Kittens!

New pics of the babies.....
(sorry no new knitting pics--D-fly and I did not have time to knit during our trip-for full story check out her blog....I will add my own pics of the trip later on)

To the left Misty with the blondies before sister and nephew visited..... and to the right the blondies with eyes open!



Next is the only one that I think is not a polydactyl kitten....and is also I think the shyest....left before eyes opened, right-eyes open!



And now for nephew's birthday present.....Tiger or stripey one....
left before family vist, right during their visit.....




and for the last two, my baby boy (well I think he's a boy...kinda early to tell....) and Touble (she's the trouble maker and also the fearless one....and a hard one to get pics of! she'd rather roll over to play and have her belly rubbed...). To the left both of the babies and to the right the ham known as Touble and below is the pretty boy (who we think is a boy....

More kittens....and some jewelry!

I have kittens so there will be A LOT of pictures of kittens....especially when one has a mother bothering you for more pictures when I sent some not 12 hours ago.....'sigh'. Thought I would show where they are hiding behind, my bookshelf.....going to have to wedge something under it from the back or here soon I will have some stuck kittens.....Anyway I took some individual pictures of the kittens, well as best as I can since they are behind a book shelf and it is a bit awkward to get pics of them....but here you go! the six very soft babies.....and of course mom taking another break--I think she gets hot back in the corner with her babies


Now my other passion besides knitting and kittens of course is jewelry making...I'm attracted to beads just like I'm attracted to yarn and fabric--I like color, texture and pattern.....I've always been color orientated. I still think crayons are some of the coolest thing around.....
As you can tell by this very bright orange group, I am not afraid to wear color well not anymore....and I also wear long chunky necklaces....then long chains, or perhaps a shorter beaded necklace....it depends on my mood and my outfit.... And trust me I have more....I'm a bit addicted to beads....and this addiction is spilling over into yarn.....

Kittens and knitting....

Well Misty is still my pretty girl--follows me around once I get home in the evening and meows a lot...I think she's complaining about being cooped up with just her babies all day..... I did get the corner of my closet cleaned--she decided that behind my book shelf is even better corner....course for me not so much--hard to change their bedding back there. And now for a trio of pictures....First picture of kittens before they were moved....then just a picture of my Misty (she looks tired in the picture but really who wouldn't be after all that?) and lastly a picture of everyone from today.....

And for some knitting news....I mentioned in my earlier blog about a shrug I was working on...Well I got one panel done! And I have the other panel half way done! First picture below shows the shurg along the whole length of my couch (its a love seat that mom upholstered! I love my couch....) Next picture shows the second half. It's straight knitting so not difficult at all but with all the thinking I have to do at work....brain just not in the condition to think about stitch patterns. Rather just veg out in front of the TV with some very basic straight forward thinking.....Now on my vacation with D-fly....I will work on my afghan squares again and then of course I will try my had at the KAL shawl with the lovely yarn that Cami sent originally to D-fly....

Six?! What am I going to do with six!?

Well my pretty little girl had 6 little babies of her own....'sigh' That is way more than I wanted to deal with......Although nephew is excited because I have 'extra' and they will be plenty old enough by the time his birthday rolls around.....

Here is a picture showing 5 of the babies (the 6th is hiding underneath her front leg). She is letting me hold them for a bit....and based on my very limited knowledge of newborn kittens....they do look healthy.....And momma looks okay too although she does need some cleaning up....as does my closet corner but Misty insists on staying in this corner so I may have a lovely stain on my carpet....good thing its the closet.....

And just to throw in some knitting.....Here are two scarfs I knitted year and a half ago--first tricky pattern stitch I did and with the fuzzy yarn....man did I swear a lot.....Dad could not figure out why I would keep doing it.....




and a close up of the scarves.... well that is all for tonight....going to watch a little TV and do some knitting and occassionally check in on Misty and her six babies....

--DK

Saga of my stray kitty....named Misty

About six weeks ago I found a pretty long hair kitty hanging around my bldg...well w/my upbringing I can't just leave a pretty little kitty out there all by herself.....
She since has made herself at home....and its nice to come home to something. As you can see in the first picture, she is a happy kitty. She likes to lay on whatever I have on the floor...newspaper, magazines, knitting patterns....doesn't matter (that feather toy is a favorite to carry around)
However, someone is pregnant....she should be due in a couple of weeks. I wanted a kitty cat but really didn't want a litter of kittens...they are cute and fun....but.....

She is a very content little kitty--here she is with a toy 'Grandma' sent her--she carries that one around too. Toilet seat is a favorite spot of hers while I'm in the bathroom. This is after she's done pestering me while I'm trying to brush my teeth, wash my face ect....hard to do with a cat tail in your face.....
Anyway I will keep all who are interested on Misty and her babies....

Now for a quick knitting blip....I decided that I like the Fetching gloves so well after seeing them on D-fly's blog, I want to knit a pair for myself and while I need to get myself DPN's I actually had yarn in my very limited stash.....its a red violet/purple/black variegated chenille yarn. I think it will turn out nicely....

Hurrrraaaay!!!

After having to wait all week to retrieve my boxes from my management's office....I finally have my camera! Which means pictures! I think first I will show D-fly's birthday present which she won't get 'til her and nephew are out here to visit me. I think it turned out to be pretty wrapping.....

Now onto knitting! I think for this post I will concentrate on my Warm up America afghan. It started with this red square ie shadow triangles....and it just kept growing....as you can see in my earlier post.....But with this project I was able to try two knitting techniques like my first cable, lace patterns, and right now I am doing a square complete with bobbles (those are tricky...)


The first pic to the right is my first cable and the next pic is one of the first lace patterns I tried--I like it.... and below is a later one that I did.....really like this one.....
And of course the one on the needle is my current tricky bobbles square



Okay now that I have a camera I will be posting more often....about my other projects and such.....

Good day and Happy knitting! DK