Oh. Your. God. I love this pattern and this hat.

Trilobite!

As soon as I saw this pattern I knew I had to make it, and I had to make it for one person in particular. Here’s how the story goes:

As people close to me know, I have a fanatical devotion to all things Futurama. When I’m sitting and knitting I put on Futurama. When I’m reading for school or writing up something for a class I put Futurama on in the background. I always start from the first episode and work my way through the four DVDs, each time through alternating between watching with or without the audio commentary tracks. Not only do I know each episode by heart, but I know each audio commentary by heart. It’s pretty ridiculous.

The crew reverted to younger ages.

On the commentary track for “Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles,” David (X.) Cohen talks about his love of trilobites and his trilobite rival, Nicholas Cage. The discussion was sparked by the character designs for Dr. Zoidberg in said episode; as he regresses through his larval stages one of them is much like a trilobite. Naturally, when I saw the Trilobite hat on the Summer 2009 edition of Knitty I immediately thought of David Cohen. Next thing I knew I cast on the hat and was working feverishly to finish it.

One of the trilobites

It only took two days to knit, maybe 6 or 7 hours. It probably would have gone a lot faster but there is a lot of cabling involved. I knit it up with Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool that I dyed with HEB’s housebrand koolaid. Isn’t that a great brown color? I seriously love this hat. (And don’t worry, I modeled it before I washed and blocked it, so it’ll be squeaky clean and nice before it hits the mail.) I’m going to cast on for another one for myself in the not-to-distant future. By the way, it was 96º outside when I put it on and went outside to take pictures. Sick.

Trilobites!

Inordinately Fond of Invertebrate

Arts and Crafts

I find myself now terribly fascinated by trilobites and other prehistoric invertebrates. Not that I wasn’t before, but I admit that when I knit something I go all out and do research into them. I have had a Nautilus in the works for some time now, but it’s sitting quietly in my WIP basket waiting for inspiration. I think it’s going to be one of my WIPs Wrestlemania projects. So I award this project, and by extension this pattern and further extension myself the Science Scouts badges for “Inordinately Fond of Invertebrates” and “Arts and Crafts.” You have to love scientific geekery through knitting. I know I also get some of it from the two biologists I live with.

So there you have it. As soon as this badboy is dry I’m shipping it off to David X. Cohen, c/o Twentieth Television in Los Angeles. I hope it gets to him, as his birthday is July 13th, and he definitely deserves awesome things. Especially now that new Futurama episodes are in the works and will be airing on Comedy Central in 2010! (The day I heard that news was one of the happiest days of my life. It’s all I could talk about for like three days. Not joking.)

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