catcat

i'd been wanting to make a cat for my roommate who left her beloved real cat back in the states and is pining. i was planning to try to make an amigurumi cat but i can't seem to crochet without hurting myself so quickly gave up. but lo! i found a pattern here http://ysolda.me.uk/wordpress/index.php/patterns [and i cannot seem to make a decent link to save my life at the moment. i could once, really][and once i saw the woman who wrote the pattern at a craft fair in glasgow and it was the first time i'd ever seen a real live person who'd written a knitting pattern before!].

so the bits of yesterday that weren't spend in line at tesco stocking up on fancy chocolate were spent knitting a cat. it was very easy except that using needles that were smaller than the yarn would normally want hurt my fingers.

anyway,

materials: black slightly bulky acrylic bought at a market in Kłodzko and leftover from a sweater,

3 plastic double pointed needles, size 4.5mm more or less. i don't know, they were from a charity shop...there was never a label or a 4th needle

chocolate bar with advocat filling

bbc2 and cbc1 online

copious amounts of earl grey.

some sort of stuffing and embroidery dealies will happen.

but seeing as how it's easter and all, anywhere i could possibly buy stuffing will be closed until tuesday at which point my roommate will come back thus i will probably have to finish it while hiding in the closet if i want it to be a surprise.
in the meantime, it is an empty cat: