August
6
Sharkattoque!
It is Shark Week on Discovery Channel and that can only mean one thing, people who normally aren’t even interested in marine biology are going to be glued to the Discovery Channel to watch the MythBusters attempt to blow up a Jaws style great white muppet, crazy people “testing” shark cages, and just about any other dramatic thing Discovery can come up with involving sharks. In honor of one of the most popular weeks in educational television, here is Sharkattoque by SmakJamCreations on etsy. Not only is this awesome knitted hat really cool to look at, but it’s creator acutually found an amusing way to use to antiquated term “toque” (it basically means beanie), and the word nerd in me is ecstatic about that.
That’s cute!
(Just a side note, though – they’re crocheted, not knitted.)
Argh! I make that mistake a lot when the crafter doesn’t specify…I’m no good with either so telling by sight really isn’t my bag…
Toque isn’t an antiquated word! “Beanie” means a completely different kind of hat in Canada than it does in the US (one of those silly little hats with the pinwheel on top…). We call straight/tight tube-like winter hats toques… my husband is a Yank and was wondering why everyone was giving him odd looks when he talked about his “school beanie” (our university gave them out as part of the orientation package in first year). :)