Happy Easter

The cats celebrated Easter with new clothes in spring colors, and an Easter basket with a fuzzy donut-shaped toy and some kitty treats.

 

Here Buntec is checking out Tocohl's new turquoise collar, while Tocohl inspects Buntec's pink one.  Buntec had a choice of pale pink or hot pink, and she purred for the pale pink one, so that's the one she got.  Tocohl didn't get a choice.

I celebrated Easter with the morning at church, my traditional shrimp and feta cheese omelet for lunch, and a lamb chop and a homegrown salad for dinner.  With a Cadbury orange creme egg or two.  After all, it is Easter.  And the cats got extra treats.

It has been a while since I have posted, so I will bring you up to date with my knitting.  I could say that I gave up blogging for Lent, but that's not true.  I did participate in a Lenten knitting project: 8" squares for Knit-a-Square, which makes blankets for kids who have been orphaned by AIDS in South Africa.  I started with 2 balls of Lion Brand Magic Stripes, purchased at Big Lots, and made the following, using two strands of yarn held together:

 

Basic garter stitch square.

 

Stockinette and reverse stockinette squares, 5 stitches and 7 rows per block.

 

Swedish Block Patter from Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns.

 

An attempt at a mitered square, that I hope will block out square.

 

A mitered square, knit on double pointed needles from the center out.

I then progressed to one ball of Paton's Kroy Sock, purchased as a clearance at Michael's.

 

Entrelac pattern, based on this scarf pattern, using two strands of yarn.  Now finished, but I haven't taken a completed square picture yet.  I also completed one more square, and have one partly done - I may show them later, or maybe I won't!

The knitting for the Todos scarf that I began in the Christmas holidays is done.

 

But it's not finished yet, as I still have all of the ends to weave in, from where the yarn changes.  The kit, by Painted Sheep, comes with six different yarns in similar hand-dyed colors.

 

No telling when this will be finished, especially as we're getting a little warm to wear scarves here in Texas.

Comments

[Mom]

Happy Easter kitties--you look wonderful in your spring finery! Interesting to see all the 8 inch squares--we have a blurb in our church newsletter talking about them--good project! And the scarf is fantastic--too hot in TX gives plenty of time for weaving ends!