Yo. I totally have swine flu. It’s definitely not fun, but it’s been kind of nice being forced into taking it easy at my apartment. Sometimes I’m going crazy and want to claw the walls because I miss my friends and fun activities tremendously. Other times it’s nice not to have to keep up with witty banter while in a medicinal fog. I should be doing schoolwork, for sure.
Instead… I made a hat, and wrote out the pattern. I’ve never written a pattern meant for mass knitterly consumption, so I was wondering if anyone felt like giving it a test run and giving me a few pointers on parts of the pattern that may be unclear. It’s an ear flap hat with a ridiculously fun and jaunty pom pom, a welcome addition to any knitted cap/hat/toque collection I hope. I plan on putting up the pattern on my 3rd blogiversary (Oct. 20th) with some fun pics of it, for free of course. If you volunteer to test knit I’ll send a most likely less-than-stellar picture of myself wearing the hat so you can see what it looks like at least. If you don’t want to knit it, but instead just want to look over the pattern and give me some feedback, that would be welcome too.
In the meantime I’ll be on my couch, maybe watching scary flicks to prepare for Halloween (Rosemary’s Baby was last night), and knitting to my heart’s content whilst continuing to procrastinate about more pressing school things. But hey…I have swine flu. In the oft used words of my friend Greg, “Gimme a break!”
Hi! I found you through Twitter when looking for knitterly people and/or locals and have been following your blog, but I’m one of those shy-commenters, so, anyway… enough about me! I’m sorry about the swine flu – jeez, that’s tough.
Anyhow, I’d love to give your hat pattern a try – I’m usually one of those mostly-don’t-follow-patterns-let’s-see-what-happens-this-time knitters, but I can see what I can do!
Hello!
I follow you on Twitter as well. Sorry to hear about your ‘Oink Astichoo’, and I hope that you recover quickly.
I would love to knit your ht, but I’m afraid I cannot do it by the 20th because of an imminent holiday and a cunning plan to knit 3 friends socks for christmas. However, if you ever have a plan to have other people do your patterns, please send me a comment care of graduatecalling.wordpress.com and I would love to try one. In return, I can swap some of my stash with you.
Get Well Soon!
you’ve gots the hamthrax? oh noes! feel better, knit often 🙂
I’ll give it a try if you want to send me the pattern. I’ve never test knit anything before…but how hard could that be?
Oh no! Get better! I’ll totally knit said hat. Why not?! I like a good earflap or two!