Not Another Jayne Hat
What the Internet doesn’t need is another blurry snapshot of someone in a cunningly knit Jayne hat, so here’s an illustration of Ma Cobb’s dear boy, as cunningly as I could capture him, instead.
I completely grok fandom. My older brother’s a fanboy, my husband’s a fanboy, and as much as I hate to admit it, I’m a big ol’ fangirl (but anything you’ve heard about my high-school past with The X-Files are LIES ALL LIES). What I don’t understand is fandom knitting, a concept I find as difficult to grasp as slash fiction1, Harry Potter fans, or … My God … cosplay).
When Jayne hats started popping online like gorram Tribbles, I feigned nonchalance (cleverly edged with boredom) and asked my Firefly-obsessed spouse if he wanted one—I didn’t necessarily want to knit one, but if he had to have it, then I GUESS I could. He said he could live without it. I asked him again over the course of a few weeks, bringing it up as if I were discussing the weather or ruminating on the taste-versus-health differential of low-fat salad dressing (”… blah blah raspberry vinaigrette … so, honey, you really don’t want a Jayne hat?”) To which he would respond, “I don’t know … I think I’d rather have a Harry Potter scarf instead.” (THE HELL?)
Thank Gort for the relative anonymity of the Internet so Heather didn’t see me beet-red with embarrassment as I ordered one of her 2 kits, clutching my paper-thin excuse of a first-date anniversary.
In two evenings, the damned thing was done. I marched over to my husband and pulled it over his head.
“Here, I thought you might want a Jayne hat after all, and who am I to deprive you. HAPPY NOW?”
(Joss-Whedon-related postscript: Felicia’s3 Speed Demon sock yarn in the “Slayer” colorway? Totally had me at hello.)
1Though I’m not above snarking the HoYay when my husband watches Smallville (I know).
2 Total sweetheart who gave me entirely too much for so little; I highly recommend buying from her. She even includes a handmade pom-pom!
3 Felicia, I got it yesterday and I LOVE IT SO MUCH I want to hug it and squeeze it and NAME IT GEORGE!
Felicia from sweetgeorgia said,
January 19, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Wonderful Jayne illustration, Jasmin! And yay, I’m glad you like the yarn! =)
Lunjo said,
November 13, 2008 at 12:34 am
Okay. I love this post BECAUSE…
I haven’t knit one for myself. Yet.
I saw a woman on the subway wearing one about a year ago and I just about gave birth to kittens on the spot.
I think I’ll just get on with it and plead insanity or alternate ‘verse or some other ruanruo excuse.