Knitting Kitty

I'm not sure whether Flic wants to learn to knit and crochet or whether it is her stamp of approval ....

My winter waistcoat

Blanket for Tanzania

St Mungo hats for the homeless

Throw for Rachel's bed

New baby -Evie's blanket

Coast picture

New baby - Conor's blanket

My large all purpose bag

Blanket for Tanzania

And if all else fails just hide in the knitting basket!

 If I leave wool down at all she is all over it!

Finished and approved

Here are a couple of pictures of the finished garden square blanket.  It didn't quite work out to be the size that I had originally anticipated but never-the-less, as you will see further down, it got the seal of approval from my cat!

She likes to be involved, and each time that I produce the wool she sits beside me and watches, never interfering with the wool.  When the item is finished she adopts it as her own as you can see.

Sometimes though if the blanket isn't in a comfortable enough place for her she will just move it to where she wants it ....

When hookery takes place at my house I have to put her out as not everyone likes cats, so instead she sits forlornly on the outside of the windowsill and watches everyone through the glass!

Well ladies, I was working very hard over the weekend and progress has been made in the garden square area.  I was going to wait and post the complete series of pictures of the progress that had been made, but I couldn't wait.  So here is a sneak preview of the next stage of the work .... 

The strange flowers at the side belong to my rug below the table where the crochet is sitting. As you can see I have begun joining the squares and it is starting to look quite good, even if I say so myself.  The crochet joining rows are quite easy and I am very pleased with my progress.  The next picture will show all of the small squares joined up.  Then I hope to crochet a border and put a scalloped edge onto it as well - fingers crossed.  You have to remember that last October I was a complete novice at all of this so each step is a big challenge.

Now I'm feeling under pressure to put up a photo ....

Well ladies, I've changed my mind again about this garden square blanket which was going to be no more but instead morph into a jumbo cushion cover.  It will now, once again, be a blanket (in miniature!). I have 5 /6 squares to do and then start sewing up so maybe if I get my skates on over the bank holiday I'll be ready to sew up and then the photo shoot will take place.  Here's a taste of what the individual squares look like but I am a long way from the finish line.  The official photo shoot will happen (much) later and the ta-dah photo of the finished article will be published.