Geek knitting ideas.

[cdave]

1) Emission Spectra Scarves. Or Absorption spectra ones if you're after something more colourful. via @davedevereux.

2) 3 colour Brunnian link (not a knot) neck warmers / bracelets. Wikipedia link via makyo.

3) A double walled tubular scarf with two side scrolling levels on it that actually scrolls.
Look it works in my head, okay.
Knit a few loooong rows of brown. One or two of green. Quite a few blue. Then a few brown.
Fold in half width ways, and stitch together, such that the join helps stop the tube rotating.
Sew on a load of felt bits representing objects from Sonic on the green stripe edge, and Mario on the other.
Pull one end through the middle, and seamlessly stitch to the other.

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I like that concept. It'd be easy to crochet too. Tempting, tempting...

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I love the emission spectra idea!

[jamesb.livejournal.com]

ah-ha

KNitting seems to be all the go this week

http://kittybeard.livejournal.com/



http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0222/1224264938043.html

[cdave]

Knitting is sooo 2005. :)

Ooh, the Italian Cast-on looks cool. Cheers for the link.

And as for Yarn storming, I've got a lovely 3 degrees of Separation story.

The knitters I know in London almost all have been to stitch 'n' bitch group, run by a yarn stormer. She has now started going out with a comics artist who works on the Beano. I was following them both on Twitter before they met!

[pinkhebe.livejournal.com]

Have also seen a knitted frog dissection recently... That was cool.

[cdave]

I'm more likely to knit that than socks TBH, as they don't need to fit :)

[alias_sqbr]

Plus of course there's the mobius strip scarf and Klein bottle hat.

[cdave]

Yes there is.

That's at least partially behind the scrolling scarf idea.

And hyperbolic crochet, which is dead simple.

[alias_sqbr]

I was so happy when I discovered that my attempts at crochet weren't failed, they were hyperbolic :D