Our dear friends, the Austin Browncoats, have a wonderful idea that we fully intend to swipe capitalize on. For the past few years they have run a Jayne Hat Knit-A-Thon as part of their Dragon*Con convention booth.
This year, we’ll be taking a page from their fundraising book and holding our own convention Jayne Hat knit-a-thons. The first will take place Nov 18-20 during the Pure Speculation Festival (aka Pure Spec) and will be used to raise the necessary funds to purchase yarn for our volunteer knitters. The Alberta Browncoat knitters are working their fingers to the bones making 225+ Jayne Hats to sell at conventions and the Can’t Stop the Serenity event this year. We provide yarn free to knitters who request it. At a cost of approximately $8 per hat, those yarn costs add up quickly!
Thanks to some generous donors, we’ve managed to obtain enough yarn to create the first 60 hats. We still need to purchase yarn for the remaining 160+ hats to be made.
The Plan
A volunteer knitter has stepped up to the plate. At our booth at Pure Spec we’ll be collecting donations and pledges for our yarn fund. Donors may make a “per hat” pledge or throw some cashy money into the donation jar. Projected completed hats over the weekend is expected to be between 2 & 5 hats as our knitter is A) novice & B) currently the only one manning our booth all weekend so may need to stop knitting occasionally to sell stuffs…
How you can help
1. Drop some cashy monies in the donation jar at our booth.
2. Make a per hat pledge (e.g. “I’ll donate $$ for each hat completed”) using this form.
3. Click the “Donate” button on our Tickets & Goodies page and make a one-time donation.
4. Tell your friends. Share this link via email, facebook, blog about it. Sing. Dance. Tell the world!
Not attending Pure Spec?
Don’t fear, you can still donate to the cause by registering a pledge. Once the knit-a-thon is complete, we’ll contact you with your pledge total and you send us your cashy monies via PayPal.
“Jayne hats” or “cunning hats” are hats modeled after a hat Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb) wore in the (orginally unaired) episode of Firefly titled “The Message“. The hat was lovingly made by Ma Cobb and sent to Jayne via post. The hats are a major fundraiser for the Alberta Browncoats and go a long way to helping us reach our phenomenal charitable donation totals ($3773 in 2010, $7320 in 2011). The proceeds from our Jayne Hats help pay all upfront costs for the annual Edmonton Can’t Stop the Serenity (CSTS) event and remaining profits from sales are split between Equality Now and the Youth Emergency Shelter Society.
