
All around there it’s very dust-colored, so I chose the brightest, most fluorescent colors – orange and pink – and with 40 people we knitted one kilometer of two-foot-wide surveyors’ tape along the bridge. I used the Fibonacci sequence as a basis for the design so it looked like it was curving in and out and up and down.
Link via DudeCraft | Photo: Frockfaire | Artist’s Website
Previously: Dave Cole’s Knitting Machine
Flickr user MrsWoman knitted this wig that will make any man look cool, like The King. Sadly, she doesn’t provide any instructions on how to make your own. But at her site, you can examine similar crafts that she’s made.
Link via The Presurfer | Crafter’s Website
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Artist Clëmence Joly knitted a scene from a butcher shop and put it in a shop window in London. Her project is called “The Wool Butchery” and you can view a gallery of eighteen images at the link.
Link via Nerdcore | Photo: Artist Clëmence | Previously: Knitted Meat
Industrial designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen made a clock that knits a 2-meter scarf over the course of one year. It’s called “365″, and its purpose is:
[...]to give a physical manifestation to the change of time. drawing from the change that is witnessed through the growth of human bodies and hair, the same concept is found in ’365′ which translates time through the growth of knitted material. the clock houses a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and roll of yarn. moving in clockwise direction, one day leads to a complete round, while a year gives users 2 meters of a complete scarf.
The clock was exhibited at the DMY International Design Festival in Berlin this year. You can view more pictures and a completed scarf at the link.
Link via DudeCraft | Photo: Design Boom | Artist’s Website
Stephanie Casper, a design student at the Pratt Institute, knitted a few meats. They’re shrink-wrapped, so as long as they haven’t been out of the fridge too long, they’re probably safe to cook and eat.
March is not only National Craft Month, but also National Crochet Month, so it’s only fitting that we feature ten of the weirdest and coolest crochet and knitting projects ever made. As this is, of course, all a matter opinion, feel free to share your favorites in the comments!
Coral reefs are some of the most beautiful underwater structures around. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t get to see these beauties in their natural habitats. Enter the world of crochet coral, a collective project by The Institute for Figuring. Crafters from around the world have added their interpretations of crochet reefs and the entire exhibit has travelled through museums across the U.S.
Image via Margaret Wertheim [Flickr]
It’s one thing to say your baby boy is a prince, it’s an entirely different matter to say he is the prince of the universe. Fortunately, with the adorable hat pattern from Itchy Stitchy, you can dress him like the prince of the cosmos from Katamari Damacy without looking like an egotistical jerk.
Image from the creator’s Flickr stream.
If you’re going to make adorable art out of crochet critters, why not take it a step further and make a stop motion music video out of a pair of amagami playing the ukulele and singing? Apparently these two cuties make up a music group known as U900.
Etsy seller Moons Creations always has some interesting bunnies in her shop, including cathulus and Olympic skiers, but perhaps her greatest creation is the Pinhead bunny seen in this blog post. While this one is already sold out, if you PM her, maybe she’ll custom make you your own.
Crochet is normally such a sweet and happy medium but the designs created by artist Patricia Waller (some pics mildly NSFW) are anything but. Her goretastic crocheted plushie collection includes a bunny killed with a pitchfork, Miss Piggy falling into a meat grinder and a unicorn that has driven its horn through a teddy bear. While the pieces are quite impressive, it’s probably best to avoid letting your kids see them –unless you’re into the whole traumatizing-your-kid-for-life thing.
Perhaps you like your gory crochet pieces to send a message to your enemies though. This knitted horse head pattern from the Anti-Craft is a vegan-friendly way to remind your enemies about the offer they can’t refuse.
Speaking of vegan-friendly dead things,. Artist Shauna Richardson is quite possibly the authority on crochet animals in the wild and has quite the collection of taxidermied crocheted beasts. Anyone who loves taxidermy but hates to see the poor little dead animals is certain to enjoy her creepy-cool gallery.
If you objected to dissecting frogs back in school, then this knitted frog dissection by Etsy seller craftyhedgehog might just be the ethical alternative you were dreaming of. It is also a great gift idea for anyone who overly enjoyed the frog dissection in school. If frogs aren’t your thing, she also makes rat dissections as well.
No article about crocheting and knitting would be complete without mentioning Anthea Chrome, the amazing artist who created all of the tiny clothing used in Coraline. While she’s best known for her work in the movie, her tiny sweaters are famous in their own right and have been a favorite of collectors and have been featured in museums.
One yarn movement that’s been sweeping the country and has even made its way on to the homepage of Neatorama this week is the idea of Knitting graffiti. It has taken place in Massachusetts, Houston, Finland, Ohio, British Columbia, Sweden, and New York –be sure to click on this link for Deputy Dog to see pictures of all of these places. Some of the artists, like those from the International Fiber Collaborative, have obtained permission first, while others are acting rogue in the dead of night.
The funniest part to me is that of all the articles I’ve seen, only one person seems to dislike the work. Mark Lukas, who has a winter home in Cape May, told the Press of Atlantic City that he found the tree cozies in his neighborhood hurt the charm and authenticity of the Victorian homes in the area, “I don’t think it’s appropriate. It’s a public space and people should not be able to go in and do what they want to do.” Am I the only one who thinks this guy is a total spoilsport?
Police in West Cape May, New Jersey, are investigating mysterious knitted cozies that are appearing on on trees in the town during the night:
But not everyone is keen to stop the mysterious knitter – and the mayor and many residents admit they have been enthralled by the rainbow of colours.
Susan Longacre takes a walk each morning in Wilbraham Park, where several tree branches have been covered in the handiwork of the Midnight Knitter.
“I think it’s wonderful” she told the newspaper.
Link | Photo: US Department of Homeland Security
If you can’t fit into that old sweater grandma gave you ages ago, don’t throw it away! For $30, computer programmer-by-day and fashion-maven-by-night Gayane Avanian, and her son Haik Avanian, will take your old sweaters and reknit them into scarves, gloves, and hats.
Link to Reknit website | NPR’s All Things Considered story
Craftster member teriyakimoto made this knitted gas mask for a friend who thought it would be a cool way to stay warm while riding his bike in winter. It is attached to his knit cap by Velcro straps. Link -via Unique Daily
Knitters around the net rejoice, Threadless is holding a new contest until January 18, 2010. Whoever makes the coolest knitted version of one of their shirts wins, so get your needles clicking.
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.
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.
Photo: CraftyHedgehog
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.
Link – via uniquedaily
From the Upcoming 
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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
I <3 this knitted burger by Etsy seller nillakitty (she’s selling the pattern, not the burger itself).
Our very own Jill Harness found this and other fun burger-related items, as posted on her neat article at InventorSpot: Link
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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.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.
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