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I’ve been contacted several times recently over the Drupal Hat I made last spring, and I keep saying I’m going to type up the pattern, but I never seem to have gotten around to it. Forgive me if this ends up being full of mistakes, I’m pretty much typing this up off of memory.

Recommended yarn:
MC: Cascade 220 Wool #9468 (for body),
CC: Cascade 220 Wool #8505 (for face)

Needles: Size 10.5 dpns.

Cast on 9 stitches with MC, divide stitches evenly among dpns, 2 sts on the first 3, and 3 stitches on the 4th. Join and work 3 rnds in stockinette.

Next row: Inc1 k1, (inc1, inc1, k1) twice, inc1 - 15 sts.

K two rounds.

Next row: Inc1, k3, (inc1, inc1, k3) twice, inc1 - 21 sts.

K two rounds.

Cont as est. working 2 extra sts per round between incs and 2 rows even between inc rounds until you have 63 sts.

Work 13 rounds even.

Next we’re going to work the face, needle 1 and 2 have the face, needles 3 and 4 are knit with MC across.

Row 1: K9 in MC, K4 in CC, K6 in MC, K4 in CC, K9 in MC
Row 2: K8 in MC, K6 in CC, K4 in MC, K6 in CC, K8 in MC
Row 3: K7 in MC, K8 in CC, K2 in MC, K8 in CC, K7 in MC
Row 4&5: K7 in MC, K18 in CC, K7 in MC
Row 6: K7 in MC, K8 in CC, K2 in MC, K8 in CC, K7 in MC
Row 7: K8 in MC, K6 in CC, K4 in MC, K6 in CC, K8 in MC
Row 8: K9 in MC, K4 in CC, K6 in MC, K4 in CC, K9 in MC
Row 9: K15 in MC, K4 in CC, K15 in MC
Row 10: K14 in MC, K1 in CC, K4 in MC, K1 in CC, K14 in MC
Row 11: K8 in MC, K1 in CC, K14 in MC, K1 in CC, K8 in MC
Row 12: K9 in MC, K1 in CC, K12 in MC, K1 in CC, K9 in MC
Row 13: K10 in MC, K12 in CC, K 10 in MC.

K one round in MC.
K one round in MC until last stitch Inc1 = 64 sts.

K2, P2 rib for 4 rounds.

Bind off.

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No… I haven’t officially abandoned the blog… It’s just more that I haven’t had the energy to post much of anything. Political season does that to me, actually. I run across things all the time that I might want to say something about… but I just haven’t the time nor energy to spend on even posting something short, nevermind dealing with the sort of comments from arrogant losers who have nothing better to do with their time than argue with anyone they come across that they think disagrees with them (or in my case, I seem to get people who I agree with sending me snotty messages). (There are some BlogsNH people who have soured my desire to blog anywhere because of their incessant arguing…)

So what’s happened since October? Well, we moved to Manchester. I’m refusing to take photos of the apartment until our new couch gets here…. but I’ll post a sneak peak of the new table…

I like the new place, it’s the same size but it feels like there’s more room. Things, at this point, mostly have a place… A few things don’t… but we’re getting there… and there’s a few things we don’t need (storage stuff from the old place, mostly) that I haven’t had the energy to find a taker for…. It’s fairly common around here for people to post up stuff in the entry way builetin board of things they’d like to sell…. So maybe I should make up a few posters and post them in all the buildings… and if that doesn’t work, Freecycle.

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UK TV hits Giuliani on 9/11 record.

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So, yesterday, AIM ate my buddy list. I closed my laptop, and when I came back I had about a billion warning messages saying something to the effect of “Cannot add , buddy list is too full.”

I used AIM Express to sign on, hoping this was a problem that was just affecting my local list, but no…. It deleted everyone except for 10 people.

So, if you could be so kind, please IM me at nikkianaw when you see me online or send me a message on here giving me your AIM screen name, so I can restore my list.

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Grammy passed away early this morning.

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I spun my very first single on the wheel!

It’s a little over-spun in spots because I’m still getting the hang of it, but I don’t think I ended up doing too badly, considering!

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We’re back from VT. I’m tired, so forgive me if this is a mostly a picture post….

I bought a spinning wheel:

2lbs of green roving:

And two skeins of Spunky Eclectic sock yarn:

Hung out Saturday afternoon with Willa, Aunt Jane and Erin and watched Piglet’s Big Movie. I can’t believe how grown up Willa has gotten!

We stopped by the hospital to visit Claire and David and meet baby Wyatt.

Then headed down to Church St. in Burlington to meet up with Drina of Sonafide.com for dinner.

This morning, we went back to Aunt Jane’s and visited. Uncle Paul and Gretchen were also up.

Part of the morning was spent getting Claire’s surprise ready…. a new China cabinet!

(You can sort of see it behind Wyatt).

Claire seemed quite happy about it.

I think Willa was pretty happy to have Mommy and Daddy home too.