My hard drive died. Totally and completely stopped. Wasn't even enough of it left to realize it had died.

And, no. I didn't have a back up. At least not a recent one.

Without the distractions of work and facebook, I was able to do some serious reading (three books in three days!) and some knitting. This sweater/shrug thing was cast on in February and I finished it on Mother's Day.

I'm not a small girl, so I opted for the largest size. Turns out that I didn't need to. The thing is huge! Overall, though, I'm really pleased with it.

Me

Okay, so I haven't been the most faithful of bloggers. Get over it.

Seriously, though, there was so much going on in my world. And a lot of it frustrated me or just plain pissed me off. I didn't really want this blog to be a bunch of whining, so I skipped.

There's my excuse. Take it or leave it.

But I haven't been a total slacker, either. I did my first felting project. The pattern came from my local yarn shop (LYS), as did the yarn. I think I'm going to do one for the kid to take with her to college next year. It would be a good way to carry shampoo and toothbrush and all the other jazz girls have to take to the bathroom. Or to the laundry room...it would hold a small bottle of laundry soap, fabric softener, and dryer sheets. Oh, and quarters. College kids need quarters for laundry...

Anyway, there's my latest knit project and I plan to be a better blogger in the future.

Me

This has got to be the longest hat I've ever knit.

Okay, so I don't knit a lot of hats—I'm more of a sock girl, to be honest—but I've done a few in my knitting days.

A week or so ago, the kid asked me if I would knit her a hat. "A really, really long hat, Mom." So I looked around and found a pattern.

I did find one in Pints & Purls. The name of the pattern is "Snakebite hat," and is supposed to have "googly eyes" on the hat part to actually look like a snake. Yeah, we aren't doing that part.

The hat will be long enough to also be a scarf. I've only been working on it about two weeks (and that's only when I'm trying to catch up on my television shows) and you can see how long it is. I should have it done in the next week or so.

And then? I'll have to find another project.

Me