It has been weeks since I have written anything on this blog. I have been knitting the Catastrophe Throw and have just got it finished in time for Christmas. It still needs to be blocked and the edges are not how I would like them to be - but I have run out of time.
I had intended to write something about each strip of knitting or about particular blocks but I haven't got around to it. Almost every block contains a least one cat and those that don't have a whole cat - have a tail or dirty paw prints. The whole throw must have hundreds of cats on it.
No two blocks are the same but some are the same design knitted in different colourways - as shown below
I particularly liked this "outline" design of a cat licking its paw because it was easy to knit - but also because the ladies I have knitted the throw for are professional cleaners. There are other subtle references to their lives which makes the design more personal.
Even the repetition of the word "meow" is appropriate as they were telling me only the other day - that one of their cats is constantly "meowing".
I hope I can get back to writing this blog more regularly but I intend to start 2022 by working on my family tree.
