Finished Objects!! Finally able to post...

Whoo Hoo!! With Blogger download problems this month and extremely SLOW dial up service, it has been extremely frustrating to try to blog. Hopefully things are on the mend.

Here is the 2nd Noro Striped Scarf which I knit for a surprise for a good friend of mine, Judy, in WI. I used Noro Silk Garden: 2 balls of #34 olive/brown/lavender and 2 balls of #88 soft neutrals of tan/grey/lt green. I loved how it turned out. The pictures here make it brighter than it actually appears.

I finished it at the end of the year but I had to wait for Judy to receive it and for Blogger to work in order to post it. Thankfully, she loves it too. With this cold snap, hopefully it will be a welcome addition to her wardrobe.

The Felted Kitty Bed is finished and since I held one strand of alpaca and one strand of miscellaneous, Noro Silk Garden, grey merino and handspun together, I used up 1022 yards of stash which goes towards my knitting a mile for Stash Knit Down 2008. YIPPEE. I followed Wendy Knits pattern but did an extra increase row and knit several rows after that. For the decreases, I did 3 decrease rows with 5 knitted rows after each decrease. It blocked to a diameter of 17". I wanted it bigger to accomodate various sizes of cats: 5 lbs, 7 lbs, 14 lbs and 17 lbs. Since my colors were so muted, there was not a lot of variation in the piece after it was felted. After finishing this one, I decided that the cats would just have to share. One was enough for this household. So....

Olive has graced it with her mouse on a string but hasn't taken to sleeping in it.

Jaguar and Pinky were snoozing and grooming.
And Tigger found it a cozy place to cuddle. Good thing I made it extra large! All of this was done on the first day it was on the floor. So the results are in....(drumroll please)....

3 out of 4 cats prefer the Felted Kitty Bed. :-D