I'll give him anytin his furry leetle heart desires!

Monkey doesn't he have the sweetest face on the planet? I love my little bob :)

Hey, am I really first?!

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Patience?! I aint got no stinkin patience! (not when I'm first, anyways.)

:) You impress me with your insane kitty posse, AND you're technowizardry!!!

Oh, I had no idea I had flood control on the comments. How cool! It must be a default setting or something?

I meant "YOUR" technowizardry. The pressure of being first has affected my typing ability!

i love bob.

but my heart will alwyas belong to roy.

he looks just like my first kittie love.

(please come back to snb before you run off to paris)

Bob's arm looks like it magically extended beyond the bounds of physics. Kind of like ElastoGirl in the movie The Incredibles. Maybe his secret identity is ElastoCat, Kitty Super Hero.

What a great column and Angel is an angel. He's gonna teach his mom to knit (tears welling).
My mom taught me to knit many years ago. She learned by taking a class at my elementry school. Ah the circle of life.....
Can Bob be my Valentine?

Bob is such a sweetie. I just love orange cats! Especially my big tawny orange tomcat, Buffy. Don't laugh! My grandma named him. He's my inheritance and my loyal little buddy.

I've found that an excellent route is to get dpn's for the kids, and put a rubber band or a point protector on one end. The dpn's are generally a good length for the kids, and if they lose one, it's cheaper to replace them than to get a whole new set of needles.

2 packages of dpn's will give 5 kids needles.

Some of the kids I teach have already moved onto using dpn's to work in the round, and there's no intimidation factor (knitting? intimidating?) with dpn's - they're USED to them!

Thanks for the publicity Laurie. I hope the school receives some extra supplies. I'll have a package ready to go by Monday. Besides needles I'm throwing in some yarn, stitch markers, tapes, all sorts of extra goodies.

I hope you and your most charming family have an excellent weekend!

M.A.

Thanks for the info, Laurie. I don't have a lot of surplus in the needle area, but I can certainly de-stash some yarn, and I have to go to the PO soon anyway, so count me in.

Your blog continues to impress. It is the best one I've found (and I've read many). Keep up the good work, and fab cat photos!

I work with a Warm Up America at my college, and we have a similar problem - people walk away with our needles, and even our personal sets are growing thin. Our solution was to make our own - with a little labor you can take dowels, cut them to shorter sizes (we do 10" better for learners, we figured) and sharpen most with a pencil sharpener. After a liberal application of sandpaper, they're mighty useable and cost us less than 50 cents per pair. Got the idea from www.knittinghelp.com originally.

Bob made everyone in my office give a collective "awww".

You're so sweet to be helping the school get supplies. With your numerous fans, I'm sure they'll be inundated with needles and yarn before month's end.
I just sent a package to my niece in Illinois who recently joined a knitting club at her school. Go Kids! Get Knitty!

Oh, Bob!! So dang cute!!

That is a brilliant idea about the make-yer-owns for this particular purpose, anyway, when size does not have to be exact.

And if you're really excited (I know how excited we all can get), you can make a nice polymer clay top for the make-yer-own needle.

OK, now the wheels are spinning...!

So is Bob telling you that he wants to take the next picture?

Don't tell my cats how much of my heart that photo of Bob stole. They are very cute, but much more camera shy than Mr. Bob or any of the rest of your brood.

I'm with Sara - the needles can be made from good dowel rods and Wal-mart beads. A 1/4 inch dowel is about the same as a 10.5 needle, and a 3/8 inch dowel is about an 11. After the pencil sharpener (I use a belt sander for the big sizes) use reeely fine sandpaper, and clear shoepolish for finishing.

what a cute cat pic!!

Bob is just so sweet! I hope my orange tabby boy grows up to be so handsome! Where's Bob from, originally? Magellan is from the Valley so maybe they are related...

Thanks for the info, I will send some needles and yarn to the adress you gave. I live in the valley too and feel anything that can help a school is a good thing.

Hi. Maybe this is a tad off-topic. I just wanted to let you know, for your amusement, that I have been reading your blog for some time now (almost a year, I think), and I JUST NOW got the pun in "Crazy Aunt PURL". Is it ok to read this blog even though I am constitutionally disinclined to knit (and ostensibly male, and supposedly straight)? Great! I thought so.

Did I see you on a brief ET clip tonight, fondling an Oscar?

Elastocat! Love it! We have one who is about to celebrate his 19th birthday (how old is Roy?) who can drink out of the toilet with his hind feet on the floor. Humans just don't bend that way. (OK, knowing your sensibilities, Laurie, I'm not even gonna go there.)

So I was literally running in and then out of a yarn store today and didn't have the time to do more than pick up a circ. needle I've been waiting for...but on my way out the door I noticed the CUTEST $4.00 needles they had advertised...they're needles, for kids. With like kitties and doggies on the ends...$4.00! but they only went to size US9... and I was running... and I have no money cuz I'm a Placer County employee...so if anyone with extra cash has see these and wants to help out...they're BRAND NEW for 2006 (according to the sign I sped read).

This couldn't have some at a better time!! I have been looking to clear out some knitting stuff I won't use... what a great opportunity to bless other people and share some good. Thanks!!

By the way--have you sent Roy's pic in to www.mycathatesyou.com ?? He has some competition there!