Whether you are an uber geek or a closet nerd, today is your day.
Geek Pride Day has been celebrated in all of Geekdom since 2006, though Tim McEachern started a Geek Pride Festival in Albany, New York back in 1998.
Celebrating geeks and nerds everywhere, Geek Pride Day intentionally coincides with the anniversary of the release of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.
Today is not to be confused with Star Wars Day, which is held on May 4 due to popular pun, “May the fourth be with you.”
Irving, Texas resident Carissa Browning designed a free knitting pattern for an R2D2 Beanie. Knit with less than 200 yards of worsted weight yarn, this project is perfect for letting your geek flag fly.
“Be proud of who you are. Shout it out loud, without saying a word,” Browning says of her R2D2 beanie.
The pattern, which is offered for free through Browning’s online blog, boasts more than 200 completed projects on Ravelry. And that doesn’t include those who have added it to their “to-be-knit” lists.
And if the beanie doesn’t have enough geek knitted into it, Browning has also included a pattern to knit the projecting probes.
The knitted probes of course are optional, but if you’re going to knit an R2D2 beanie, how could you not knit them?
Coincidentally, May 25 is also Towel Day…
…and towels, as you may or may not know, are one of the most useful things an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
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