Hero of Canton Hat?

It’s easy being a nerd/geek AND a crafter.

Particularly on days when you find entire interviews with cult-fantasy master Joss Whedon done by crocheter extraordinaire Kim Werker.  I laughed, I cried, or something like that, and snickered at the “desperate war between crocheters and knitters” (which has long been one of my pet peeves – I mean, really, how pointless is it to rank the ways people make knots with yarn?).

You should read the interview too, if you haven’t seen it already.

Craftzine has the links to the  story of how the interview came about, which is one of those lovely webernet stories where something just takes on a life of its own. I love that it’s an interview that asks different questions instead of the same old boring drivel. Kind of reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson talking to Nixon about football.  Must be refreshing for these oft-interviewed types to say something new!

And now to make a couple of these Jayne Cobb hats.  My brother would absolutely wear one, I think.  He is the King of Crazy Hats.

In Other News …

We continue to be  under the weather in our house.  I have had a bad case of the the flu for a week and have very little voice or energy left.  Audrey is still tired and sick, although she’s home now and is acting mostly like her usual bright, cheery, loving self.  We still don’t know what went so wrong, or whether she will make a full recovery, but we are hopeful and stubborn, and so we are going for the best possible outcome.  It’s been a long and painfully anxious couple of weeks, and a real eye-opener in terms of what people and vets will or won’t do for animals.  Maybe you are an animal person and our worry makes sense, maybe you’re not, but Jeff and I are doing our best to do what our hearts and minds tell us is the right thing to do for Audrey, and that’s all we can do.  As I always say, prepare for the worst and hope for the best.