A Productive Saturday

First I prepared for Easter by making a bunny. This is significant as my usual nod to Easter is to watch Jesus Christ Superstar. He looks a little sad but that's probably because I'm not particularly good at embroidery. He's on my desk at work next to the gallbladder jar. The paws and ears were fiddly due to using much smaller yarn than called for but I think it worked out OK in the end.

Pattern: Henry's Bunny by Sara Elizabeth Kellner
Yarn: Georga Baby Luv peach
Needle: 2.75mm
Gauge: much smaller than called for as this pattern calls for worsted weight yarn. I didn't figure it would matter much for a toy as long as the fabric was fairly firm.

Sad Easter Bunny

Speaking of gallbladders, I made another one. By request.

Pattern: Pear-fecto! by Susan B. Anderson
Yarn: Georga Baby Luv peach in red
Needle: 2.5mm

Also cast on socks for my sister in Red Deer. She says I haven't made her any, I remember making her a pair but they may have been lost. Perhaps they were not a preferred colour. This time she picked the colour.

Current Weather
Snowing. Quite hard. Glad it held off until I got home from work, snow really messed up your commute.
1C

2fer

I delayed writing this until I had finished up a couple of things. In my defense to my loyal readers (none that I know of) I was only one arm and the hat away from finishing the Knubelchen when I made this decision.

First up, socks for my Niece. Finished these with a little more time to spare than my Nephew's socks last month. I don't need these until Sunday, that's most of two days away. For some weird reason the two balls of yarn were wound in opposite directions so one sock goes green, orange, pink, grey and the other goes green, grey, pink, orange. By the time I noticed it was too late to go back and work the second ball from the other end. Calling it a design feature.

Pattern: Improvised
Yarn: Hjertegarn Sock 4
Needle: 2.0mm

Socks!

Followed by another Knubbelchen. Made this one out of some leftover Noro, I see people raving about this yarn all the time but I don't much care for it. It twists up on me for some reason, maybe because it's a single ply, and I find it a bit rough and it doesn't have the stretchyness of wool sock yarn, even yarn that's 25% nylon. Then there are the knots, the weird colour combinations, and that it changes thickness all the time. I'll just leave it for those who like it.

Pattern: Knubbelchen by pezi888
Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll Solids, Heathers & Twists in white for the head and Noro Taiyo Sock for the body.
Needle: 2.5mm

Knubbelchen

I was asked to knit a gallbladder for someone. Words I did not expect to type. Ever. He even offered to pay me for it. So, what is fair market value for a knitted gallbladder?

Current Weather
Clear with periodic clouds. -2C

It actually snowed a bit this week for the first time in a long time. It was getting so dry my contact lenses were gluing themselves to my eyelids. A bit of precipitation seemed to help. Now it's drying out again and the contacts are back to sticking. Sigh. Maybe I should wear my glasses more often.

Scent Hurdle

It took a while before anything interesting happened again.

Ahab did fantastically well at another Scent Hurdle tournament on Saturday. Terrible picture but here he is waiting for his next turn to run.

I also have video; no video of Ahab because I was busy when he was running but this is my team on a race when he was the backup dog. As you can see we didn't win but a good time was had by all. Ahab and I were both beat when we got home. Still waiting for points but he will not have earned a new title yet, he's going to need a few more tournaments for that.

Much lack of knitting lately as I've been so tied up with Scent Hurdle stuff. This is what I get for volunteering for the Board of Directors I'm afraid.

Current Weather
Partly cloudy, 7C. There was a bit of a wind when I was out earlier.