"Beutiful Art Made with Kintting"

"Beutiful art made with kintting," despite the terrible typing, excels in the knitting department. That is, if you like knit b-movie-worthy props.

A cat with its yarny guts spilling out; a crocodile eating a child - fed by a reluctant Southern teen momma we presume; a giant pair of scissors stabbing a happy-in-death schoolgirl; a shark snacking on a hapless swimmer, head first; a Pinocchio that bears a striking resemblance to Michael Jackson with his honker being sawed off (who knew wood could bleed?); a suicide bunny in a masochistic carrot fantasy; Curious George rowing to freedom on a phallic banana - check out the yarn ripples! - conjoined teddy bear twins; and, in a twist on every little girl's fantasy, a unicorn impaling a teddy bear on its trunk.

Which serious knitter created all this? The site has no names. Reminescent of the Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club, it's seriously warped.

The referring blog, Yumlum, has no further information to give. Chockful of the weird (my other favourite is the referral to the Barbie doll dishes) but I will be keeping an eye on Yumlum from now on.

(Cross-posted on Maktaaq.)

Braaaaiiiinnnsss

Joel Derfner, of The Search for Love in Manhattan, had a dream about a knitted brain. Suddenly he wants to knit a brain.

So he goes to the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art and asks Karen Norberg about her knitted brain. Karen tells him that he's the second person this week to ask for a pattern. She didn't make one.

Karen, if you ever stumble upon this, send everyone to me. My one and only completed knit item, a pink scarf, has been stretched to shreds. It's doing that brain wobbly-edge thing. I think we can cut up my scarf and turn it into a knitted brain.

(The Museum accepts further brain art: If you have some fabric brain art that you would like to see posted please send a jpg and a brief artist's statement to the Curator.)

Update on Giant Pink Bunny

Knitters might remember the giant knit pink bunny deposited in northern Italy by Austrian artist collective Gelatin (now Gelitin). Art MoCo has updated photos of the rabbit lying beneath the snow.