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Besides finishing the socks, I also started and finished Calorimetry from knitty over the weekend. I knit it from a stray ball of Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran and I had less than 18 inches of yarn left. I cast on 100 stitches, instead of the 120 that the pattern called for. I also skipped one set of short rows, but I should have skipped two sets – it feels a little wide to me. Here’s an exceptionally crappy picture of me modeling it as my able assistant attempts to run away:
Since she didn’t model, you might be wondering what assistance Mayhem provided on this project. I present Exhibit A, complete with a few spots of cat spit where she gnawed through the yarn:
Mayhem professed innocence of any wrongdoing whatsoever:
She is such a teenager now!
M looks so cute sitting up there, she could be a cookie jar!
Awwwww….May looks so cute!
Hey, I think we have the same table and chair set. 🙂
Naughty kitty!
18″ left? You must have been sweating bullets.
I think that yours is the right size actually… Just barely covers your ears!
Awwwww. Poor maligned Mayhem. She’s a minicat now!
Wow.. that is a bit big. I thought about making one myself since I seem to have entirely too much hair to fit under a standard knit cap.. so I’ll remember your modifications. Minus the cat spit.
How long did that take you to knit? I think I need to make that NOW.
I can see that May is totally innocent(or at least she thinks so). Calorimetry should keep you nice and warm too.
Despite the fact my Calorimetry was admittedly gigantic, I also thought it was too wide for me. Maybe that’s just my pea-sized head, though. 🙂
I made Calorimetry and it was too big as well, out of Manos. I am thinking of redoing it, because I really did like wearing it when we went up to the lake this weekend, it was just too long and a tad too wide.
Don’t you wonder where else she goes, when you’re not there 😉
I like it! I think I need one. The headband too. I definitely need a second cat.
Your cat eats yarn…I had a cat that ate Cheez-Whiz and crackers…
Ok, you and Birdsong…so now I guess I have to put this on my to-do list! It does look a bit big, but still plenty warm…
May is really big! I have to remind myself, when I see the two together, just how big Chaos is before I can connect HER size now…ah teenagers…WHAT FUN!!
“Who me?” Mayhem is looking too nonchalant.
I love your Calorimetry.
See…I’m still too inexperienced to know how many short rows to cut out…I’ve played with it a bit – more along the “huh. This looks good” line rather than actually *knowing* it’s a good place to stop. I’ve made 3 now, a h*u*g*e one, a very Large one, a “just right”one, and a small one- for a 3 year old. Yours looks great!
Very cool headband. I might need to whip one of those up.
I love that last picture! I wear my Calorimetry every morning on my walk (the second one I made… the one I made with about 3 short rows left out!)
Oh, chewed yarn, cat in the middle of the kitchen table…. I’m having flashbacks.
Lots of people have talked about downsizing the Calorimetry pattern. I’m thinking of making one — is it pretty easy to figure out how to make it smaller?
all he needs to do is raise one paw and he’d be a happy cat
you know, once again it seems that May must be a close cousin to Em and Di who live here – they all “contribute” so much to our knitting (tee hee) and tabletops have become the favorite place of all.
Great headband btw – it looks perfect to me.
Whoooo, what sass from Ms. May!! 🙂
LOL, that face…pure innocence. See me here sitting on the table, so innocently? Do you like my halo? …Horns?…oh yes, they hold the halo in place!
I’m falling in love with Mayhem!
Your Calorimetry looks good. Mayhem is lucky she is adorable, isn’t she? LOL!
My cats stay off the table when we are home, thinking they have fooled us. With out fail the table cloth reveals the truth, a round spot of hair where one of the cats slept. Not to mention the stray bits of cat litter on the table, I am pretty sure I did not put those there.
Silly Mayhem!
Calorimetry looks great. I may have to make that myself, now that it’s finally cold here. I do NOT wear hats.
Glad you’re feeling better.
Oh man, that’s a familiar sight…Dallas is always getting into stuff he shouldn’t these days. Don’t you just love the teenage pet phase?
Oh that innocent I am not on the table what are you thinking? look. I see it all the time.
I think it looks great! I have a ton of hair, so it’s what I would need as most hats end up making me look like a cone head by the end of the day.
Uh, so you do realize that they are probably drapped all over the table and counters right now?
May? I don’t see any May – just a furry piles of mail waiting to be sorted… a black furry pile..hmmm I think May has been taking hypnotism classes ;o)
I like calorimetry – it looks like an interesting and quick project.
Teenagers (boy or girl – cat or human) are scary beings.
AW! May? I can’t believe she would do such a thing! 😉
She’s sooooo innocent. You can totally see it in her eyes!
I love the calorimetry! Very cool!
Lucy did that to me once. I was knitting and suddenly had just a soggy cat-spit soaked end of yarn in my throwing hand. Lucy was sitting on the floor beside me with that “who me” look on her face. I think that she really thought she was helping.
I’ve seen so many of those calorimetry head things around that I’m almost tempted to try one. It’s not like I don’t have yarn around here.
Yummm… yarn…… Simon thinks it’s pretty yummy, too.
awwww she may not supposedly be allowed on the table but she sure does look darn tooting cute!
Your calorimetry looks great!
My mom’s cats always sit at the table when they eat, not on the table, but at the two chairs that are extra. It’s quite funny.
I like the headband, but I agree it’s a bit wide. I think I’m going to knit myself one of those this weekend I wore a headband to work yesterday and it killed my head, I bet a knit one would be much more comfy.
What a bad kitty, could she possibly be worse than Chaos. I think I’m going to check out the Dresden Files too.
You look so cute!!
LOL! I love that look Mayhem is giving you from the table.
Able and agile assistance. Also nothing wrong with her teeth. Good to know. Not so good how you found out.
May is getting so big! Time just flies, huh?
It looks pretty good… I’ve seen wider calorimetries out there. I hope May grows out of her yarn eating phase!
May looks so (fakely) innocent on the table!
Oh, a kitty centerpiece. Katie has done that a few times. I would be knitting along and come to a soggy yarn end. I think your Calorimetry looks good, and just about the right size.
May: MOM! You found the gnawed yarn too quickly. I was attempting to do a spit-split joint when I realized I had the spit but not the palms to rub the yarn back together. I was just going to get a glue stick.
Do you really call THAT clutter??? LOVE the spitty spot!
May is looking at you in exactly the same way that Terry looks at me when he is up on the table! “What? Whats wrong?!” She is getting to be so big!
My calorimetry ended up with 1 too many repeats in it, but I left it. It is a bit big, but still fits well.
I’m sure Miss May has a legitimate reason for being on the table. Probably keeping all those important papers from blowing away or something…
So that’s what you look like. For some reason I had a totally different image of you in my head. (Like, you had dark brown hair, etc.) Nice to put a face to the name.
Apparently crime rates among domestic animals are on the rise, Fuzzybritches got in trouble this evening as well.