How long?
I am embarrassed to admit that I had to go back to my book to remember how to make the stitch.
I am crocheting this with a Tunisian Purl and Tunisian Simple stitches. I decided to vary the simple stitch with the purl due to the way the simple stitch curls. The simple stitch looks really nice and it is faster (for me) to make but I didn't like the way it rolled up. I started this project to practice so that I could make a baby blanket. Maybe I've practiced enough?
I told my mum about my idea to felt the crown of my cap and she suggested I make a flower from the same yarn to test out the felting process. Good idea mom! Here is the start of my flower.
I guess I've found an outlet for my nervous energy- or whatever you want to call it.. instead of twiddling my thumbs in the car I tried crochet. Guess what? It works!
I started another cap out of this white lambswool/ acrylic blend. I used two different size hooks for the cap and the edge was made using a 3rd hook. First, the cap: the crown of the cap is really a loose weave- so much so that I think I will felt it to give it a more solid look/ texture.
The middle part to the end is tighter looking and I may leave it un-felted. The bottom edge is an experiment made with a cotton crochet thread.
Just about to close the border here, and the purple needle has the beginning loose tail where I added the orange thread when I started the scalloped edge. I tied a loop with the needle and left it about the same size as my crochet stitches.
I combined the beginning loop with the last two stitches of my ending border stitch. This is the last loop that I pulled through and made the knot with. Exciting! 
Like watching ice melt.
Oh hi! Here it is. It fits, and I just may go out in public with it. 
During the multiple-self-portrait-with-crochet-hat photo shoot, the EVIL squirrel empire was plotting against me again!!
Look.. caught in the act! This was try number 2. Try #3 is the orange line marking the trajectory that a squirrel body flew through the air -THREE feet away from the bird feeder, and from a standstill. It jumped. And missed. Ha!
What isn't clear in this picture is that the bottom of the feeder on the left side is about 4 1/2 feet off the ground- so that was quite a jump! Score: Me-2, Squirrel- 1.
New nail color called Pat On The Black. It looks nearly black but up close you can see a hint of deep wine purple. By the time I try on something that, for me is a new thing, everyone else is done with it and has moved on to something else. In this regard I'm always behind the fashion but in my own way looking unique at the same time without trying! Sloth not goth.
The cap is finito. It looks absolutely awful on me. It would probably help if I had more hair sticking out from underneath it like the girls in the pictures do. But eh. I'll make a different version and try a different stitch... I have all summer to make a cap I like, right? In the mean time this one will go into the Mallow museum of forgotten handmade artifacts.
I've made another flower. I like the repetitive aspect of making crocheted stuff. I don't know what I'll do with the flowers. Anyone want to buy them? Etsy here I come? Stay tuned as more flowers and other crochet projects will make their debut here on Flatland.
After two more undo and unravel sessions I have finally neared the end (and learned to read instructions!). Today I went out to get some red yarn for the scalloped border but didn't find any yarn I liked.. so I guess she'll stay all green till the end.
Here is my first flower.. awww.
Gettin' all fancy on the second one. Like I know what I'm doing.. ahahahahahahaha. Right.
Some glass beads I got today. Made in china unfortunately -I know, but I couldn't resist them. I also bought some suede like green yarn, and a multicolor orange yarn that fades from light orange to a brighter salmon color. The yarn for the petals on the second flower are similar to this orange one, so when you work with it you get that changing mottled colorful look.
Then I spotted this amazing book of Kathryn Alexander's wow! Such cool colorful scarves and sweater projects in this book.. but check out her website for some cool hats and socks too! Here is a taste from her webpage.
So I decided to start a crochet project last night. A skullcap. I think it's ambitious.. but I can probably manage since I've got a total of 48 hours of practice under my belt. Things were going along okay even though I had to keep turning back a few pages in my instructions to remember how to make the double crochet stitch. No problemo I got it at last.
Then I caught a mistake
I need to pull out all the stitches from the marker on the left to the marker on the bottom right. Not such a big deal if you are one of those people who can crochet at the speed of light. I crochet at the speed of molasses. It's a lack of coordination but I'm used to it. By the way the instruction book is from the KLUTZ company. Thanks for adding to my self esteem people!
Is this amusing? Can you say schadenfreude beyotch?!!!
Yeah you too
You're the worst of the bunch!
Oh no... NOT the dog too. Sigh.
Fabulous!
Canine humiliation! 
