Hi. I’m Hannah.
The Mother of Cats was busy yesterday shopping and cooking and reading and stuff, so I’m finally getting the news of the week out today. It’s CaturSunday. That works, right?
The Mother of Cats brought a little loom into the craft room and Mateo and I have been checking it out. It’s kind of strange, don’t you think?
The Mother of Cats wound some yarn out to make the warp, and I helped her with all of that. I’m such a good girl.
Yesterday she cut the warp off of the warping board (that’s the wooden thingy with the pegs) and put it all into a bag to keep it safe from me. Why would she do something like that? How am I going to learn how to weave when she doesn’t share her toys? Anyway… when we finally start weaving I’ll give you another update.
The Mother of Cats also spent some time knitting this week. She made another Alpine Bloom hat in fingering weight yarn to give away to the Kaiser infusion center, but this time it is shorter. Here’s the tall hat next to the shorter one.
The leaves at the bottom of the flower are chopped off in the smaller hat, but the Mother of Cats says that it fits her head better. I think that she should make a really small one for me, don’t you think that would be cute? She would have to something to let my ears out of the hats, though.
Finally, I should give you the latest updates on the plant experiments that the Mother of Cats has been conducting around the house. Hold on to your whiskers, here they come!
Luckily there are more rose seeds chilling in the refrigerator and the Mother of Cats plans to try again in a few weeks.
There was a fig tree in the front room that was growing really tall and thin. It was growing crooked and looked kind of silly. The Mother of Cats wasn’t sure what to do with it, but finally decided to CUT IT OFF to take the top two-thirds of the tree off with the thought that it might bush out some. She took some cuttings off the branches of the killed chopped tree and put them in the orchid garden to see if they would grow some roots.
Do you see the beginning of the little roots on the seedlings? Yay! Next she will try to move two of the rooted cutting to dirt to see if they continue to do well. What will she do with all these trees if they keep growing? Sometimes I worry about the Mother of Cats.
Finally, there is the milkweed seeds. Remember them? Mateo and I check on them every time we are out on the catio, because they are outside in milk cartons hanging out in the cold.
Well, that’s all I have to say for today. That was a lot of updates, huh. I’m pretty sure that I need some TUNA to keep my strength up.
This is Hannah, signing off.
Note from the Mother of Cats: I modified the Alpine Bloom pattern to use fingering yarn. You can see my project notes here.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
Well, Hannah , you just get cuter and cuter. I LOVE your tummy ! I must admit the Boodie’s tummy is my favourite part of him, too; there’s something about moggies’ tummies that I find irresistible .. [grin]
Dunno about your tummy but, Marilyn .. 😀
Weaving now, is it ? You’re not just showing off then: I can tell because you know how to start. What don’t you know how to do, craft-wise ?!
What happened to the rose seeds ? – why did they go mouldy ? Yes, I remember about the milkweed, and how keen you are to propagate it. Best of luck with that: may it AND the roses go as well as all that knitting of hats and PVC (?) covers always does !!!
Hannah does have the cutest little tummy, huh. I’m so glad to see a white tummy at last as she had a rash and licked all of her fur off last year. I made a lot of emergency “fix Hannah” changes that solved the problem, and her fur has at last grown back. Yay! Hannah is the most endearing cat I’ve had.
Yep, I weave. Well, I used to before life got so challenging. I have a larger floor loom that I made a lot of dish towels on and I’m kind of wanting to get it warped up again. I thought I would play with the table loom first to ease myself into it. I also have a spinning wheel… Years ago I tried to learn how to tat (my grandmother made tatted lace) and that was a failure…
I think that the problem with the rose seeds was the peat jiffy pots that I used. They had been out in the garage for years, and they certainly grew mold really quickly. All of the pots, even though I had planted seeds from 3 different roses and used sterile technique. I bought more pots and will try again with the seed in the fridge after they have chilled out for 6 weeks.
Hannah: I’m starving! Have Boodie send some tuna…
I wish he’d eat that, Hannah; but I have to buy him different food all the time. Sigh …
Marilyn, best of British with the rose seeds; and I really want to hear how you go. Downunder, roses are only purchased as plants already growing, you know ? – I’ve never even heard of anyone growing them from seed !
Hannah: did I mention that she bought three types of tuna? My favorite is skipjack tuna with a sole topper…
MoC: Yes, Hannah is that spoiled!
I read a book where the main character was breeding roses as a serious hobby. It made me think if the rose hips in the garden. I mean, they should grow into rose bushes, right? They may not be purebred, though, so don’t know what I’m going to get out of this. It’s an experiment.
Hannah, it looks like you have had a great week. Tink feels your pain about the weaving. Scamp agrees that new wool or newly knit wool makes the best pillows, beds, and biscuit testers.
Hannah: it is a lot of fun to play with new things. Wet wool is the BEST THING EVER but the Mother of Cats gets a little crazy when I groom it into little puff balls…
Hannah – you continue to be such a good helper! I’m so glad you got some tuna and crunchy paper to play with 🙂 Hope you and MoC can start weaving soon!
The Mother of Cats bought me three cases of the tuna in my favorite flavors. She does try. 🙂 We plan to put all the yarn onto the loom this week. Mateo can’t wait!
That is awesome – what a treat!
Wow – that will be a lot of fun, I bet 🙂
Ah beautiful Hannah, I hope you continue to help MoC with her weaving and report back to us. (MoC my boss gave me an orchid as a leaving gift and the flowers are wilting already. I think our house is just too cold for them. We are keeping it at 16.5°C during the day and night it gets much cooler.
Maybe that is too cold for the orchids. They are warmer weather plants and I think that they are grown in greenhouses, so the transfer to a cold house must be a shock.
Hannah: We are going to play with the loom this week!
A loom! What fun. I know nothing about knitting but I could probably do something with a loom. Too bad about the rose seeds; I was curious to see how those would work out. And hurray for the milkweed. We need to help those Monarchs. And iris. I love iris! Hannah, I wish my Rowdy was as relaxed as you are. I’m not sure he even has a belly; I’ve never seen it if he does.
The poor rose seeds were taken out by those little jiffy peat pots that I used. I had them in the garage forever and I guess they collected some spores along the way. I’ll try again…
Weaving is pretty fun; I learned to weave and spin in Boulder (where else!) and it is pretty relaxing and rewarding. I’ve made dishtowels for everyone in my family, and they are so popular I keep getting requests and have sold some to their friends.
I have high hopes for the milkweed. I have more seeds chilling in the fridge and will try another planting in a few weeks. Evidently they need a cold period to sprout and it has been pretty warm this winter.
Hannah is a pretty calm cat, which kind of makes up for Mateo. There isn’t enough stimulation in the world for Mateo. He does, however, show off his belly. Mostly while he is bunny kicking something…
I like what you did with that hat. I am glad you are happy with the fit.
Hannah, you are such a help to your mama.
Hannah: I make her get up and move every hour, too. I’m better for her than the fitbit!
I have a habit of going down the knitting rabbit hole from time to time. I’ll be knitting a project, and I just can’t help wondering what it would look like with a different yarn or color scheme, or maybe I should make some changes to the pattern…. that’s how I end up with several copies of the same sweater or shawl. I was in the stash looking for more color combos for that hat… next up with be child sizes.
The shorter hat looks great! I like the way it highlights the flowers in the pattern like that.
I love the leaves in the pattern, but the hat does look nice with the roses, and with the chart cut off short the roses show really well while wearing the hat.
Yes, I agree. The full pattern is nice too, but cutting it off where you did emphasizes my favorite part of it. 🙂
I love love your posts!!! you are such a talented person in sooo many ways..I love how you persevere in your down times..the projects you knit are always beautiful and face it..what is cuter than a caturday? I love their posts..it brightens my day and always brings a smile…thank you! debbie
You brightened my day and brought a smile. Thank you!