Periodic Table sweater

Apinnick knitted this Periodic Table of the Elements jumper for her physicist husband. Love in craft form is the best love there is.

Periodic Table Sweater (Thanks, Marilyn)

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Anonymous

(from the original sweater knitter) Yes, the colours are horrible! I knitted this in the 90s, when there was very little wool available in Israel. The yarn was a gift and was definitely NOT what I would have chosen, but beggars can’t be choosers. I was lucky to have enough yarn to knit a sweater in the first place.

Avital
Anonymous

Elements 104-118 are indeed missing because I used an old high school text book when I knitted it in 1998. I am not a chemist and did not keep up to date on the elements. BTW, this view is the back. Hydrogen and the other elements are on the front. All the photos appear in my original blog posting (link under article).
Anonymous

Small correction, Cory. My husband is a microbiologist, not a physicist. Also, this is the back of the sweater, not the front (my mistake–I accidentally reversed the photos in my blog; it’s fixed now).

Avital
Anonymous

Yaay Avital, you made the big time! We knitfiends remember you posting about this on the old KnitList back in the dawn of the ‘net era, when we linked to each other using stone knives, Mozilla and bearskins. – knitlurker
mdh

–facepalm–
Anonymous

The first halogen isn’t a mistake. That would be the silent P in Phluorine
akbal7

That is a horrible signal you are sending to the youth of today. That sweater is an awful, unwearable color.
arkizzle / Moderator

Akbal, perhaps the recipient thinks differently.
Gloria

As a person who has knitted, I stand up and applaud you. I am deeply impressed.

Your blog entry about it was great fun to read too.
TheCrawNotTheCraw

A periodic table is nice, but for a physicist, I would have preferred to have seen a Feynmann diagram, or maybe a cloud chamber photo of some swirling particles.

But yes, craft love is the best kind of love. “Always” wanted a “girl” friend to do some nice embroidery for me, but twas not to be.
Antinous / Moderator

It’s a science version of a Weasley sweater.
mdh

Weasley Crusher, I assume? (I’m a fan, and of a certain age, myself)
arkizzle / Moderator

Ron Weasley?
Ginny Weasley?

Molly Weasely!

http://alison.knitsmiths.us/pattern_weasley.html
Takuan

magnificent! next: his genome in a muffler.
V

Looks like something Rick Nielsen would wear…
Anonymous

New periodic table! Now with two phosphoruses!!
insidecircles

My wife did something similar across the wall of our spare room:

http://www.inacorner.co.uk/images/periodic.jpg

Best kind of love, indeed.
OoerictoO

the best kind of love would have been if she hadn’t forgotten some of the smaller elements. sheesh
Anonymous

Speaking of nerdy sweaters, my girlfriend knit me a Mugatu sweater for xmas a few years back.
TroofSeeker

A dear friend of ours used to knit a lot- sweaters, quilts, throw pillows, even peter heaters. I had her make me a custom pair of slippers that look like alligators- they even had flaps on top that looked like snapping jaws!
When I turn out the light and walk to bed in the dark, the creatures under the bed are too scared to grab at my ankles. Hah!
mdh

that’s not two phosporuses, that’s Plorine!
Anonymous

This is terrific. Love it!
Anonymous

Troofseeker – if the creatures under your bed read bOINGbOING you just blew it….