If I only
had a knitted brain.
Just when
you thought that all creative nooks and crannies had been conquered…
a
psychiatrist in Massachusetts has knitted an anatomically correct replica of
the human brain.
It all
started innocently enough, I’m sure –
One clotted
bit of yarn that looked strangely like a cerebellum…
A few
strings of wool that screamed “spinal cord!”
The next
thing you know, you’re up to your elbows in Merino and purling away at an
amygdala.
It took Karen
Norberg, M.D. about a year to create her woolen wonder, but it was well worth
it –
The brain
is now on display at the Boston Museum of Science. Check it out for yourself here.
The good
doctor reports that she’d like to see it on posters or t-shirts… “but I am not
so sure whether people will want to walk around with a knitted brain on the
front of their clothes."
Are you kidding me?
I know LOTS of folks who could
benefit from any form of portable
brain.
PROMPT: Knitting is not just for cozies
anymore! Wrap your cranium around a body part and purl away… On second thought,
how about a character with an unusual knitting addiction? Does the family
perform an intervention… or do they all think that it’s perfectly normal to
pass the time crafting wickedly woolly clarinet bikinis?
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