It's of course Chloe, who I maybe haven't quite introduced very well yet. Chloe and Rini are my two calico cats that I adopted while I was in grad school at CSU in Ft Collins, CO. Chloe has a French name, because she speaks French, and Rini has a Spanish name (Katarina, actually), because she speaks Spanish. Or rather, I speak those languages to each of them. Hey, I have to practice, don't I?
Anyhow, Chloe is the one that we lovingly call "La buena," or the good one. She hangs out, she loves us, and she only puts on the minor whiny meow for wet food (her personal favorite). On my Karlsro, she's saying, "Why did you wake me up? Is it time for wet food?"
Rini, on the other hand, is the one that we lovingly call "La mala," or the bad one. I say lovingly, and I actually mean that I call her that lovingly ... she and my husband don't really get along very well. She's never forgiven him for moving into our house (oh, about 7 years ago), and she has a rather spiteful personality. She and Chloe are sisters, and look surprisingly alike. Many of my friends are surprised when they finally see the two of them in the same room, as they tend to think that I have only one cat. She hangs out in dark corners, and runs from everyone but me. She's rather hard to take pictures of. To prove this, I went to find her, and this was the result of my efforts -- out of about 15 shots I tried to get.
Back to Chloe... I am making a little bed for her out of double strands of "tweedy" Wool-Ease, so that she can learn to sleep with my son on his bed. I'm going to sneak some catnip into the bed to entice her. Conor loves Chloe, and I even caught him singing a lullaby to her the other day, which he says was "her favorite song." Ahhh, how sweet!
She's not crazy about her half-made kitty bed yet.
On to other topics ....
Look at what came in the mail yesterday! A little eBay fairy delivered two Barbara Walker books to me -- I must be in a BW phase, as this now makes 3 books of hers that I've bought this month.
Can't wait to delve into them.
And I have finished two squares for my son's Learn To Knit Afghan -- you remember that's my other BW book -- (which I am calling the LTKA), made of Encore Chunky. These are BIG squares and go quickly! I'm using the same red WoolEase to crochet them together. I figure that this way Chloe's kitty bed will match Conor's stuff!
Square #1 was a garter-stripe square, with two colors.
And here's Square #2, a basketweave pattern:
And just in case you think these have made me neglect my Noro obsession, here's the update on my daughter's mitered squares hat, in Kureyon #95, which I call "limeade pinks."
And a tiny Booga Bag that I made using only one skein of yarn (I think), with a little flap over it. It's in Kureyon #40, gorgeous "jewel tones".
And the over-the-shoulder view:
Sorry my camera is sort of yellowish. I need to figure that out.
Happy knitting!
Sorry my camera is sort of yellowish. I need to figure that out.
Happy knitting!
