Kotaku: Crochet

Rock Band Drum Cozies

Brian Crecente — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:00 MDT

Jane over at Game Girl Advance points out these neat drum cozies. Color-coded, and sound-dampening, they look like the perfect addition to any Rock Band set-up. I wonder why Harmonix hasn't starting selling some sort of official sound-dampeners for the drums?

Too bad they don't because these crocheted ones sold two days ago over on Etsy. Maybe FunkieFresh will make some more.

XBox Rock Band Drum Kit Cosies [Etsy, via GGA]

Get Your Very Own Crocheted Prinny/Witzbold

Maggie Greene — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:00:06 MDT

Kotakuite BrynnFlynn let us know that there's an eBay auction going on currently for a Disagea Prinny ... or is that a Witzbold?:

I was looking for something new and unique to crochet, and so I thought "Hey, why not make a little Prinny?" A few hours of mad crocheting and accidents later, I had a Prinny from the popular video game series Disgaea. Then I thought, "Hey, why not make it into a Witzbold?" Another hour of messing around with different yarns later, and I had a little replica of the infamous "Banhammer Wielder" from Kotaku.com, the most popular gaming website on the internet.

And there's even a crocheted ban hammer to go with it. Awwww. It can be yours for the current low low bid of $5.99, which is way, way cheaper than most of the crocheted curiosities we post.

Crocheted Prinny/Witzbold - HANDMADE!

Retro Gaming Crochet

Mike Fahey — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:45:20 MST

My mother is a big time knitting and crochet freak, constantly trying to make me something that I would use out of yarn and sheer manual dexterity, to no avail. I could not imagine anything she could make that I would actually use, but now it becomes readily apparent that I just wasn't thinking hard enough. Or perhaps I should have let Jack Rabbit do the thinking for me. As you can see, she has some completely mad crochet skills:

Of course, I assume that a familiarity with video game systems beyond, "Michael, if I trip on this f***ing Atari wire one more time it's going into the trash with your brother's dirty magazines!" in order to do such exquisite work, so it is quite lucky that Jack Rabbit plans on taking custom orders in May for both the system and an old-school television with a classic Atari 2600 game knitted onto the screen. Hit the jump to see more.

Simply magnificent. For me, it shall be Yar's Revenge. Michael Fahey

Jack Rabbit's Knitted Atari Goodness [flickr - thanks Chris!]

The Amazing Crochet Prince of All Cosmos

kotaku.com — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:00:18 MDT

I have a rather unfortunate confession to make: my bedroom closet is stuffed with sad button-eyed stuffed animals.

I'm not a furry, I swear. But every birthday or Christmas, my mother pushes a stuffed animal into my hands, a long-running gift tradition that has rather awkwardly crept into my late twenties. At first, I tried to fly home by "forgetting" them, only to have my mother confront me with the rejected stuffed toy at the airport, her face smeared with ashes, her dress rent in sadness. What can I do? I suavely walk onto the airplane lugging a teddy bear along with me. The stewardesses eye me with cold contempt.

Once at a home, I have no idea what to do with these toys. I would throw them away, but I have never quite gotten over my Velveteen Rabbit belief that stuffed animals are secretly alive. Guilt consumes me even locking them in the closet. And there is an awkward moment of reckoning every time a new girlfriend crab walks her way naked from my bed to grab a spare t-shirt from my closet, only to be confronted with a massive pile of idiot man-child playthings.

Nevertheless, I would cuddle this crochet Katamari. You can buy the pattern for five bucks from Etsy. Florian Eckhardt