A nerd with too much free time and a pair of knitting needles is a powerful thing, as evidenced by the gallery. In addition to thetop ten geek stitcherson this list, there seems to be a fast emerging subculture ofKatamari knittersbusting out everything fromhatstoearmuffs. ApparentlyKatamarimakes knitters feel at one with the cosmos, but what’s the deal with the immortalization ofPitfallas seen above? The word among the stitch and b*tch community is that knitting is a soothing pasttime. I don’t doubt it, and this stuff is cool, but I’m not quite ready to give up my gaming habit to immortalizeKing Hippoin yarn and glory. Is knitted geekdom a little too granola for your tastes?
[Thanks toJustin Johnson!]