Kiss My Knits!

My arm doesn’t hurt anymore, and while my hand still aches, I think it’ll be good to go by tomorrow. Since it’s the left one and I’m right-handed, I’m writing Jayne hat notes while watching Corner Gas this morning. That show’s a recent discovery for my husband and me, and we love it. This show is on in the wee hours of the morning on Chicago’s WGN, but we record it and watch it later. Very funny. It’s like Seinfeld if Seinfeld didn’t work blue and lived in a small Canadian town. Those wacky Canadians.

Meanwhile, cribbed from , go to a search engine and type “yourname is” (in quotations), and then share some of the things you find with us.

Heather is an important food source for various sheep and deer.
Heather is actually quite tall and brainy.
Heather is the Original Las Vegas Wedding Chapel.
Heather is powered by WordPress.
Heather is one of the smartest and hardest working people.
Heather is a star.
Heather is finally getting her life back on track.
Heather is said to be stained with the blood of clan wars.

Wow! 100% true!

Okay, time to stop typing again. Rest, precious digits, rest.

You know what I didn’t need to have happen at the height of Jayne hat season? I didn’t need to whack my left hand on a doorknob, sending pain up my forearm. That was three hours ago and it still hurts.

Ladies and gentlemen, wearwithstyle is CLOSED to new orders until Wednesday. By then it’ll either be better or I’ll have seen a doctor. Either way, I’m going to do the smart thing and not knit. Minimal typing, too, because I can feel this as well.

No knitting. This could seriously kill me. Or possibly someone else. Remember these phrases: she seemed nice. Kinda quiet. Kept to herself. We never would have suspected…

Three kits out the door today, four more orders in.

Too! Many! BROWNCOATS!

The Joss’d podcast is up. If you want to skip ahead (not that I’m encouraging that!) to hear what I actually sound like, interviews me at about 43 minutes in.

For the record, I said that I knew nothing about Woolloomooloo, Australia, and it could be a hole for all I knew but I loved its name. I loved it, do you hear? I’ve looked it up since. It’s clearly not a hole. I did not mean to impugn the town of Woolloomooloo or the Australian nation. I even gave a shout-out to Aussie and his awesome artwork. Australians, please do not pelt me with boomerangs or kangaroo droppings.

Crap, I did it again.

Aside from me possibly causing an international incident, neither nor I sounded like morons, so I’ll count the interview a success. Thanks for the opportunity, !

You have to see the ferret-sized Jayne hat made by . She is also the creator of the Vinnland sock pattern which I’m working on intermittently now. So yeah, she rocks double hard.

New Joss Whedon show on FOX? Now I know what that earthquake in California was all about. I guess when Hell freezes over, it shakes the foundation here a little bit.

I’m watching, baby!

In Emily news, Halloween was a great success. Her ghost costume was well-received, and we saw more kids out this year than usual. Some of them, however, stepped out of cars driven by their parents, so I think the thing now must be for the parents to drive them around until they see a house with a porch light on, then let the little nippers out to ring the doorbell. Maybe I’m getting crotchety, but if you live in the neighborhood and there are houses within your view with the porch lights on, do a little legwork!

But I digress. Here’s Emily counting her haul. She only wanted to go to about six houses, which was fine with us. She looks so big. I don’t know what it is, but she’s just looked so grownup lately. Stop growing, baby mine! Emily’s favorite Halloween candy, by the way, is candy corn.


Today, mo’ knitting and packing of Jayne hat kits. Also, I need to do more Jayne peripheral stuff, like write notes and stamp padded mailers. It’s the little touches that count!

Glee! The yarn store called to say that my massive cones of earflap red are in. This means that I am finally fully stocked – and just before Christmas!

The Jayne hat mines are back in full production, baby! Woo!

Of course, the next six hats in line are all from other materials or in other colors. My yarn bounty will be for kits and I’ll get to knit with something besides orange. It’s a win win win!

Mr. Tvini: So, I’ve dropped 25 lbs, and my face really does look different. Then I got my hair cut, and EVERYONE is saying “Wow, your haircut makes you look so much younger” and “I didn’t recognize you with your hair cut.”

Poor guy can’t get any credit. He’s worked so hard and it’s really paid off, and all he gets is, “great haircut!” I am amused but sympathetic. Poor fella.

For those wondering, I haven’t run in about a week, what with the rain and now school being out, but I plan to start up again tomorrow. Yes, we’ll be back at week one.

Behold, Brownie vests for Emily’s multicultural little Brownie troop. Actually, they’re reversible – green on one side, brown on the other, so that the dolls can be either Brownies or Juniors. As you can see, two of them have bridged up to Juniors.

The one on the right was the first one I made, and it shows. To make these, I make two identical shapes with green and brown, sew them together at the edges except for one spot, then turn them inside out by pulling them through that one spot. Then I sew them around the edges again to keep them from being puffy, and seam them at the shoulders. On the one on the right, I didn’t think to make the point that I keep open behind the neck where it wouldn’t show, so her front edge is kind of sloppy. I don’t hear her complaining, though, and Emily is very happy, so good enough.

I let Emily run the sewing machine foot pedal on the straight sections. She did well. It’s a good introduction into how the machine works.

It was a long day of us running hither and yon, and her being super engaged, which means I’m worn out. Don’t get me wrong, we want her to be engaged, but I’m an introvert running on not enough sleep and it’s very tiring. Still, good day. I can’t complain.

I’ve had a recent upswing in orders from non-English-speaking countries. I’m getting some of those folks to send me their native currency, to be a fun learning tool for Emily to learn more about, say, Germany. I’d call them considerate strangers, but Browncoats aren’t really strangers now, are they?

I realized this evening that this is the first year I haven’t thought, “this could be the last year Emily is in mainstream classes.” I don’t want to jinx it, especially since they’re just starting multiplication, but for the first time I’m taking it as a given that she’ll be able to continue on in regular classes. She’ll just have all the many, many other standard pitfalls that kids in school have to deal with, that’s all.

Lord, I’m making myself more tired. Time to go to bed.