Monday, 30 April 2018

Cats I have Knitted

This post is a brief interlude in the description of the progress of the WW1 Memorial Quilt.  A few weeks ago I managed to finish the little cardigan that I was knitting.  This small garment seemed to take ages.  I am not completely happy with the finished result – in places my tension was terrible (I am not showing you that bit!).

knitted cats

The brief for this project was a cardigan with a cat on it – and I decided to base the design on the family cat who is called Cheeky.  I read somewhere that there are over 900 different breeds of dog.  I don’t think there are that many breeds of cat but it seems to me that no two cats look alike.   Unlike dogs they are mostly a similar size and shape but their markings can be totally different.
I have knitted a cat previously – I knitted Bob the famous Street Cat.  The photograph below was taken by Tina Clark who is a fan of Bob and the owner of Cheeky.

street cat Bob

As with black and white cats – no two ginger ones seem to look the same either.   I remember when I was choosing yarn for this project – I couldn’t find the right shades of orange.  In that respect a black and white cat is easier.
I am often working on several items or garments at the same time and if I wrote posts about what I was knitting today – they would be very disjointed – well more disjointed than usual – so I try to gather my thoughts on one item at a time.  The downside of this approach is that I forget the problems.  I know when I knitted the black and white cat – I had drawn the face out on graph paper but then I knitted something else!  Graph paper is all very well for a general outline but then I find it easier to design on the needles.  I am trying not to do this with my Memorial Quilt but sometimes I still do.

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