As classic video games go, Pac-Man’s way up at the top of most lists. Even if it doesn’t have the seemingly endless amount of choices games like Skyrim or Fallout have to offer, it’s still a fun game to play nowadays. Sam McDougall has put together a pattern you can use to bring this classic from the screen to your clothing. Now he doesn’t include the Pac Man Board Pattern in a specific pattern. Just the pattern for the board itself, so if you want to actually make something with this, you’ll either need to apply it to an existing pattern, or send Sam an email to bynxdesigns@gmail.com and ask her about the hat pattern she used to show this pattern off.

With this chart, you can create many objects from throw pillows, to blankets, to a very slouchy hat!

The Game Board chart is blank so that you may put the ‘pieces’ wherever you wish! Each ghost & gobbler are a 5×5 chart and fit anywhere on the board to make each project one of a kind!

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R2D2 Yarn Bomb

I’ve seen a few Yarn bombs before. The only one that comes to mind is the time the bull got yarn bombed on Wall St but the R2D2 Yarn Bomb that Sarah Rudder made is definitely the nerdiest!

With some simple geometry, and her own custom pattern, Sarah has managed to turn a concrete pole into a pretty decent R2D2 replica. And although the cover is knit to last, it sounds like it’s only brought out on certain occasions, and definitely tucked away somewhere safe during College graduation times.

On March 16, 2012, I “cast on” my very own knitted R2D2 slipcover. There are plenty of R2D2 hat and toy patterns on Ravelry.com (@ravelry), a great pattern site for knitting and crochet, but nothing was near this scale. (For any who would like to recreate this project, I’m happy to share the makeshift pattern you see on my iPad in the Instagram photos below.) Basically, I had to create a tube 56″ around, 23″ high, and then curve into a dome over about 14″. It was a tricky bit of math, but nothing harder than freshman geometry. I ended up using just about 1200 yards of yarn.

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There’s a super cool pillow with the Gryffindor crest, a mario musroom pillow (again, on, not in the shape of).

I don’t know if I’d call the heart shaped pillow “Geeky”, but it’s definitely super neat. Possibly a good valentines gift if your significant other’s into realism over the silly “heart” shapes normally associated with the day.

The Wonder Woman and Hunger Games pillows are pretty neat as well. The Wonder Woman logo really suits as a pillow, and the Hunger Games one would go with pretty much all of my furniture.

But my favourite is the R2-D2 pillow. It takes a pro to make it, but it looks super cute and cuddly, just like I imagine R2-D2 to be. Ok, he’s not super cuddly, but he should be.

Nothing beats having something you have hand crafted yourself, to decorate your room. Well, apart from the luxury bedding you saved for a while to buy! So below, I have listed my favourite knitted pillows from across the internet, to inspire both novice and expert knitters! Get out your needles and yarn and get crafting, there’s still nine months to Christmas, so you could make everyone one by then. So, here goes, best geek knits…in the form of pillows.

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