This is for Louise of
Raspberries in Winter. Louise is really the person who got me into blogging. I've loved reading Louise's various blogs over the last few years. Louise is a gifted photographer, a fellow crafts-person and a great procrasti-baker (
Procrasti-baking, a term coined by my eldest daughter, is the art of baking to avoid studying). Louise just has a way of chronicling life in our part of the world that is sometimes quirky, beautifully illustrated with cool photos and always interesting. She also did good tutoring via proxy for a novice blogger. So thank you Louise for lots of things and congratulations on your recently celebrated
Blogiversary.
So a present for Louise? I think today I might tease you a little before I reveal the finished item and its story. Obviously it's a knitted item because that's pretty much what I do. Lets see if you can guess what it is from the following work in progress clues...
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| Knitted fuzzy bits and pieces |
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| Is it a bird? |
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| Is it a plane? Only joking? Looks like penguin. |
Alright the next one will give it away...
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| It's a cat! |
Louise's dad is a notorious cat hater. (See Louise's post
Cat Cat Kitty Cat from July this year). As a real one was out of the question (although
Mel did offer to lend ours to her for a short term visit), I decided I finally had reason to knit a particularly cute cat pattern from my
To be knitted list. So here is an unobjectionable cat that Louise's Dad can live with. No allergy problems, no sleeping on his favorite chair, no fur everywhere and no scratching the furniture. No need to feed it. Just cute and cuddly.
The pattern is from
The English Woman's Weekly. I though this was cute from the first time I saw it but it is knitted from a specialty yarn. The pattern calls for Sirdar Snowflake Chunky which was really only available in Australia for a while about 10 years ago and so it took a while to find a suitable substitute. I've knitted this in Bella Baby Sooky. It was knitted on 4mm (UK 8) and 3mm (UK 11) needles.
The cat joined the exodus to the park and had its photo taken along with the
Little Poppets. I also thought it was a great way to showcase the absolutely gorgeous display of gladioli in my front garden at the moment. Enjoy the cat and the flowers.
(P.S. If you want to see how the cat is settling in at Louise's see her post
here).
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| Cat rides horse |
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| These are species gladioli rather than the cut flower variety |
Aww! Thanks so much Jo, my cute little cat is sitting here watching me type. It really is awesome!!!
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ReplyDeleteThis is an Alan Dart pattern originally published in the English Women's Weekly. Alan now sells his patterns through his own website www.alandart.co.uk This one is not currently listed on the site but you could contact him and suggest that he releases it. As this does not appear to be a copyrighted pattern this may be possible. The alternative is to try ebay as many of the pages of Alan's out of print pattterns are available for sale there. Be warned though, they are often very expensive! Alan does have two very similar cat patterns on his site for sale, a Persian cat and Socks. They are both very cute.
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