that weekend i posted all the last stuff i also finished this scarf. it's branching out from knitty, for my friend's birthday which was indeed in february and i've still not mailed it yet. yeah.

i've mostly been occupied lately with midterms [complete and utter train wreck! mostly due to admin screwing us over and the test being written by someone who has nothing to do with the course and in the end consisting almost entirely of things we didn't cover. we were also given less than a week's notice and still no one's been able to tell us what it counts for, if anything. anyway] and last weekend the wonderful culture for tolerance festival which was full of really interesting events and the march went surprisingly well.

in the meantime, i've been plodding away at palette but using really tiny yarn and really tiny needles. looking at the pattern again it would probably look nicer knit looser on bigger needles but i wanted something finickey and i've got these nice old metal needles that i've never used before and i quite like them. this is for a friend who's birthday was in march.

in other exciting news, i'm employed! and i'm going to prague next week! which means i will be coming back with much more yarn!

the wonky cat of mis-pitched woo

smittenness caused me to knit someone a wonky cat. while stuffing it, it transpired that my SSK-ing left a lot of gaps and it kinda looked like the poor kitty had been involved in a drive-by shooting. once i patched up most of the gaping holes it looked a bit less bedraggled, though all the sticking needles in it that involved gave the whole thing a sort of voodoo like air so i decided to believe perhaps that it's akin to 'like wonky voodoo cat for chocolate' and the well-intentioned smittenness i poured into might somehow rub off on the recipient.
in the end, she thought it was adorable and hugged it a lot and general cuteness abounded. i reinforced the head but i hope the arms don't fall off.

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:

well.
this is the blog that chronicles the knitting obsession and general craft-nerdery. i'm at the beginning of a phase of lace-type scarves on account of being unrequitedly smitten and thus frustrated and in need of fidgeting.
this here to my right is just referred to as 'the complicated scarf'. it was from a pattern from the 70s knitting book i got at a used book store in
Łódź and is the first knitting pattern i figured out in Polish. i blocked it, but i may as well not have because it's still very bunchy although it manages to hang very nicely when i wear it.
it's schachenmayr micro-100% acrylic but very soft.
i used embroidery thread and my really really rudimentary crochet skills for the border.

am in the middle of another scarf for a friend whose birthday was in february-see, part of the surprise is when the present arrives. then i have 3 more in the queue.