The Mario Scarf: Wear World 1-1 around your neck

18 Comments by Ross Miller Aug 8th 2008 2:40AM
Filed under: Culture, Retro

Here's a way to show you care: an Atlanta, GA schoolteacher (and obsessive knitter) is recreating World 1-1 in scarf form (based on this map from Ian Albert). The plan is, once she finishes, she and her boyfriend will get engaged. You can follow along with her progress at the aptly-titled The Mario Scarf Blog, with an FAQ found here. Now, if only there was a World 1-2 belt to go along with it ...

[Via metal_floss; thanks, William N]

Tags: knitting, mario, scarf

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Psaakyrn: Aug 8th 2008; 2:54AM

But can she knit world -1?

Mike: Aug 8th 2008; 1:43PM

Well sure, as long as you connect the two ends to each other to form a loop.

Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots): Aug 8th 2008; 3:05AM

Needs to be one of the castles and "The Princess is in another castle!"

Anticrawl: Aug 8th 2008; 3:06AM

Bah, you think this person is good you should check out Tanya.

http://www.8bitfix.com/profile/TanyaValdez

Yeah I totally just plugged her site while showing you her 1337 gaming scarf skillz.

scy1192: Aug 8th 2008; 3:09AM

Is there such a thing as getting tired of Super Mario Brothers? I mean, I like what she's doing and all, but give SMB a rest already. How many times can it be recreated?

mr mobius: Aug 8th 2008; 8:49AM

The moon has yet to be touched by Mario so until that happens - no!

tdub301: Aug 8th 2008; 1:46PM

That's funny, Mario went to the moon in Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door for the GC. After Mario Galaxies, I think he needs to go to the netherworld next. Maybe give him a couple chain swords like Kratos. Let's see what Nintendo does with that!

netherworld Mario game story < GoW,
netherworld Mario game gameplay >>>> GoW

Bigfoot: Aug 8th 2008; 3:41AM

There's an idea for a new speed run. Who can knit 1-1 the fastest?

Mike: Aug 8th 2008; 1:44PM

Can we take the warp pipe?

Kye - Me_DF: Aug 8th 2008; 6:36AM

Cool

FOXHOUND: Aug 8th 2008; 7:13AM

Nice work. It just gives me reason to call my grammy and ask her why she doesn't love me enough to knit me one and instead made one with duckies. :(

btw... The link doesn't seem to be working for the world map GIF file. :x

BrotherSimon: Aug 8th 2008; 7:27AM

Bet she couldnt knit this:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/MarioBrothers-3487x1280.png

beatboxtaun: Aug 8th 2008; 9:30AM

I have to give her mad props for this scarf! I do have to agree, who's going to wear one this long, but turn this sucker into a blanket and that would be amazing!

Vladeon: Aug 8th 2008; 10:28AM

"once she finishes, she and her boyfriend will get engaged"
Yeah, I bet she pulls a Penelope on him and un-knits the stitches every night while he's asleep, to buy her time while her real husband is making his way all over hell and creation to come back to her.

Booxatron: Aug 8th 2008; 2:16PM

haha epic

Gratch: Aug 8th 2008; 12:17PM

Originally she was knitting 8-4 because she wanted to recreate the epic final battle which symbolized the struggle with the things keeping her from getting married. Unfortunately she took several wrong turns during the maze portion and repeatedly sewed the same section of scarf until she ran out of time.

bgss: Aug 9th 2008; 1:38PM

They did fail at one thing.... Their clouds are not repainted bushes (or vice versa) like they are in the game!

bgss: Aug 9th 2008; 1:39PM

I should add that this is still very cool.

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