Meet Sasha.

She’s the Pointy Kitty I’ve been making. I got the pattern at Wee Wonderfuls for free - it’s the most adorable stuffie kitty pattern ever! At least, as far as I’ve seen. Sasha was a bitch to stuff, and she turned out smaller than expected. Nevertheless, she’s a sweetie. I made her from some leftover pattern from a knitting needle roll that I still haven’t finished. (I made a mistake… yes, me!… and now I’m hesitating on finishing it.)

Here’s some other views of Sasha:

And a closeup of her sweet kitty face:

And here she is… climbing a tree, just like a real kitty! But shhh - don’t tell her she’s not real! She doesn’t know it yet!

Sasha’s excited about going visiting. I’ve begun coaching her on safe travel tips - such as, don’t leap out of your postal carrier box, even for special kitty treats, or felt mice, and don’t scratch your host’s furniture, and don’t climb any strange trees. But I don’t think much of my advice is sinking in. I do hope she’ll be all right!

I’m in the process of making a pointy kitty stuffy! She’s adorable. Her head has now been attached, and one eye-area has been sewn on, but I need to rip this off and, uh, yeah, like, attach some buttons for actual eyes first. I was in a rush and didn’t think about things. I’m still debating on adding the stripes to her head, and I’ve decided against the stripes on her back. Perhaps I’ll put a little heart-shaped “tattoo” on her butt, though, MLP style!

Anyway, here’s a pic before head attachment:

Adorable, ne? She’s 7.5 inches tall. She was supposed to be around 9″ tall, but… it didn’t work like that. Maybe next time I’ll add a quarter inch seam allowance /before/ cutting… Well, next next time. Meaning, time after next, because the next kitty is already half cut out!

This one needs a name… because it’s going to be my little traveling stuffy for the Little Visitor swap at Craftster! Off to hunt for names now.

I’ve been knitting away these last few days, in case you didn’t know. Finished two things, and have begun another! For the first finished object… the gray kitty hat for Tina!

Ain’t it cool? I love it. It’s not as furry as the other two, but that made it a dream to knit, and it’s so danged cute. I think I got the ears in the right place, too! I hope Tina loves it, because I do.

Secondly, I finished the yellow dishcloth! Sorry for the piss poor photo. Evidently didn’t have the ‘close up’ setting on my cruddy camera on.

And then… I have begun a second Branching Out scarf - this time made with Knitpicks’s Shimmer. It’s lace, so it looks all scrumpled up and stuff, but I believe it’ll be gorgeous when it’s done. This is my first time working with actual laceweight yarn. And gugh, what a chore. I was shaky to begin with (why, oh why?), and then working with such a thready yarn on such /large/ needles (Okay, size 8, just like what I use for dishcloths… but huge for the yarn!), and trying to keep the tension right… Gugh. I knit the knit and lacey rows too tightly (or so it seems), and then I purl the purly rows too loosely (or so it seems)… but it all seems to even out I guess when I stretch it out as if it were blocked. I think I’m doing fine. I hope I’m doing fine. Here it is:

Also thinking about joining up with a lace stole knitalong. I’m hesitant. As I said, I’m a lace newbie, and a stole is huge. But… what better way to learn, ne? Even neater (and more intimidating), it’s a mystery knitalong, so I wouldn’t even know what the finished product would look like. But maybe that’d prevent me from being super intimidating from the start… I wouldn’t be able to go: “Ohh… I can’t do /that/…” I don’t have much time to think about it. And I need yarn if I’m gonna do it. Knitpicks, here I (maybe) come!