Space Invaders Socks Pattern on Knitty.com

stefstef
edited April 2007 in Arts and Crafts
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring07/PATTbmp.html

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Why to love this, besides the Space Invaders:
  • Awesome striped short-row heel and toe
  • Knit on Size US 0 needles, as Mother Nature intended
  • The concept of immortalizing one's high score on a pair of socks makes me sort-of giddy. Though for that to be any sort of a status symbol for me, it would probably have to be a tetris score. And the other sock would somehow show the Kremlin launching into space.
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Comments

  • jcjc
    edited March 2007
    In the history of my alternate universe, game endings would have been depicted first by cave paintings, and later by tapestries.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited March 2007
    These are officially the awesomest socks evar.

    Now if only somebody would make Pong socks....
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Pony up the sprite charts, my friend.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited March 2007
    What sprite charts? Its a square, and 2 rectangles!
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Your mom is a square and two rectangles. Oh yeah, I went there already.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    Forget Pong! It's all about Spacewar!
  • Ace76Ace76
    edited March 2007
    i demand Dig Dug socks!
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    You know, the irony of this thread's responses within the brand new game and craft forum is that you guys could have all these things and even more esoteric knitted gaming tokens if you'd just learn how to knit.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited March 2007
    We would, but we aren't 65 year old women.
  • mariomario
    edited March 2007
    I don't think Stef is either. Nor are any of the other knitters on the board.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited March 2007
    Are you sure? Maybe she's an undercover old person, trying to figure out our hip lifestyles, to provide the AARP with info on how to defeat us.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Matt, my superiors agreed that you don't need any additional defeating.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited March 2007
    Takeru wrote: »
    Are you sure? Maybe she's an undercover old person, trying to figure out our hip lifestyles, to provide the AARP with info on how to defeat us.

    *weakly raises hand*
    Just kidding.
    Or am I?
  • jcjc
    edited March 2007
    IT'S ON NOW

    GAMERCRAFT LEARN TO KNIT CHALLENGE

    DO IT

    LEARN TO KNIT

    I WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING MAYBE OR PROBABLY NOT
  • mariomario
    edited March 2007
    Well shit, now I have to. It's on, after all.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    I'm weeping now. weeping. With joy.

    On that note, I might be persuaded to give some kind of prize object for this. I'll just have to figure out what, and why and how.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited March 2007
    I guess I'll take advantage of my base library, and even FURTHER increase the gap between the average education of a military member and the average education of a military non-member.

    I'm crushing stereotypes as I set goals for myself! I think this day can only be described as productive.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    Knitting? Who cares about that! I'm just happy with being esoteric on occasion. I might be more inclined to knit a web of lies and deceit.
  • jcjc
    edited March 2007
    This thread cares about knitting, X'o'Lore. You are in violation of this thread.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited March 2007
    Doesn't learning to knit involve sacrificing your ability to produce testosterone? I heard that somewhere.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    No, foolish mortal! The vikings knitted! The vikings!
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited March 2007
    And where are the vikings now?

    That's right, dead. Historians say that it was due to a severe lack of testosterone.
  • Ace76Ace76
    edited March 2007
    RHOMBUS!

    The vikings died of severe humility when the other nations made fun of them FOR knitting....thats history!
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited March 2007
    I heard Odin lost his eye in a knitting accident.

    Over this past winter break, I knitted a bomb-ass coaster. Just you guys wait till I find a camera, then we'll see what's what!
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    I will knit when the Vikings win the Superbowl. This event would mean that hell has frozen over and I will need some warm socks to protect my feet from the cold ground.
  • geokogeoko
    edited March 2007
    Change direction and increase speed!
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited March 2007
    If I tried to knit, it'd be scary.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Amoeba Boy, you knit a coaster? Rock! now the world is one drone closer to being glutted with homemade pokemon toys!... I mean, way to learn an awesome new skill! High five!
  • carlocarlo
    edited March 2007
    i knitted ("knat"? i think "knat" should be the past tense of knit...) once. it wasn't terrible, but i never got around to doing it again...
  • mariomario
    edited March 2007
    I think I'm up for some knitting, as long as the object has at least some kind of reference to video games. It can be subtle and obscure, but it's gotta be there.

    Or not, I'm cool with stripey things too.

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