One Christmas slipper down, but I fear that I may have lost this one to the cats.

Starting in on another clapotis, this time in vibrant fall colors. Tony approves.

Happy Caturday!  Come Along Pond is coming along quite nicely.  It's about four feet now.

With all the places in the house to sit, I have chosen to bless your WIP.  It is now endowed with magical cat fuzz for extra awesome.*

* I speak cat.

Sonic

I had a request this week for a knitted sonic screwdriver for friend's baby shower.  The 10th Doctor's to be exact.  How better to welcome baby into the world than to provide the tools necessary to succeed!

Does not work on cats.  They must be made of wood.

Found on Ravelry here.

You cannot has back.  Is mine.

Yarn makes for a nice padded bed, wouldn't you say?  I shooed this one away...

...only to come back to this one.

Helper

"I don't think that pin goes there.  Here, let me help you."

5 of 12: Color Affection

Back in February, I underwent a small shoulder surgery.  Faced with a week of recovery, but the prospect of low dexterity and reduced mental prowess, I queued up Color Affection by Veera Välimäki (ravelry).  While I am normally not a fan of garter stitch, this pattern offered a very cool effect for very little mental effort.  Just keep knitting, just keep knitting...

Now, you many notice the colors.  I'm not the best at matching, so one evening I called the Boy into the yarn lair.  I had picked out a deep cranberry, heather slate, and a bright white.  "What do you think of this combo?  I think it looks classy," says I.  Deadpan look.  "Liz....that's scarlet and gray."  And so, I knit up an accidental tribute to my alma mater. 

The wingspan on this is huge - I can wrap it around myself three times with room to spare.  A project like this would have normally have taken me at least 4-6 weeks...but being couch-bound I breezed through it in 8 days!

I would be remiss not to mention that I received support on this project from my dedicated assistant, Dot.

Life is good

My life this week: knitting and kitty snuggles. Life is good, even post shoulder surgery.

Luxury linens

My morning routine usually goes something like this:

• wake up
• brew coffee
• knit a little
• pour coffee
• knit a little
• drink coffee
• knit a little
• breakfast, including more coffee
• knit some more
• pull myself off the couch and (sometimes slightly begrudgingly) get dressed for the day

It was after this last step that I came down the stairs to find Dot curled up on the highest caliber linens in the house - a nice angora / wool blend.  Ah, the life of a spoiled princess!

The beasts must be entertained

Inspired by one of those it's-so-simple-it's brilliant ideas on Instructables, the kittehs now have their own yarn to play with.

Basically you ball up the yarn, leaving a long tail.  You then sew the tail through the ball so that it isn't instantly destroyed when it falls into the claws of the ferocious little beasts.

Dot will play kitteh soccer for hours. Tony just wants to destroy the thing.

 

Helper

Princess Dot helps finish Princess Wabecca's scarf.

Mewwwwrry Christmas

Behold what happens when you leave the kittens alone for a week and forget to latch the yarn room door.  I can only imagine how much fun they had!



It could have been much worse, but their sitter thankfully discovered my error after only a few days.  I certainly am glad that they (and the house) survived their first time home alone.  

Mewwwwrry Christmas from the kittens!