December 23rd, 2004
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The unexpected thing that I knit for someone has arrived, and so now I can talk about it. It was a Jayne hat. This is that hat that Jayne Cobb’s mother sent to him on the sci-fi TV show “Firefly.” It’s just ludicrous looking, and there are no two ways around it. (Yes, that’s my husband, God love him.)
Someone had a pattern up, but I thought the earflaps should be bigger and that it should come in more abruptly at the top, so I made up my own pattern, which I posted in the knitting community here.
So Cadaya, I hope you enjoy it, because I sure as hell had fun making it. 🙂
ETA 7/10/07: For posterity’s sake, let me note that this was my very first Jayne hat. Little did I know…
December 23rd, 2004
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I have finished my mom’s purse. This is a very small shoulder bag, just big enough for her to put a few credit cards and maybe a cell phone in. She wanted a little something for church. I put the lining in inside out from the way I meant to, and rather sloppily to boot. It was late, I was tired.
If I never work with Noro Daria again, it will be too soon. I’ll definitely be eBaying (or something) the remaining skein and a half. Pretty stuff, but I never want to see it again.
Thus concludes my mandatory gift knitting for 2004. On to 2005!
Xposted to knitting and my own journal.
December 23rd, 2004
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I: Load my playlist on random.
I: Pick my favorite lines from the first 10 songs, excluding those lines which contain the song’s title.
I: Post those lines.
You: Guess what song each line comes from.
You: Don’t use Google or any other website which would allow you to easily derive the answers
1. It’s true today I saw it from the plane/ aeroplanes were never built to fly.
2. Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
3. napoleon/ wore a black hat/ ate lots of chicken/ and conquered half europe
4. “Gee my life’s a funny thing, am I still too young?”
5. And she said, “I’ve swallowed a secret burning thread/ It cuts me inside, and often I’ve bled”
6. It swings/ It jives/ It shakes all over like a jelly fish,
7. And of the midnight picnic/ Once upon a time/ Before the rain began…
8. and they stood at the edge of the earth to see the view/ they threw stones into space and she fell and he did too
9. If I am dancin’ Roll up the floor./ If I am whistlin’ Whewt me out the door!
10. Can’t you see the sunshine/ Can’t you just feel the moonshine
