Photographs from the House of Sick and Knitting

Being home from work sick has some small advantages, namely that downloading and staring at photographs is neither difficult or taxing. Also, the ‘oooh look, pretty!’ factor works well with all over-the-counter cold remedies.

So, today after calling in to the office, sleeping, checking my email, working a bit, and sleeping some more, I grabbed the digital camera, took the few frames of knitting-related pics I hadn’t taken yet, and then dicked around with Photoshop and our household printer for an hour or two. Then there
was more napping.

Result: the printer outage is the fault of Windows, not the network, my cat is really pretty, and naps are nice.

AllCats has finally accepted as her own the cat bed that I knit her from several skeins of purple fun fur. For the first few months, she ignored it. Now she will sleep on it when
she has been cast out of the desk chair. It sits over a heat vent.

Oher things I have knit recently included the multi-color rainbow scarf. An impulse
buy of 2 skeins of a fuzzy glittery angora, combined with some plain purple wool resulted in a second skinny multi-hued neckwarmer. It’s not as gorgeous as Kath’s charlotte, but it’s lovely and quite warm.

My current project (in addition to the unending cabling that is tasha bag) is this crazy fluffy set of fingerless mits, for knitting or smoking or typing on a cold cold day. These pictures are from this afternoon; after an evening’s work, they’re both bound off at top and bottom and all that remains is to pick up the stitches from the thumb. I got the pattern from WendyKnits.

Wendy creates knitting patterns for stuff that I can merely gape at, but these are her Fingerless Mitts, which looked approachable. So far they feel fabulous!

Wendy also has a cat named Lucy, who looks an awful lot like AllCats!

I wonder if Lucy shares ArG’s weird habits. (This is her ‘helping’ with my work.)

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