First of all, apologies on missing my blog post last week – been having lots of family down visiting, and also a new addition! Everyone, meet Ziggy: Now onto the knitted food! Oranges: Pattern used was Advent Tree: Tangerine by Alan…
Tag: cats
Fish, fish, fishy fish!
I can’t believe it’s been three weeks already, since my last post, since Inkling arrived, and that it’s taken so long to finish my current knitting project! That said, this project rapidly grew in number…let me start from the beginning.…
Cat hand puppet
Something that appeared shortly after Felix was born was a very old cat hand puppet. Turns out, this puppet was given to Engel when he himself was tiny. There was three apparently, two natural coloured and a green one, but…
Posted in Cats, Knitting, Little one Tagged with: cats, Engel, Felix, free pattern, Knitting, Wool count
Sarcophacat
First of all, Happy Easter for all those who celebrate it – for me it’s an excuse for lots of yummy chocolate! So, onto the post. I was given the Super-Scary Mochimochi book for mother’s day (it’s awesome) as I’ve…
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Magic Mittens, St Gertrude’s and that pesky crocodile again!
Let’s start with that pesky crocodile! Photographic evidence of him prowling around the farms livestock… Felix has actually been having a ball playing with him as part of her farm, though she now insists that I need to knit some…
The Cat’s Meow
After having knit the baby to be a blanket, Felix asked me to knit her something with the rest of the green wool. Having knit the snake and the baby blanket in said green wool, I was getting a bit…
Baby blankets
I realised when looking through the archives that I never posted Felix’s baby blanket that I made whilst I was pregnant: It’s knit using the pattern ‘Embroidered baby blanket’ from Kitty Knits: Projects for Cats and their People (a Christmas…
Goodbye 2016!
I don’t know if a lot of people feel the same way, but 2016 was cursed. My family was hit pretty hard, there’s been death, terminal illness and long term ill health. I won’t go into detail on those. One…
We break the Christmas knitting…
To show you this quick little leaving present for someone at my work: It’s based on the hat worn by Jayne Cobb in an episode of the cult hit TV series Firefly. I’m pleased to say she was happy with…
No Man’s Sky Shawl
I think that’s an apt name for this: It’s based on the Free Ravelry Downloadable Pattern Vortex Shawl by Kristina McCurley and made with the yummy wool I blogged about last post. The name comes from the current computer game Engel…
Posted in Cats, Knitting, Little one, Uncategorized Tagged with: cats, Cthuhlu, Engel, Felix, Knitting, Wool count