Kat is having a contest – list five places other than your home or a knitting store where you’ve knitted. Here’s my list:
- With Christine Lavin before a concert (she signed not only a cd, but her chapter in Knit Lit, Too)
- During team meetings at work
- Out at happy hour with my coworkers
- The Ghost Ranch (where Georgia O’Keefe did a lot of her painting)
- Walking around Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis (this caused a runner to run backwards for a while to watch me)
And the place I always mean to go knit but never quite manage to make it to… The Smitten Kitten (a feminist s*x toy shop about 10 blocks away), which has a weekly knitting group on Sunday mornings.
I finished the cage liner and will send it off to Chris tomorrow! Although there might be a bit of resistance about that…
What I particularly like about this picture is that, if you click on it and make it larger, you can see the tabby striping on the side of Chaos’ face. Chaos is not exactly a black cat – he’s a stealth tabby. He has ultra black tabby markings on a near black background. You can only see the stripes when he’s in bright sunlight, illuminated by a flash, or if you spend some time around a cat who’s really, really black, like Chaos’ mom Riley.
I’ll give you some time to cope with the shock. Do you think I need to bow out of the Black Cat Web Ring?
Ultra black stealth tabby – I don’t know… that’s pretty darn cool – way cooler than plain ol’ all black cat. He’s got a little sumpin-sumpin going on to make him special!
I think his stealth markings are really neat, like a surprise! It’s good to know that the cage liner meets Chaos’s high standards, a homeless animal is going to be very happy that he he/she has something nice to sleep on.
Chaos is a damned fine looking stealth tabby.
I like the idea of a black stealth tabby. I think I see a knit blanket for Chaos in your future. 🙂
Wow! You’ve knitted with Christine Lavin? I was just playing Beau Woes this afternoon and thought I was the only person in the planet who liked her.
Well, I don’t know if I can handle it. Annabelle turned away from the monitor, her dreams shattered, and promptly fell asleep in order to avoid the pain. I have to go pick up the pieces now…
Eek, doesn’t Chaos know the difference between acrylic and the “real” stuff?
I’m appalled! 😉
The cage liner is great; I think Chaos would really like one to get over the shock of your revealing he’s not a “true” black cat.
Wow! I too have a stealth tabby! Buckley is black and white, but if you look closely at the black patches, he’s got tabby stripes. Also, he looks extremely contented with that cage liner. I don’t know that you’re getting it away from him.
Stealth tabby – oh my my.. look out Chaos, my two little black female kitties are drooling over your most recent photo..
the cage liner is sweet – did you just knit a rectangle? hmm, wonder if my girls would like one?
I think I remember reading that black panthers are actually all striped, as well, but it takes a lot of sunlight to see them … happy Monday to ya!
Chaos is the John Howard Griffin of cats :o)
He is a chameleon kitty! He’d be the perfect undercover cat.
That’s really wild that’s there’s a knitting group at a s*x shop! I don’t know if I can manage that one or not.
I think I read somewhere that all cats are tabby! I love seeing Chaos’ tiger stripes – I’m going to have a closer look at Merlin and Jasper now 🙂
i would have loved to see the Lake of the ISles thing!
I love the link to the baby Chaos pictures. He was so cute and Diablo too. Name seems to have fit well!
I haven’t knitted as many places as you have but I am working on it!!
Chaos is beautiful stealth tabby and I’m not sure you will be able to take the cage liner from him unless you come up with some tuna!
Hey, thanks for the meme idea for tomorrow 🙂
You do know you’re going to have to make another ‘liner’ for Chaos, right?
Stealth catchen!
Of course, the fact it’s acrylic is irrelevant to Chaos. Chaos is of the school of Mamochka knitted it, it is my precious, I wants it, I furs it, I drools on it.
Maybe not the last.
But Matisse subscribes to that school, too.
All cats have a tabby gene because it is essential. If they don’t have the agouti gene (tipping on the hairs) then the tabby pattern is nearly invisible and the cat is “solid” color. Many solid colored cats still show a slight tabby pattern under bright light, like Chaos. 🙂
He’s so stealth.
I can’t imagine Chaos is going to appreciate your exposing his secret. It’s like revealing when a woman colors her hair. (Next think you know Chaos is going to be insisting that you take him to the priciest stylist in town to “touch up” his color.)
A feminist s*x toy shop knitting group? I would SO be there. I think I might be able to get over my shyness/antisocial tendencies for that one.
i lurve kitties
arrggg too bad you didn’t live near me, I’d go walk knitting with ya 🙂 My husband on the other hand, is ashamed of it lol I always threaten to take out my knitting if he doesn’t behave.
Sockies has almost racoon stripes on her tail you can’t only see in the light too! I think you’re pretty safe though, everyone loves Chaos!
The things you learn on the net. All cats are tabby? Who knew?
Maybe I should knit something for Chaos in return for his releasing the liner? Tho’ I don’t think I can knit with tuna? I mean, Knitty can do a licorice thong, but a tuna cage liner? Doubt it.
Thanks!!
I love the idea of having a knitting group at a sex toy shop – that is so funny!! you have to knit there (and you should take your camera too!) 😉
Chaos – did you really let your mom steal your new cage liner and GIVE IT AWAY?? It suits you very well you know…..
Chaos’ markings are really cool! As are the places you’ve knit. 😀
The Smitten Kitten? I can only imagine what they are knitting in that group. I’d love to know…
As for Chaos? Does he have the “M” marking on his forehead? It is said that before Mohammed went up to heaven, there were certain animals he blessed. One is the tabby. The “M” is the print of Mohammed’s hand, after he pressed it against the cats’head.
This may explain Chaos’s royal bearing.