I ordered new eyes with my son selecting the correct color and shape. There were strategic snips and frogging as I attacked the cat parts that annoyed me the most. Never, ever, in the history of cat knitting was there a more wonky looking cat. Ugh!! The eyes I bought on Amazon look more like snake eyes, and what is up with the ear on the left? After looking at it carefully and checking the pattern I found that I had accidently made it like the previous ear, instead of being the opposite side. The pattern suggested brown yarn for the eye socket, and MacKenzie has black around his eye, so I went for it. But this was ridiculous! Obviously, mistakes were made. It’s hard to make a completely realistic cat. I may have lost my place a couple of times while scrolling up and down through the pattern… I wasn’t completely happy with the colors of the yarns that I found. It was about 40 pages in length, however, so I worked off my computer for the first time. There was also video support for how to complete the cat once the knitting was done. Okay, this wasn’t all smooth sailing… the pattern by Claire Garland (called Cat) was really well written and had lots of picture support. (I blogged a little about the early efforts here). I put the yarn away, but a few weeks ago I took it back out and started on it again. I bought the yarn and decided to knit Daxter last summer as a gift to my son for Christmas, but following a rapid and shocking series of events last September Daxter left us it was only 24 hours after the first hint that something was horribly wrong. This “proof of life” snapshot showed how he felt about me showing up when he had been separated from my son for TWO WHOLE DAYS!! On this occasion I had stopped by to check on the cats while my son was hospitalized. He visibly worried, literally wagged when he was happy, and smiled when he was glad to see you. An exceptionally expressive cat, you always had an idea of what Daxter was thinking. He had a purr that you could hear across a room. Daxter was a birthday gift to my son years ago: best present ever.
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