Embroidery / Sculpture

My Knitted Boyfriend by Noortje de Keijzer

my knitted boyfriend

Many moons ago, I saw a knit­ted man on Pin­ter­est. I did­n’t know much about it, aside from the fact that I liked his goofy smile and the nov­el­ty of a life-sized tex­tile. Years lat­er, this project popped back up on my radar. I found out it’s titled My Knit­ted Boyfriend and is cre­at­ed by design stu­dio Noort­je de Kei­jz­er. Here’s a descrip­tion of it:

My Knit­ted Boyfriend is a cush­ion with a sto­ry. A cush­ion with a per­son­al­i­ty. A cush­ion to kiss! Or, well… to cud­dle, to caress, to hug, and to smile with. Because this man is always hap­py. And he is flex­i­ble as well. He will have a mus­tache if you pre­fer mus­tach­es. He will wear glass­es if you pre­fer glass­es. He likes to sit on your floor, on your couch or at you din­ner table. But most of all he likes to lay down next to you in bed. With your head on his chest and his arms wrapped around you. This way you will nev­er feel alone ever again. With this man you can be sure, he will nev­er leave you.

I love see­ing the knit­ted man go from being a droop­ing pile of yarn on some­one’s lap to a full-bod­ied per­son brush­ing their teeth (although there is a real human being under the yarn).

PS — he comes with acces­sories, like a mustache.

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