Simple Minds...

Well, I seem to have gotten caught up with myself. I feel a little less like a sack of dirt that has to drag itself about. Time to get back at the paintin'!!

But before I do, here are some things that amuse me greatly.



This is exactly the face that greets me every morning, even before I get out of bed. The first thing I do after starting the coffee is sit down at my lap top. At the moment, the computer station is on top of Hank's crate, which sits next to a fouton (I've said it before, I'll say it again...space is very tight in this here apartment). I sit at the end of the fouton, in my little computer corner, and Hank, after his morning hugs (something that should really be videoed, it's quite the ritual) he'll get up on the fouton next to me and do just that. I tried to get a picture of him in his other favourite pose, which is to lay his head on my knee and look up backwards at me until I make a fuss over him. Then he'll settle down and snooze next to me. It's lovely. He's very soft and warm.



This also amuses me greatly. Last night I finished the
Which Came First? pattern that I bought from MochiMochiland. At first, it's an egg...



...and then you flip it inside out and try and get a close-up shot...



...and it's a chicken! Is it just me or does this make everyone giggle?

Super fast and easy pattern, although once assembled and stuffed etc., it is a wee bit difficult to flip inside out, especially if you're a child I would suppose. So last night I was mulling it over in my head before I went to sleep and I think that when I make this again (because I will soooo be making this one again) I'll try doing a provisional cast on at the opening and pick up the stitches to knit the corresponding part. I think that would give it more stretch, although stuffing it would be tricky then. As it's written in the pattern, you stuff the polyfil in between the two 'bodies' and then sew up the bottom. But anyway, those are just my thoughts on it.

I had the egg sitting on the coffee table, like it is in the first photo, when the constable came home last night. "Sweetie, what is this?" "It's for K. (our neice). Once I'm done playing with it of course." He stops, plays with it, ponders. "She'll never eat eggs again." Hmmmm....

I'm off to find something else on Ravelry that I can knit up in two days. Until later...

I've Been Through the Desert...

Fortunately, this horse has a name. Her name is Lucy, and I think she is quite fetching. The inspiration came from the Bill Wiley comic Lucy and Danae, since there is a little Danae in our family (inspiration for that name coming from the same place). I wish I had a picture of the two of them together, as I showed the partially finished product to my neice the last time she was here. She smiled and tried to eat it, so for a seven month old, I take that as a rave review.

As for the particulars, she's knit out of either a Bernat or a Red Heart Super Saver acrylic, can't remember which. I figured she needed to be entirely washable and not at all precious. Her mane and tale are leftovers from a scarf that my husbands grandmother made. I don't know if it shows up well enough in the photo or not, but it's got many hues to it, including a sort of blonde and silvery colour. Quite pretty.

I'm so impressed with this pattern, which came from Claire Garland's latest book, Dream Toys. I couldn't get over how much it really started to look like a little horse once I started to stuff it. I'm utterly amazed that someone can sit down (or however they do it) and come up with a pattern such as this. So kudos to her (but to be honest, the rest of the book is a little disappointing).

I've already been comissioned to do another and I'm pretty sure that I'll have to create one for my own collection. Maybe in some fantastical colour...some sort of mythical horse. Pegasus anyone?

I have many other things to share just waiting to be photographed, but time's a runnin' out here as I'm gearing up for the BIG MOVE. Perhaps I'll have to learn to do a little mobile blogging after all!

If I don't see y'all soon, I'll catch up with you in Nova Scotia!
Until later...