Meow

Look at how much my Little Angel has grown up!

She's nearing two and a half years old now - and please don't ask me where the time has gone to, because I honestly don't know.

Little Miss Charlie is mad about cats. Stark raving mad about them. Can't get enough of them. Unless one moves toward her - and then she's terrified...

She loves to imitate a cat, too. Will crawl around on the floor meowing loudly. Tries to lick herself clean.

I have to keep the cat food well away from her. She loves to eat it! All my kids have had a fondness for eating cat food. The dry biscuits, that is - not the tinned fishy stuff...

                                                                                     

One day last week, she ate her breakfast naked... from a bowl on the ground outside... meowing just like a cat.

I can picture her in therapy in about 30 years time, explaining to her counselor that her mother forced her to eat outside like an animal!

Oh well.

The other kids are sure to be in therapy anyway - so why should she miss out?

As for these little cats...

Well - I got tired of making owls.

(Shocking but true)

But I had a bunch of bodies already hooked up. So I've added some quick ears and a curlicue tail. Made the eyes a little different, and added a nose with whiskers instead...

Meow!

What could it be?

Sometimes it's fun to just grab some yarn and a hook - with no real plan in mind - and just see where it all takes you to...

With this one, I had an owl in mind.

I was kind of going for a tweedy, multicoloured look... using three strands of yarn worked together as one, and then swapping and changing colours as each yarn ran out.

Then it got a bit too tall for an owl... and I realised that it actually wanted to be a cat. A tall sitting cat, with a ginormous long tail which spirals around and around the body.

But then it morphed again...

And for a moment I thought it was destined to become a vase!

A wonderful scrappy vase. 

I can just see this with the most delightful Bunch of Daisies sticking out the top, can't you??

Or maybe Daffodils instead?

(Don't worry about the water leaking out - I'd set a glass jar inside the crochet vase)

And then I saw that it was actually meant to be a lion...

Don't worry if you can't see it yet - you will!

Rupert the 20 Pound Cat

So during my unplanned blogging break, I was still running those Monthly Challenges over in my Ravelry Group. January's was a knitting challenge, and the request was for me to design a giant 20 pound cat. Something I would never have dreamed of doing on my own... which is why I find these challenges so much fun!

Here he is with Little Miss Charlotte:

He's so huge... and so cuddly... the kiddies LOVE him!

I've left the ends of his whiskers free, so that their position can be changed on a whim...

And here he is with the boy who likes to be called Thunder Lizard:

Which just goes to prove that you're never too old for a cuddle toy!

 

 And of course I have to show you the winning entry from the challenge:

How brilliant is that!

I'm mesmerised by his eyes...

DawnKimMarch was a very deserving winner.

Now that my pattern has been fully tested, it is available for sale as a PDF for AU$4.50

And if you're wishing for a crochet version - my testers are working on the pattern right now!