It’s one of my favorite creatures, just slightly behind the Platypus, and thanks to this charming pattern by Fawn Pea it’s destined to be yours as well. Moving slightly away from the organic, we find this cute knitted Star-Nosed Mole. Not getting enough fiber in your diet? Then the Knitted Digestive System is just what you need! Detailed instructions and a pattern are listed… assuming, of course, you can stomach the results. No actual pets were harmed in the knitting of this art. Marjorie Taylor is another Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Artist (SAFBA, for short) who knits quilts based on PET scans. As long as she keeps her fiendishly sharp crocheting hooks out of my cortex, she’s welcome to “operate” any way she likes. Mind you, there are about a billion other ways to assert one’s intelligence but Norberg just wanted to be different. Karen Norberg is not a knit-wit and she’s crafted the above anatomically correct human brain to prove it. (image via: The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art) The artist has taken special care to render the many individual alveoli with great detail, almost as if they had real lungs to observe. Other woven works that go way, way beyond samplers and quilts include these cozy lungs, obviously from a non-smoker. Waller also delves into other somewhat disturbing scenes such as a pair of knitted dentures forever floating in a gelatin-filled bottle.
Knit Safe for Workįorgive the play on words, these knit-marish creations by Patricia Waller are safe to see though they depict a number of “accidents” one wouldn’t expect to see portrayed in acrylic & wool. This cool anti-Valentine’s Day gift comes with a 43-inch noose to hang him high – literally, as it’s made of hemp. Stupid CupidĬupid’s arrow missed the bullseye – again? Got a hate on for the heart man? Get revenge on the bowman of romance with the Hangman Purse. The trays are new of course, anything else would be gross. Class ActsĮtsy is a great source of the weird and the wild, and member CraftyHedgehog has got both of those categories pinned down like high school biology dissection projects with these, er, knitted high school biology dissection projects.īoth the lab rat and frog (above) gain an extra shot of realism through their being mounted on actual aluminum dissection trays lined with black wax. “Better a sweater from a dog you know and love than from a sheep you’ll never meet.” So true! And, eminently practical – why vacuum up shed dog hair when it can be knitted into an arf-arf scarf? Sure it seems wrong on several different levels but there’s no law against it – besides, people wear human-hair wigs. Lovecraft’s famous yarns (sorry)? The above selection of knitted C’thulhus (C’thulhi?) look to have leaped directly from the needles of Morticia Adams – though they’re really kinda c’ute. Some go for horror, and what could be more horrible than Great C’thulhu, dreaded leader of the Great Old Ones from writer H.P. It may be that some knitters wish to weave weirdly – call it Anti-Knitting for want of a better term. (images via: SickSickCity, Well isn’t it nice? and Dark Roasted Blend) As for WHY you’d order one (or more), one source suggests it “makes a nice potty training helper.” Those not into traumatizing their kids might use it as a toilet paper cozy. Ordering one of her poop plushies is another story, however. Tell Naida you don’t like her knitted crap and you might just get a needle where the sun don’t shine. (images via: Craftbits and Naida’s Crochet) Consider the baby’s snowsuit made from a recycled, hand-knitted Gulf War kevlar bulletproof vest and you’ll get an idea of what Cole’s getting at. Cole employed a pair of John Deere excavators and custom-made, 2-foot long knitting needles to create the jumbo-sized American flag in time for 4th of July celebrations in 2005.Ĭole continues to tour the art exhibition circuit, showcasing what he calls “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting” and adding to his extensive portfolio. Instead, Cole uses unusual materials and inflated scales – as in the Construction Knitting piece shown above. Dave Cole thinks knitting is going to be big someday, but he’s not waiting for that day to come.
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