Time: Saturday, early afternoon
Place: the kitchen
Players: C and myself

C:  Where’s my popcorn maker, the games tonight?  I’ve got to make the popcorn.
Me:  mmm.. it’s in the furnace room, I’m using it.
C:  Huh??  The game’s tonight, I need it, what are you doing with my popcorn makerin the furnace room.. is this some knitting thing?
Me: I’m using it to block the hat (the Celtic Harbor Hat).  It’s the perfect size, almost the same size as my head.  I really need it for awhile.  The hat’s still wet.
C: When can I have it?  The game’s tonight.  I have to make popcorn for the game.
Me: mmmm…. how about another bowl to nuke popcorn… let’s try it, let’s see….

blue bowl on top of microwave popcorn bowl = just about right

Notes:  Would I make it again?  Right now I’d say no, probably not, but I do like it, and I’ll know better when I wear it.  The shape is different from the picture on the pattern.  Claudia noted that it was not the pilbox she’d expected.  Right, not a pillbox.  It should be a really good hat for walking in the winter.  Remember, it does have three layers over the ears.  That’s a good thing on these cold windy days.  Before I soaked this yarn, the hat was very tight, a real brain squeezer.   I don’t think I’ve ever had a yarn soften up as much as this one did while wet.  I wondered if I’d be able to ever get it into any shape other than a lump of wool.  Note to myself here… although by different names, Filatura Di Crossa LUNA, the yarn that I am using for my V neck ribbed sweater,  is the same yarn as the Lana Grossa MERINO BIG used in the hat.  That said, I do not want to wet block the sweater, when it’s done.  Steam blocking will be enough.  I’ll deal with wet later, when I have to wash it.

We’re ready..

’cause baby, it’s cold out there…

I want to stop multitasking all the time. There’s nothing fundamentally
wrong with multitasking — it’s a survival skill, in fact, but I do it
constantly. I just can’t go to a movie and not work on a sock, for
instance. I’m always trying to do more than one thing at a time. As a
result, I think I miss things that I would have enjoyed more if I had
given them all of my attention instead of trying to do too much at once.

I did not write this, I should have though.  Theresa, our Keyboard Biologist wrote this in a post on resolutions.  I know, I’m on record saying I don’t make them.  I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions.  I do , however, work on the WAY I live my life, all of the time.  One of the things I find most problematic for me, is the way I am so scattered, ‘monkeymind’ all the time if you will.  I blame it on my constant multitasking.. It is a habit, an obscession.  I can’t remember a time when I didn’t do it.  When was the last time I actually focused on one thing, only one thing, and did not stop it to do any other project.  Even as I write this post, IM has just rung it’s little tone, letting me know someone has a question, a message..  I went to see it.  Couldn’t stop myself.  When was the last time you  were having a conversation with someone, in person, mind you, and you didn’t break it off to answer the phone when it rang?  You DID answer it, I know you did.  I did too.  I think women are most susceptible to this over multitasking phenomena.. we’re born to do it.  It’s survival.  But, we need to learn how to turn it off.  OFF!  Put it on hold.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that having more than one project in the bag is multitasking.  Nor, am I thinking of actually turning off the TV while I knit.  But, it is something to think about.

The hat.. It should be finished.  It’s not.  Do not make this hat according to the pattern if you have a head larger than a child’s.  It will be a brain squeezer.. very warm and very tight.  Don’t think about this, trust me.  I’m continuing according to directions.  I may wish….
 

Work on the Celtic Harbor Hat continues.  I am still working according to pattern (don’t gasp to loudly, Carol).  Having finished the ribbed lining and the outside band with picot edging top and bottom; it’s time for the ‘hat’.   This will be the point in the project where customizing occurs.  Sizing is everything.  So far, this hat does seem as if it were meant for the pea head crowd.

The snow continues..

we wait..