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Spock ears knitting pattern

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:05 am Thu, Jun 26, 2008

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Natalie Zee Drieu of Craft found this tutorial on knitting Spock ears with leftover sock yarn.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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illflux

The first thing I thought was: “Why?”

Then I remembered the mantra of people who wear this kind of shit: Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!…
IWood

Look at you!
Agent 86

I first read ‘leftover sock’, sans the ‘yarn’ bit, and was trying to figure out who would want a smelly old sock on their ear.
Argon

Whew, that was close. Just imagine the legal threats if those were Doctor Who knitting patterns… (previously on boingboing, openrightsgroup.org provides updates on the case)
RJ

I think it looks kinda cute.
Moon

LOL, IWOOD! Hahahahaha!
Moon

OK, that’s just stupid. I love it.
Takuan

but can you get them past the TSA?