Ooops

My cat-sitting duty is over.  Hannah and her crew have been moving into their new place today, and they just came and picked Klunk and Wooper up.  The cats were never really any trouble while they were here, but I'm glad to have them gone and moving into their new home.

Hannah brought me a Trader Joe's bag full of yarn and patterns that I had given her a while back, and completely forgotten about.  It's rather like a nice, Christmas-y-type surprise.  I haven't gone through it yet;  I'll let you know what goodies there are when I have.

Only a couple of KH and KC nominations have come in today.  Looking back over my paperwork from last year, I realized I had made a mistake about who should be automatically entered.  Viggo Mortensen was the KH runner-up last year, so I'll be putting him into the draw.  Sorry about that, Viggo.

Come on, man --- I feel bad enough.  Don't give me that face.  You're in the draw, dude.

Thank all of you who have nominated --- there are some inspired choices.  Please tell all your friends and fellow knitters to stop by and throw some names into the ring.  They've got until midnight tomorrow night/Monday morning.  More=merrier!!

Live-Blogging The Nominations

9:25 AM --- Man, I wish I could say something about the nominees.  But, mustn't cheerlead.

9:28 AM --- YES!  One of my favorite men to look at, ever.

9:28:02 AM --- Mustn't cheerlead.

9:34 AM --- Laughing out loud at a comment left for me.  You know who you are.

9:48 AM ---  All names, as of now, recorded and prepped for the draw.

10:50 AM --- There are already a few folks nominated by more than one person.

10:52 AM --- My daughter will definitely be voting for him.

11:25 AM --- Chick nominations are always so interesting.  Several people have told me they're more difficult to come up with than Hunks.

11:34 AM --- Great, inspired choice.

11:34:08 --- Mustn't cheerlead.

11:46 AM --- Break for knitting.

12:28 PM --- And a peanut butter sandwich.

1:37 PM --- I know whom a few people are going to nominate, even before they nominate them.

3:48 PM --- Appropos of having just watched this, I remember that I was the only girl in the entire 5th grade who did not have to go watch "that movie."  The boys in my class kept looking at me like I had interrupted all their plans for that half-hour or so.  Still, it's one of my best elementary school memories.

3:53 PM --- Some of these men have been in the contest every year.  I feel like they should be given  some sort of meritorius service certificates or something.

4:11 PM --- Wow.  My friend Kelli has posted this on Facebook:
My friend Kim runs Knitters Hunk and Knitters Chick over at her blog. If any one of my knitting friends joins in, I will donate copies of the winners choice of 5 of my patterns for each contest. Kim Spence Dean just needs to tell me who the winners are. So, go forth my knitting friends and nominate!
Thank you, Kelli!

6:20 PM --- Time to wrap things up here.  As of this minute, 36 men and 33 women have been nominated.  Remember that nominations can come in until Midnight, Sunday.  Spread the word!

Let the Nominations Begin

Alright, everyone --- give me your Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick nominees in the Comments section.  Remember, only 3 nominees allowed in each contest.

 

Let's do this!

Hugh Pitches In

Yesterday was my regular therapy day.  I got all dolled up, went to my car, and it wouldn't start.

Stone dead.  Not even the tiniest "gr-gr" sound.  And I really needed to unload on someone yesterday.  There wsn't a reschedule available until next Wednesday.

Cue headACHE.

I was able to get the battery going just a little while ago, and took the car out for a few minutes, hoping to recharge it.  A storm blew in, so I wasn't able to stay out for very long.  So, I'm back home, preparing to prepare for KH and KC nominations to start coming in.  It's about to get busy!

Rules for Rookies

As the opening bell gets shined up here at KH/KC HQ, I thought it time to review the contest rules for anyone who might be new.  

Both Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick are single-elimination contests to determine which male and which female readers would like to 1) knit for, or, 2) knit with, or, 3) knit next to.  My default setting for deciding on my own nominees is to look at a chair in my den (where I do almost all of my knitting.)  Then I imagine the potential nominee sitting there.  If I feel good, relaxed. happy --- that's a nominee.  If I feel intimidated or blush-y, or can't-catch-my-breath-y, thaaaat's not going to work.

(The above disclosure explains why Kim Spence Dean, owner and proprietor of Knitters' Hunk, Knitters' Chick and this blog, has never nominated Robert Redford.)

(She's just sayin' . . .)

Anyone can nominate candidates for either contest, but only three (3) for each.  The only criteria are that the nominees be alive (otherwise, Paul Newman. . .

I'm just sayin'. . .), fairly well-known (so voters don't have to do a lot of Google searches), and have photos available from the Web.  

There will be four seeded nominees for both Hunk and Chick.  They all enter the contest automatically, and, so, do not have to be nominated by anyone.  (The seeds are past winners and runners-up.)  Nominees' names are placed in the contest bracket entirely at random, their names

having been drawn from The Fedora of Fate.

(Not the actual Fedora of Fate, but its twin in all respects.   I'm comfortable on the couch, and don't want to get up and take a picture of the hat.)  The contests proceed until only a single winner remains in each.

There are prizes.  The person(s) who nominated the winner(s) will receive gobs of good stuff.  So, too, will the nominee(s) of the runners-up.  And you do not have to be a knitter to nominate, or vote.  There are lots of non-knitter prizes, too.

So.  There you are.  I will begin accepting nominations this Friday (August 7th).  Nominations will close at midnight (ET), Sunday (August 9th).  Nominations should be listed in the Comments section of this blog.  NO ONE has to nominate these eight (8) people:

Maggie Smith

Rashida Jones

Isabella Rossellini

Julianne Moore

Mike Rowe

Ewan McGregor

Liam Neeson

Sam Neill

Spread the word!  Invite your friends!  Prepare for fun, and painful decision-making!

There's Always Paperwork

Getting things together for KH and KC: index cards for recording nominators and nominees,  cutting slips of paper bound for the Fedora of Fate, each nominee's name written on one.  Writing is the worst thing for me to do with my dead fingers, and there's a lot of writing to do.  Fortunately, none of it has to be seen by anyone but me, so it all works out.

I'm knitting again, though it's kind of painful, too, and I've chosen probably the worst yarn to work with:

But, I got the urge to make mitred cotton squares for a blanket.  I made one a few years ago, and, for some reason, the fever returned.  Ultimately, it will look a little like this:

The pattern is from Mason-Dixon Knitting's first book.  I forget how I finished the edging on the first one;  probably single-crocheted all around the edges.

If you look into the background of my photo, you can see a table covered with yarns from Camille.  I have finished unpacking the box, and there are some gorgeous colors and textures;  the winners are going to be so spoiled.

Still taking care of Klunk and Wooper.  They'll be with me through the weekend.  This is how Klunk spends pretty much all of his time:

Yes, it's 100 degrees outside, and he stays wrapped up in fleece blankets.

Babies Help Me Out

Camille's Prize Package is still being unpacked. 

I know!  I'm taking one skein/hank out at a time, every now and then, daily.  Mostly because if I don't have something, anything, to anticipate, I will not have a reason to move forward.  The Pit will loom. 

My son was over yesterday, and we were talking about KH and KC.  He's trying to come up with his nominees, and I'm sort of wavering on a couple of mine.  We got around to the idea of contests where only people who have passed away could be nominated.  Paul Newman. . .  Persis Khambatta. . .  Clark Gable. . .  Ingrid Bergman. . .  I think I'll tuck that idea away, and revisit it in a few months.  What do you think?