This past summer, the stitching group Stitch London (located in the other London) held an event called Stitched Science at the Science Museum.  This event featured a knitted/felted model solar system (including Martians for Mars) as well as a knitted nebula and a crocheted Marie Curie and Galileo among many other sciencey stitched pieces.

However, these examples don’t include all instances of physics or astronomy acting as inspiration for knitted or crocheted projects by a long shot.  There are crocheted space shuttles.  There are knitted solar system sweaters, Galileo mittens, atomic orbital plushes.  There’s even a knitted a Higgs boson and a scarf featuring the CMBR power spectrum.

If we look at more mathematically inspired projects, there are mobius scarves, irrational constant mittens, Lorenz manifold mobiles and pi scarves, such as this one I made last year:

The stripes each represent one digit. There are 101 digits of pi represented in this scarf.

So next time someone tries to tell you that physicists aren’t the creative types, you can point to the abundance of physics-inspired knitting and prove them wrong.