Knitta, Please!

Zombie Knitters?

Eh? That's what I thought too. But now I'm getting used to the idea. Check it out:

These are not your cute-booties-and-scarves knitters. These are your street-art-and-zombie knitters.

They're out there, knitting needles twirling, creating items that would shock and baffle their quiet, kindly, blue-haired granny predecessors.

These knitters have nothing against afghans and sweaters. They just think that knitting them is boring. One big yarn yawn.

Sometimes it's tough being them.

"When you're carrying around half a knit liver, people think you're crazy," Matie Trewe said.

Trewe is well known in this unique knitting community for her digestive system -- not the one in her body, the one she knit. It's complete from its cute red tongue through a pink esophagus, yellow pancreas, brown liver, green gallbladder, peach small intestine and red anus.

Trewe created it for a "Blood 'n' Guts, Horror 'n' Gore" knitting swap. ("I took the `guts' part literally," she said.) It was organized at www.craftster.org, where a lot of what she calls her "kindred spirits" hang out.

Her digestive system was such a hit, "I've made two more since then."

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Simpson "is busting to finish" her current project, a pair of characters from the "Dawn" sequel "Day of the Dead"

Must...have...them...