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  1. Ouchimoo says

    Actually . . .

    t’yeah I would hang one of those up on my wall. But I’m weird like that.

  2. says

    Teach the controversy of whether or not rats are made of blood, guts, and other slimy bits, or are made out of colorful yarn.

    And you know, any time any human makes something modeled on nature, it’s an admission that nature was designed. Yes, there really is nothing too dumb for (un)intelligent design “theorists.”

    Glen D
    http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

  3. Rae says

    That is so amazingly weird and unnecessary; I love it! I’m sending that link to my sister who knits obsessively.

  4. Carlie says

    Damn it, I just got done with the squid hat, and how I have to go find out how to make this.

  5. says

    Some people collect butterflies, some set mouse traps, some people knit, and some combine things a little too much. :P

  6. says

    I think it would be more precise to say “biologists who knit” rather than just knitters in general. I cannot imagine either of my grandparents making one of those. I mean, my grandmother did make me a wonderful dinosaur sweater when I was little, but it was the outside of the dinosaur…

  7. Patricia says

    We tatters are far too french unmentionable trims obsessed to ‘eveh consider such a grisly and dis’gustin thang.

  8. Lau says

    Wow, I have knit a stuffed nautiloid for a friend, but never a post-dissection specimen. That is some serious dedication. (Particularly given the sewing that must be done after the fact, since I have never met a knitter who didn’t *abhor* doing seams. Never. And my grandmother was such a dedicated knitter that she would simply knit garments her kids had left behind on family vacations.)

  9. Patricia says

    F! French, dammit.
    I stepped into something that Chimp left on the floor earlier today, and I just can’t say out of it!

  10. bir rig says

    One of these would be great for the occasional student who has conscientious objections to dissections. Oh the things that they would learn…The reproductive system may pose a problem though.

  11. elaine ellerton says

    Perfect timing! I wasn’t so sure the mohair scarf was right for my mother’s Christmas present. Now I have the perfect gift to knit. I wonder if I could make it into a hat….

  12. says

    Not only WOULD I hang one of those on my wall, I bought the pattern for that and her frog one as well several months ago. She has an etsy.com store and I highly recommend everyone go and buy either her pattern or one of the finished products! (The pattern is only like 4 bucks, and you can also buy a finished version, framed on cork like the one PZ displays).

    Us weird knitters like to support our fellow knitterly science nerds.

  13. shonny says

    Interesting, but . . . just received The Jehol Fossils, so will be incommunicado for a while.

    That is one awesome book!
    At $55 from Amazon, – best bargain of the year.
    And no, I am just an ordinary customer, no promotion.
    Just get it, and see for yourself.
    And if you disagree, go and see an optician!

  14. CanadianChick says

    I thought the frog was rather cool too – I wish I could knit worth a damn. I can sew quite well, but knitting? Not a chance.

    *sigh*

  15. Nerd of Redhead says

    The Redhead is quite the knitster, but other that the technical work to make the mouse I don’t think she would be interested. She likes to wear her projects.

  16. John Scanlon FCD says

    Remember folks. This is what PZ wants religion to be like.

    But that IS what a certain major religion is like… using tasteful artistic recreations of nailed-up dead mammals for wall decoration.

    Does Etsy have a wearable version?

  17. Jeanette Garcia says

    Oh, I love these little knitted dissected animals. It takes me back to when I was a kid, 11 or 12. I had a old barrel full of ‘swamp’ water. I would catch tadpoles and put them into their new home. Then I would select one to operate on. I would first put the tad-pole to sleep with an alcohol soaked cloth. Then, very carefully, I would slice them open, skin deep, so I could see how their innards looked and how their little hearts beat. Afterwards, I would just as carefully sew them up and hope they would survive my intrusions to become frogs. – I did not grow up to become a serial killer.

  18. L2B says

    I have a new knitting hero. Here’s someone with a fun, creative idea who just went with it. Good for her.

    More people should take up knitting. I firmly believe, from witnessing it happen, that knitting together with others makes you a more accepting, curious, caring and interesting person.

  19. craig says

    Where are the worms in the frog? All the times I dissected frogs in school, there were worms swimming around inside them.

  20. LisaJ says

    Where are the babies inside? That’s how a cut open mouse usually looks to me.

    Seriously awesome though – I’d put that up on my lab bench.

  21. Annapolitan says

    Number 11 won the comment contest I was running in my mind.

    To think I have been wasting all my time knitting SOCKS. I must buy this pattern. I already have the perfect yarn for it, and in all the right colors.

    Anybody for a lab rat in cashmere?

  22. becominginvisible says

    the Anti Craft does have fun stuff, thanks for reminding me I hadn’t checked for a while. The stuffed pasta doesn’t have to be shaped as skulls.

    Noadi, check etsy and ravelry if your a member, do they have a forum? Start asking for the patterns for crochet, they are around.

    Relax Glen, knitting can cause variation in the evolution of the project. A lot of variables involved. Yarn, tension both real and imagined, knitter’s skill, expectations.

  23. says

    I’d TOADALLY get that for my stepdaughter the biologist. But it wasn’t a biologist who designed that pattern: the liver’s in the wrong place and the “lights” are missing. Or maybe the cats got ahold of the mouse first.

    In an interesting convergence of memes, my cats bring in small stuffed toys….

  24. AmandaM says

    Did someone already post the link for the knit uterus?

    Seriously, if you enjoy knitting but live in a warmer climate, this is only to be expected. I was ever so proud of my first knit penis.

  25. Ericka says

    And of course, the first thing I think is, “Ah! Awesome…I could totally knit that…”

    Yea for nerdy knitters. Oh, and randomly to any crafters here on Pharyngula in the Pacific Northwest, the Urban Craft Uprising is coming soon in early December in Seattle. (http://www.urbancraftuprising.com/)

  26. Ericka says

    And of course, the first thing I think is, “Ah! Awesome…I could totally knit that…”

    Yea for nerdy knitters. Oh, and randomly to any crafters here on Pharyngula in the Pacific Northwest, the Urban Craft Uprising is coming soon in early December in Seattle. (http://www.urbancraftuprising.com/)

  27. Ericka says

    And of course, the first thing I think is, “Ah! Awesome…I could totally knit that…”

    Yea for nerdy knitters. Oh, and randomly to any crafters here on Pharyngula in the Pacific Northwest, the Urban Craft Uprising is coming soon in early December in Seattle. (http://www.urbancraftuprising.com/)

  28. Ericka says

    And of course, the first thing I think is, “Ah! Awesome…I could totally knit that…”

    Yea for nerdy knitters. Oh, and randomly to any crafters here on Pharyngula in the Pacific Northwest, the Urban Craft Uprising is coming soon in early December in Seattle. (http://www.urbancraftuprising.com/)

  29. David Marjanović, OM says

    I am deeply impressed by comment 39. That is awesome. What was the survival rate like…?

    Where are the babies inside? That’s how a cut open mouse usually looks to me.

    It’s not a mouse, it’s a lab rat. Biological Introductory Lab Work, spring/summer of 2001.

    I was ever so proud of my first knit penis.

    That was originally intended to become a sock, right? :->

  30. Trish says

    Absolutely awesome! I would most definitely hang it. No doubt. Probably right next to my replica of a homo erectus skull that people get queesy about.

  31. Patricia says

    Ericka – So is there going to be some crafting open to us Pacific Northwest tatters? I live about 75 miles from Portland, but I might be open to supporting a group effort.
    How about hairpin lacers, lucet corders, and bobbin lacers?

    I’d trade an equal amount of time teaching tatting for heel turning. I’ll bet I can out darn anyone under 75 years old. That would be a fun contest at any knitting based get together. ;o)

  32. gunofsod says

    Ha, reminds me of a game I play with the kids where I make up a model of a body (complete with different coloured internal organs) out of play dohh, and help them dissect it, naming each organ as we carefully extract it!

    Is this ok for kids?