life with a chronic disease and a really big yarn stash
MacKenzie Speaks: Three UFO are Done!
Hi. I’m MacKenzie.
The Mother of Cats says it is fall now, but it is still nice and warm out here in the garden. I love the garden.The leaves on the maple tree are starting to turn funny colors, so maybe she is right about fall. Look at that!
The weather has been cooler this week and she has been sitting outside with us knitting away on the projects that she is calling the UFO pile. Yellow Boy is worried that UFOs are a new kind of bug, and has been hunting for them at the back of the house, but I’m pretty sure it’s stuff with yarn. I love yarn!
This thing called a cowl was done first. I really like this yarn… so cushy to squish with my paws, and the absolutely best chomping size. She calls it worsted. Whatever.The finished cowl is just the right size for a little sleeping pad. For some reason she took it away from me and put it into a storage box to wait for winter. Bad, Mother of Cats, bad!!
She has also been knitting some of the nice yarn that came from Alta Vida Alpacas. She dyed this yarn in her crock pot, and no matter how many times I visit her in the knitting chair she absolutely, positively will not let me play with it. She says that it is special. Hey, I’m special! I think that she needs to pays better attention to her priorities. Cats should come first!
So, the cowl got done without much help from me. It’s a Moebius, what ever that is. She says it means that as you hang it around your human neck and fold it the little blackberries are all facing up.I like the little blackberries….They are really, really nice and soft to take a snooze on. I need lots of sleep. Taking care of the Mother of Cats is exhausting.
Finally today she got a third project finished and took it outside to take her little pictures. Yellow Boy and I were completely ignored while she tried hanging her shawl in different places in the yard. She hung it in the tree, on the fence, across the garden bench, and on the deck. I’d like to mention that the deck is totally my territory…
I tried to help her as much as I could. It’s not my fault that she tripped over me by the tree: she should be more careful! I tried to help her arrange the shawl on this garden bench, but she chased me away and put one of the stupid garden plants there instead. Then she put it on the deck for a shot of the lace. Do you see my paw? No, you don’t. She wouldn’t let me stand on it. Don’t you think that this shawl would look better with a cat?There. That’s what I’m talking about. Don’t I look nice?
She is so happy to have these projects done and has been collecting up all the knitting needles back into their storage cases again. I’m so glad that I could help her. I’m such a good boy!
Can I have a cookie now?
The Mother of Cats would like to mention that the the project notes for her little UFOs can be found on Ravelry:
I weave, knit and read in Aurora, Colorado where my garden lives. I have 2 sons, a knitting daughter-in-law, a grandson and two exceptionally spoiled kittens. In 2014 I was diagnosed with a serious rare autoimmune disease called systemic sclerosis along with Sjogren's Disease and fibromyalgia.
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15 thoughts on “MacKenzie Speaks: Three UFO are Done!”
They’re absolutely gorgeous! ❤ Oh, the cat too of course 😀
Thanks. I have two cats, but this one is really doggy-like, involves himself in all my projects, and photographs well. The other one is afraid of the camera…
Yes, that is a brioche cowl, the first time I’ve tried that stitch. The yarn is a one ply handspun from spincycle, and between the yarn and the stitch it is one squishy piece of comfort knitting!
Hey MacKenzie, you need to post more often, I’ve been chuckling away to myself here. By the way, you have to be tolerant with the Mother of cats when it comes to yarn. It’s called therapy and without it she would become grumpy, so you’ll just have to be patient with her!
All projects are awesome. Like the blue and white shawl the best!. The the best pic is the last one. MacKenzie sure knows that he is the cat’s meow! Next you know, he will be asking to be compensated for his photo talent!
That’s what he tells me! Seriously, he is such a great companion I can hardly get a picture of my knitting without him in it, so it’s nice that he photographs well.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
They’re absolutely gorgeous! ❤ Oh, the cat too of course 😀
Thanks! I’m looking forward to some cool, cowl wearing weather. MacKenzie, not so much. He hates snow.
Beautiful cat !
Thanks. I have two cats, but this one is really doggy-like, involves himself in all my projects, and photographs well. The other one is afraid of the camera…
I have too a doggy cat 🙂 my male maine coon of 10 kg! Then I have a very kind female cat. They make me really good company :))
Oh, MacKenzie – I love your posts! And your mom knits gorgeous things, by the way. 🙂
Thanks! Her knits are nice, but she won’t let me keep them. What is up with that?
What a sweet-looking kitty! ❤ They are all really pretty projects, but I especially like the first cowl – is it brioche?
Yes, that is a brioche cowl, the first time I’ve tried that stitch. The yarn is a one ply handspun from spincycle, and between the yarn and the stitch it is one squishy piece of comfort knitting!
Hey MacKenzie, you need to post more often, I’ve been chuckling away to myself here. By the way, you have to be tolerant with the Mother of cats when it comes to yarn. It’s called therapy and without it she would become grumpy, so you’ll just have to be patient with her!
Thanks! I do feel that I should mention that cats need yarn therapy too, and a grumpy cat is an ugly thing… >^..^<
All projects are awesome. Like the blue and white shawl the best!. The the best pic is the last one. MacKenzie sure knows that he is the cat’s meow! Next you know, he will be asking to be compensated for his photo talent!
Luckily he is willing to be paid in kitty cookies…
Those pictures of MacKenzie wrapped in wool are just so adorable.
That’s what he tells me! Seriously, he is such a great companion I can hardly get a picture of my knitting without him in it, so it’s nice that he photographs well.