So the hat was unraveled, mostly reknit minus 12 stitches per row, we got back together, the hat was finished and blocked with a new method, given, and is now being worn. Yay! It turns out we were never really not together, because the reason we "stopped dating" was because we were too busy to have a serious relationship (which sounds lame but is totally true: senior year at Princeton + writing a dissertation for a PhD = no time together). So we were still together "in spirit" and I decided that it would be less complicated if we were dating but acknowledged that we had no time to spend together - which is what we're doing now. So he gets his hat and I finally get to move on to another project.

I was working on my sweater last night and found what turned out to be a pretty serious mistake - not just a purl instead of a knit, but the yarn in one row looped and I started a new row accidentally or something strange, I'm not sure what. That's what happens when you stop in the middle of a row and don't pay attention when you start again. Unfortunately, circular knitting makes the row ends less important, so I feel comfortable stopping anywhere. I figured out a good way to keep the stitches from stretching where I stop - I slide the stitches to the connecting part of the circular, and wind the working yarn around the base of the needles to keep them together. So back to the mistake...I slid it off the needles, unwound to the mistake row, and tried on the inch and a half of knitted sweater to check the sizing. Found that it was too big, so I could move to the smaller size! This is good, because in the long run this saves me about 2000 stitches. Thank god I'm a small person. So I unraveled and began casting on again. Will hopefully work on it more this weekend. I also need to get back to my argyle scarf. I've knit the base for the matching hat, but want to finish the scarf before adding the argyle to the hat. I realized my digital camera batteries were all uncharged this morning when I attempted to take a picture of the hat before giving it to the boy. Will post some pictures once those recharge and I figure out the picture hosting stuff.