A good day!
Today was the 50th anniversary celebration for Park Road Shopping Center, which was marked by a little carnival in the parking lot with free games, snacks, music, and attractions. Since it was less than two miles from our house, of course we went. It also gave me a good background to photograph a roll brim beanie that a client requested for a six-year-old girl. I just happen to have a seven-year-old girl to model, so that worked right out.
The kid’s roll brim beanie on wearwithstyle is in a colorway of Noro Silk Garden that has been discontinued, which breaks my heart because it was GREAT for kid knits. My daughter loves hers and chooses it whenever I ask her to put on a hat.
Speaking of hats, there are now enough dinosaur hats in the queue to make it more cost-effective to purchase an entire cone of Christmas Green yarn.
Eiffel Tower for scale.*
The spines on the dino hats are a little tedious to do, but the result is so worth it. People order a wide range of sizes in this, from toddler to adult. Nothing says “I’m having fun and I don’t give a flying flip what you think” like a vivid green hat with orange spines running down the back.
I’ve been on a Fred Astaire kick lately, having watched The Gay Divorcee, Swing Time, andShall We Dance this week. The latter had a sequence in it that made me laugh so hard that I literally had to stop the movie to catch my breath and get a drink of water. I’m trying to see if I can’t dig up the sequence, or maybe even make a YouTube out of it. Holy moly, it cracked me up. I’m marking down Eric Blore and Edward Everett Horton as two of my new favorite character actors. By the way, check out the last paragraph of Eric Blore’s wikipedia entry. I think that fits the definition of “ironic.”
Up next on the needles: CA, CA, and CA.
*Note: Eiffel Tower statuette may be smaller than actual Eiffel Tower.
Hee, your Eiffel Tower scale reference gave Troy and me the giggles. 😀
I love Fred Astaire. I haven’t seen any of those movies in so long that I don’t even think I remember plots. Hmm. Gonna have to raid my mother’s collection and do some TiVoing. My favorite remains Holiday Inn. That one I can quote front to back and back again. I’d love to have it on DvD, but it doesn’t ever seem to be a priority to find.
Having a California burst, eh?
Hee, your Eiffel Tower scale reference gave Troy and me the giggles. 😀
I love Fred Astaire. I haven’t seen any of those movies in so long that I don’t even think I remember plots. Hmm. Gonna have to raid my mother’s collection and do some TiVoing. My favorite remains Holiday Inn. That one I can quote front to back and back again. I’d love to have it on DvD, but it doesn’t ever seem to be a priority to find.
Having a California burst, eh?
Eh, plots are always secondary to the dancing anyway. I’m really fond of White Christmas, but that’s mainly because I love Danny Kaye.
Holiday Inn rang some bells for me as a good movie that I was enjoying one day when all of a sudden Bing Crosby was doing a musical number in blackface and I was just staring, wondering if I was actually seeing this. Sure enough, that’s the movie, and there’s a blackface number, although it often gets cut when it’s shown on commercial TV. It probably helps that it’s apparently not a very good number anyway. I’d still be interested in seeing it again, though, since it’s been such a long time!
The California burst is mostly the same guy, although I do need to squeeze a NC purse in there somewhere, too.
Eh, plots are always secondary to the dancing anyway. I’m really fond of White Christmas, but that’s mainly because I love Danny Kaye.
Holiday Inn rang some bells for me as a good movie that I was enjoying one day when all of a sudden Bing Crosby was doing a musical number in blackface and I was just staring, wondering if I was actually seeing this. Sure enough, that’s the movie, and there’s a blackface number, although it often gets cut when it’s shown on commercial TV. It probably helps that it’s apparently not a very good number anyway. I’d still be interested in seeing it again, though, since it’s been such a long time!
The California burst is mostly the same guy, although I do need to squeeze a NC purse in there somewhere, too.
At one point I saw a toddler in a red hat, with red spines like the dino hat, with the addition of ecru horns. I’ve kept my eyes open for a devil hat since then and when you posted about the dino hat I realized that I should check with you. Is a devil hat (spiny or otherwise) something you could make? In an adult size perhaps?
At one point I saw a toddler in a red hat, with red spines like the dino hat, with the addition of ecru horns. I’ve kept my eyes open for a devil hat since then and when you posted about the dino hat I realized that I should check with you. Is a devil hat (spiny or otherwise) something you could make? In an adult size perhaps?
Unfortunately, the kid-sized devil hat that I’m betting you saw, like the one below that I made as a gift for someone, is a copyrighted pattern and the designer has set the condition that it not be made for sale. I could probably do a different pattern with horns, or perhaps contact the designer to see if she’d be willing to work out a charity arrangement – you donate somewhere, I knit.
Having said that, the wait right now is about six weeks, so maybe you should learn to knit and have at it yourself. 🙂
By the way – that kid’s family dog ate the hat about five minutes after the picture was taken. D’oh!
Unfortunately, the kid-sized devil hat that I’m betting you saw, like the one below that I made as a gift for someone, is a copyrighted pattern and the designer has set the condition that it not be made for sale. I could probably do a different pattern with horns, or perhaps contact the designer to see if she’d be willing to work out a charity arrangement – you donate somewhere, I knit.
Having said that, the wait right now is about six weeks, so maybe you should learn to knit and have at it yourself. 🙂
By the way – that kid’s family dog ate the hat about five minutes after the picture was taken. D’oh!