Hi. I’m Hannah.
I just love the Hannah mitt that the Mother of Cats made me. So far, there is only one done. She was really happy with the first one, and then she packed it up and… started working on weaving.
The Mother of Cats pulled out her new rigid heddle loom and warped on some really nice pink sock yarn. I think that this color looks really nice with my coat, don’t you? She spent a couple of days weaving on it, and was really happy, but had this urge to knit something, so… she started on a zebra.
I know. I don’t understand why this happens either.
He is a pretty cute zebra, isn’t he? I was just exhausted helping the Mother of Cats with all of this, especially with the sewing and stuffing parts. The zebra still needs his little playsuit to be knitted for him, but the Mother of Cats has the attention span of a mouse because she just jumped off and spent the whole afternoon on the computer watching the first lesson for her online weaving class. Whew. That lady talked, and talked, and talked, and Mateo started to throw a tantrum because he really, really needed someone to play with him. I was getting a little peckish myself and thought that the Mother of Cats should give me some COOKIES, so she had to multi-task attending to our needs while walking around listening to her weaving lecture on her phone. Listen, the Mother of Cats needs to get her priorities straight, right?
When the Mother of Cats is done with her online class she will have woven these projects and will, possible, actually understand what she is doing. This evening, she wound all the warp for the big floor loom, and this week the plan is for Mateo and me to help her get all the strings in the right places on the loom. Mateo is so excited!!! All that string!!! The Mother of Cats says it is yarn, but we know string when we see it!! This sounds like the best cat toy in the world!! Anyway, that is why the Mother of Cats had to listen to the lecture for so long and I was starved of attention and cookies.
What else is going on at Casa de Kitties? The Mother of Cats went shopping and came home with another stuffed octopus. Then the Mother of Cat’s cousin sent her a cute little octopus quilted wall hanging for Christmas. Sorry, Mother of Cats. This is the best little Hannah bed ever!!!!! This evening, she put it up on the wall where it is cute, but I can’t sleep on it anymore. Why does the Mother of Cats do these things???!!!!!! I want my octopus bed!!!
Hey, I forgot to mention that the Mother of Cats is reading every single morning while she drinks her latte. I am her constant companion when that is happening. Hey, if she doesn’t guard her morning toast, I get to snack on that too!!!
That’s it for the night.
This is Hannah, signing off.
Notes from the Mother of Cats:
- The online weaving class is located at The Handweaving Academy and is called Overshot Unlocked. I’m really learning a lot of cool things.
- I went to the yarn store again and loaded up on lots of fun colors and more parts for my new loom. This may be the year of weaving.
- The Ashes of London is really keeping my interest! It’s a political thriller and a murder mystery all wrapped up in 1666 with the Great Fire of London serving as a major player in the story.
- The Emperor of Gladness is one of the best books I have read in a while. I’m reading it in bits at a time so I can savor the language, imagery, the people, the story…
- Where did the zebra pattern come from? I found it in this book. You can see the little playsuit that I still need to knit in the cover photo.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
I was just about to go to bed when your email arrived, and I am so tired I can’t keep my eyes open, dear Marilyn.
Tickled about your switch to weaving and looking forward to seeing the results – which will, indubitably, be top class.
Oh, sorry, Hannah – I forgot to address the writer first !! I’m tired and not concentrating, my beautiful tuxedo friend !!
Marilyn, why are you all over the shop with your crafts ? – is it feeling better that’s doing it ? I sure hope so !! 🙂
No, it’s no good: all I do is yawn cavernously, and I can’t type around the yawns.
Probably another reply tomorrow, lambs …
Hannah: I sleep all the time. I recommend a run around the house and some tuna when you get up.
Me: I ask myself all the time why I keep hopping around, but I have decided that forward motion is all that matters and if It makes me happy, it is what is happening at the moment. Eventually things will get done.
And this very ancient old fart couldn’t agree more, especially as you’re by no means always in a happy place in terms of what you body does to you … or is it you doing it to your body ? [grin]
I’m pertickly taken with the “mix ‘n match” outfits of them wild animals ! Imagine making the entire range so that you could spend hours taking their clothes off and swapping ’em around !!
I was sufficiently impressed by your avowals regarding The Emperor of Gladness to look it up, and found a pretty good Wikipedia article – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_Gladness. Wow !! – this is not a piece of pot-boiling writing, not by any means. I’ll see if it’s available from Audible, and get hold of it for future reading. Thanks, darlin !!
I LOVE that beautiful little octopus quilt, Marilyn !! – your cousin is really talented. Also, it’s “real” quilting, in my opinion: none of that geometric bits stuff.
But most of all I love all your beautiful images of Hannah – she comes across as playful and cuddly, and that’s not how she normally presents. Mostly she is an extremely handsome tuxedo who is slightly reserved on account of her Coal Bear ‘sibling’; but now I see her differently. I’ve known her all along from a huge distance, and I can say that I’m seeing her through new eyes !!
XOXOXO
Hannah was really bonded to me before I got the kitten that basically terrorized her for a few years. This fall there was a huge cat fight and, in the aftermath, Hannah has been established as the alpha cat. They now are very sweet with each other, play and chase each other through the house, and Hannah has reverted to sweet and attached to me. I feel pretty bad about all of this, but I am grateful that things have turned out well in the end.
I finished the Emperor of Gladness and I keep thinking of it. It isn’t what I would call a happy read, but it has made a huge impact on me. I’m still reflecting on how to blog about it.
You took on Mateo for her sake, Marilyn: you felt she needed more physical companionship than you could provide. What you did was FOR HER. And it was tough for a bit; but now look ! 😀
Hannah: It was three years!!!!
Nevertheless, everything that you said is true.
Yeth ! So NO GUILT !!!! [wags finger]
XO
Hannah – creativity has to follow the path of the spirit.
Marilyn – good to see you are following it.
Glad to see I’m not the only one reading multiple books at once, either! 😀 I’ve got 3 going right now, haha.
I know, right? I actually have a third The Night Circus) that I started, but it stalled as I need to get some books finished before the library snatches the ebooks off of my kindle.
The zebra is perfect. So cute on the bookshelf. Love seeing your kitties.
I’m dizzy from reading about all those different projects! On my best days (in the distant past) I struggled to keep all my plates in the air. These days I can barely manage one. Kudos, MoC. You’re an example for all of us.
I have these projects scattered all over the house, too, so I am forced to keep moving to new locations.
That Hannah mitt is so sweet! I hope she likes it. Are there thumbs, or just thumb holes? I have mitts on my mind right now, and figured out an afterthought thumb for a project I’m working on. But it’s optional!
No thumbs, no thumb holes. The mitts (wristers?) come down over the bottom of my thumbs, so they do the job.
Hi Hannah – glad you are having a good time and helping MoC so much, especially with her strings and her reading 🙂 You definitely look like you are on the hunt for some toast in the picture of you helping with reading 🙂 Marilyn, the cat mitten is SO CUTE – just like lovely Hannah. Can’t wait to see how your weaving turns out! I also have a couple books I’m switching between too 🙂