Gamer Knits and Other Goodies

Mippy on Metafilter rounds up links to a bunch of game-related knits, sewing projects and other crafts. Who wouldn't want a cute knitted Sackboy?

Last Minute Sale at Yellow Ibis

Tomorrow, December 15, is your last day to take advantage of the Last Minute Sale on Science T-Shirts at Yellow Ibis. They have a great collection of tees of various geekdoms. There's something for everyone:

• For your favorite mathematician: Euler's Identity Tee or Cow Pi Tee 
• For your favorite scientist, of any sort: "This is What a Scientist Looks Like" Tee
• For your favorite chemist: create your own chemical t-shirt
• For your favorite physicist: Newton's Law of Cooling knit hat or mittens 
• For your favorite geologist: Tough Schist Tee or I Date Rocks tee
• For your favorite biologist: a tee with a reproduction of Charles Darwin's first sketch of an evolutionary tree
• For your favorite astronomer: We are All Made of Stars tee

Klein Bottle Woolen Hats

What better to keep a mathematician's head warm this winter than a Klein Bottle inspired knit hat? You can get one for yourself (or your favorite mathematician) from Acme Klein Bottle.

Biology 101 Art

It must be my total biogeekiness that makes me love CraftyHedgehog's knitted dissected frogs and rats so much. It would be a perfect gift for someone like me - or maybe your Biology 101 instructor. Check out all CraftyHedgehog's dissections.

Knitted Assets of Evo

Marnie MacLean shares a pattern for a pair of sexy knitted boy shorts sporting a design with Darwin's tree. Cute!

Get your Intelligent Behind into a cute little pair of boy shorts and express your love for rationality, reason, and the man with the plan, Charles Darwin.

These shorts are knit top-down and in the round, so there’s almost no finishing. If you want to skip the duplicate stitch motif, you can have these quick little knits on your tuckus in no time at all.

(via Evolving Thoughts )

Geek Knits: Become a Science Fiction Hero

As the last post in this week's wearable geek knits roundup, I present a few options that will help you turn into a science fiction hero while keeping cozy warm and perfect for chilly Halloween evenings! Click the links below for pattern information: 

R2D2 Beanie Hat

(yes, I think R2 was a hero)

Princess Leia Knit Wig

Dr. Who Scarf (Tom Baker era, natch)

Jayne Cobb hat- you can also buy a kit

(could there possibly be a female version of Jayne? why not?)

And last, but not least:
Vulcan ears

Also, if fantasy is more your style, you might like: 

• Pippin's scarf
• Hogwarts scarves and Harry Potter hat
• Flying Spaghetti Monster knit costume (is it fantasy? is it science fiction? or is it just fun?)

Geek Knits: Black Hole Penrose Diagram Scarf

To celebrate the beginning of autumn, all the entries this week will be geeky wearable knits.

Penrose diagrams are two-dimensional diagrams used to illustrate relationships between different points in spacetime, such as "the space-time environment of a hypothetical wormhole connecting two separate universes, which is an extension of the Schwarzschild solution of black holes." (see image at left)

Knitter Maria Korchagin took the obvious next step and created a scarf decorated with a "Penrose diagram of a spinning black hole in empty space." As shown above, the scarf has a dark background and three colors in the design with white indicating r=infinity and the two other colors representing the two event horizons. It's the both stylish and geeky, the perfect cool weather wear for your favorite physicist.

Find out how to make your own Penrose Diagram scarf.

Geek Knits: Binary Linux Mittens

To celebrate the beginning of autumn, all the posts this week will be geeky knits.

Flibbertigibbet bunny has shared her patter for geeky mittens with the Linux penguin logo on a binary background.

(via Craftzine)

Geek Knits: Iridium Spectrum Scarf

At ThreadBanger, megziewoodles knit a scarf based on the emission spectrum of Iridium. It's almost a secret geek knit, since it just looks like colorful stripes to those not in the know. 

She doesn't give a pattern, but you could design your own based on emission spectra of different elements.

Geek Knits: Drupal Socks

To celebrate the beginning of autumn, all the posts this week will be geeky knits.

Emma Jane Hogbin has released Drupal logo knit charts, so that you can create some cozy open source socks.

(via Craftzine)

Geek Knits: DNA Helix Scarf

To celebrate the beginning of autumn, all the posts this week will be geeky knits. 

Jane Oshiro shares her pattern for Dr. Montville's Double Helix Seaman Scarf, which has the elegant simplicity of the DNA double helix. And it would look just as great on a girl geek as a  spectacled  gentleman.

Mathematical Needlework

 Mathematicians Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel collaborated on the perfect book for knitters who love mathematics and mathematicians who love knitting: Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects. From the description: 

Every chapter (except for the introduction) has four sections. First, there's an overview intended for both crafters and mathematicians, so it should be understandable to mathematicians who don't know anything about crafting and also for crafters who don't know anything about mathematics. Then, there's a section of detailed mathematics which is intended for mathematicians. All of the authors have made an effort to include basic information so that mathematical enthusiasts who are not professional mathematicians can follow the bulk of the material. The third section of each chapter contains teaching ideas, and these range from elementary-school level to graduate level. Finally, every chapter has a project, with instructions written for and tested by crafters.

For more on mathematical knitting - and a few patterns - check out sarah-marie's mathematical knitting pages.

Get Ready for Fall: Pi Scarf

The greatest thing about this crocheted pi scarf created by Craftster mellifluousfondue is that you can make it as long as you like and the digits never run out!

(via CRAFT blog)

Knitted Power Cord

Etsy seller KnitKnit is selling a cute knitted power cord: 

It can be worn as a decorative skinny scarf, or even a decorative belt. Use it to pull back your curtains or replace that boring old tie. Whatever you choose to do, let your imagination lead the way!

It comes in cream, brown, or black.

(via Popgadget)

Mathematical Knits from Woolly Thoughts

Wooly Thoughts is a great site for lovers of mathematics-based knitted and crochet items. From their introduction:

We are designers of mathematical knitwear. Or perhaps we are mathematical designers of knitwear. Whatever you want to call us, many of our designs are simple geometric shapes combined to make elaborate patterns.

But that is not all that we do.

We are mathematicians at heart and so most of what we do has a mathematical basis. This may not always be obvious and it doesn't explain the cartoons and word-play which often creep in.

They make geometrical "mufflermatics" scarves and wraps, afghans, cushions, and other items. Be sure to check out their gallery for details and pattern ordering information.

Shown on right: Counting Pane afghan, "The first row represents the numbers 1 to 10, the second 11 to 20, and so on. The numbers from 1 to 10 each have a colour. This is at the top of the column. 1 is blue, 2 is yellow, etc. If these numbers divide into the number of a square the colour is shown in the square."

(via Fairer Science)

Crocheted Periodic Table

Craftzine points to this clever crocheted periodic table, made by a 15-year-old as a science fair project. Very cool!

Redhead Genome Project Scarf

Do you knit? Is your girl geek a readhead? She Dances in Dragon designed and knitted a scarf based on the DNA sequence of the MCR1 gene, a variant of which is responsible for red hair in humans. Each base - A, C, G, or T - in the sequence is a different color, making a colorful grid pattern. SDiD has kindly shared the pattern:

• text part of the scarf
• DNA sequence part 1
• DNA sequence part 2

It would be a fabulous homemade gift for any geeky redhead in your life!