# Knitters, What's the Most Bizarre Thing You've Ever Knitted or Wanted to Knit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261 "2004-08-17T16:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/21 "2004-08-18T19:10:45Z")
And by red ropes, I mean the long thin red licorice candy. Tasty! ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/22 "2004-08-18T19:19:17Z")
I didn’t make this, but this is the best in bizarre knitting. Steriogram’s [Walkie-Talkie Man](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2535202?htv=12) video. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/23 "2004-08-19T16:11:11Z")
> [@Mirror Image egamI rorriM](#): > > I didn’t make this, but this is the best in bizarre knitting. Steriogram’s [Walkie-Talkie Man](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2535202?htv=12) video. I’ll give you this, the walkie-talkie man’s attack on the Capitol building was more interesting to watch than the tornados in this May’s ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ or the alien seige in 1996’s “Independence Day” ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/24 "2004-08-20T16:23:09Z")
Thanks folks, this has been wonderful! **Minnie Purl** (great name, by the way), the Fiesta Tea Set is the knitted teacup set which got me into this. I’m also now rather perversely tempted to knit a condom. I wonder if it could be done out of Saran Wrap roving . . . . 😉 Please keep the ideas and the stories coming. I don’t think you could out-wierd this group, but the contest could be fun to watch! CJ ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/25 "2004-08-20T22:13:23Z")
There’s willy warmers, and then there the little [Knitted Hoo-hoo](http://hearthwench.tripod.com/hoohoo.html). :eek: No, I haven’t made one. However, I did once knit a K-9 (from Dr. Who) toy. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/26 "2004-08-20T22:51:43Z")
I’ve not had the opportunity to knit anything truely bizzare, but my most unusal items are: My seal, Valdez. His yarn is kind of off white/grubby looking, and before I stuffed him I tried to whiten him up in the sink (it didn’t work). [http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/bellsouth/Groups/120/120235/folders/155980/1124632sealface.jpg](http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/bellsouth/Groups/120/120235/folders/155980/1124632sealface.jpg) Here is the afghan my husband calls “The Cat in the Hat”. It’s bizzare in its design, I think. You don’t see many (any) like this, I don’t think. The big dog is Amos and the little one is Foster, our (you guessed it) foster doggie. [http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/bellsouth/Groups/120/120235/folders/163055/1188136fosteramos2.jpg](http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/bellsouth/Groups/120/120235/folders/163055/1188136fosteramos2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/27 "2004-08-21T07:49:25Z")
Those robots are **cool**! I want to knit one or two or eighty… I am fairly new to knitting, so I can’t just envision a pattern in my head. Is there a pattern somewhere I could buy? (A quick trip to Google found me nothing, but I’m not the greatest Googler ever, so…) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/28 "2004-08-21T08:24:13Z")
Aw, I’ve knitted a couple robots since I saw that page. It’s just rectangles! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/29 "2004-08-21T13:28:04Z")
You guys are braver than I am. I’m too scared to try a sweater. One of these days I will, but right now, I’m sticking to stuff that doesn’t rely heavily on gauge. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/30 "2004-08-21T14:53:56Z")
I’ve only been knitting a few months, but in order to practice my increasing/decreasing skills, I knitted a goldfish cat toy…looks just like a Goldfish cracker, except in yellow. The cat loved it while I was knitting it, ignored it when done until we added catnip, and now it is just a ragged mess. But it was fun to do. The pattern came from a teen beginning knitting book my neice bought at Pat Catan’s. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/31 "2004-08-21T15:18:08Z")
I’d also like a robot pattern. Could someone cobble one together? I’m a newbie. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/32 "2004-08-21T15:34:49Z")
I did my robots using double-layered jacquard knitting; twice as fast. Anyone here use that technique? I could whip up a pattern for you. Maybe Sol’s friend–the ORIGINATOR of knitted robots, the greatest idea in the history of the world–can supply a pattern for flat knitters? ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/33 "2004-08-21T19:35:18Z")
With leftover yarn I knit a hat for my husband’s leatherface doll. That’s about as weird as I’ve gotten. Here’s a photo: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/Saxface/leatherface.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/Saxface/leatherface.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/34 "2004-08-22T00:29:13Z")
I don’t knit (but would like to take it up some day.) The most bizarre knitted item I have ever seen, however, is a uterus. The instructor of my “intro to preganancy” class at Kaiser Permanente during my first pregnancy had a knitted uterus to demonstrate with. Tres bizarre. (Second prize for bizarre goes to the lactation nurse who demonstrated breast pumps on a balloon. Not quite as bizarre, but definitely hilarious.) ---
**Author:** ![nerdlover72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@nerdlover72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nerdlover72)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/35 "2012-09-19T04:33:04Z")
My sister dared me to figure out how to knit a vagina for her husband, well i did it in about three hours, and just for kicks, i knitted her a penis! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/36 "2012-09-19T13:35:02Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > I’d also like a robot pattern. > > Could someone cobble one together? I’m a newbie. Are you on Ravelry? If no, join. Lots of free and inexpensive patterns, catalogued exhaustively and cross-referenced with completed projects. There are 46 robot patterns for knitting, 15 are free. I’m more of a crocheter, I’ve made a squid, that turned out well, and a whale, for a squid v. whale display I made for my husband’s birthday last year. [Check it out](http://ravel.me/heycrochet/g3rp6). Oh, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster hat. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/37 "2012-09-19T13:57:32Z")
I’m generally a knitter, but my bucket list just got a crochet project… [Amigurumi Discworld](http://www.planetjune.com/blog/amigurumi-discworld/) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/38 "2012-09-19T14:05:21Z")
I’ve knitted stuffed dinosaurs before, as well as attempting to put together a knitted space shuttle, complete with booster rocket etc. > [@lissener](#): > > I have made a thong out of silver chainmail. Out of curiosity, how _does_ one knit chain mail? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/39 "2012-09-19T14:29:29Z")
I am not a knitter, but my knitter friend (who usually does lace knitting) did knit me a Dalek. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261/40 "2012-09-19T14:56:35Z")
Oh lord. I knitted a “condom” for my boyfriend at the time, about ten years ago. He asked for it. He’d never put it on, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knitters-whats-the-most-bizarre-thing-youve-ever-knitted-or-wanted-to-knit/260261.md?page=3)