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Happy New Year: Knitting Interlude.

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DumasSweater_1
January Fourth:
First monday of the new year
is brutally cold.

 

 
I want to thank everyone for the holiday wishes. A few noticed I took a break from blogging: Yep! It’s difficult to keep track of all the arguments during the holidays. In addition to the normal round of festivities, I got a bad cold. So, I spent quite a bit of time sleeping, or sitting under an afghan knitting a sweater coat. You can see the almost finished 30″ long shawl over-sized, shawl collared sweater knit from 100% alpaca. (I need to buy five one inch buttons today.)
 
It turns out the Duma (whose name has change to reflect the fact that we discovered that despite having three colors is.. ehrmm… a neutered male) really, really, really likes this yarn. He wants to eat it, sleep on it, roll in it. Past testing has shown individual fiber preferences– or previous cat liked goat fibers; I guess this one is really into alpaca. (I have not tested Duma’s attraction to mohair, but he ignores acrylic and has shown no special attraction to wool.)
 
Needless to say, like all craft posts, this is an open thread! There will be a slight blogging delay because I have to write up the pattern – generator for this sweater and post at my neglected knitting blog.

13 thoughts on “Happy New Year: Knitting Interlude.”

  2. Reupholstery
    worthy project for new year
    making old chair fresh.

    Working on the innards of a chair project the last few days made me realize that a century ago it used to take a lot of horses to make furnature. Horse hair, horse hide, horse glue not to mention horse power.

  6. BDAABAT ==
    Yep. We think he chose use because of the cat door. We discovered his first family. It turns out he still visits his first family when the weather is nice. But he hasn’t gone out for about 3 weeks.

  7. I notice that the December UAH numbers are in at Dr. Roy Spencer’s site. Interesting that the NH anomaly was higher in December than it was in October. I hadn’t expected that. Though both the NH and SH cooled from November’s anomaly, I really had expected December’s NH anomaly to be below that of October. Oh, well.

  9. Isn’t it great being adopted? I got adopted by a magnificent Russian Blue 2.5 years ago. She belonged to one of my poker buddies whose wife’s allergies took off after twins. I would walk in, and there she was, rubbing up against my leg, and when I sat down, in my lap she went. As they said, she chose me. What a wonderful little bugger she is…….

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