Need to rip the head off a kitten...

[susie_flo]

G is in snowy Paris, while I am at home setting off the fire alarm and being generally useless...

This week I'm also a big ball of knitting fail. I've totally lost my mojo. My 'vintage' knitted kitten was looking great...until I added the head. And now it looks like... I dunno, maybe a deformed lamb? With a giant, oversized floppy head... on a cat's body?




It still needs a tail, but I can't be bothered now.... and don't fancy re-doing the head. My attempts at sewing (and unpicking) the face have shown me that embroidery fail - I haz that too. Bollox to it! I think it's time to hide it in a carrier bag in the loft. I tried to recover at lunchtime by starting a little project for reversible Hogwarts bookscarves... but then it went wrong. Yaargh!

So now I am consoling myself by invoking* my inner Cartman on the Ravelry forums...

...and by pondering silly questions, such as:

 

• Is it written in LAW that bald British men must wear heavy rimmed glasses?
• If I had a colleague called Willis, would I be able to avoid saying "What you talking 'bout, Willis?" when they offered an opinion in meetings?
• Would G forgve me if I made him a Hogwarts bookscarf in any house colours other than Ravenclaw?

* incidentally, I really love the word "invoke". Even when used in a tecchie context, for me it always conjurs up a mental image of 15th century alchemists invoking demons.

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Give it a tail and a face and it can be added to the store of toys for Early Years!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You mean at a hospital? That's not a bad idea...

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Ps I think it is sweet!

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

I think it's cute too...
What is a bookscarf? Please don't tell me it's what it says on the tin...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You're kind... but really I think it looks worse in real life!

As for the bookscarf, I fear it may be exactly as you suspect. It's a bookmark... that looks like a scarf.

I wanted to try out a small project as a way of learning a mind-feckingly fiendish technique for reversible knitting... where the pattern on each side is an exact negative image of the one on the other side. (But as soon as I started I realised that if anyone so much as breathed too loudly in my vicinity I was going to make a mistake!)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I think it is beautiful, and all you need do is stick soem boggly eyes on it - everything in life is improved with boggly eyes but to be slightly more serious maybe some little buttons for eyes instead? I think it is adorable anyway.

Cheers for the skull patterns too - am passing those onto Mum along with a big hint that it'll be easter soon and I don't want an easter egg.

Regarding your second point - no, you wouldn't be able to avoid it and neither would I.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Actually neither of those are bad ideas... I wanted it to have a Disneyish face circa 1960, but boggly eyes would at least give it comedy value... (or buttons might make its inept naivety seem deliberate!)

I hope you get something skulltastic for Easter :-D

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

My Nana had a crocheted poodle soda siphon cover with boggly eyes - I loved it and would frankly part with my right arm to have it now.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I don't think the head's too big, I think it's the ears. They're slightly too big, or don't join right, or something. Either wya, they're much easier to fix than a whole head.

Than again, I can't knit so what do I know?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the ears... (though the shape of the head is a bit wrong too). When I stop sulking, I might take a chance and re-do the ears.

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

It looks in proportion to me, but it also looks like a piglet. Maybe it's the shape of the ears?

Can't you make a curly tail and pretend you planned to knit a pig all along?