4 posts tagged “peace fleece”
Psst...I have a secret. My secret is....I'm a geek. Luckily, my husband is equally as geeky as I. As luck would have it, my brother is also a geek. Actually, he's the grand poobah of all things geeky. So for his birthday, I bought him a Volumes 1 & 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus and promised to make him Jayne Cobb's Cunning Hat for the short-lived Fox TV show Firefly.
For those not familiar - Check it out!
Anyway - in one episode, Jayne wears a very cunning hat made for him by his mother. The last time I ordered Peace Fleece, I added two colors I don't normally carry just to make this hat. It's a super warm hat and took no time at all. I didn't just follow on pattern, I cobbled together several patterns.
Here's the original and mine, side by side:
A couple weeks ago I started a hat made from Peace Fleece Samantha-Katya Pink . It was a one skein project I modified slightly for my noggin. I didn't want it to come too far down, but I still make it mighty big because I have lots of hair. This hat is specifically for "I'm-not-completely-angry-at-my-curls-today-so-I'll wear-my-hair-down-but-I-love-hats- so" days. Here I am!
In this heat, I still had the energy to get my new yarn and new patterns from Peace Fleece up today. I added two new colors - Soyuz Apollo Teal and Hemlock. The teal is pretty straight forward - it's a great deep blue teal with a bit of a greenish halo around the edges. The Hemlock can best be described as the offspring of Ancient Fern and Shaba!
I also added three, count 'em, THREE new patterns up from Peace Fleece as well. More to come!
Ok, ok, I'll admit - the title is a little mellow dramatic but last Saturday Randy and I returned from an afternoon out and our ever-so-vigilant neighbor informed us there was no power. Panic set it immediately. It was hot. Not just Whew-I-Need-Extra-Deoderent hot but Check-On-Your-Elderly hot. I'm convinced August in Ohio is some kind of weird global warming experiment. It's humid, hot, sticky and downright nasty and as much as I want to help the earth, I loves me air conditioning. No power = no cool. Eek!
It's been years since the power was out for more than a few minutes. So we had to sit back for a moment and make some decisions. When we were out, we picked up a few items from my favorite local grocery (including the best organic iced tea EVER) so we had to get everything in the fridge quickly. Then it started to dawn on us. We were going to watch 300. Couldn't. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the Wii? Out of the question. Scheduled Tivo programs? Forget about it. I didn't realize how much we (ab)use electricity. There's so much I take for granted and although I'm not giving up these luxuries any time soon, I have to say we had a blast that afternoon.
Once we ruled out what we couldn't do, we could concentrate on what we could do. First of all - sit in silence. It was nice. Randy perused the book shelves for something new to read while I picked out which Peace Fleece I want to use to make a winter hat (I went with Samantha Katya Pink). Then we chatted a bit and played a board game. The house was buzzing. Not with buzzing with electricity, but with talking, laughing and general happiness. And it was nice. I'm a very lucky woman - I not only love my husband but I like being with him too. He is my bestest friend and my protector but on this day, he was also my entertainer and my co-star. I can only hope the power goes out in the winter for a while so he can be my furnace too! :-)
Anyway, it turned out to be a great afternoon and I have to say that when the power came back on a couple hours later I was really only thankful for the air conditioning part of it. I need to realize that a lot of the best things in life come from unplugged sources. Sometimes, all it takes is the loss of electricity to find that spark.
