Pet Plunder

I finished the puppy blanket! All the ends are all neatly tucked away and the entire thing is ready to be given to its intended user…sometime this coming week if I am lucky. Everyone has been a bit busy this weekend and there just isn’t an appropriate moment for me to hand the blanket off yet.

I am looking forward to seeing Lieder’s reaction to his new blanket. I can easily envision him running about with it.

As I mentioned in my previous post I was going to attempt the cat toy once more this weekend. Azzy was kind enough to show me a tutorial for the “magic ring” method. While I can see the appeal of this method I have found that even though I seemed to have mastered it enough it’s still not as comfortable as the traditional method of working in rounds. I have a harder time keeping track of how many stitches I have and where they are.

I think I winged most of the pattern though, I tried following it for the most part, but my stitch count was nowhere near the same. (Rows where I was supposed to have 24 I had 21…things like that.) I still managed to make something that looks like a fish though.

See? it looks like a fish! I ended up using the yarn left over from the Victorian Shawl to make the actual fish and the stuffing is the odds and ends after trimming the puppy blanket. Yes I am aware the fish has only one part of his tail fin. I had to stop. My fingers were having some issues with the second fin and I was so about to throw the fish across the room along with my hook and everything that was in front of me if I didn’t step back. I’ll be giving the fin another go today and will post the results later.

For my first amigurumi I am rather pleased with it even if it did give me fits at first.