Well, I finished knitting the pet bed for my little Cairn Terrier, Gidget. The pattern was for a felted bowl, I used a bulky wool yarn and worked more increase rounds to make it bigger.
Gidget's Knitted Bed
Guess what?!? She likes it………just the way it is! It doesn’t even have the ends woven in yet and hasn’t been felted. As soon as I finished binding off, I set it down on the floor to see how big it looked. Gidget came right over and sniffed it and then stretched out next to it and put her head on it to see if she was going to get in trouble. When she didn’t get in trouble for putting her head on it she proceeded to put her whole self on it!
She really does seem to like it just the way it is- I’ve picked it off the floor several times when she’s gone outside to potty and the minute she comes in she looks for it and I have to put it down again. I do need to get the ends woven in but, now, I don’t know whether I should try to felt it or not. She has already put a couple of snags in it with her claws so I’m thinking that perhaps I will just felt it a bit – just enough to get the wool fibers sticking together so they won’t snag.
I think I’d like it better if it was felted very firmly - it wouldn’t look so floppy and messy when it’s on the floor. Hmm, I just wonder which way it will end up in the end???
This week I have been so unfocused. I wanted to get a post done with lots of pictures of the Taos Wool Festival but I took so many pictures I can’t even decide which ones I want to edit and put in a post. On Friday, I have a summons to Jury Duty and I’m really not looking forward to that. I’ve reported for Jury Duty several times and it involves many hours of sitting around while people are interviewed and a jury is selected. Today, I tried to think of a simple, small knitting project I could start and then bring in a little bag in my purse to work on – I’m not even sure if you are allowed to knit. I could see where it wouldn’t be a good thing during a trial but it shouldn’t hurt to knit during all that endless interviewing of prospective jurors. Time will tell.
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