I had to buy some red yarn retail, which isn’t good, but on the up side I now have six more skeins of earflap red! Yay! I just sent out mail to folks who had asked about kits over the last few days. I predict I’ll be winding up a heap of yarn tonight and tomorrow.
My Fiber Godmother package arrived! How fantastic was it? I took a picture of the unopened box, then set the camera aside to open it. After I opened it, I was so excited that I couldn’t remember where I put the camera, so a good post with pics will have to wait. Suffice it to say that this box is crammed to the gills with AWESOMENESS.
Thank you, Tracey! You’re the best!
I knew there was something I forgot.
I’m being interviewed tomorrow night for a podcast on account of the 486460099 Jayne hats. The interviewer seems like she’s got her act together, so I don’t think there’s anything vital we’re going to miss, but still:
If there were something you’d want to ask or know about me and the Jayne hats, what would it be?
On an unrelated note, I nearly went back and inserted a joke about The 500 Jayne hats of Bartholomew Cubbins but then realized I’ve passed that mark. Fantastic or freakish? You be the judge!
Searching for Bartholomew Cubbins then also brought up Bartholomew Cubbins’ blog about autism which I found interesting, since it led me to think about the book as an analogy for learning and neurological disorders. Shifting perspectives – always fascinating!
Got four Jayne hats out the door yesterday, so I’ll call that productive. Also got in an infinitessimal amount of earflap red, the color I’m lowest on, so production hasn’t completely ground to a halt. Next up are Washington, Australia, Indiana, then several for one person going to several locations. At that point, we’ll be into the orders that were placed on the 10th of September. I do not like being a week behind – this is the first time this has happened since Wear With Style opened. Grr.
However, on the up side, I’ve gotten to work on some non-orange orders. Also, since
In other news, Lamb’s Pride Red Baron is a pretty dead match for Pantone 200, which is the official red of UGA, University of Arkansas, Ohio State, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and many other colleges around the country. Sports fan knitters, take note!
While Jayne hats are obviously the main thing I’m working on, I have to occasionally stop and knit something else or I go crazy. So here’s another pattern repeat on the Vinnland socks. I’m really liking the way these are turning out. I’m going to bring them in a little after turning the heel, since my wide feet do not have wide ankles and legs attached to them.
This morning is Couch to 5k, this afternoon is our first Brownie meeting of the year, tonight is the weekly stitch night at Books-A-Million,and of course, there are many Jayne hats to knit in between these activities. All in all, this will be a full day. Time to launch into it!
We’ve been asking Emily for about a month what she wants to be for Halloween. Finally, this week she settled on a costume.
For a few years, she wanted to be a pig. I got pink leggings and a pink turtleneck, sewed a piece of velcro to a pink pipe cleaner for a tail, and cut out and glued pink foam ears to a headband. I also made a snout with a piece of elastic. I have pics, but I can’t dig them up. She was too sick to go trick-or-treating that year.
The next year, she wanted to be a cat. I got black leggings and a shirt and used fusible interfacing to adhere white felt to the front. I took a piece of cording and encased it in black T-shirt material and sewed it to the seat of her pants for a tail. Unfortunately, she was too sick to trick-or-treat again. Talk about bad luck.
One year she wanted to be Jo Jo the clown. That required a trip to the Disney store.
One year, she wanted to be a princess, a decision she made on Halloween evening, requiring me to McGyver together various pink and purple bits of fluff into a costume.
This year? Well, this year she is fascinated with ghosts and vampires and such, and she remembered watching Charlie Brown.
Find a worn-out white sheet in the closet. Cut out the elastic, since it’s a fitted sheet. Snip out two eye holes.
Easiest. Costume. Ever.
Thank you, parenting gods, for smiling upon me this year!
How much of a sleep deficit was I running? I went to bed late on Saturday after staying up to do Jayne stuff… and didn’t wake up until noon on Sunday. And that was only because the phone rang. Ah, bliss.
In spite of the shortness of it, it was a productive day. Stamped up more boxes, wrote more Jayne notes, ripped out an unsatisfactory Jayne hat in untraditional colors and pattern and reworked it so it looks… pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. (
I’m off to bed now, too, to try to stay caught up on my sleep. Y’all have a good night!
…brought the movies to me.
I suddenly got a craving to see one of my favorite movies of all time, The Lion in Winter. I figured I should actually own it. What luck – Borders had a copy for $15. Emily didn’t go to occupational therapy today because she was visiting her grandparents, so that’s Jayne hat money just burnin’ a hole in my pocket!
So I didn’t go to the movies. I stayed in and watched O’Toole and Hepburn, ate grocery store sushi, and boxed up Jayne hats. Yay!