Sam Barsky from Baltimore, Maryland, has become a viral sensation after images of him wearing his own hand-knitted jumpers made the front page of Reddit.

Barsky has knitted over 100 incredible “pictoral sweaters”, many of which feature famous landmarks including Times Square, the Golden Gate Bridge and Stone Henge.

The Times Square design is particularly elaborate

Barksy first began knitting in 1999, after health problems caused him to drop out of nursing school. He stumbled upon a wool shop at a local flea market and, seeing his interest in knitting, its proprietors offered to teach him the basics. He began with block colour designs, before moving onto the more complicated depictions that he now shares on his Faceook page “Artistic Knitting of Sam Barsky”.

Along with famous monuments, the Baltimore resident also knits jumpers for special occasions, such as Chanukah, as well as more everyday designs such as electricity pylons and playing cards. To make things even more meta, earlier this year he even knitted a jumper with designs of his other jumpers on.

Tower Bridge

Barksy’s Facebook page, which he updates regularly with photos of his creations and live knitting videos, has almost 14,000 likes – and the creative crafter has also exhibited his work at local fairs and festivals.

A selection of 2016's sweater, including the sweater featuring OTHER SWEATERS (bottom left)

Since his creations were shared on Reddit this weekend, the fanbase has only grown. Imgur poster nadiahumphreys9000 said: “This is such a great idea. Not only would it give you something to do, it would genuinely motivate me to go to place I wanted to go.”

Meanwhile VenerableInheritance suggested that “Artistic Knitting of Sam Barsky” could be the start of a lucrative trend: “With a little bit of promotion work, those could become hipster sought unique designer pieces with a hefty price tag.”

After seeing this picture, which shows Sam with his wife in front of a model of the Eiffel Tower, one Imgur user commented: "We have got to get this guy to Paris!"

You can browse Sam’s designs and keep up-to-date with his news here.

The Chicago skyline, interpreted geometrically

A waterfall, one of Sam's early designs

An aquarium theme

Some of the designs feature everyday sights, such as these electricity pylons

Meanwhile, if quirky travel pictures are your (knitted) bag, you can read about the man who transformed landmarks with paper cut-outs here or get to know the woman who converted a van and went travelling with her dog.

