Jan and I were DEFINITELY in on it together. All the other mods knew about it too. 
Weāre sneaky devils, arenāt we?
:twisted:
I actually posted it EXACTLY after midnight on April 1st in my part of the world. 
Sneaky devils for sure!
Well Iām claiming time zone difference for defense then. It shows March 31 for me. I NEVER would have fallen for it otherwise!:roflhard: There, so my never been fooled record stands, right!..Umā¦[SIZE=ā2ā]right[/SIZE]?
Aah, fineā¦I was fooledā¦and you know what? I LIKED it!! :teehee:
:lol: I posted it in the evening on the 31st because I donāt get up early and wanted in here for the beginning of the day. That was dumb thoughā¦ lol
Jan, youāre NEVER dumb. 
It was fun for ME too! :teehee:
Oh you brat!! It was really fun though. You had me fooled and Iāve only once been fooled before, so you almost got another April Foolās Virginā¦ but not quite.
I worked in a factory as the receptionist. One of the āboysā called from up in the sales office to the reception desk and, putting on a fake voice, explained to me that He was Sergant Frank Lucasek from the Cambridge Fire Department, and that there had been a fire in the Panasonic microwave in my kitchen and that my apartment was on fire, with fire department on the scene. I asked him three times if he was joking and he said āhe didnāt joke about things that seriousā. After his third denial I flipped. I knew my X-DH was asleep in that apartment because he had worked the graveyard shift. The perpetrators of this cruel joke eventually, after calming me down and finding a tranquilizer somewhere to do so, had to drive me home to check on X-DH and my house before I could work again. The owners of the company almost fired the guys who did it. The boss even had someone drive me home because I was in no shape to drive.
I think this joke was really funny! No one was hurt or really upset and it was a good gag! Which of us does not want to test new yarn???
[B]YOU GOT ME!!![/B]
Is it too late to join. If not I would like to help out with this. If you need my addy just let me know but you should have it from the baby blankets.
Boy donāt I feel like the dork of all time now. :doh:
:teehee: Donāt worry about it, lots of people were fooled. That was what weād hoped for. :yay:
Yep,I was fooled too. I studied the sample cap and wondered if the water would go through the gaps in the knitted stitch and how it would run off etc etc. Very good Aprils Fool Joke. Butā¦ we will be on to you next year!
:angelgrin:
I think the joke your co-workers pulled was BAD! I would never do anything like that. So sad. :pout:
:teehee: Youāre not alone. I think I would have been fooled by it too.
Maybe I should have been a con artist. :think:
Whatā¦you think I would do it AGAIN?
:flirt:
well, you got me hook line and sinker. I donāt remember ever having been really april fooled before either. I agree, it was fun having the wool pulled over my eyes. :roflhard:
Thanks for being a good sport about it.
There was a [I]little[/I] discussion in the Mods only threadā¦ :whistle:
Oh, I wanted it to be real 
I wanted to make a rainjacket Then again, my stash doesnāt need anymore yarn. 
So its a good thing.
Canāt wait for next yearās jokeā¦ Maybe an Impossible Pattern (Of course youāre going to do it again. or I will. It was fun and funny)
:roflhard: :woot: 
FV
Brilliant, both of you!!! :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:
:teehee: That was fabulous. I think the pictures really made the storyā¦
Iām sorry itās not real! :pout: :pout:
Thereās no telling WHAT will happen in the forum on April Fools Day. We always have fun with it. By the way, did you see Sheldonās āGroundhog Helpā transformation of the forum that day? It was hilarious. Especially the knitting groundhog. :teehee:
Thanks! My hubby had fun taking them. He could not BELIEVE that I was doing an April Fools joke. Iām usually a very serious person, and I think he enjoyed seeing me be more playful. cloud9
I thought the same thingā¦
I wondered the same thing too. I studied that picture to see if I could tell how big the holes were. :roflhard:
I ādesignedā that cap in about 15 minutes. I went to my craft room, grabbed a skein of Bernat Softee Chunky and a size 15 circular needle and did a garter stitch swatch. Then, I measured around my head and figured out how many stitches I would need to cast on to fit it tightly.
(I stretched out the gauge swatch to see how many stitches would stretch out per inch. The resting gauge was 11 stitches per 4 inches, and the stretched gauge was 6 stitches per 4 inches.)
Figuring that I would need to cast on 36 stitches, I got to work. After knitting for 6 inches, I did a normal decrease like other hats Iāve made, then ran the yarn through the stitches when I had about 8 or 10 stitches left on the needles.
I think it only took about an hour to make it. Next, I remembered that I had the flower pin with my sewing stuff, so I pinned it on the hat for the final touch. 
Then, I grabbed my hubby, and said, āCome and take my picture wearing this silly hat.ā :teehee: