You may recall that back in January, I spent a full day knitting up the Kureyon Chan pattern by Chris.

If you need a bit of a refresher, here’s a pic of it pre-felting:

(it’s the smaller one)

Here’s the bag after felting:

wasn’t expecting that much fuzzing from the Paton’s SWS

And here’s what it looks like now, after a bit of a trim:

Isn’t this a little small for me?

Maybe if I get closer to the camera, she’ll stop trying to get me to pose with this thing.

I wonder if there’s any catnip for me in here

this, according to my notes, was started in July 2005 with the thoughts of “it’ll be quick - it’s just garter stitch!” I think the yarn was bought during the xmas shopping season of 2004. good ol Lion Brand Wool-Ease and Fun Fur. finally finished: Feb 6, 2007

let me tell you, my it’ll be quick thoughts were so far off, it’s not even funny. yes, the circle base did go pretty quick, but the sides. tell me how you feel after you’ve knit a garter stitch scarf made with those yarns held together. (the fact that I alternated white and black fur every few rows probably didn’t help my speed.)

on the plus side, Kashka took to using just the base quite nicely. I think she enjoys it fully finished better though. I did make a modification - I stuffed the sides (with the stuff you stuff stuffed toys with). definitely like it that way.

here’s some pics for your enjoyment:

from January:

What do you mean it’s not finished? It feels finished to me?
(I don’t think it was stuffed at this point, and if you look closely, you can see the gray yarn ends floating about on the floor)

all finished:

thanks for putting this in front of the heater. now I’ll be comfy while lounging here.

ok, stop it with the pictures already. I’d like to sleep without that light that keeps flashing.

they don’t call me the Russian Spy Kitty for no reason. I’m keeping my eyes on you…
sidenote: she’s not really Russian. just her name is.

Chris mentioned that La is having a contest.

and so I present Kashka’s paws for your viewing pleasure.

ok, so I’ve been knitting.
* the Kureyon Karp is temporarily off the needles. the body is done - I need to add fins and such before it goes thru the wash for felting

* did I mention I finally wove in the ends on Amelia’s birthday socks? Happy Socktoberfest!

‘front’ and ‘back’ views of the socks can be seen in the gallery

* I also finally wove in the ends on Melanie’s mittens (yeah, the ones I started on the hottest day of the summer back in July that got me out of my summer non-knitting funk.) (since this is a gift, you’ll have to just imagine what they actually look like. if you’ve seen past gifts I’ve knit for her, it shouldn’t be too difficult. ;) )

* I received a package from my Spooky SP over at the knittyboard:

the non-knitting loot. I wore the socks to work on the 31st. =]

the knitting loot. Burly Spun from Brown Sheep Co and 4 skeins Berroco Softwist. and some stitch markers.

THANK YOU SPOOKY SP!

what else?
oh, today I cast on a snowman (I didn’t want to try to do fish fins on the bus - no elbow room, ya know?). I’m almost done with the first ‘ball’ - it’s knitting up quite fast!

Amelia’s mittens are progressing slowly. I have an idea for Lilin’s, just need to do a gauge swatch. Still need to think about dad’s and the BIL’s. and something for dh - he wants socks. but I’m not sure that’ll happen by the holidays. we’ll try.

Now for the contest (which was intended to celebrate my blogiversary/purliversary last month):

Leave me a caption in the comments here by Nov 11th. Prizes will include stitch markers and some lovely parting gifts from my knitting book/yarn stash. ETA: I’m thowing some Muench Touch Me into the prize pot. I’m finally coming to terms with the fact that it won’t be used by me.