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 It would seem that my body has succumbed to injury, again. I cannot stress enough that the only good thing coming out of this one is a voracious desire to knit, and lots of time in which to do it.

I’ve started working on Jayne hats again. For those who don’t know, the coveted Jayne Cobb Hat is a geek culture hat that was worn by the character Jayne Cobb in an episode of Firefly, “The Message”, after he gets it in a gift from his mother with a poorly written letter about how she knit it to keep him warm in his travels. He wears the hat proudly for the rest of the episode, despite people telling him it looks stupid.

Now, Firefly is one of my favorite cancelled television shows, as it is for many people. This leads to a high demand for folk who can make Jayne hats. I have made (and this is no exaggeration… I just did the count in my head and actually might be missing a hat or two) fourteen Jayne Cobb hats to date.  I started that extra-long and awesome Craftster thread linked above, and got the ball rolling for a ton of Craftsters and others to make their own hats. (I got my pattern from Dryope, however. It was not my own design. Her blog has since vanished, which is a sad thing, but the Craftster thread rages onwards, like the Browncoats.)

Most of the hats had a style similar to this, and all were in these identical colours…

Some were made a little bigger or smaller, but they all looked like this.

Watching the episode, and more importantly, watching the DVD Easter Egg in which Adam Baldwin (who plays Jayne) sings the Jayne song while wearing the hat (hello fanservice), I noticed that, hmm, the orange and the rust red are too dark for the hat.

A screenshot, for example:

The orange on the earflaps, while slightly darker than the bottom of the hat, are not red at all. Just a darker, pinkish orange.

I have some paid requests for Jayne hats. I got new yarn to reflect the more authentic change.

The new colours sitting next to the old colours on my Jayne hat, plus the started hat. I think these colours reflect the authentic ones MUCH better.  These hats are super-quick knits and a lot of fun to make.

Also, the Monkey progresses…

And Boogie progresses even slower.

Don’t even get me started on the babythings. Knitter’s ADD strikes again.