Hat with pattern in morse code.

I’m doing that next!

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It looks… angry.

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The horror of holiday sweaters:

“if you wear this and no one tries to stop you, you have no friends.”

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I love my bike.

But it has soft, black rubber handle grips that mark up the wall it typically leans against.

Solution: a knitted bike handle cozy! Knit in Red Heart acrylic yarn left over from all those Jayne Hats, in a spicy purl-purl-knit rib pattern.

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The fourth Jayne Hat.

Note: this hat actually sold on eBay before I could get around to posting this entry. Damn those hats, I wish they didn’t sell so well, because I am so tired of knitting them!

When listing on eBay, one wants one’s cunning hat to look as handsome and appealing as possible. I don’t have a plastic head, so I use my roommate’s camera tripod as a hat stand. But if you just set the hat atop the tripod, it hangs there all deflated and sad-looking.

The solution is to wad up a bunch of paper towels, and stuff them into the top of the hat. The hat is then perched atop the camera tripod. Then I spend several minutes poking and prodding the paper towels into shape, so that the whole thing looks symmetrical and loosely head-shaped. I photograph the hat from a 3/4ths frontal view, because I think it’s more pleasing than a shot of the hat either straight on or directly from the side. I also feel that it shows off the dangly ear flaps to their best (read: silliest) advantage.

For hats I’m not trying to sell… I just toss those on a table and take the damned picture.

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