oh cool!

10 Wonderful Knitted Movie Characters

Woolly renderings of Han Solo, The Joker and more...

BY Andy Lowe

here's #7

The Joker

The Dark Knight (2008)

"My favourite film character of 2008.

"If I ever go insane I will be sure to do it properly, like this guy."

i don't know if you've been over to

mochimochi blog or the mochimochi land shop to pick up some unbelievable creative and wonderful patterns BUT IF NOT, HEAD ON OVER RIGHT NOW

currently she has her tiny knitted things series up. you really have to see them. i want them all. i want to touch them and i want to play with them and i want to display them too.

pics from anna's mochimochi blog

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

wicked wicked wicked cool!
Wind powered knitting machine takes the tedium out of your heirloom production
by Laura June,
Knitting is one of those acquired crafting skills we just never fully warmed up to. We'll embroider, crochet, or quilt until the sun sets for the last time on the day of the apocalypse, but knitting is just so... boring sometimes. Luckily, ingenious artist Merel Karhof has a solution for the monotony of the knit - purl - knit - purl routine. She's designed and invented a machine that knits all on its own, harnessing the ever-present power of the wind..........................

pics from the link above

oh no no no no no

this is TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO precious for words


there's knitting involved
there's meerkats involved
there's star trek involved
(the enterprise. be still my beating heart)

oh nooooooooooooooo

(ht: boing boing)

even better news is they're for sale at the etsy shop of niftyknits (which i just made a FAVORITE store)

dang, man. i'm so smiling

cool!!!

whip up points us to this wonderful blog a scrumble a week

now, if you don't know what a scrumble is; simply it's THIS


scrumbles pictured, by: Prudence Mapstone

an entire village - knit

here are the pictures

Knitted village put up for sale

The knitted village will be publicly displayed so people can buy their favourite object

A knitted replica of a Kent village with 100 features including teenagers smoking in a bus shelter has been put up for sale.

The model of Mersham, near Ashford, has been knitted by members of the village's 40-strong Afternoon Club over the past 23 years.

The group has raised about £10,000 for their village hall by exhibiting it.

But the creation is now to be split up and sold off because it has become too large to be transported.

Since 1986, thousands of hours of handiwork have gone into the village.

(ht: boing boing)

dances with wools

which is a MOST wonderful site by the way. you should be checking it FREQUENTLY (dances with wools)

has found a grand link to how to knit historic sanquhar gloves


(i'm getting a headache just THINKING about knitting those gloves, DANG!)

you know, i think i'm going to do this

become a guerrilla knitter that is. how long does it take to knit up a tiny heart or flower? NOT long at all!

cool babe, cool dress

coolness personified

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

from casual profanity

(ht: craftzine)

vickie howell has a post up

on althea crome (i've posted on althea before)

check out this video too!
(wow is all i can say)

i don't know the site name

because i don't speak russian. i got a comment from anastasia and nina who make clothing with dog hair (they left a comment on a previous posting i did on knitting with dog hair)

it is beyond lovely! their work is stunning (and so are they. i'm assuming the light haired woman and the dark haired woman in the photographs are nina and anastasia).

do stop by their site. even if you don't read russian you certainly can enjoy their lovely work

(photos from their website)

NOW THIS MY DEARS

IS

EXTREME KNITTING!!!
(ht craftstylish along with a bit of the background story)

pee before you watch this

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Nailed 'Em - Radical Knitting

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

found via extreme craft

these are the ONLY

kind of pelts i like

KNITTED ONES
from becky stern at stern lab (pic from there as well. check out ALL of her stuff though, it's well worth it)

stop on over to

see some bike love


(at instructables) pics from

Author:mydogellen

just LOOK at this woman's work

theresa honeywell

simply cool

(all pics from theresa's site

(found via dark roasted blend)

check out all the nifty knits

at dark roasted blend's strange knits

beet pic: (image credit: ngau83)

cord pic: (creation by Nguyen Le, via)
bunny pic: (images credit: Gelitin, via)

you must must must

stop by erwan fichou and see his or her (i don't know) series of photographs on dog wool. amazing. (the other photo series on erwan fichou's site aren't bad either!)

photos by erwan fichou found via if it's hip, it's here found via craftzine

vickie howell

(whom i love) tells us how to make a recycled towel bath mat

(picture from vickie's site)