Yarns and soaps and pussycats

Nashua Handknits "Ivy" in Natural, Dark Teal, and Seafoam. It's 50% alpaca, 45% merino, and 5% "Estellina" and so very soft. Someday, the twelve skeins I received (well, they gave me six, three each of natural and seafoam, I rounded it up with a third colour to make a sweater's worth) will become an hourglass sweater from Last Minute Knits.




















Tonnes of gift certificates for the Loopy Ewe have, thus far, netted me a bottle of Soak in the "Celebration" fragrance (since sold out), Wendy Johnson's pattern for these socks, and four skeins of Dream In Color "Smooshy" in Wisterious. It's been a full twenty four hours since I last went into the stash/guest room to pet it, but I think of it often *grin* It's going to be a Jeanie when I finish my current home wip.















Speaking of that . . . . it's a Mimosa in all of it's linen and bead glory. I darn near killed a certain cat today when he took it upon himself to liberate the shawl from the cone of yarn I was working from. While I was working on it! I didn't even know what he was up to until the connection was severed.















Maybe he was registering his objection to the amount of attention I've been giving my knitting?? After all, while I was photographing the yarn, he was doing this at the door . . .

Holy Hannah!

Remember this? Well, it seems Ms. Fields liked it soooooooooo much that she wore it again.
That is all.

This was my very first finished object. It's one of Wendy Johnson's Kitty Pi pet beds. I hunted all over Tampa for chunky wool and finally ended up settling for Noro Kureyon held together with Cascade. I don't remember what the novelty yarn was but I loved it passionately. I struggled with the cast on, knitting in the round (remember this was my first foray into knitting) holding two and three strands of yarn together, decreasing and all sorts of other things I'd never tried before.

I finally completed the Pi and carefully felted it. I then spent the next several days chasing the cats around and sitting them in it, rubbing catnip in it and generally doing everything I could to encourage them to love it. It took a while but they did eventually deign to use it, in spite of the natural tendency of a cat to shun all things that may be for him or her. They learned to love it and it became part of their games and occasionally they would accidentally kick it off of their little hangout as they wrestled together.

This morning I awoke to find this:
I resisted the urge to weep, although it was a close thing. I resisted the urge to kill the dogs (who were responsible for the destruction), although it was an even closer thing. I did call Mathboy and tell him that I hate his dogs and that they are hell spawn (this is the second thing that they've killed in the course of three days. Sunday we came home to a sea of fiberfill from one of their beds. Zipper pulled apart, liner in shreds, pillow itself partially shredded . . . )

Anyways. Since sitting around plotting the demise of my DH's beloved pets isn't productive, I'm now taking suggestions for what I can do to repair/rehabilitate the poor Pi.

Oh, by the way. Anyone want some dogs? They're really cute . . . when not shredding things. I'll even throw in the Sponge Bob blanket for free.

Don't you hate it when you run out of yarn and time and you were planning on wearing your latest creation? What to do, what to do . . .

Edited to add: The lovely lady in the ombre blouse and no pants is Patricia Field, presumably of http://patriciafield.com AND an Oscar nominee for the costumes in The Devil Wears Prada!!