knitting
Design
Knitted Lego Minifig Will Replace My Teddy Bear
5:40AM Jesus Diaz | Oh Lego Minifig, you were perfect in your plastic symmetry and Mona Lisa smile before. But now that you’ve been knitted, I just want to hug you. Unfortunately, you can’t buy this right away. You’ll have to do it yourself: More »
Design
Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side
8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | A legitimate artistic movement known as Open Source Embroidery has sprung up to explore the relationship between, no joke, software engineering and needlework. It’s pretty awesome. More »
Random Stuff
Spock Ears Make Me Say ‘Knit Long and Prosper’
8:40PM Gizmodo US Edition | This is a momentous day for me (I won’t spoil the surprise) and what better way to celebrate momentous days than by knitting a pair of Spock ears for my lugs. If I were going to the New York meet-up you would be able to identify me by these furry little thingies—sod the fact that I would probably collapse from heatstroke before I even got to the sodding ballgame—and I could be the fount of mirth while you watched the rounders match, or whatever it is they’re playing on the pitch. Anyway. Ears. Spock. Knitted. Look like sideways boobies. What more do you want on a Friday? [Yarn Songs via Boing Boing]
Gadgets
Knitted Gas Mask Helps Cyclists Avoid Cotton-Wool Smog
1:00AM Addy Dugdale | For those who are about to knit, we salute you—especially if you make woolly hat ‘n’ gas mask combos for your friends to wear on their bike ride to work. Not sure whether it would work in the event of a mustard gas attack, but it works for me. File this alongside the R2-D2 beanie and Darth Vader bonnet and see the full-frontal below. More »
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Darth Vader Drinks Guinness, Wears a Bonnet
8:14PM Seamus Byrne | Right now it’s a bit hot for one of these, but we salute Lady Linoleum, who made this Darth Vader helmet out of eight Guinness cans and some black wool. [Monster Crochet via Craftzine] More »
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