Slightly related to my last post - a couple I know is having twins next week! A few months ago I had asked the mother if she knew the gender of the babies yet; she replied that they knew but didn’t feel that they wanted to share that information until the babies were born. A sensible position I say, since people will then make a sincere effort to give gender-neutral baby gifts.

So I made these for the two little ones:

Baby booties in the sunshine, before delivery.

I think I am starting to get to that age where everyone around me is either having babies or talking about them. I’m still more of a kitten / puppy person myself, I have to say - why no kitten showers or puppy bjorns? Some babies are pretty cute, though, and they are generally a lot more cooperative than their animal counterparts when it comes to wearing knitted gifts!

…it will now be rechristened “Cats & Knitting”:

Quark, looking away from the camera, trying to evade the humiliating fate of being posted on the Internet yet AGAIN, clothed.

Seriously, I have other things going on in my life, but nothing more interesting than the intersection of yarn and furbags. I originally undertook this as an entry to Crazy Aunt Purl’s Cat Sweater Sweepstakes, and actually finished the knitting part in time, but due to laziness and apathy, did not get the thing stitched up, buttoned, and photographed on the cat until well after the deadline. C’est la vie.

In other news, I’m trying the National Novel Writing dealie again. Hopefully this time I’ll be sufficiently entertained enough by my own plot to actually stick with it this year! If you’re curious, bored, and have absolutely nothing better to do (really, sure you’d rather not finish folding your laundry?), feel free to check out my novella, tentatively titled Beyond the Earth and Sea.