City Cat Attacked By Hippos

The mug shot of the accused:













First Kip came face to face with his attackers. As you can tell, he immediately knew something was not right about the situation.






The crime in progress.












As is expected, Kip became quite angry with these hippos.













Thankfully, Kip got away from the hippos and is now recovering with the help of some canned pumpkin.

This was a huge day for finishing, which reminds me, I really hate weaving in ends. If someone wants to invent a machine that will do that for me I will buy it immediately. The hippos were made with some 1/2 inch black buttons, Lion Brand Wool in color 147 Purple, Patons Classic Wool Merino in That's Pink along with some scrap yarn for the teeth.

The ears were not too hard once I sat down and tried them. I'm not so sure they really look like hippos, I think they are more like pigs or horses with bad teeth, but oh well. I guess I will have to tell the recipient she can decide what they look like to her.

The Whole Gang

You must have played your cards right because you are about to meet the whole gang. They are finally finished, I actually put the face on the last one about an hour ago.

Here they are, from left to right: The Octagon, Dr. Kenneth Noisewater, James Westfall and Dr. Neil Clark Warren. Welcome to the world boys.

Dim Sum And A Little Butta

I've been thinking about making a dog toy for a while now so yesterday that is just what I did. Here is some background for you, back when I had only one cat I took the time to knit him a mouse with catnip and a bell inside, which he of course refused to touch, then I got the other cat and she loved the mouse I made. Then the dog stole the mouse and basically destroyed it. The mouse is still around, but the yarn has been snagged and pulled so now it does not resemble a mouse at all. So I thought I would make him a toy, knowing he would probably never play with it because it was actually made for him. So, looking around on line I found a few things that were OK, not great, until this: Kitty Dim Sum. Awesome, right? So I made the egg roll for the dog.



I had to seam around all the edges, even though the pattern doesn't call for it, because this dog plays rough. Even though it doesn't look like it in the picture (He was sunning himself by the front door, so he was not really in the playing mood).



Then, since I liked the wonton pattern too I decided to make it for the cats. I used the same kind of yarn for the egg roll and the wonton, just some really old really gross acrylic that makes my hands hurt because it is so stiff and tough to knit with. But I did not have enough yarn to make the wonton a perfect square so I changed the plan and made candy instead.























Here is Willow sort of playing with it.



Finally, a couple weeks ago I bought the greatest yarn ever. It is Bernat Bamboo, which is 89% bamboo and 11% acrylic. It is so ridiculously soft. The color is called corn, but to me it looks and feels like butta. So I made it into just a basic stockinette stitch scarf, so it rolls in on itself. Sadly it has not been cold enough here yet to wear it.



Here she is, I'll call her Linda Richman.