My First Cat Bed Project and Second Non-Scarf Project

This pink cat bed with a white bottom all of it a blend of acrylic "fun fur" aka. "eyelash yarn" and "Encore" (part wool and part acrylic) "knitted together as if one yarn". Modeled closely on the Princess Snowball cat bed pattern from Stitch N' Bitch, a Knitter's Handbook.

Feline model: 'Scilla 'Scilla

One close male friend enthused, "How adorable, 'Scilla 'Scilla looks like she is floating in a pink cloud".

This was a Christmas gift for my closest knitting friend. Her 2 beautiful cats 'Scilla 'Scilla and Toby love this cat bed and relax in it often. As she is the far more experienced knitter of the two of us, she and I consulted closely together toward the successful conclusion of this project. This is my first project involved knitting a knitted shape other than rectangular, (scarves and cell phone cozy) And one of my first completed projects that isn't a scarf as I incorporate more increases and decreases into my knitting.

Raverly

For those who are in fiber arts and haven't tried Ravelry, it really is a treat.
Just being able to instantly connect to knitters, crocheters, spinners, etc in Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, Scotland, Australia, and different parts of the USA, and see their projects is truly amazing. And sometimes maybe to see even their cats and dogs, spouses, kids, domestic partners. You can find on Ravelry a knitwear designer in Finland, Icelandic people who who tell their readers places to see in Iceland, or an interesting place to buy Icelandic yarn, knitters in Australia, a guy who authored a pattern that I am buying today from Oregon for a nice Christmas stocking, a dad new to knitting who is a fireman and many more interesting people.

If you speak German, Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, or Finnish, you can write to other knitters on Ravelry who speak your language.

And no end to the huge variety of knitting and crocheting groups interested in many different ideas, themes, etc to build their own unique knitting community around.

And the changing ads that feature a different yarn supplier every time you look may provide you with a different yarn resouce that provides you with maybe some exotic Japanese yarn, or maybe if you are in the green mode of living, a supplier of organically raised natural fibers of different plant and animal sources.

Ravelry, a truly unique and also very diverse fiber arts experience.

The Yarn Guy

"The Yarn Guy" welcomes all to my blog, thank you for visiting here.

End of March, already April...70 degree day and I am still thinking about that 60" X 90" afghan in diagonal garter stitch (a slipknot and two cast-on stitches and one front-and-back increase. as I call it, don't know the correct term for this increase.... at the beginning of each row starting with the first row on for creating width (minus all that casting-on). I've been working on this project for months... in a few weeks, it will be finally 60" wide and I can finally start thinking about working on just its length for a while. This project is now 42 inches wide from corner out to needle. Looks like a triangle with the corner held downwards and like the corner of a rectangular afghan done in diagonal garter, which it is, if the side and bottom of it is held at 90 degree right angles.

Anyhoo, down to see the Japanese Cherry Blossoms (in Kenwood in the Bethesda, Maryland suburbs of DC) while at their peak. Enjoy driving down there with my bicycle in my car, park and ride all through Kenwood. All the streets by the curbsides there are lined with nothing but Japanese cherry trees. In the height of cherry blossom season there each year, a few families have their kids selling cookies and lemonade in front of their homes near the curbs.

I enjoy both knitting and all springtime has to offer at the time of year...actually knitting I enjoy doing any time of the year.