#spock's face

[trek-tracks]

What are the top 10 anguished Spock expressions?

That’s a very good question that probably requires a better answer, but I think this post is a good place to find most of them.

[starkweather-moore]

Back on January 30, we were watching Star Trek, like you do.  And Spock’s ears needed covering, again.  And I suddenly realized that for once, the hat was actually interesting.  So I took some cellphone photos of the TV and then spent three weeks scribbling, swatching, and teaching myself how to design a hat.  And then knitting more-or-less the same 12-to-14-row panel pattern about a billion times.

The first test run (shown pre-blocking, but I can tell most of the issues won’t block out) isn’t quite there yet. But it’s surprisingly close.

I’m thinking of calling it “Thread and Circulars”.

[starkweather-moore]

I feel like I accidentally designed the Adult Small version of this hat, instead of the Adult Medium needed to actually fit my head without stretching out the seed stitch.  But I also feel like it’s finally close enough to ask whether anyone else wants to test-knit.  Especially someone whose head is not approximately 22″ around, because I have no small skulls available to test the fit on (not sure what I’m going to do with this hat...).  And while I do have a large skull to hand, A) I don’t have enough yarn right now to knit that hat if I also want my own medium, and B) the skull’s owner may have other plans for it.

So who wants to test-knit Thread and Circulars?  Note that I’m about to reblog with a bunch of important considerations that should be read before anyone volunteers!

And in case this post happens to blow up a year from now, I am posting this on February 26, 2019.  I will put this initial call out until let’s say March 6, 2019.  After that, if I want additional testing (or didn’t get enough takers -- hoping for 5-8), I may post again.

[captaincrusher]

[boldlywego]

Spock's "15-year-old-girl-about-to-bitchslap-yo-face" pose

[gayladygrey]

spock strangled kirk

i

spock's face

i just

[deaninpanties]

"the child was named leonard james aka'ar?"

"has a kind of a ring to it, don't you think, james?"

"yes, i think it's a name destined to go down in galactic history, leonard. what do you think, spock?"

"i think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month!"

I'M CRYING OH MY GOD

[boldlywego]

If you took out all the dramatic, close-up shots of individual faces on the original Star Trek, each episode would be approximately twelve minutes long.