reynardo | How much of a geek am I?

OK, let's start with the basics of Fair Isle knitting. Although the entire piece can have multiple colours in it, the big secret to knitting it is that each row only has 2 colours, maximum. It's how you combine those rows that makes the pattern.

(Note - if you see what looks like Fair Isle, but it has 3 colours per row, it's probably Nordic instead. Very similar, but not quite the same).

So - my phone case - each row has only two colours. Actually, the pattern is the same top and bottom - I merely switched the order of the colours in all but the pink-and-yellow rows.

And how did I pick the patterns for the rows?

It's my name, in ASCII, written in binary, then mirrored horizontally, then mirrored vertically.

Let us assume that I'd used "Reynardo", which in ASCII is 82 101 121 110 97 114 100 111

In binary, that reads as:
01010010
01100101
01111001
01101110
01100001
01110010
01100100
01101111

And converting that into a simple pattern, just in black and white, you get:

So now I fill in the rows using just blue, green, purple and pink, then mirror it horizontally then vertically, and this is the result:

I didn't use Reynardo for the phone cover (I used my real name instead, and if you're geeky enough to work it out, then you deserve to know it). But it's tempting to make a whole jumper out of it...

(As if I didn't have 1001 other projects to be finished)

So yeah. Massive Geek Cred.