Happy Thanksgiving!

Sasha

This is Sasha. She lives at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. You can read more about her HERE.

I'm sponsoring her for a year in honor of my mother, who loved cats.

If you want to sponsor an animal, they have a lot of them to choose from, including some sheep. We knitters love the sheep. :)

Two Fuzzy Feet

It's good to be back on the blog! I did get a lot of knitting done last week.... including the second fuzzy foot. I'm going to koolaid dye them next, but I won't be able to felt them for awhile. I also finished one of the two tiger socks.

Fuzzy Foot 1

The first fuzzy foot is done! It's about 12 inches from heel to toe, and 8 inches from cuff to heel, so I think it's plenty big enough to felt from that standpoint, I just don't know if there's going to be enough circumference, since my homemade dpn's are apparently smaller than size 10. We'll just have to see! I sure made a lot of mistakes on this ~ there were some dropped stitches and wonky ladders, so I'm glad it'll be felted. I went ahead and stitched up some of the weird bits with an extra piece of yarn. It'll all come out in the wash. :)

I change my mind hourly about what color I want to dye them. They'll either be red or green. Probably.

I'm thinking that I might make another pair of these, but I definitely want bigger needles. I'm planning to make myself another set of dpn's out of larger dowels. Back to the hardware store! (And I really need to spring for a needle guage.)

Fuzzy Feet Commence

I'm halfway through the first heel of the first fuzzy foot. I'm already worrying about whether this will be large enough to felt down, but I tried it on and I think it will be OK. I have no idea what size dpn's these are, I made them myself out of wooden dowels I found at the hardware store. (they're waxed with Burt's Bees Lip Balm... love that stuff) Anyhow, they're officially rolling. I'm using dpn's only, I hope I have enough sock experience to adapt the instructions.

It came.

Multi-Topic Post :)

First of all, I am expecting The Very Special Sock Yarn to arrive today!! *glances out window for mailman*

I haven't done any knitting since I finished the pumpkin, but I am doing a huge re-organization of my bedroom, which includes yarn storage, pattern filing, FO's, WIP's, etc. etc. It might take me a couple days to get everything sorted out and put back in new arrangements, but I hope it will make the knitting easier in the long run. I'm also going to get my photograph basket down and try to find a picture I've been meaning to post on here.

I do have every intention of making Fuzzy Feet. I'm on a knitalong for these on Craftster, and want to join the one going in blogland, too, and I haven't even cast on yet! At least I've decided on a color (red with cream cuffs) so that's half the project right there!

Meanwhile, here's a PSAFPO (public service announcement for pet owners) If you have a cat or short-haired dog in your home, you need a good quality, metal flea-comb. (Even if your dog is long-haired, you can still usually use it on the head and ears.) They really, truly work, people. It is not a myth.