Square One, Take Two

Pattern: Barn Raising Quilt
Started: Friday, May 9, 2008 *
Finished: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Yarn: HandMaiden Casbah
Needles: Size 2US 40″ - Magic Loop Method

* I actually started this square last Friday, the 2nd. I was working on it on Tuesday, thinking I had the pattern memorized. I was over 1/2 way done before I realized I was only adding 4 yarn overs instead of the required 8 yarn overs! Since I already had about 8 rows done correctly, this looked rather interesting. Oops…obviously it’s best to make sure and memorize the actual pattern instead of what I think the pattern is.

Pretty Yarn

Friday night I joined some friends at Colorful Yarns. I’ve been eying this yarn for a while, and finally found a good reason to buy it*:

HandMaiden Casbah Sock Yarn - It’s such a pretty color!

I thought it would be fun to join the rest of the girls in making squares for the Barn Raising Quilt from the Knitalong book:

I’m excited to get started on my squares! I can’t wait to see how the colors come out. This summer, all of us who knit squares will be exchanging them with each other. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

*I know, most people don’t need a good reason to buy yarn

Happy Earth Day!!!

I love to see what image Google creates for each holiday!

Paradise

So, I think I lost my knitting mojo! I haven’t picked up the needles in over a week! I think I’m at the point of starting the sleeves for my Hourglass Sweater, so I really need to get working on that again.

However, I have been keeping busy with something:

This is Paradise. Isn’t she adorable!?! No, she isn’t mine, but Nathan & I are watching her for a couple of weeks. She lives in an apartment a few doors down from us.

I check on her before & after work, and Nathan even checks on her during his lunch! Paradise is really sweet and purrs like crazy when I pick her up. Of course, she’s still a kitten, so after a little while she wants to get down and play!

We’ve also brought her over to our apartment a couple of times.

Unfortunately, Charlie & Kennedy haven’t been too happy about that. Paradise is really interested in them, but if she gets too close they hiss and start to growl. It was pretty funny to watch them last night. Paradise kept running at Charlie, and would stop when she started to hiss. Then Paradise would try to slink closer to Charlie and reach out and touch her. Paradise is getting pretty bold! I would get up and give Paradise something to play with, but she would just run over to Charlie again. Hopefully the cats will be a little more friendly on the next few visits!