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This much was true:

• Boop would like a skull cap.
• The best skull caps are crocheted.
• I have crochet hooks.
• I needed a rationale for using the Noro sock yarn that I snapped up without thinking.

And then it all came together:

This is my swatch, showing double crochet (left), single crochet (middle), and half double crochet (right). I will probably work out a pattern de novo, since hats that are not head-shaped make me crazy.

Other reasons to improve the crochet chops:

• freeform (influences: Claudia and Danielle Miller)
• air travel (I have it on excellent authority that Heathrow permits no knitting needles)
• iconoclasm (always popular with me)

Mailbag

• See pain for responses to Jenn C, Mafia, Julie, Ariel, DH, Nik, Emily, Erich, I Hate Toast, and Dorothy
• See last in, first out for responses to I Hate Toast, Claudia, and Dorothy
• See the point for responses to Dave, Mishka, Heather, Dorothy, I Hate Toast, Emily, Rebecca
• See penultimate for responses to I Hate Toast, Erich
  
• See conclusion for responses to Rebecca, Bethe, I Hate Toast, Judy, Dorothy
• See charity quiz for responses to Ariel, Dorothy, Jenn C, Brenda, Rebecca, and Mafia

Comments

[mishka]

An excellent authority, eh? Thanks! My Athens flight is Saturday, and I've got my H hook at the ready. Wooden, of course. And an extra in my suitcase, just in case!

[Claudia]

Hmmmm... so your crocheting - goody! Not that I'm all up on the straight crochet patterns or anything (I can't ever manage to read those symbols). But there IS always the freeform. Oh, and there are also these: http://www.celticswan.com/crochet.htm

[Dorothy]

Crochet is always good and even better in Noro and on planes. No one gets all paranoid about a hook.

Hmmm, plans for little ol' me? I like cross secret planning stuff! :)

[Emily L]

thanks for explaining pulse chase. i was getting around to asking what the heck that was.

[IHateToast]

i can't think of heathrow without thinking of ken trying to say cathcart towers in a fish called wanda.

anyway, everyone knows that only calvin of C&Hobbes mastered transmogrified flesh.

[Rebecca H.]

When I first learned about the sock-weight Noro, I was wondering how long it would be before you got some, and what you'd make with it since socks aren't your thing.