We’re shaking things up a little and enlarging the scope of this blog to include knitting. But since it’s supposed to be about cats & dogs, my husband suggested that I ought to include some of the animals when I post about my knitting. Simba was happy to oblige.

Here’s Simba with my sock sack. I signed up for the Summer of Socks. I’ve just recently gotten into sock knitting. I’m using the two circular needle method, which I taught myself with the help of some videos online and a few books.

This is just the third pair of socks I’ve knitted (okay, so I’m working on the third pair). Boy, that first pair I had to rip out about six times on the first sock before I got what was going on. And even then, I managed to do the heel inside out! I figured it will actually feel even better that way . . . and then I gave them to my mother. Well, they were a little loose on me, anyway.

The second pair came out really nicely.

This third pair is going fairly well, except I seem to have picked up a few too many stitches after turning the heel. But then when I got back to pattern, I had to undo one of the knit two togethers I’d done to take care of that. I’m still not quite sure what happened . . . hopefully the second one will go a bit smoother.

Well, without further ado, here it is. My closeups came out blurry (not enough light), so I’ll have another go at it another day. Plus where the pattern came from, the yarn, yadda yadda.

You’ll notice that Simba is in his cube. Recently, there have been a few times when I haven’t been able to locate him inside or out, and then he just magically appears (how do they do that?). I think the mystery has been solved: no one has been in that cube for more than a few seconds in years.

Simba used to just love it, but then we moved it and he didn’t use it any longer. Gizmo has never really taken to it. I couldn’t find Simba again for the longest time today, again — and now I realize, he had to have been in the cube all along.

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