Another wool and angora blend kitty. This boy kitty has a lined vest made from one of my favorite old sweaters. That made it really hard to cut into!
He’s got a knit tie- it’s from a thrifted sweater that didn’t/wouldn’t shrink in the wash… but a great color. Here is a the lining on the vest- a secret surprise.
Again I used snaps under the buttons.
and here is his messenger bag
I woke up to this the other morning- so pretty although obviously I’ve been too busy to clean up the garden…
If you look at my Flickr photos you will have seen the kitties I’ve been working on. Here are the first 3-
this is little kitty girl #6-
She is approximately 15 inches tall. When I decided to do the kitties, I tweaked the pattern so that they are all slightly different. I was planning to try to make a new and improved pattern, but in the end I thought they were all cute and had their own personality. Her body is made from wool and angora blend sweaters. Her sweater is made from a recycled fulled wool sweater with vintage ribbon (Thanks Pat H.!) and sweet little flower buttons-
I decided not to do the button holes and sewed on snaps under the buttons instead.
Thanks so much for all the kind words, encouragement and advise about my computer troubles. I’m so sorry about the whining- I was sort of embarrassed by all the nice comments… here I thought I was muttering and griping and complaining to myself in the corner and people were actually listening (reading)- that will teach me! I hope that I am back on track again. Onward!
Wow! I got another picture to upload! After I made the swaddled babies and the sweater babies, I had to make this little girl… she was insisting on getting made.
I consider her a first draft. There are lots of little tweaks that need to be done, but at least I got out the general idea. I made her during Thanksgiving week-end which was not a good time for concentrating on anything. I can go back to work on her after things settle down- after the sales and probably after the holidays. I’m beginning to get a few other ideas to work on when that “when things have settled down” time comes.
a reminder (and a test to see if I can figure out how to post a link)- I will be selling my work at the Holly Fair next weekend. If you read this and you come, it would make my day if you told me!
this is an uploading test…
Caution- whining ahead… I’ve got a new computer. So why am I miserable? Getting a new computer seems to come with misery- I have it because my old computer failed. I lost tons of stuff. I feel totally inept because I don’t understand how this stuff happens. If I think I understand it, I am usually wrong… proven so because everything gets messed up again. I always lose the stuff I want and end up with all kinds of garbage that I should have thrown away months ago. Right now I am receiving email but can’t send any– (fixed- yeah! still catching up though) just in case you were waiting for a reply on something. New versions of everything are working in my computer so I am confused by everything I open. My blog- how do I upload photos anyway? Try pushing every button. I have gone from feeling totally comfortable with the blog to totally confused. I can’t figure out anything. My blog/news reader- lost all my subscriptions. I wonder how long it will be before I notice some that are missing.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Everybody is crabby. Hope to get back on track soon. I am posting some photos onto Flickr where my user name is mimik, since the link is gone from here.