Knitting 'Super Mario Brothers,' Level One  Image credit: 
Blogger Cassie is a self-proclaimed nerd and an obsessive
knitter, and has made her latest big project the subject of its
very own blog: MarioScarf. If you're not geek enough to guess
what the Mario Scarf is just from its title, allow a former
8-bit addict to lay it out for you: Cassie has taken it upon
herself to knit "the entire first-level map of Super Mario
Brothers. SMB levels are linear maps and the Mario and Luigi
characters move from left to right from start to the castle at
the end. Also, the images in these games are designed in the
8-bit fashion and look like they were drawn using graph paper.
Each knitting stitch can replicate a square in the image making
knitted 8-bit images look like they're supposed to." (Above,
Cassie's awesome knitnerd tattoo.)  But why take on such a
daunting project? There have been Nintendo-inspired knitting
projects before, but certainly none of this magnitude. Cassie
explains:  Jason and I were talking about our