Hi. I’m MacKenzie.
I have been really helping the Mother of Cats with her knitting this week. Look at how carefully I am inspecting this sock that she is working on. We have been listening to an audiobook every evening while she stitches away on the sock, with lots of breaks to give me attention, of course. I think that she would get bored and fall asleep if I didn’t keep standing on her and head butting her work. It is a hard job, but someone needs to do it.
The Mother of Cats is calling this another Mash-Up sock that combines elements of three other socks that she has made in the past. Whatever. Like I would remember details like that?! What I do remember is that I sent her to the store to buy me tuna flavored cookies and she came back with some kind of substandard chicken flavored ones. This is just typical of the Mother of Cats. So thoughtless. I don’t know why I exhaust myself helping her when she doesn’t treat me the way she should…
I can’t believe how exhausting all this knitting supervision has been. Luckily the sweater is now so big the Mother of Cats can’t keep me off of it any longer. Which is pretty nice since I need a nice place to nap after all of this work.
Last night the Mother of Cats started ANOTHER SWEATER before she was done with this one. Something about the second sleeve syndrome… Whatever. I think that she just wanted to let me nap a little longer. I deserve it after all. Maybe the Mother of Cats does think a little about my needs after all.
I’m such a good boy.
Can I have some cookies now?
>^..^<
Notes from the Mother of Cats:
- The sweater is a Koivua by Caitlin Hunter. My project notes are here. I made modifications to the sleeve to make it less bell shaped at the bottom and am pretty happy with how it came out. I put the details into my project notes if you want to see what I did.
- Oh, yeah. That sock is a total mashup masterpiece. The top is the edging from the Geology socks. The ribbing is kind of an Emily’s Favorite socks deal, and the garter stitch heel and toe are inspired by the Om Shanti Bed Socks.
- Yep. I did cast on another sweater last night. I also had to made a new set of stitch markers to use with it because a) they had to all be different from each other, and, b) they had to coordinate with the sweater. What?! Doesn’t everyone do this? There’s no problem here, people. There is, however, another post brewing…
- The book that MacKenzie and I are listening to is A Better Man by Louise Penny. I love these books!!
Have a great (knitting) weekend, everyone!
Your socks and sweater look great!!
MacKenzie: You are an excellent knitting supervisor:)
MacKenzie: I know! I should look offer my services for premium cookies!
Thank you. I’m living the colors.
Your socks are so pretty! Most of my projects end up being a mashup:)
Mashups are the best!
Oh Mackenzie, you are loved so much to be allowed to nap on an almost finished sweater, and one as beautiful as that too. The mash up socks look lovely and go so well with the sweater!
MacKenzie: I think that I should have this sweater for keeps. Won’t it look good in my cat bed? It’s very soft, warm and makes my fur look nice…
MK: Nope!! Perhaps if MacKenzie is good he may nap on the finished socks… I do like these socks, but I’ve thought id another mashup…
I wish I had a knitting supervisor
MacKenzie: Why, thank you. I’m the best part of knitting. >^..^<
Purr. I’m sorry, MacKenzie, but WordPress is still not registering some of my likes, including yours
MacKenzie: They need a cat supervisor too, obviously!
🙂
The sweater and socks are so pretty. I like the colour. MacKenzie is so sweet:))
I’m going through a pink phase, I think. The next two sweaters will be grey and pink too. I just need to push through to get these done!
MacKenzie is one of a kind!
I LOVE Louise Penny!!!!
I bought the audiobook so I can go back and forth between book and audio. I love hearing the correct pronunciation of the French words. This book is one of her best. I’m ready to move to Three Pines. There should be a knit shop and knitting retreats…
MacKenzie – you are so handsome, and such a good knitting supervisor. Look at all that Mother of Cats has gotten done with your help! You definitely deserve a cookie 🙂
MoC – Your sweater and socks are looking great! You are making great progress:)
MacKenzie: I’m so glad you appreciate how amazing I am. I do deserve more cookies!!
MoC: Thanks!! I finished the second sock last night.
🙂 Awesome – looking forward to seeing it!
Your knitting looks great, cats think they’re so helpful when it comes to knitting-especially keeping the yarn safe 🤷🏻♀️
Exactly!! I often just give him a cake of yarn to sleep on while I knit…