I wanted to get a better picture of this before I shipped it off to my mother-in-law, but I was busy making the pom-pom for the hat right before I needed to get everything wrapped up:

Seeded rib-stitch hat and scarf

The pattern is one I've made before, but I decided the hat, for Lorna at least, really needed a pom-pom. I've had poor luck in the past with pom-pom making (and have vague memories of pom-pom-related trauma in girl scouts) so I armed myself with the best pom-pom making tool I could find: the Susan Bates Pom-Pom Maker, the procedure for which is nicely illustrated here.

Pom Pom Maker

In the end, the pom-pom turned out OK, but I really needed to give it a haircut to even it out.

Pom pom haircut

Once I attached the pom-pom to the hat, though, it looked fine. Whew!

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-- > Drake's mom gets Drake's computer.

-- > Drake gets my computer.

-- > I, well...I get a new computer.

I just pushed the button on a new, Leopard-installed 24-inch iMac.

This is precipitated mostly by Drake's mom's computer, an ancient first-generation iMac, which seems on its last legs. Drake will back visiting his folks in a couple of weeks and can get her all set up on his (former) computer. And I've been wanting to switch to an Intel Mac for some time, but decided to wait until Leopard. So the timing was right.

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