Originally published at: Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich creates stunning Windows home screen blanket for Microsoft | Boing Boing
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It’s the first “weighted blanket” that doesn’t bring you any sense of security! 
But she has mad skills and impressive speed!
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Well I crocheted a pillow based on a direct-to-VHS phone sex thriller and Microsoft didn’t even pay me
This blanket is quite a bit bigger and has more colors though.
I am curious to know what that involved; crochet is notoriously immune to mass production, since there is no real machine to do it. I’d love it if they sold movie-grade crochet blankets in kit form.
(Hollywood set designers love crochet, but the grandmother-made items you can get in thrift stores, or from in-house grandmothers, are rarely the chic kind. You just have to do it yourself)
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From her Portfolio page it looks like a promotional display piece. Not anything designed for mass market sale.
Crochet can’t be machine made currently as you mentioned.
There’s machines sometimes called crochet machines, but they’re still a type of knitting machine. The stitch they make just resembles single crochet to a certain extent.
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