January 2, 2010

The Nerdiest Sweater Vest in the World

Knitting stitches are basically pixels, right? I took that idea to the extreme, and converted a screenshot of Level 1-1 from the original NES Mario Bros. game into a ginormous knitting chart made up of over 10 sheets of tabloid paper taped together, which I used to make a sweater vest for my video game-loving husband.

Update

Well over 100 comments were posted by people eager to get their hands on a pattern. So always true to my word, I made one. You can download it here. We will be having a photo contest in conjunction with GameCity for the most interesting photo of your completed Mario Sweater Vest in March and April, so get knitting!

Getting a Custom Colour of Yarn

I found the best selection of colours of yarn at KnitPicks, which has almost every colour you could imagine. Almost.

I looked everywhere, and couldn’t find the bright green that I needed for the pipe and small bush, so I ordered an extra skein of white and dyed it with chartreuse acid dye to get the colour I needed. All that to knit a pipe and a small bush! But I think the result was well worth it.

Front

Back

Making the Sweater

I just made up the armhole and neckline shaping as I went along, and held up the half-finished sweater in front of my hubby to make sure the shaping was working. I left live stitches on the shoulders on stitch holders while I finished the rest of the sweater, so that they could be grafted together at the end for a seamless finish, and then picked up stitches along the armhole and neckline edges with a circular needle to knit the ribbed trimming.

The design wraps seamlessly around the sweater from front to back. I originally knit the row of rocks (or are they bricks?) around the bottom of the sweater using a Fair Isle technique, but the whole thing ended up bunching up to about half it’s intended width. So in the end, I cut that section out, knit 16 rows of plain brown, seamlessly grafted the two sections back together again and then embroidered the pink and black lines that make up the pattern of bricks using a stitch that mimics knit stitches.


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219 Comments

  1. mickeymeg January 2nd, 2010

    That looks great ! I would be very interested in a pattern.

  2. Isis January 2nd, 2010

    OMG this is the best thing ever! I am learning how to knot at the moment, and can only make scarves ( really basic ugly ones at that), but this is AMAZING! like Joey Lawrence Whoa!

  3. Autumn January 2nd, 2010

    I love it! Write up that pattern for sure!

  4. elociNNicole January 2nd, 2010

    LOVE! I love this so much! I sincerely hope you get all of your comments! I need to make this for myself! You rule!

  5. myklia January 2nd, 2010

    Definitely write a pattern and extra kudos for dying to get the one color you were missing.

  6. melanie January 2nd, 2010

    I LOVE this and would totally be up for a pattern. It’s beyond my skill level to knit with so many colors, but I’ll learn it, if only for this project!

  7. Courtney January 3rd, 2010

    My hub would LOVE this. He’ll probably see it on one of the many sites he visits, and I’ll guaretee he’ll want one. A pattern would be awesome, and awesome job!

  8. joan January 3rd, 2010

    I am very interested in a pattern! This vest is AWESOME!

  9. Christa January 3rd, 2010

    Love it! All of my children have been Mario fans from the start. Beautiful work. You could sign me up for the pattern request.

  10. meghan January 3rd, 2010

    even just the charts would make me piddle on the floor a bit.
    love it!

  11. laura January 4th, 2010

    seriously, i don’t think people realize the kind of incredible work that goes into making this vest. the fact that you dyed the yarns is even more astounding (especially because of your level of accuracy in the color matching!). I go to school for this sort of thing (fiber & textile design) and could never expect this kind of brilliant outcome. I LOVE IT! FREAKING ADORKABLE!!!!!<3

  12. sukigirl January 4th, 2010

    I think it’s amazing! I’d love to tackle something like this and would
    love if you posted a pattern.
    Thanks so much suki

  13. Lyndzi January 5th, 2010

    Holy WOW. This is spectacular. I showed my gamer-fan boyfriend and “I want to knit this!” He was like, “I’m sorry, I love you, but I would get the shit beat out of me if I wore that,” and I responded with, “Not for you, for me!” ^___^
    Please post a pattern! <3

  14. Paul January 5th, 2010

    This is going to sound fake, but I assure you it is not. I am doing a “500 days of sweater vest” adventure. I would love to include this in my quest. The office will pay for the shipping back and forth. we’ll only have it for one day. if you are at all interested in participating, please contact me. you can follow me at 500sweatervests on twitter. thnx.

  15. Autumn's Friend Sarah January 5th, 2010

    Definitely write up a pattern – that is too cool! I can’t even imagine the skill it took to create!

  16. Fee- January 6th, 2010

    Wow! That’s so cool. Would be great if you’d share the pattern.

  17. lil January 6th, 2010

    FANTASTIC!!! please let us see the pattern!

  18. Dani January 6th, 2010

    I would ABSOLUTELY love a pattern for this! You did an awesome job :)

  19. Kristin January 6th, 2010

    WANT. PATTERN. NAO.
    Plz kthnx.

  20. Leslie January 6th, 2010

    Clever and cute! I think using the embroidery technique was the absolutely right thing to do. Knitting’s supposed to be enjoyable too.

  21. Lindsey January 6th, 2010

    I’d LOVE a pattern for this! Fantastic job :)

  22. Lettuce January 6th, 2010

    I’d probably leave 100 comments on my own to get the pattern for that awesome shirt!

  23. TaineAH January 6th, 2010

    …For the love of Gosh, please put this pattern online! I will now proceed to spam my friends about requesting this pattern to be posted.

  24. vjwpfang January 6th, 2010

    Beautiful work! You are a genius! Like melanie, this is so advance for me but I will learn just for this!

  25. Elise January 6th, 2010

    I would relearn how to knit just to make this sweater. PLZ PLZ PLZ post the pattern!

  26. Abby January 6th, 2010

    Ahaha! I love it! It’s beautiful!! =)

  27. rikarux January 6th, 2010

    LOVE this!! I would love to make one for myself and my boyfriend. (He’s slightly on the nerdy side =) )

  28. Katie January 6th, 2010

    DEFINITELY post the pattern. This shirt is epic!

  29. Kristin @ klingtocash.com January 6th, 2010

    How cool is that? Awesome job. Love it!

  30. SmallBoy January 6th, 2010

    The classic mario image makes this vest so wonderful! i would love the pattern for this! My old chemistry teacher would adore this to add to his legendary collection of knit jumpers!

  31. Jacqueline January 6th, 2010

    BEST SWEATER EVER!!! OMG love love love love love!

  32. Nat January 6th, 2010

    I agree! Post the pattern :D

  33. Heather January 6th, 2010

    This is great!!!!

  34. Elle January 6th, 2010

    I WANT ONE!!1 THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SICK!!!!

  35. hardygirl82 January 6th, 2010

    Just stumbled this and would LOVE the pattern, I have to make this for my brother!

  36. muse January 6th, 2010

    Wow, amazing!

    i’d love for you to post the pattern!!

  37. Intoxica503 January 6th, 2010

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THE PATTERN FOR THIS!!!!

  38. Barbara January 6th, 2010

    i think my husband would just die if i ever made him one. sign me up for a pattern!

  39. Gabriel January 6th, 2010

    We all want/need that pattern!!! PLEASE!

  40. Caitlin January 6th, 2010

    I love this sweater!! I bet your husband is super happy. please make a pattern for us?

  41. Rachely January 6th, 2010

    I would LOVE a pattern!!!

  42. impressed January 6th, 2010

    pattern please ;)

  43. lyricaldevil January 6th, 2010

    Wow.

    Just…wow.

  44. Teryn January 6th, 2010

    That is utterly AWESOME!

  45. mai January 6th, 2010

    Pattern please!!!

  46. leah January 6th, 2010

    Oh man, I would love to get a pattern for this.

  47. Laurie January 6th, 2010

    I have a friend who this sweater is perfect for. It’s his birthday in August and I would love to be able to knit this for him.

  48. Chanteel January 6th, 2010

    Brilliant. Pattern Please!

  49. Cory January 6th, 2010

    this is really awesome. hope to see the pattern up soon! i would really like to knit it

  50. Ashleigh January 6th, 2010

    PLEASE post the pattern

  51. Gabrielle January 6th, 2010

    the question is, will he wear it to work? :)

  52. Cathy January 6th, 2010

    What a great vest! I would love the pattern!
    Thank you!

  53. Lana January 6th, 2010

    So seeing as it was just featured on buzzfeed.com, please tell us there will be a pattern!!

  54. TooEasilyBored January 6th, 2010

    Wow that is incredible! Please post, pretty please!

  55. Matt January 6th, 2010

    Pattern please. I don’t knit, but I have friends who do, and if they won’t do it for me, I’ll learn!

  56. Alicia January 6th, 2010

    This is wonderful! Could we have the pattern please?

  57. Ellen January 7th, 2010

    oh my goodness! this is amazing! while i’m not a knitter, i still think you should make the pattern available! i’m sending this on to my knit-loving and gamer-loving friends.

  58. laz January 7th, 2010

    zomg pattern pattern pattern!

  59. Cassie January 7th, 2010

    oh pattern please!!!!!!!

  60. Lizette January 7th, 2010

    Wow! That´s amazing. Really cool. Is it knitted by hand och on a machine? I´d realy like a pattern!

  61. Rob Latham January 7th, 2010

    Wow, quite clever. Hope you get enough comments for the patteren.

  62. kim January 7th, 2010

    yes, pattern please!!!!

  63. Mag January 7th, 2010

    I want the pattern!!! Brilliant work!

  64. Susan January 7th, 2010

    NICE!

  65. Carla January 7th, 2010

    Pattern please!

  66. Rufy January 7th, 2010

    yes please! top tank top! xx

  67. Roz January 7th, 2010

    by god this is amazing, i must, must have one for my own. have a bunch of geeks who want to learn to knit and i’d love to teach them some of the techniques in this while knitting something they’d actually want!

  68. E. Foley - Geek's Dream Girl January 7th, 2010

    Wow – this is so amazing. :-)

  69. Alli January 7th, 2010

    Please, please, please make a pattern!

  70. Abbey January 7th, 2010

    this sweater-vest would seriously be the completeion to my life to own this. pleaseplease make the pattern. i need this in my life :) ahaha
    this is beautiful!

  71. LyndsC January 7th, 2010

    Please please please make a pattern for this!

  72. Persa January 7th, 2010

    I definitely hope this pattern becomes available!

  73. Catherine January 7th, 2010

    Absolutely brilliant. Please do write up the pattern, and if you do, I’ll buy a few yards of the green off you with the pattern, I know you have a bunch of it left over.

  74. Jim January 7th, 2010

    My Girlfriend knits and I would love to have her knit this for me! :-D

    Can I get the pattern?

  75. SCTL January 7th, 2010

    This is quite amazing, give the people a pattern!

  76. Lu January 7th, 2010

    whoa, this is SO cool! would love love love the pattern! i’m super impressed :)

  77. Kezzy January 7th, 2010

    That is amazing!! Well done! And yes I would LOVE a pattern! Would love to make a scarf rather than a sweatervest though

  78. Carmela Smythe January 7th, 2010

    LOVE IT!!!! Would love the pattern too :)

  79. George January 7th, 2010

    Heck yeah, a pattern would be great! May you receive no cease and desist letters from the copyright police.

  80. Michelle January 7th, 2010

    Is it me or is that Harry Potter at 45? :)

  81. Tracy January 7th, 2010

    That’s so cute, my son would be beside himself if I knit him one. Unfortunately I can only knit big, not very straight rectangles. He’ll have to be happy looking at the picture.

  82. Johnny Animation January 7th, 2010

    PLEASE POST THE PATTERN!

  83. Mark from Torrance, CA January 7th, 2010

    i would totally learn how to make one of these if you posted the pattern.

  84. Mike January 7th, 2010

    Awesome. Bring on that pattern.

  85. Anna January 7th, 2010

    thats lovely! would really appreciate if you made a pattern for it!

  86. Julianne January 7th, 2010

    AWESOME!!!
    Please, please, pleeeeaaase the patteeeeernnnn!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!

    :P

  87. Austin January 7th, 2010

    Add me to the chorus of people who’d love a pattern.

  88. Rosa January 7th, 2010

    Awesome! Pattern please.

  89. Matthew N. Petersen January 7th, 2010

    That’s Awesome!

  90. Samuli January 7th, 2010

    Oh i just love this!!! Please make a pattern :) I think I could do a mega man or something else. This is just gorgeus! I´m doing a bag at the moment and the pattern is- what else- 8-bit space invaders! :)
    Keep up the good work!

  91. Amy January 7th, 2010

    Pattern Please! I would completely rock this sweater vest, it is awesome!

  92. Jenn January 7th, 2010

    I would love a pattern!

  93. Karen January 7th, 2010

    Love this and I’d love the pattern!

  94. Dena January 7th, 2010

    That is adorable! I’d love the pattern!

  95. Blindlamb January 7th, 2010

    I would like to see this pattern! Looks Great… amazing work!

  96. Colleen January 7th, 2010

    This is awesome!!! I’m very interested in the pattern. I wish I was as talented at knitting as you are. :)

  97. Kim January 7th, 2010

    That’s awesome!!! It brings me back to my video arcade playing days in the early 1980’s. I’d love to see a pattern for this!

  98. jonny January 7th, 2010

    PLEASE give us the pattern…brilliant!

  99. DungeonKnitter January 7th, 2010

    My husband says I must prove my love to him by knitting one of these for him. How can I do so without a pattern?? You’re standing in the way of my love! ;-)

  100. harpyr January 7th, 2010

    OOo that is neat! You should totally post a pattern for this.

  101. Hizzo January 7th, 2010

    I would learn how to do colorwork for this vest. Fantastic.

  102. Marc Hughes January 7th, 2010

    I don’t know how to knit, but I would learn just to make this sweater. Please hook us up with that pattern!

  103. Susan January 7th, 2010

    Wonderful job. I would love the pattern! Please and Thank You!

  104. Patty January 7th, 2010

    If that sweater is nerdy, then I am a huge nerd! It’s great! I hope you get enough comments to publish the pattern!

  105. David January 7th, 2010

    I too would like a pattern for this. Been meaning to give knitting another shot, and this looks like a good project.

  106. Chiral January 7th, 2010

    Awesome!

  107. girlGermany January 7th, 2010

    oh love it!
    the green is just perfect!

  108. Jenni January 7th, 2010

    Love the design! I would love the pattern too!

  109. Louisa January 7th, 2010

    this is so brilliant!! a pattern would be amazing :)

  110. mazzie January 7th, 2010

    Fantastic! I’d LOVE the pattern. :)

  111. Christina January 7th, 2010

    AMAZING!!!!

  112. blunosr January 7th, 2010

    Too Cool!!! Pattern Please.

  113. Lindsey January 7th, 2010

    What a rad vest! Please post the pattern. I would love to make it for my gamer bf!

  114. Alex January 7th, 2010

    I would absolutely love the pattern.

  115. Andy W. January 7th, 2010

    Wow. This is simply amazing. Please, a pattern!

  116. Giselle January 7th, 2010

    Amazing! Yes, please make a pattern!!

  117. Chelsea January 7th, 2010

    I must have the pattern!!! My boyfriend would LOVE THIS…..actually, I would definitely make this for myself as well :D :D :D

    SHARE THE LOVE!!!!!!!

  118. Hipiedoll January 7th, 2010

    OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE publish your pattern. I NEED to make this!!!

  119. Stephanie January 7th, 2010

    I love it. Please share the pattern!
    Thanks.

  120. tortorse January 7th, 2010

    Amazing!I would love a pattern!

  121. Yosh January 7th, 2010

    Please give us the pattern! i dont know how to knit, but my mom sure does!

  122. Alethea January 7th, 2010

    I’ve already been propositioned (payment via a million thank-yous, which will be great for my self-esteem) so please make a pattern! Please!!!

  123. Mel P. January 8th, 2010

    wow, it looks so great. i need the pattern.

  124. fran January 8th, 2010

    I love it! I would love the pattern – my kids would go crazy

  125. fränk January 8th, 2010

    fu*#in’ awsome !!!

  126. Sean January 8th, 2010

    i don’t want the pattern I just want to buy the sweater!

  127. Fuzzygalore January 8th, 2010

    :lol: That’s great!
    I can think of about 5 people that would just love to wear that to work. Well done!

  128. Luis January 8th, 2010

    I HAVE TO HAVE IT! Where can I get it?

  129. Cat January 8th, 2010

    That is AWESOME. Well done!

  130. Care January 8th, 2010

    ACK! It just might be worth me learning to knit just to make this!!!

    Wonder if it could be adapted to make a sweater skirt instead?

  131. Rebeca Palacios January 8th, 2010

    I’m just learning how to knit & would love to attempt this vest!!! COOLEST THING EVER!!!!!! ur hubby is sooo lucky!!!

  132. L. Brunette January 8th, 2010

    YES! YES! I NEED a pattern for this! Please share!

  133. Suze January 8th, 2010

    Love it! It’s all over Geekologie right now :)

  134. Charlie January 8th, 2010

    Please Please Please make the pattern!!!! My boyfriend REALLY loves it and wants me to make him one.

  135. Rosie January 8th, 2010

    This is quite possibly the greatest sweater ever!

  136. Crystal January 8th, 2010

    Yes, please share the pattern. It looks wonderful.

  137. Holly @ Domestic Dork January 8th, 2010

    I don’t knit, so I don’t want a pattern. But I would be interested in buying one!

  138. Bram January 8th, 2010

    This is so awesome! That’s one lucky nerd!

  139. theo January 8th, 2010

    dude, I realy want to have that pattern!

  140. Chomputer January 8th, 2010

    another pattern request or please someone make this for etsy & get paid! i have a benji waiting for you

  141. EEEeeee January 8th, 2010

    WANT.

  142. Rich January 8th, 2010

    Please e-mail me if this ever becomes available!!!!

    ILL TAKE 3!

  143. Rich January 8th, 2010

    id like to just buy it kthx

  144. Matt January 8th, 2010

    Oh god. EPIC WIN. I would really love to have that pattern!

  145. Teke January 8th, 2010

    A pattern for this would be fabulous! Awesome work.

  146. Kimmie B. January 8th, 2010

    I LOVE THIS!!!!

  147. Amy Fortenberry January 8th, 2010

    Your sweater vest is WIN. I can haz patturn?

  148. Annie January 8th, 2010

    AWESOME vest! i’d like the pattern, yes!

  149. DragonsCat January 8th, 2010

    Actually, I’d just love a description of how you put your own pattern together. You didn’t just go one to one, pixel to stitch, I’m guessing (since Mario’s not squished and all!)? Did you use software to help put it together and print it out?

  150. Manxa January 8th, 2010

    I don’t wear sweatervests and even I would wear it.

    “Get on my horse!”

  151. JayBee January 8th, 2010

    Epic Love!!!

    My wife knits, and has yet to make me ANYTHING…if she was going to, it would have to be this. I’d love to get a pattern to this for her!

  152. Muriah January 8th, 2010

    Came over from the link on Geekologie -http://www.geekologie.com/2010/01/awesomest_sweater_vest_in_the.php

    Love this!

  153. Megan January 8th, 2010

    Oh my goodness! I am new to knitting, but I am willing to work single-mindedly towards creating such an astounding sweater vest! I am very interested in acquiring the pattern.

  154. season January 8th, 2010

    i would love a pattern and also someone who knits to convince to use it

  155. Karen January 8th, 2010

    I would love the pattern!! This is the coolest sweater vest and it looks like a blast to make!

  156. Anneli January 8th, 2010

    This is fantastic!
    Please make a pattern!!!

  157. niki January 8th, 2010

    Could you tell us how to make it?
    It’s so great~

  158. Trish January 8th, 2010

    Wow, I loved playing Mario on the NES as a kid. I would definitely be interested in a pattern!!

  159. Adam January 9th, 2010

    FANTASTIC!!! It’s a coolest sweater vest

  160. HK January 9th, 2010

    Exxxxxcellent ! Vite, le pattern, que je fasse travailler la grand-mère !

  161. Susan January 9th, 2010

    I would love to know how you converted pixels to a chart. Brilliant.

    I’ve been trying to do a Linux penguin for my son and have repeatedly FAILED.

  162. OoohPrettyShiny....445 January 9th, 2010

    All I can say is……. lol. :) Great idea.

  163. Jody January 9th, 2010

    This is fantastic! I especially love the pipe placement in the back. :D

  164. Lindsay January 9th, 2010

    You are amazing.

  165. Elisabet January 10th, 2010

    I´ve never been able to knit anything but this is definitely be one I will do. Can´t wait for the pattern and watching countless youtube knitting tutorials.

  166. Georgie January 10th, 2010

    Don’t you mean the awesomest vest in the world? Because that’s what it is. And, a work of love.

  167. Heidi January 10th, 2010

    hahaha.. this is awesome

  168. Maija January 11th, 2010

    This is truly THE coolest sweater ever made! I love it my self so much that I must make first one for myself and then see if my hubby will still want his : )

  169. rama January 11th, 2010

    wow love it, but i’ll never gonna leave house in it
    aaahahaaa

  170. sarah January 11th, 2010

    too cool!

  171. Ligeia January 12th, 2010

    That is awesome! The design, colours.. all perfect!

  172. Dennis Cornetta January 12th, 2010

    Can I have one?

  173. Onizuka-GTO January 12th, 2010

    Woah, that’s…..amazing!

    Extremely nerdy, but so full of win.

    Also I guess it keeps the poor bloke from straying which i suppose is what he signed up for, but hey at leased he looks good doing it…i think…. lolol

  174. Sandy January 13th, 2010

    The smile on this guy’s face says all there is to say. Amazing !

  175. Iggy January 13th, 2010

    So cool, i want to make the same one too !!

    You have done a good job ! Now i will wait for the pattern ^^

  176. JustinSpanbauer January 13th, 2010

    I would pay at least $100 for one of those.

  177. Jess@KnotByGran'ma January 13th, 2010

    This is fantastic!

  178. Complikatyed January 13th, 2010

    I would also like a pattern! What an amazing job!

  179. Cheri L. Miller January 13th, 2010

    Very much interested in getting a copy of your pattern; please reply when it is available.

  180. dya January 13th, 2010

    Pattern required!!!

  181. Jenn January 13th, 2010

    Oh my heavens, that is fantastic!

  182. Joyce January 14th, 2010

    Totally awesome! I’d love the pattern too, for one of my sons.

  183. gis January 14th, 2010

    oh my god! it’s as strange as beautyful, congratulations to the person who made it

  184. Aaron January 14th, 2010

    I would love one or a pattern of one. I would buy one if you made it. Here is my contact Info ath401@gmail.com. Please get back to me that would rock

  185. Sammii January 14th, 2010

    Make it a Hoodie and I’m sooooo buying it. Best thing ever! ^^

  186. Janey January 14th, 2010

    My kids would be beaten to a bloody pulp if they ever wore this….anywhere. Ever.

  187. Itsumishi January 14th, 2010

    I think my Jealousy meter just broke.

    First of all. Greatest. Sweater. In. The. History. Of. The. Universe.

    Secondly. You made this for your husband?! You are an amazing wife of truly excellent character!

  188. mepsipax January 14th, 2010

    That is freakin sweet. I know that kids would get beat up but adults would be admired…. well in my mind they would be.

  189. Cookie January 15th, 2010

    Awesome job!

    To everyone requesting a pattern though – get over it! Make one yourselves, lazy ppl!
    I think Ms Seamstress is catering way too much to you all by making the pattern herself. Gah!

  190. jrace70 January 15th, 2010

    I will never know knitting, but surely that is the most awesome thing in the knitting world!!
    Now where can I get one…

  191. Rob_Stan January 15th, 2010

    I love it, we’ve got a couple of pet DBA’s in the offfice and they would look super great. Quite fancy one myself – and I don’t mean the sweaters!!!!

  192. Joshua January 15th, 2010

    Thanks for the share & keep up the good work! I look forward to another.

  193. Adam January 15th, 2010

    LOL, this is exactly how HARRY POTTER should have looked like in the MOVIE! Thumbs up for the sweater by the way.

  194. Rachel January 15th, 2010

    This is excellent!! I am thinking about doing something similar with old Atari games. How awesome would it be to have a sweater with the castle and dragon from “Adventure” on it?

  195. K-L January 16th, 2010

    The sweater is plain amazing! I would LOVE to get the pattern, please e-mail me if you are interested in selling me the instructions!

  196. Jess January 16th, 2010

    I would pay a LOT of money for one of those sweaters.

  197. ck January 16th, 2010

    holy moley! how in the world did you get harry potter to agree to model for you? you guys have really upped the ante!

  198. Edvin January 18th, 2010

    Realy cool work. I’ll probably get all the other comenters against me, but I think you should hold on to that pattern! If I had made something nearly as awsom as that I’d think twice before macing it avalabe for copying. But don’t get me wrong.. That’s just me. If you want to shear it then go ahead and do so. Shearing is a wonderful thing to do. I just don’t think that nagging should be your reason to do so, Giving in to nagging and shear something you’d really rather keep for your self gives a cinda bitter fealing. An idea could be to make another similar patern. That way you can shear and keep the uniquenes of you vest.

    Anyhow. Really nice work once again. Keep that up! :)

  199. nocturbuous January 18th, 2010

    Do want!

  200. Rahly January 18th, 2010

    A real nerd would have spotted that, that is not Mario Brothers, but rather SUPER Mario Brothers. They probably would have played the original to know the difference, too.

  201. Moulin Rogue January 19th, 2010

    Have you seen this? I think this girl has upped the ante: http://gegecrochet.blogspot.com/2009/03/mario-party-part-1.html

  202. Cassi January 19th, 2010

    Amazing!

  203. r January 20th, 2010

    Is your model the “real” Harry Potter? Since he was looking down, I didn’t see the scar on his forehead!

  204. Donna January 20th, 2010

    That is amazing. Great job!

  205. Marie January 21st, 2010

    Like everyone else, I just wanted to say that this is the most amazing sweater vest in the history of history.

  206. japan January 22nd, 2010

    to to to to to to……to to to to toto …to to to to to to tototototoo to to to (song from mario)
    love this vest!! remaids me playing when i was elementaly shool kids in japan
    thank you for showing nice thing!!

  207. Sarah January 23rd, 2010

    Truly fabulous! Great idea!

  208. John January 24th, 2010

    Will you do a Legend of Zelda one with Link? That would be epic.

  209. Lith January 26th, 2010

    The sweater is fooking awesome! Great work!

  210. jonathan January 26th, 2010

    so very cool!
    how much to make one of those for me?
    i’m probably a little smaller than your husband.

  211. The Happy Seamstress January 26th, 2010

    @jonathan: Sorry, I can’t take any custom orders, but maybe you can bribe a knitter that you know to make one for you? ;-)

  212. Sweater china January 31st, 2010

    Hahahah i love it, your Mario world sweater is awesome :)

  213. Kendrick February 1st, 2010

    This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. I WANT ONE! i can not think of a better present or wedding gift or anything in the world…if I received one of these I would wear it everywhere…

  214. Desiree February 2nd, 2010

    What a great sweater, very very clever. I love it :-)

  215. April February 2nd, 2010

    Thank the gods for Huffington Post. Can I PLEASE buy this knitting pattern from you?

  216. Accent Tables February 3rd, 2010

    I so want my girlfriend to make one!

  217. Allison February 4th, 2010

    Well done!

  218. Leeanne February 4th, 2010

    Hi there!

    I love this vest! I have a hen party next month and the dress code is geek. I’d love to wear this. Could u mail me the pattern please?

    Leeanne

  219. The Happy Seamstress February 5th, 2010

    @Leeanne: There’s a free pattern available on the site for download.

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