New Yarn for Friday!
Approximately 150 yards, 2 ounces, 18wpi [light sport/heavy DK] Photo of the roving it came from here: Merino/Mohair Roving
Approximately 65 yards, 2 ounces, 6-10 wpi [worsted to bulky] Photo of the roving it came from here: Daffodil Pencil Roving
It Boggles…
Some things are just to good to go without comment. Via Cute Overload we find CatsthatlooklikeHilter.com Shown here is one image from the site [politely downloaded and saved to my server] with a cat that I feel is particularly Hitler-esque. This site leads one to wonder what lead to a realization that a black smudge under the nose makes a cat take on an air of Hitler. He was a dreadful man, but some of those cats are damned cute!
HUZZAH!
Flint the llama is back home where he belongs!! Turns out we jumped to conclusions and the best we can figure is that he was tracking the scent of the sheep [since they like to wiggle out of the fence] and then the river made him get confused and he couldn't find his way home. However, some neighbors responded to fliers put up and let TheBoy's mom know that their children had seen a brown llama by the river when they were riding their 4-wheelers. They took her down this morning and found him by a filbert orchard, really stressed out. He refused to let them halter him, so they herded him back towards home and as soon as he smelled his sheep, he took off toward them. So, he's back home safe and sound and not stolen. Like I said he's stressed out, but he'll calm down now that he's back with his herd. Hooray!
Trellis is Finished!
I've been knitting a wee sweater for a friend of mine who is due any day now with her first child. In fact, she's the first of my really close friends to have a baby, so I had to knit a sweater. I chose Knitty's Trellis and knit it up in Cottontots, in a pale yellow color. The seams are a little wonky, but not terrible, and I'm quite pleased with it.
The front:
The back:
A button close-up:
A Sad Day.
During a phone call to TheBoy's mom we got some sad news. Their neighbors [a nursery] knocked down part of their fence with a tractor, and now Flint the llama is gone. They walked every inch of the property and found no sign of him. Since it is unlikely that he would leave his herd [and since they had never had any problem with him leaving the pasture when the gate was left open in front of him] they are pretty sure that he was "helped" out of the pasture. He was very well trained to walk on a lead, so it would not have been difficult to steal him. They live in a town of approximately 350 so we're even more boggled that someone could have stolen him. We're very sad, and they will be putting up flyers in hopes that perhaps they will get him back, although they don't think it's likely. We were all very attached to him.
In better news, they will be meeting a rescue pug on Saturday morning in hopes that she and their current pug will get along, and they will be able to adopt her. She's super cute, a 7 year old fawn pug who was a puppy mill dog. She's been in a foster home for almost 6 weeks and TheBoy's mom has been looking for a girl pug for about a year now, at least seriously that long. If they get along she'll be the perfect match for Lou [in a non-reproductive sense as they are both fixed] and then they will have both a fawn and a black pug. Keep your fingers crossed that a. the pugs get along and b. that Flint comes home.