Hand knitted version of The Thing (Ben Grimm)

"It's knitterin' time!"

Knitty-cat made knitted a doll of The Fantastic Four's The Thing for a lucky fellow named Matt. Link (Thanks, Angela!)

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Santos

It isn’t Ben Grimm – it’s the everyloving Yarn Man!

Image here -> http://static.flickr.com/35/98495228_7659892c28_o.jpg
Anonymous

Is it possible that a pattern (or plan, or blueprint, or whatever knitters need to reproduce something) could be posted, so our aggregate lusts might be placated by the knitty ones in our respective lives?
Ape Lad

I would prefer to see a kitten dressed as MODOK.
pgomes

Wow, Knitty-cat. Amazing work. His face, fists, too-tight shorts, toes, everything…perfect!
Ape Lad

The ever-lovin’, blue-eyed, tiny-toed, Thing! It would be really easy to knit the Invisible Woman.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator

I wonder if you could modify that design to knit a Beast out of blue chenille or eyelash yarn?
Anonymous

That’s brilliant. If only I could knit.
kelebek

Would have been much, much easier to crochet it. Yay crochet!
Anonymous

I collect the Thing. This is the coolest one yet!
knitty-cat

Thank you all so much for your kind interest in my knitted version of the Thing. (Yes, it is knitted, not crocheted. The textured body and limbs are done in seed stitch. But it would certainly look very rocky and Thing-like if done in crochet, and would be simpler to make.)

For those interested in reproducing him, I am working on a pattern for his construction (not an exact duplicate, but as accurate as I can remember of what I did), and will publish it as soon as I can finish it to http://www.knittycat.vox.com – check in a week or so.

Again, my thanks for your interest. :o)

knitty-cat
Anonymous

http://kingfal.sinnamonster.com/projects2007/optimusprime.html

thought you might like to see this also! its the crocheted version of optimus prime
Anonymous

Look again — it IS crochet, except for his shorts.
A New Challenger

Put a Dr. Doom helmet on a kitten, set it loose to knead The Thing, record video, melt Internet.
rstevens

So this is what members of the Yancy Street Gang cuddle to get to sleep at night?
Miss Cellania

I never thought the Thing could be so cuddly!
pork musket

Isn’t the past tense of “knit” also “knit”?
pork musket

Nevermind me, just checked and both are correct!
Dan Diemer

What an odd turn of events Santos.