Knit and Plenty: A sunburned zebra, a newspaper, an embarrassed penguin and a nun in a blender.

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A sunburned zebra, a newspaper, an embarrassed penguin and a nun in a blender.

Gosh, it seems like its been so long since I actually finished a project! This is the Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk braided scarf that I started back in November. The recipe is basically to knit three very long strips (about 5 feet long) and then braid them. Each strip is 2 1/2 inches wide, and I did mine in a rib. After I finished one strip and was, basically, bored to tears, I thought it would be better to knit the next two at the same time, as I recommend we do with sleeves. That turned out to be a nightmare because the strips are so narrow that I was changing yarns every other second, and because I was working with two separate skeins, the yarns kept getting hopelessly tangled (even with the use of little baggies to hold the yarn.) I almost gave up several times, except that I had invested about $50 in the six skeins and I couldn't think of what I would do with the first completed five foot strip. (Frustrated as I was, there was not enough to hang myself with.) So, I persevered and I am glad I did. Once the three strips were completed, I picked up the stitches from the ends of each strip and made a small "end cap". My cat, Dexter is modeling the finished product. The theme, of course, is "Black and white and red all over."
While I have Dexter on the blog, I thought I'd share a crazy item I commissioned. You see, I collect "tuxedo cat" kitsch (I'll show ya sometime) and I found an artist online, Margaret Angelo, that can take your pet's picture and turn them into these wild jesters. Jexter I call mine Jexter.