2016 GAL: Silent Hill by Jacquline Rivera

2016 GAL: Silent Hill

Knitting
April 2016
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
18 stitches and 23 rows = 4 inches
in double knitting
US 6 - 4.0 mm
5.5 mm (I)
150 - 180 yards (137 - 165 m)
English
This pattern is available for free.

Pattern is available HERE.

The first three Silent Hill games received critical acclaim and helped define the survival horror genre, thus earning its place on the 2016 Geek-A-Long blanket.

Horror in video games encapsulates fear in a way that other mediums can’t. I’ve never had nightmares about movies or books or scary camp fire stories; the video game medium puts you right there in the terror about as close as you can be without getting PTSD. Resident Evil gave me nightmares as a child; Silent Hill gave me nightmares as an adult. And that’s right, even though they came out around the same time, I didn’t get to play Silent Hill until much later. I played through Resident Evil at 14, and yet I couldn’t finish Silent Hill… even when I played it in my 20’s.

Note that this pattern includes both knitting and crochet instructions. The needle/hook size given above is for the specific craft.