So happy that you get your cable back tomorrow!

I love, love all the pictures of your shroom hat. My favorite position is with it sitting tipped on the side of the head (bottom left picture), very cute!

Oh my gosh I was first! You are so popular by the time I read and comment I am never first. :) heehee

Dear Auntie Purl:

LOVE the blog! Found you via She Just Walks Around With It...and have been cracking up daily.

My stats:
Nervous sweat-er? Check.
Multiple furry family members? Check.
Yarn-a-holic? Check.
Knit much? Not a check...yet. But hoping to learn and come by the SnB some day.

Until then, count me amongst your imaginary Internets friends.

:-) Lorrian

Ahhhhh!!! You totally bogarted the blue yarn I want!!!!! Grrrr!

I am so glad you had a good time. I really need to try that perspiration weightloss plan!

Ok, the hat may be a smidge large, but hey, no hat hair!

W. :)

Sounds like you enjoyed yourself again. Did I have fun there too?

I love the pic of your sweaty balls of yarn! And the hat looks normal from here... if it's too big just line it with fur.

Hi Laurie! I sent something off to you in the mail early this week. Let me know if it doesn't get there. I don't know where my freakish distrust of the postal service comes from but I have it, none the less.

Love the hat!!

Drew, seriously. See the face GLISTEN with the SHEEN of sweat? I hate that my body decides to sweat gallons when I am nervous. As soon as Jen and I got in the parking lot it turned off like a faucet. BIZARRE.

I keep telling myself that snb is like my own personal sauna of nervous hell, where the upside is that I will lose weight, the downside is that I shine. Oh well.

Hehe "muff". I'm such a goof. the hats looks fine! I love the colors. Yeah, that two gauge thing is a bitch. You think it's hard to match one, try matching both at once.

I am a lunatic. please keep orange hat photo away from
any future commitment hearings that may ensue, and/or any mental health practitioner from the state of california.

Little suggestion - give Shannon a monster case of Texas hair, and she's good to go. Hat'll fit just fine then.

I still think the hat is great! SnB was great last night and I'm so envying the blue yarn. But, don't worry I'm not planning to steal it or anything. If it's missing after Sunday, it wasn't me. It was Bob.

Row gauge mostly bites. I ignore it whenever I possibly can.

I LOVE hearing about SnB and thoroughly enjoy your blog! I get together with friends for a knitting group...but it doesn't seem nearly as glamorous and fun as SnB, certainly no fun muff jokes!

me: "wanna see an insane picture of me on the world wide web?"

terry (after a visit to the computer): "WOW! what a GREAT HAT!!!"

Wendy...you said "bogarted"! I love it. "Bogart" is definitely a term that is desperately underused. Shannon should grow some phat dreddies to go in her awesome new tam. It’s so cute! Laurie, maybe you can explain to me exactly what the appeal of the valley is. I was in Panorama City last week and, well ugh!

The hat's not too big, well, just a smidge maybe, but it looks great! I always say, better too big than too small. If it's too big at least it can still be worn. :-) Your SnB looks way fun - wish there was one here. :-(

Row gauge? I'm supposed to pay attention to row gauge?!? shit.

Hey - forget about gifting the orange hat...just run around the world making people wear it for photos, create a huge art exhibition of the prints and retire a rich AHR-TEEST!

aw that hat! we all love the hat!
i was feeling a little sweaty too, it might have been the hot coffee or the yarn, but i was kinda toasty.
it was great meeting you last night, i had so much fun hangin' with the knittin' kids!

Well, SHIT...We had a rip-roaring good time and I think that I talked so much my jaw hurt. Thank God for wine!

Gotta say: you give great hat.

That hat looks pretty snazzy. Can't wait for the pompom :)

I admit the hat looks a leetle big...but big is better than little! And it's purty! I don't endorse lining it with fur cos I think Shannon would expire...
If your cable comes back on line does this mean you'll talk to us again?

Tee hee...Drew said "sweaty balls..."

Hi Laurie, one of my knitting buddies (Gail of the "porn comment" fame) directed me to your blog, you are too funny and it's sooooo nice to see pictures from the motherland. I am a displaced Valley Girl from West Covina now living in Chicagoland. I just wanted to comment on how great are knitting groups? I just love mine, we should all have one or more to go to. It's great to learn about what others are doing too, so thanks to your postings I'm going to have to knit myself a taco now.

a) row gauge?! what the hell? does it involve math? f!
b) wish portland (oregon) had cool snb like the weho snb, cuz i'm pretty sure no one here would say muff or sweaty balls....can i be honorary long distance member?
c) love the hat.

Love the hat. All of the pictures are just great. I kind of agree with the idea of running around making people try it on so you can take pics and giving the hat it's own web site. :)

Hi! I love your blog. I found out about it from my friend Jonna. I'm glad your hat turned out well. I'm a knitter too. :-) Peace.

so who says size doesn't matter??

You've got me so excited for my first SnB on Sunday. I'm so glad that you had fun.

Sniffing yarn seems like an intensely correct thing to do. Who would want to use some stanky yarn? Yarn stank sometimes stays forever.

Your hat looks great. You are either a better knitter than you think or a really excelent photographer.

"a big ol' rastafarian shroom hat"

Damn Laurie, made me spill my drink with that. I laughed so much!

Oh My God, Darlin! You are just too funny!! Love, love love the Blog! You might just possibly be the funniest girl in blogland!

And the hat is gorgeous!-Except on the sixth girl..and there it looks like its eating her head-but on the rest-Perfect! Great job knitting!
PS-Don't lose the ya'll! We Southerners have to keep some of the native tongue!

I dig the hat pics. Tre ..something or another. Ahem, start stalking the mailman in about 10-14 days :)

If the hat is wool -- she can felt it down to size and it will be nice and fuzzy

I am loving the hat modeling all the people!

...and would *love* to see it felted. :)

catching up on my reading so if someone else said this i'm sorry. don't worry too much about row gauge. if it's too long you undo a couple of rows, not long enough you add a couple of rows. it's much easier to fix.

I am looking for a free knitting group in the valley. Anyone know of one?