Meet our new ward:
My daughter’s friend was moving and had to get rid of him. My mother thinks its disgusting, but I don’t mind. Its brought such joy to my little girl, it can’t possibly be bad. And I have to admit, I’ve gone into her room alone a few times and played with him. At night she brings him out to the living room, and I started rubbing his head and he actually started to purr! No, seriously! I never knew that rats could purr! It gave me a great status with my daughter for a couple days, then she made him purr so I don’t matter so much anymore, which, in this instance, is cool by me.
The strange thing is that I think this has made my husband understand a little more about how much the girls and I want a cat. We had one until last spring, but well.. I don’t want to talk about it. Lets just say I really miss him. I recently (before the rat) convinced him we should get a kitten in the spring, but then I didn’t speak of it much. But now, with the rat around, he keeps making references to when the cat comes… I think he sees how happy it makes her and I, and knows a cat would make us even happier.
On to knitted things: completed the mad trapper’s hat for great grandad. My husband is the model.
Very soft, because its in alpaca. And that’ll mean its plenty warm. I put a tassel instead of a pompom. Mostly, I hate pompoms. Notice I couldn’t get the husband off the phone to take the picture… And they say women are chatty!
Here is the potato chip scarf I made:
Never again. Probably. I actually like the way the scarf turned out, but my circular needle was too short, and the yarn… well, I would never recommend it. My hands ached. Either way, its done. It’ll make a perfect ‘oh shit, I forgot a present for her’ kinda scarf.
Now I’m onto a pillow for my sister and her husband- I drew their names for the family. I’m doing 2 pillows. I chose to do a checker kinda pattern on it, but now I’m wishing I had just found a simple pattern, something in a nice chunky so it would knit up faster. Ah well.
Off to do Christmas shopping today. Kids are so freaking expensive.
