Another sick day, all kinds of fabulous not being in the salt mines (even if I do feel less than spectacular).

Despite my plans to put the hat aside and concentrate on arm/legwarmers, I started it today, mostly because it is nice and small (and not too hard), so that I might read fascinating stuff on the internets.

By golly, that pattern crochets-up quickly! (I am not sure crochets-up is an actual term, but I know knits-up is, so if it isn’t, it should be). I am using a way bigger hook than I have used before and while it was a little unwieldly at first, I think I am now into the groove.

In the space of around an hour I went from this:

to this:

to this:

Now that I am on the pattern repeat, I’m going to sit on the couch and watch Heart to Heart – the dirty little secret I save for sick days.

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