New Home | Yarn Miracle

Last week was Quite a Week. Dogs can really suck up time. But Little Man has a new family (photos in Michael’s Flickr)! We met them at Adoption Saturday. Little Man was the only puppy* and did his best to be precious, friendly and interested in everything. We liked them right away, but the way BARC adoptions work is that interested people fill out forms, and we all go home and a background check is done (someone calls their vet). Since this couple is getting married in May (awwww), they had to come up to get their marriage license and picked up Little Man at the same time. I think he will be happy with his new family and I know they will be happy with him.

We are now calling Little Girl “Alice” and Big Girl “Maude”** since we will probably have them with us for a bit. Maude had her surgery yesterday and is still feeling pretty bad. They both stayed inside last night (and are still inside) to work on house training and liking cats.

At the expense of my blog reading, I have finally finished the Bloomin’ Feet socks! Yay, me!

I’m glad my partner isn’t allergic to cats.

It is pouring down rain today*** – hence the awkward flash pictures. I pulled them onto my sock blockers and realized that wouldn’t do any good as the blockers were for me sized feet and not Bloomin’ Feet Pal sized feet. So I blocked them in my traditional manner.

After that I did a little swatching for the polo shirt in Greetings From Knit Cafe. I bought the yarn the pattern called for and I am SO disappointed. The yarn itself is fine and the color is great, but when knit at the appropriate gauge it is loose and floppy. Not something I look for an a polo shirt and not at all what the picture looks like. I am going to give it a try with some Shine and see if that is any better.

Swatching for the Lace Surplice Top is going much better. I am trying CotLin and I really like it. The gauge for the two projects is the same, so maybe I’ll get a color card.

In the meantime I’ve got Graduation Socks to make!

*We left the other one at home because of her red mange (people don’t understand that is perfectly curable and not contagious) and it turns out that Big Girl does Not Care for Other Dogs. And likes to Make a Scene about it.

**You will notice that these are NOT First Lady names. First Lady Names mean you live here. But we have to call them something.

***And I do mean POURING.

21 thoughts on “New Home”

Carole April 26, 2007 at 10:27 am

Hooray for adoption day! Love those new socks, too.

danielle April 26, 2007 at 10:32 am

We have to call them something? Maude and Alice are cats in my family. 😛 Maude is my baby, of course, and Alice is an evil shrew who lives with my baby sister.

Rhonda the Stitchingnut April 26, 2007 at 10:43 am

Alice is my Mom’s name, hehe. Alice & Maude sound good together. Hope you find homes. BTW, Shine would work perfectly for that polo shirt I think!

Happy knitting.

Lana April 26, 2007 at 10:43 am

Three cheers! An adoption! I hope things go equally well for Alice and Maud.

Lana April 26, 2007 at 10:43 am

Three cheers! An adoption! I hope things go equally well for Alice and Maud.

meg April 26, 2007 at 10:54 am

Bless your heart! I love your animal stories & all your pics (been looking at Michael’s flikr photostream). Animals make this world so much better, even just looking at photos on the web.
That surplice top is gorgeous! I’ve been curious about the CotLin, too. I’ve got my heart set on a ChicKnits “Nicole” & might try that if my stash dive comes up void.

lynda April 26, 2007 at 11:10 am

Very nice socks! – and congrats on the new family members!

PS – I got something sent off to you in the mail yesterday!!! Hope you like it!