I come bearing patterns. A pattern for a cute little ferret sweater. :D

Palom, my adorable, huge boy in the photos, was kind enough to model the sweater for me. In fact, he’s still wearing the Noro one. And napping. He loves his sweater.

I made two, a blue stripey one and one from leftover Noro sock. If you’ve got ferrets, it’s a great stash buster for leftover sock yarn!

Palom got a treat for being so photogenic, and to beg forgiveness for scruffing him for an underside shot in the second photo. Sorry, little man. Enjoy your peanut butter chew.

Pattern will be in my pattern list to the right momentarily! (Decided to do the post, first.)

First, I finished the first RPM sock…

…and have cast on for the second. No slouch, no sir.

I also knit a friend, for a friend.

He is knit from BitterSweet’s Crazy Kiwis free pattern, and is for my friend Corrie for her birthday, as she adores kiwis.

I also snagged myself a set of Addi Turbos for the Boogie vest, so that it won’t get so stuck on my bamboo straights, and be a bit more comfortable to knit on, instead of “OW the needles poking into everything”, etc.

On the venture for Turbos, I also got some Regia Canyon Color in the  2801 “beach” colourway. Methinks they will become a proper pair of Jaywalkers.

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.

I have, of course, been wasting most of its battery on taking yarn detail photos, because the old camera couldn’t do such things.

Here’s the possum fur yarn, redux.

And a detail shot. Be it known I took about six of these. I’m so proud of the detail this camera can get.

Still getting used to keeping the camera still, and learning the settings for the different types of photos. But still. I’m getting the proper yarn colours to show up without massive Photoshop editing!

Monkey sock is progressing well…

And I’ve started a new babything. To be kept secret. I’ve also been working on the vest, and pulled out an old project for a little while yesterday, just to putter on…

A simple basketweave stitch scarf, knit in Rowan Felted Tweed in Whisper. I’ve been working on it for a long while, and pull it out whenever I need to take the edge off another project. It’s therapeutic. But then, isn’t all knitting?

Today I shall knit on the porch until the rain forces me not to.

The knitting has progressed.  The babyhat is complete. I’ve decided not to publicly post the babythings until the package is recieved, so you all must wait. To quench the knitting thirst, Here’s the progress on Boogie, namely the back portion:

The colour matched my skirt. Awww. That’s one whole ball, right there. I’m glad I kept the sleeves for potential unraveling.

Monkey is progressing great with the edited pattern. No pics yet. My SD card reader is still not working, but I assure you I’m on the heel flap, and it’s superb.

Two of my good friends in the U.S., including the Pirate, are off to the Sheep and Wool Festival today. I big part of me wants to start walking down there to meet them, but insteadI shall wait patiently to yarngeek at them upon return. :)