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Do you know your human anatomy? Let’s get specific. Do you know your female reproductive anatomy? How about the uterine cervix?
My super talented friend Sonya recently launched The Felt Cervix Project, collecting handknit cervices from many volunteers all over the world for an art installation to heighten awareness of female sexual and reproductive health.
If you know how to knit, click on through and consider making a cervix or two to send her. The cervix pattern only requires knitting in the round, basic increases (make 1), simple decreases (knit 2 together), and a tiny bit of seaming.
I knit four cervices this past weekend. Here are a couple of deflated cervices.
The knitting of each cervix took me only about 20 minutes. The pattern is well-written and easy to memorize.
My attention span is equivalent to that of a squirrel these days so it was a challenge to knit the pattern over and over again. I kept it interesting by making a two-toned cervix.
And I made a fancy cervix with stripes. If I had more time, I’d make a bedazzled cervix, a silk cervix, a velvet cervix, a denim cervix, a bigger cervix, a smaller cervix, a lumpy cervix, and a shiny cervix. My cervix is special. So is yours.
Heh. They are like a stack of pink donuts. Cervix donuts.
Can you say…cervix?
The Details:
Pattern: Felt Cervix
Materials: KnitPicks Telemark (carnation and passion heather; one ball of each); wool fiber for stuffing
Sticks: US 8 (5mm) dpns
Oh my gale couldn’t have been more right, Nancy and I just made a felt uterus for a protest piece a couple of weeks ago and here I am seeing this project and it’s awesome. I like the two tone effect.
cheers jafabrit
Love it! At 21 weeks pregnant, I know way more about my cervix then I ever had before!
Remember the knitted womb from knitty? (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html)
Anyway, that’s awesome. I love all the surprises I find on your blog!
they kinda look the red blood cells too! cool idea. I’m curious to see the end result
this is simply fantastic.
This reminds me of a beautiful knitted breast implants I found a few years ago but alas I can’t find the link right now.
All your cervixes are lovely.
LOL . . .. . .
heh, now i can (say cervix).
i’ll have to consider this! i need 6 more arms and the ability to not sleep…
On one level, I am tempted to knit one just so I can say, “so, yesterday I knit a cervix….”, but then on another level, I have no idea what I would do with the finished product. But honestly, being able to casually, appropos of nothing, tell people that I knit a cervix is, really, a winning situation.
I love them. Truly and absolutely.
The tit bits are here: http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTbits.html
We’ll have the patterns to knit a whole dang person soon!
This really tickled me, hehehehe. I just showed this to the hubble, he an art installation of knitted penises would also be awesome. Thankfully I cannot knit (very well), so I will not be partaking in the knitting of many penises, or cervix donuts. I am sad about the latter.
I’ve seen the knit penis art show. Here’s some random person’s photo of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20connectedbreaths/5385504735/
I’ve learnt a new word in english today;-)
They reminded me of the tit bits, too. As usual, C, you’re working on something meaningful and interesting! I love the two-toned cervix!
I’m an RN so I’m all about anatomy. I don’t have a cervix anymore. Maybe I should knit an extra one to keep under my pillow.
are you kidding. i am still laughing! i want my cervix bedazzled! it would make my next pap smear a LOT more interesting…
a stack of pink cervix donuts! hahahhahahahahahahahahah!
Oh god, they’re so anatomically correct!
What a worthwhile project. My cervix is mishappen due to the surgery I had for cervical cancer – women really need to be made aware of how important that smear test is