Yvette's Inner Geek Blog » nerd http://www.innergeek.us/blog Geeky topics and my life as a geek girl Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:21:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Knitted Mario Sweater Vest http://www.innergeek.us/blog/index.php/2010/01/knitted-mario-sweater-vest/ http://www.innergeek.us/blog/index.php/2010/01/knitted-mario-sweater-vest/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:59:42 +0000 Yvette http://www.innergeek.us/blog/?p=626 There’s a geeky woman out there who loves her nerd/geek husband so much, she spent a TON of time making and knitting a Super Mario Bros. screenshot into a sweater vest for him. She even hand-dyed the brightest green yarn because she couldn’t find any in that shade. I am impressed. I may also have exclaimed, “Now THAT is geeky!”

Super Mario Sweater Vest, knitted by hand from a special lady to her special nerd husband

Her site has just been updated with a free PDF of the pattern.

I could see myself making an epic knitting pattern like this, and possibly buying some of the yarn. Perhaps I would experiment with hand-dyeing yarn. I would probably stop at that point, though, because it would take me for-freaking-ever, and even if I eked out enough patience to see it through, I very highly doubt that my husband would ever wear something like this. Mostly because of its sweater vest nature.

A full sweater, though? Now that’s another story… and it gives me a headache to think about knitting that much detail right now!

The adorable baby-sized knit Link outfit, though? Maybe someday. It has an arrow quiver designed to hold a baby bottle. I just died from the cuteness.

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