Kiss My Knits!

Looks like everybody in the community is finishing their Jayne hats. As for me, I’ve only got one more Jayne hat and one dinosaur hat that have to be in their recipients’ hands by the 30th. They’re both half-finished. I’m slightly ahead of schedule! At this rate, the people who are content to get theirs after the premiere may get them before. Yay!

I added a baby hat and swapped a sold scarf with a newer one on http://www.wearwithstyle.com. I’ve actually got a couple more things to add, as well. I’m thinking about revamping the site so it’s not all on the main page – if I keep adding things, I worry people will have to scroll too much. That won’t necessarily be a bad thing, though. Oh, well, it’s cool and it’s serving its function, so any changes can wait. Plus it’s got the cool legs that designed. 🙂

Only seven more knitting days until Serenity!

Courtesy of , looks like bloggers can get into some advance press screenings of Serenity on Sept 27th. Sadly, the showing in my town is at 7:30. It is 15 minutes away. And my daughter usually goes to bed between 7 and 7:15, and pops up a few times before settling down to sleep.

No way we can make it.

Well, these are the sacrifices we make for parenthood. The hubby and I have plans to go on the public premiere on Sept 30th, probably a 9pm show. And that’s fine.

Hey, maybe some of y’all can make it, and if so, more power to you!

The hubby sent me a link to a news story about a giant pink bunny.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1541732.html

It looks like something got lost in translation with the “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool” bit, though. Gelatin’s website says “as if knitted by giant grandmothers” which throws its methods of construction into doubt, at least for me.

I won’t get into the “knitting grannies” stereotype, but I will say… that’s one huge rabbit.

Believe it or not, I do actually get orders for things besides Jayne hats. Right now, I’ve got a dinosaur hat coming up in the queue. The one in the picture is made from Lamb’s Pride worsted, which is a blend of 85% wool and 15% mohair. It has to be handwashed cool, or it’ll shrink like crazy. Example: This is made with Lamb’s Pride worsted: Before and after a couple of washings. You can’t tell in picture two, but it’s sitting on a kid’s chair and is now about 9″X12″, tops. This was deliberate, but you can imagine if something made of this accidentally got tossed in with the laundry. Yikes.

So here’s the dilemna. I’m pretty sure the guy buying the dinosaur hat is 16 years old. Possibly 15, but I think 16. I am really unsure about sending a hand-wash-only garment to a 16-year-old guy. I just *know* it’s going to get ruined. And while I am fine with the idea that once it leaves my hands, it is out of my control and no longer mine, I would just hate for this guy’s hat to get trashed by accident.

He says he wants it to look like the one in the picture, earflaps and ties and all. I am toying with the idea of using a different wool, one that is superwash (meaning it can go into the washing machine). But it wouldn’t look exactly the same. The superwash wool has a couple of strands together, like this while the Lamb’s Pride is a single, with one big strand like this.

So do I keep it the same and just really hammer home the care instructions, or do I try to save him from himself?

Opinions?

Today’s my husband’s birthday. I don’t suppose I could play off buying We Love Katamari as a birthday gift for him, could I?

No?

Drat.

I’m going out of my gourd. I’m looking for some size 4 white woven boxer shorts. Not knit boxer-brief types, but actual boxers. They have to be white. If they’re size 6, it won’t be the end of the world, but size 4 is preferred.

I have a friend whose son is potty-training, and boxers work better for him than briefs. He loves Dora the Explorer, but of course they don’t make stuff for boys with Dora on it, sexist corporate jerks. His mom’s been very ncie to me, and as a thank you, I want to iron-on some Dora transfers onto some white boxers for her son.

Except I can’t find the white boxers.

Help?

And it may be me. I clicked on this fully prepared to be offended, but instead I’m sharing it.

Katrina – The Gathering

I send lunch with my daughter to school every day. The same thing, every day, because if I send other things, even things she likes, she won’t eat them. In fact, in the past, when I have sent things in her lunchbox that she likes, but that were unexpected, she has later refused ever to eat them again. It’s just a function of her PDD-NOS, so I roll with it, and pack the same lunch every day – even though she hasn’t eaten the raisins I send for a year now.

So imagine my surprise upon learning that apparently, she has been keeping her lunchbox in her backpack and been telling her teacher that she didn’t bring one when it’s pizza day in the cafeteria. I learned this by getting a bill from the cafeteria for $6.35. Yep, apparently she’s been sneaking through the lunch line. And here I thought she just wasn’t eating any lunch.

You’d have to know my daughter to understand how genuinely thrilled I am by this. Wanting to do this sort of thing, and executing her fiendish plan, takes a level of sophistication that I am very gratified to see my daughter developing.

I don’t usually share photos that folks send me of themselves in their hats, because it’s in e-mail. But this is on a forum.

Now that’s a happy Browncoat.

http://forum.jungle-fire.com/index.php?topic=82.0

And that’s all, folks! If you’re not in the queue already, I can’t guarantee that you’ll get a Jayne hat by the 30th, in time for the Serenity premiere. I’ve got 12 hats in line, and am averaging about two hats every three days. Well, really it’s more like a hat a day right now, but I feel the need to factor in what I call “hit by a bus” time. I wouldn’t want to guarantee you’d get a hat in time for the premiere, then get hit by a bus and not be able to follow through on the promise.

I’m still glad to take orders, but if you want a hat for the premiere and haven’t already made arrangements to get one, you’re probably out of luck. I can recommend some other good Browncoat knitters, but I hear they’re swamped too.

Don’t worry – you’ll still look cool, just by showing up for the premiere. 🙂