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Today, Emily art! This one, you’ll need to click through to to get the full effect.

Apparently, along with the tag on her doll reading “Keep Away From Fire,” the last line of Romeo and Juliet is about the funniest thing written. It cracks her completely up, every time. It’s all in her delivery:

“There never was a story of such woe
as that of Juliet and her poooooooooor Romeo.”

Currently on the needles: a Berrocco Ultra Alpaca Jayne hat in green. Shiny!

I apologize for the small size of these photos. Click through if you want, but these are as big as it gets. I’m not sure why iPhoto decided to suck them in at such a low resolution, but I’ll look into it later.

These are three baby hats in Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport Multi, colorway Happy Valley, knitted on a size 3 needle. Left, 48 st caston. Center, 51 stitch caston. Right, 54 stitch caston.

I knitted these in three sizes to show how a fairly small change in the number of stitches cast on can dramatically change where the striping on space-dyed yarn falls. It also demonstrates just how many tiny little hats you can get out of leftover yarn. I’ve made four from the remnants of this skein, and there’s enough yarn remaining for at least two more.

Left has six repeats for the decreases. Center dropped down to 50 stitches for a five section repeat on decreases. Right was a straight k2tog across over two or three rows for a quick pull-in to avoid disrupting the swirl as much as possible.

At the bases, which obviously you can’t see in this picture, the left is a k2p2 rib, the center is seed stitch, and the right is k1p1 rib. At the top, the first has a long i-cord tied in a knot, the second ends with a fairly standard crown, and the third has three short i-cords sticking out like a mini jester’s hat. I kind of figure that it’ll be easier to take off if there’s a handle on the top.

These show the sizes: a little organic Gala apple, a giant non-organic Granny Smith, and a grapefruit. There’s only a three stitch difference between each size, but it makes a significant difference.

These hats were knit for the Charlotte Knitting Guild‘s “Hats for Alex” charity project. They’ll be going to a local children’s hospital.

That’s more like it.
Howdya like them apples, Casey?

Another inspired by Act II of Dr. Horrible. If you’ve seen Act II, then you know what the hammer is. ‘Nuff said.

Hats get mailed out today to Washington, Western Australia, Wales, and… California. Dang, should have bumped a “W” destination up in line.

Last day of drama camp, so I’m going to get in some more exercise this morning while I still can.

Took a little break from Jayne hats to indulge in some foolishness inspired by Dr. Horrible Act II.

Until I hear otherwise, I’m going to assume it’s kosher to make Dr. Horrible icons. I don’t normally make icons, but this show is inspirational.

Feel free to use them to your heart’s content, although I’d appreciate a nod wherever it is you usually credit folks for your icons.

These are up on flickr. I’ll be adding more, although we all know it’s not about MAKING icons, it’s about TAKING icons.

Brief updatelets!

Dr. Horrible part two comes out tomorrow. Or tonight at midnight, if you’ve got a late night planned.

Someone in the Charlotte Browncoats pointed this out – Dr. Horrible has a Serenity model hanging in his window. Heh.

The Charlotte Browncoats are having a picnic Saturday which happens to be taking place at the park directly across the street from my house, so I reckon we’ll go to that. There’s a nice playground for Em.

Em’s in “dramatic action” camp this week. Monday, they tried on costumes and did a dance. Tuesday, they made masks and puppets. Yesterday, they sang a selection from High School Musical. Em’s solo: saying “Ay, que fabulosa!” She seems to be having a good time. That’s good, because if I’d realized how far away from our house this camp was when we signed up, I might have had second thoughts. Between camp and errands, I’m driving a good 40 miles a day. Al Gore’s going to slash my tires.

Enjoying watching a lot of Clean House, and also watching Carrier, which I recommend.

Just got done reading The Last Colony by John Scalzi. He’s a very Heinleinian writer. “Updatelets” and “Heinleinian” – I’m making up words left and right here tonight! That’s what happens when I drink pomegranate tea at night instead of coffee.

I made my whopping one pound goal today and set another goal. Still doing Couch to 5k faithfully. It’ll be much harder to do next week when there are no camps and I don’t have any time in the morning to myself. By the time my husband’s home, it’s broiling hot and I just don’t have it in me. I guess I can always do wii running.

Okay, bedtime.

First things first: Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog is great. It launched today and you’ve got a few days to try it free before it goes pay-only. Unfortunately, everybody else wants to see it RIGHT NOW too, so as reported today in the L.A. Times, the site went down faster than an original show on FOX. Rather than wait, I spent $4 for a season pass on iTunes. That’s a buck an episode, and it’s definitely worth it. C’mon, Neil Patrick Harris as a low-rent supervillain, Felicia Day as the girl at his laundromat he’s too shy to talk to and Nathan Fillion as his nemesis? And they sing? What’s not to love?

Look, just watch it. You can thank me later.

Next! I know what you’re wondering. “Tvini, how could you keep us waiting more than 24 hours for another scintillating report on the wii fit? I got a blister on my index finger from clicking ‘refresh’!”

Worry no more, fair readers. Our long national nightmare is over.

Yesterday morning, my mom stopped by while I was working out. We looked at the various options and she tried some along with me, albeit not on the board, since that would be a little crowded. One that we looked at was the plank. Or as I call it, since I shake like crazy, “the prone DTs.” It was my first time doing it on the wii fit, although I’ve done it before on my own, so I opted for the lowest amount of time one could do it for, 30 seconds. My mom cut out halfway through, since she just wanted to see how the wii fit handled these things.

At right is my husband’s trainer, since I couldn’t very well take pictures of Casey doing it while I was also doing the exercise. Please note that his trainer gives him a hard time too. Casey was with me through the my whole routine, though, curse her leathery hide. My mother was also with me.

Casey said things like, “You’re doing great.” And “Are you dropping your hips?” And “You’re almost done.”

My mother said things like, “YEAH!!! YOU’RE DOING GREAT!!!” And, “GO GO GO! YOU’RE DOING SO FANTASTIC!!” And “WOW, YOU’RE ALMOST DONE! KEEP IT UP!!!” I tell you, I felt like a million bucks when I was done.

I think the fine people at Nintendo should fire Casey and get my mom into the studio to record their next trainer. We’d be a nation with abs of steel. I wonder what my my mom would charge for personal training. Hmmm…

Sure, my wii says I’m fat, but let’s cut to the meat of the matter.

Created by OnePlusYou

That’s good eatin’!

Busy day being sure I’m ahead on Jayne hat orders, but I just realized that I never did post about Charlotte’s Can’t Stop the Serenity event!

In a nutshell, everyone had fun and we raised more than double what we did last year. More than $6500 went to Equality Now. Go Browncoats!

Since I don’t have time for a long post, how about some pics? I’ll spare you the one of the pre-show festivities, with me and Turtlegirl and Illiane of Emergency Knitting Bag fame out at Charley’s restaurant, with me holding a snowflake martini up, looking three sheets to the wind even though I’ve only had a sip. I almost never drink, but when I do, I get very happy. Whee!

How fantastic do these lovely ladies look? Great costumes! Zoe even placed in our costume contest. One of these charmers won the Jayne hat, and they were just so over-the-top excited and squealy about it that I had to take a picture. Awwww!

For those wondering, yes, they are sitting in pews. We had our screening this year at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Sharon Amity Rd., and it was a great choice. We were able to do things we couldn’t last year, like have live entertainment in the form of Cedric from the Bedlam Bards, and also a local woman named Spot. Good stuff! There were also refreshments, and a huge space for all the many, many prizes donated.

Here’s a pic of Turtlegirl and Illiane examining the prizes they won. Turtlegirl also posted about the screening and the cotton Jayne hat she made while there. I managed to knock out a wool one myself.

And speaking of prizes, check it out! I bought extra raffle tickets because the prizes were so shiny. And because it was for charity. But the prizes definitely played a part. There were a couple of things I was really coveting, and I got ’em! Woo!

Look at the gorgeous Firefly pint glass! This was the perfect item for me. My husband brews beer, and I wanted this for him. It came with a business card for http://www.goodguycomics.com/ , so many thanks to them for their generous donation. It was much appreciated, and I will definitely visit them next time I need a unique gift.



I also won the other item I really, really wanted, which was this Fruity Oaty lunchbox! These are available at Things From Another World. At first glance, it may have appeared that the lunchbox was empty when I received it, but it was actually full of awesomeness and potential.

“But Tvini, what are you going to do with it?”

“Pompom storage!”
More pics can be seen on flickr here. I can’t wait until next year’s showing – each year’s seems to get better and better. No pressure, 2009 organizers!

Boy, I said I wasn’t going to make a long post, but I did go on a bit, didn’t I? That coffee musta kicked in!

I hope you all have a very shiny day!