Official Opening Day!

The fanknitics Etsy store is now open for business!

More listings will be added, one per day, and renewed as needed. I started with, of course, a Custom Jayne Hat.

Follow @fanknitics to keep up with the latest listings.

Success!

I sent four Jayne hats to Megacon. Count 'em. Four.

One: Sold Friday afternoon.


Two: Sold to the lady in the picture above Saturday morning.

Three: Sold Saturday afternoon.



Four: is a small, and still waiting to be sold.

Five: is in progress -- I got a request for another one from someone who follows both me and JT on Twitter!

Of course, if you want one yourself, either check out my Etsy site tomorrow/Monday (by then I will at least have listings for Custom Hats) or send me a direct message on fanknitics Twitter.

The Grindstone

is where I'll be for the next 24-48 hours. I'm trying to have a decent stock of Jayne hats, and with luck at least a Cylon hat prototype to send down to JT for Megacon, so my bud promote this stuff, and maybe sell some of it.

Attempts to make Cylon hat shiny have all failed. I hope to get some silk bamboo yarn in the mail Monday, but there's only a slim chance that will be able to turn into a hat in time for it to be mailed off with its more colorful cousins. If there is any chance of a package reaching FL by Thursday if sent Tuesday (without going into major debt to send it), then Monday will be spent busting out a Centurion cappie.

Until then, it's Jayne hats, ad nauseam.

Centurion - Back to the drawing board

I knit up a prototype yesterday of the Centurion pattern Wonderfallz so graciously allowed me to use, and, well, it's not scary, but it does need some work.


(Don't be fooled -- the only reason that's shiny is the flash from the camera.)

What it needs most is the right silver yarn and a larger gauge; the pattern itself said it would make an adult large, and this one barely fits my medium-sized noggin.

I'm renewing my search for gunmetal yarn, something with a sheen that doesn't break the bank, and for something dark red (and shiny) for the 'visor' that one can actually see through.

investigating CPSIA

is what I'm doing. I've gotten flack from daring to quote the CPSC today, so I'm taking my non-rhino-hide back out of the fray, and back into just looking up the info, to see if this is going to ruin my idea of how to support my yarn habit.

On my way

...to getting this stuff together. My Knit Picks color cards came today, so I can pick out which yarns will eventually become which projects.

So far, I know there are good colors for Jayne hats and Hogwarts gear. I have to go through the cards though, and figure what I need for which type of thing.

At least I have a source now for relatively inexpensive yarn that doesn't require me leaving my house. Winter + a four month old == blasted hard to get out of the house some days.

Onward!

Brainstorming

I'm working on ideas, folks. I've got quite a few under my hat (har!) but there's always something more, or something different.

So, what would you like to see? Join the conversation on Nightgig, or leave a comment here!