Last weekend I updated my Stash page on Ravelry. While I was sorting through all my Cascade 220, I discovered a note to myself that I had bought a skein of Cascade 220 and a skein of Noro Silk Garden, specifically to knit a Turn A Square hat for someone in particular.
“I did?” I thought. “I was?” I had forgotten all about this, even though it was only six months ago. Although it was for a Christmas gift, I decided I should crank out that hat and ship it to her.
As you all know, I hate Noro. Another reason to hate it is that Kimble loves it very much. In chicken terms, he “goes broody” over any skein left unattended.
Can you see it peeking out in front? He’s incubating an entire skein. I dare you to reach under there and take it from him. (Actually he’s a very non-violent cat, his main tactics are guilt and crying. It’s safe, I promise.)
Here’s the hat, half-completed. It’s actually finished now, and blocking on the table behind me, but I’m running about a week behind in the knit blogging. (I finished Rambling Rows, did I mention that? I don’t think I did. I’m just waiting for inspiration to strike before unfolding it and getting some pictures.)
In other news, I finally got the feather and fan sock pattern feathering and fanning the way I wanted.
I just wanted a subtle little ripple, nothing too fancy, just to give the stripes a little something to do. This is:
Row 1: k2tog twice, (knit, YO) four times, k2tog twice
Rows 2-6: knit
Dolly has developed little gold spangles on her chest.
And will you check out that chicken cleavage!
This picture also illustrates something that makes me a little sad. When they were chicks, their eyes were solid black, which tended to sparkle in the light, and which was ever so cute. At some point during the transition to pullet, their eyes changed to regular chicken eye colors – goldish greenish for Dolly, and yellow for the other three.
Their yellow chicken eyes kind of freak me out. But I love them anyway.
will she lay blue eggs? omg i hope she lays blue eggs!
I had a dozen pink, blue and yellow eggs fresh from a friends farm. I was making quiche with my little boy. one misstep and all the beaten eggs were on the floor (my fault, not his!)
Dolly’s eyes match her chest spangles!
Kimble’s so cute! Loves Noro huh?! That’s awesome. My kitty has a thing for alpaca!
I wonder what it is about the Noro that makes him love it so. The smell?
One of my mom’s cats ATE a large part of a shawl that her grandmother had crocheted. Luckily my mom loved the cat marginally more than she loved the shawl.
I randomly stumbled across your blog a few weeks ago because of the chicken shawls, andI just love it!!
You crack me up almost daily and I find myself getting very invested in the lives and loves of your Sims.
Keep it up!
I love the colors Dinner is wearing. I mean, Dolly.
Never underestimate guilt and crying! That’s a love of Noro I don’t quite get though.
That is some awesome cleavage there, dude. And I love the thought that Kimble “goes broody” over Noro. Here’s a thought: let him sit on it — maybe it will hatch into another skein.
Is Dolly really blue? Or is it just the Firefox browser? STUNNING!
I didn’t know chickens could be blue!
And Stripey is so sweet
(do you call him that?) I love that shade of orange.
I got a good laugh out of Kimble incubating the skein! Perhaps it’s the mohair he loves?
Dolly is kind of light black, or maybe a very dark charcoal? With teal/blue sheen, like a mallard tail. She’s a complicated chicken.
I know what you mean about the eyes. I try to balance that loss with the huge gain that their feather colors give us. Eye color is the price we pay for glorious shiny feathers!
Love your “incubator” – let us know if anything hatches…
Best post ever! SWOON! Cats and chickens!
Wow, that is an amazing picture of Kimble! I love it. He looks ever so… cuddly.
As a farm girl myself, I completely understand about the chickens’ eyes being a little creepy… But at least yours are in a relatively small cage!
When we raised ours, the “cage” was the back portion of the barn, closed off with a wood/wire door, and a fenced enclosure behind it. I often went in there to feed them/water them/give them table scraps… (By the way, chickens LOVE egg shells… but you probably shouldn’t give them that if you don’t want them to start eating their own eggs… they also go crazy over potato skins!)
Anyway, as soon as I entered the coop, I’m looking around and chickens are flooding in from outside – and I mean about 30 chickens trying to fit through a 1 foot wide door at once… and the rest of the chickens that were all ready inside the coop are just frozen, looking at you. Then the rooster cocks its head to the side, so that you can only see one eye and it’s trained right on you, and then WOOSH! you have 75 chickens rushing at you, climbing over each other, and pecking at your legs to get at the food. It was quite an experience.
So in summary, yes. Chicken eyes are creepy.
(Sorry about the outrageously long comment)
MORE PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta love yarn & chickens and cats. # of my favorites right there!!! We don’t have any blue chickens, just those that lay blue eggs…. Dolley is beautiful!!! Keep up the great knitting!