My ElmoHat

Several people (meaning my mom and my dad and maybe my Grandpa) have been asking me, “Kristi!  When are you going to have another blog post!?  We LIVE for your blog posts!  You need to write another one!”  Or something to that effect.   Well, everyone, I finally have time to write one.

You might be wondering, “What in the world has Kristi been doing for the past month besides NOT posting blog entries?”  And this, everyone, is the answer:

This hat is my new worst enemy. That's right. I make enemies with hats.

I knitted approximately 20 of this specific hat.  As you may remember I opened up my long delayed etsy store a couple months ago.  At that time, I remember commenting to Blake, “My day will be MADE if I sell even ONE HAT to someone who isn’t related to me or who I don’t know!”  Well.  I accomplished this goal.  Then I accomplished it a bunch more times, and then…my fingers began bleeding from over-knitting.  Ya’ll, it was extremely exhilarating, but also exhausting (yay for E vocabulary words!)  The hat shown above was BY FAR my top seller.  It also took me 3 times more time to make.  Blake and I nicknamed it my ElmoHat, after its inexplicable popularity.  It got so bad that I was staying up until 2 in the morning knitting, and then waking up at 6 in the morning before work, to get more knitting in.

The good thing about knitting is that you can also watch television.  The bad thing is that after a certain point, you run out of tv to watch.  Therefore, I am dubiously proud to announce that I have watched practically ever episode of Law and Order in syndication.  I now actually have a favorite Law and Order spin off (Criminal Intent!)

So, when you wonder what I was doing, you can just imagine me.  Probably in some state of unwash (that’s right, no showers for me!), covered in dogs and blankets and yarn.  Watching law and order and frantically knitting striped stocking caps and complaining that my knitting blisters were bleeding again.