Introducing Princess

We’ve had a cat now for a few years, but he’s not very social and mostly keeps to himself.  We thought the girls might like a cat they could love and pet and adore.  We surprised them with a trip to the animal shelter.  After much deciding and petting several cats, we brought Princess home.  OK, her first name was not Princess, but the new name won by a landslide.  Her first day was mostly hidden under the bed.  But yesterday she wandered around and laid and watched us and let there be lots of petting and carrying around.  I found out she slept on Anna’s windowsill last night.  I saw her using the catbox and she’s played with the string and stick we rigged up.  Leah even petted her “backwards” (you know, the wrong direction of the way the fur lays) and she didn’t bat an eye.  She’s not too fond of the dogs and her and the other cat have eyeballed each other quite a bit.  Once everyone’s decided on the pecking order, I think things will be good to go.

Without further ado, here’s Princess.

A Study in Sock Heels

I was happily knitting along on a pair of socks and thought I'd try a short row heel.  Little did I remember that I apparently have fat ankles because that type of heel is quite tight around the ankle.  And so began the search for the ultimate heel.  I found one on knitfreedom.com which allowed for some increases...you know, for my fat ankles, hehe!  So I started a sock near the heel so I could do the heel and see how it fit.  Turned out the heel fit quite well, so I finished that sock and started it's mate in which I probably knit the fastest pair of socks in my life.  It took about 2 weeks, usually it'll take me a good month to whip out a pair of socks.  I'd really like to meet those women who say they can knit a pair in a day...that's probably all they did that day!

If you will notice, they have a little cable up the side of the leg, never have done one before so I thought I'd give it a try. 

 

I also found a heel by Cat Bordhi called the sweet tomato heel.  I tried that on the sock before this blue pair and I like the heel, nice and smooth, but I think I'm gonna have to do some increases before I do this heel as it has a similar problem to the short row heel, it's too tight.  (And that sock yarn was scratchy, so it may be abandoned).