Hand knitted version of The Thing (Ben Grimm)

"It's knitterin' time!"

Knitty-cat made knitted a doll of The Fantastic Four's The Thing for a lucky fellow named Matt. Link (Thanks, Angela!)

[#1 posted by Miss Cellania , September 24, 2007 2:37 PM]

I never thought the Thing could be so cuddly!

[#2 posted by pork musket , September 24, 2007 2:46 PM]

Isn't the past tense of "knit" also "knit"?

[#3 posted by pork musket , September 24, 2007 2:48 PM]

Nevermind me, just checked and both are correct!

[#4 posted by Ape Lad , September 24, 2007 3:08 PM]

The ever-lovin', blue-eyed, tiny-toed, Thing! It would be really easy to knit the Invisible Woman.

[#5 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator , September 24, 2007 3:35 PM]

I wonder if you could modify that design to knit a Beast out of blue chenille or eyelash yarn?

[#6 posted by kelebek , September 24, 2007 4:20 PM]

Would have been much, much easier to crochet it. Yay crochet!

[#7 posted by Anonymous , September 24, 2007 5:21 PM]

Look again -- it IS crochet, except for his shorts.

[#8 posted by A New Challenger , September 24, 2007 5:29 PM]

Put a Dr. Doom helmet on a kitten, set it loose to knead The Thing, record video, melt Internet.

[#9 posted by rstevens , September 24, 2007 6:10 PM]

So this is what members of the Yancy Street Gang cuddle to get to sleep at night?

[#10 posted by Santos , September 24, 2007 7:00 PM]

It isn't Ben Grimm - it's the everyloving Yarn Man!

Image here -> http://static.flickr.com/35/98495228_7659892c28_o.jpg

[#11 posted by Anonymous , September 24, 2007 7:00 PM]

Is it possible that a pattern (or plan, or blueprint, or whatever knitters need to reproduce something) could be posted, so our aggregate lusts might be placated by the knitty ones in our respective lives?

[#12 posted by Ape Lad , September 24, 2007 7:03 PM]

I would prefer to see a kitten dressed as MODOK.

[#13 posted by Anonymous , September 25, 2007 5:58 AM]

http://kingfal.sinnamonster.com/projects2007/optimusprime.html

thought you might like to see this also! its the crocheted version of optimus prime

[#14 posted by Dan Diemer , September 25, 2007 11:59 AM]

What an odd turn of events Santos.

[#15 posted by pgomes , September 25, 2007 12:09 PM]

Wow, Knitty-cat. Amazing work. His face, fists, too-tight shorts, toes, everything...perfect!

[#16 posted by Anonymous , September 25, 2007 12:59 PM]

That's brilliant. If only I could knit.

[#17 posted by Anonymous , September 25, 2007 7:21 PM]

I collect the Thing. This is the coolest one yet!

[#18 posted by knitty-cat , September 29, 2007 8:51 AM]

Thank you all so much for your kind interest in my knitted version of the Thing. (Yes, it is knitted, not crocheted. The textured body and limbs are done in seed stitch. But it would certainly look very rocky and Thing-like if done in crochet, and would be simpler to make.)

For those interested in reproducing him, I am working on a pattern for his construction (not an exact duplicate, but as accurate as I can remember of what I did), and will publish it as soon as I can finish it to www.knittycat.vox.com - check in a week or so.

Again, my thanks for your interest. :o)

knitty-cat