Secret Pal has really begun! Well, for me, anyway. :) I got my pal’s name and address, looked up her blog, and am very excited to be her spoiler! To my own, as of yet unmet pal: I’m excited to be spoiled, too! ;-)

I got my brand spanking new knitting needles (nothing special - susan bates cheapies because I am broke broke BROKE off my tushie if you know what I mean) and could not resist snatching up a couple balls of Knitpicks Wool of the Andes and casting on Kitty Pi for my feline overlords.

It isn’t pretty - but I have never a) given my cats any sort of bedding of their own before with hopes that they’d sleep on it, and b) felted a darned thing before, not even by accident (though once, I shrunk my father’s new longjohns to the size of something a two year old might struggle to fit into), so I grabbed what I had in my pathetic looking stash - two balls of that dark cocoa color, two balls of a light milk chocolate color, and two balls of a sagey green. I have no matchy matchy fun fur, so I will not be adding any fringes, but it’s okay. Maybe next time. If the cats show any interest at all in this one.

Since I’m doing photos of knitting, I thought I’d also put up a photo at last of Backyard Leaves, which is a lovely I-want-to-stab-my-eyes-out pattern. I had to put in a lifeline. It was just too tricky to dare do anything else, and I’m glad I did, because I’ve used it once, too. Whew.

She’s purty, eh? Sorry if you’ve got one of those darkie monitors like I have at work.

Anyway, I’ve got a handful of the first ball of yarn left, and I’m 5 repeats into things. I need to get 6 more out of the next ball of yarn, and I’m stressing that it won’t happen. Though… maybe. I mean, I’ll get partway through repeat #6 with the yarn I’ve got left here. I’m wishing I’d have ordered an extra ball, though. And I’m glad I didn’t like, try to knit a gauge swatch and keep it, because I might’ve run out of yarn. (Huh? Knit a swatch? What’s that? I don’t need no stinkin’ swatches! Nosiree!)

One last shot for you.

Tsuki says: “MINE.”

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