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For The Lonely: A Knitted Boyfriend

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This is My Knitted Boyfriend. Actually, it’s artist Noortje de Keijzer’s knitted boyfriend. But I’m totally commissioning her to make me one too. That’s right, I’ve finally embraced being forever alone, and boy is it the coldest, loneliest hug there ever was. Just imagine an ugly robot wrapping his robo-arms around you all half-assed like. Except even colder and lonelier than that. I know! It’s sad as hell. Anyway, enough about me, Noortje over here put together this knitted bodysuit because she wanted a man in her life. It can either be worn by an actual man (hey, that’s cheating!) or filled with pillows, stuffing, or in my case: pizza. Hear that Pizza? We can finally be together! 

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Space Invaders Sweater

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If you want to destroy my sweater, pull this thread as you pew pew pew pew blammo. It’s Space Invaders, it’s a sweater, it’s the Space Invaders Sweater. Knit by yweasworld for a commission piece, it’s geeky yet on the fringe of style. I don’t know what “the fringe of style” means either exactly but I like the term and I like the sweater. Nice knitting.

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The Chair That Knits While You Rock

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Old folks aren’t the only ones who might want to take up knitting. For years, I’ve wanted to learn because I wanted to wear knitted stuff and be able to tell people that I knitted it myself.

Unfortunately, I’m pretty bad at it. But fortunately for me and all the other people who suck at knitting, there’s the Rocking-Knit.

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Basically, this rocking chair will do all the knitting for you. And all you have to do is sit and do whatever you want, as long as you keep rocking.

The Rocking-Knit was built by Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex from the University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland because they just couldn’t bear to see all that geriatric rocking energy go to waste.

The chair itself was created for the University’s Low-Tech Factory design exhibition, and we’re not likely to see it go into production commercially. Regardless, I know a lot of people who’d want to have this chair in their living room to help them get their knitting out of the way while at the same time lounging.

[via Treehugger via Dvice]


Early Nintendo brochure shows us the childhood we could have had, the knitting we never did

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Early Nintendo brochure shows us the childhood we could have had, the knitting we never did

We all know what the Nintendo Entertainment System looks like, right? Well, if a butterfly had flapped its wings in a slightly different manner, things could have apparently been quite different. Former Director of Game Creative at Nintendo America, Howard Phillips, has recently uploaded some images taken from a 1985 brochure for a precursor to the NES called the AVS (Advanced Video System). While a glance at some vintage-looking hardware that never came to be -- such as the wireless controller -- is a retrospective tease, it was the marketing material from a couple of years later that really snags the attention: an advert for a knitting machine peripheral. The image shows the NES we know and love, with a controller in a dock, attached to a knitting device turning-out what we can only assume are some leg-warmers. Not wanting to alienate its largely male audience, however, the tagline reads "Now you're knitting with power." Given that it never came to market, though, we guess that not quite everything was acceptable in the eighties.

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Crochet Ellen DeGeneres

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It’s famous talk show host and ice road trucker Ellen DeGeneres in the crochet form. Why Ellen? Why not? This amigurumi (or crocheted dolls), by amidorable crochet is actually a pretty uncanny resemblance to Ellen. That’s some excellent knitting crocheting (which is apparently not knitting at all-thanks Christine from Explorers in NZ). Closeup of her face:
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Even if it wasn’t such a great looking doll, the good thing about doing a comedian is that if it doesn’t look just like them, then it’s “supposed to be funny”. Not a problem here. I like the little TV accessory too. Ok I’m rambling… so paging Portia de Rossi, buy this for your lady (except it’s not for sale, but come on- everything is for sale at the right price, right?) or Ellen, get this knitter..err crocheter- on your show for season 10.

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R2-D2 Yarnbombing

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Sarah Rudder created the ultimate yarnbomb with her R2-D2 which she knit and placed on a concrete traffic barrier in Bellingham, WA. She used 1200 yards of yarn to create the 23″ tall, 56″ diameter astromech bollard cozy. Once in place the reactions of passersby was as expected:
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Photo opportunity! You can see the type of bollard that was covered up in the background here.
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Of course she took R2 back with her at the end of the day, as otherwise he would quickly end up as someone’s (amazing) souvenir. So maybe if you’re around Bellingham you’ll see R2 out again. Incredible work Sarah.

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