Sometimes life is puzzling
Last night I discovered this:
(That's a handknit sock in one of the cats' food bowls.) Fiona does this kind of crazy thing once in a while, or at least I think it's her. Fee loves socks. Every night when I take them off, she comes over to sit on them (so of course I started leaving my socks on the floor for her, because it obviously makes her happy). Once I found a pair of socks, clearly brought in from another room, on one of the dishes. Another time it was tissue paper, neatly and carefully placed on top of one bowl.
I try to live and let live and just keep going, you know? Maybe it's cat performance art.
I started a new sock yesterday:
That's Mama-E's superwash sock yarn in Mango Salsa. I'm using the Diagonal Rib pattern from IK again, but this time doing it toe up and with one of those fancy no-flap gusset and short row heels. Of all the socks I've made that one seems to fit me the best.
I'm working this sock on #1s, with 33 stitches on top and 33 on the bottom. The pattern is a multiple of 13 stitches, so I have two full repeats and then I repeated the first 7 stitches again - fairly centered, will fit, and works for toe-up. I used the Queen Kahuna cast on and increased four stitches every other round.
It's a fun sock. Maybe someday it will end up in a kitty bowl somewhere - proof it's loved.
(That's a handknit sock in one of the cats' food bowls.) Fiona does this kind of crazy thing once in a while, or at least I think it's her. Fee loves socks. Every night when I take them off, she comes over to sit on them (so of course I started leaving my socks on the floor for her, because it obviously makes her happy). Once I found a pair of socks, clearly brought in from another room, on one of the dishes. Another time it was tissue paper, neatly and carefully placed on top of one bowl.
I try to live and let live and just keep going, you know? Maybe it's cat performance art.
I started a new sock yesterday:
That's Mama-E's superwash sock yarn in Mango Salsa. I'm using the Diagonal Rib pattern from IK again, but this time doing it toe up and with one of those fancy no-flap gusset and short row heels. Of all the socks I've made that one seems to fit me the best.
I'm working this sock on #1s, with 33 stitches on top and 33 on the bottom. The pattern is a multiple of 13 stitches, so I have two full repeats and then I repeated the first 7 stitches again - fairly centered, will fit, and works for toe-up. I used the Queen Kahuna cast on and increased four stitches every other round.
It's a fun sock. Maybe someday it will end up in a kitty bowl somewhere - proof it's loved.
posted by Jen at 9:03 AM
9 Comments:
I just downloaded that pattern.
I have so much sock yarn. I had no idea...I mean, I must have bought the silly stuff, right? Weird.
Hope your day is beautiful.
That's some beautiful yarn! Yummy!
Isis likes to take my hair elastics all over the place. I have to buy more like every couple of months not because I lose them, but because she hides them.
Oh, and Jake does the same thing with his "babies", only he puts them in the WATER dish. Nice.
Chaos and Fee would probably get along just fine, what with his habit of tossing non-colorfast mice into his water bowl.
Maybe you should be feeding the socks?? Beautiful one you've just started BTW.
One of my cats loves to bury her food. If there is anything on the floor, like a sock or a t-shirt she will put it in the bowl. It doesn't bother me, except when she tries to bury the water bowl. I'm not a happy camper when I find wet pjs hanging halfway out of the bowl.
Aw, that's really sweet!
I find my cat's "mousie" (a hotpink/black zebra striped fur toy with a foot long tail with a purple pompon at the end) in har food dish all the time. Mousie has to eat, too, I suppose...
She loves you :) How sweet. Ariel always rushes into the room and puts her head in any shoes I've taken off.
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