Giant underwater logging machine
Machinarium: point & click!
Apinnick knitted this Periodic Table of the Elements jumper for her physicist husband. Love in craft form is the best love there is.
Periodic Table Sweater (Thanks, Marilyn)
Previously:
- Hand-painted Mario shoes - Boing Boing
- Periodic Coffee Table - Boing Boing
- The Periodic Table of Awesoments - Boing Boing
- Periodic Table Printmaking Project - Boing Boing
- Periodic table rendered in photos, and in wood - Boing Boing
- Periodic table of comic book elements - Boing Boing
- Periodic table of condiments - Boing Boing
- Cosby sweaters for auction - Boing Boing
- HOWTO knit a Wonder Woman sweater - Boing Boing
- Space Invaders sweater - Boing Boing
- Microscopically knit apparel for Neil Gaiman's Coraline - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Sweater with built-in typography joke
- Embarrassing sweater gallery - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: UK airport cop: gun-shaped shirt decoration is illegal
- BBC sends legal threat over fan's Dr Who knitting patterns - Boing ...
- Knitting all of Mario level one into a giant scarf - Boing Boing
- History of guerrilla knitting at 24th Chaos Communication Congress ...
- KnitML: standards-defined knitting patterns - Boing Boing
- Spock ears knitting pattern - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Knitting mathematics
- HOWTO knit a skeleton cardigan - Boing Boing
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My wife did something similar across the wall of our spare room:
http://www.inacorner.co.uk/images/periodic.jpg
Best kind of love, indeed.
the best kind of love would have been if she hadn't forgotten some of the smaller elements. sheesh
Speaking of nerdy sweaters, my girlfriend knit me a Mugatu sweater for xmas a few years back.
This is terrific. Love it!
Elements 104-118 are indeed missing because I used an old high school text book when I knitted it in 1998. I am not a chemist and did not keep up to date on the elements. BTW, this view is the back. Hydrogen and the other elements are on the front. All the photos appear in my original blog posting (link under article).
That is a horrible signal you are sending to the youth of today. That sweater is an awful, unwearable color.
Akbal, perhaps the recipient thinks differently.
As a person who has knitted, I stand up and applaud you. I am deeply impressed.
Your blog entry about it was great fun to read too.
A periodic table is nice, but for a physicist, I would have preferred to have seen a Feynmann diagram, or maybe a cloud chamber photo of some swirling particles.
But yes, craft love is the best kind of love. "Always" wanted a "girl" friend to do some nice embroidery for me, but twas not to be.
It's a science version of a Weasley sweater.
Weasley Crusher, I assume? (I'm a fan, and of a certain age, myself)
Ron Weasley?
Ginny Weasley?
Molly Weasely!
http://alison.knitsmiths.us/pattern_weasley.html
Looks like something Rick Nielsen would wear...
--facepalm--
A dear friend of ours used to knit a lot- sweaters, quilts, throw pillows, even peter heaters. I had her make me a custom pair of slippers that look like alligators- they even had flaps on top that looked like snapping jaws!
When I turn out the light and walk to bed in the dark, the creatures under the bed are too scared to grab at my ankles. Hah!
Troofseeker - if the creatures under your bed read bOINGbOING you just blew it....
Yaay Avital, you made the big time! We knitfiends remember you posting about this on the old KnitList back in the dawn of the 'net era, when we linked to each other using stone knives, Mozilla and bearskins. - knitlurker
magnificent! next: his genome in a muffler.
New periodic table! Now with two phosphoruses!!
that's not two phosporuses, that's Plorine!
(from the original sweater knitter) Yes, the colours are horrible! I knitted this in the 90s, when there was very little wool available in Israel. The yarn was a gift and was definitely NOT what I would have chosen, but beggars can't be choosers. I was lucky to have enough yarn to knit a sweater in the first place.
Avital
Small correction, Cory. My husband is a microbiologist, not a physicist. Also, this is the back of the sweater, not the front (my mistake--I accidentally reversed the photos in my blog; it's fixed now).
Avital
The first halogen isn't a mistake. That would be the silent P in Phluorine