Busy, Busy Kitties

I ran across these patterns while searching for other soft dolls to knit and I fell in love with them. This is the first out of five patterns by Alan Dart called "Kitty's Knit Klub.

I can relate to each and every one of them although I don't belong to any knit clubs around here. Cute, cute, cute is how I would describe these.

I did have a little trouble and had to re-do the stripes on her head. I didn't like the chain stitch ones and the darker ones didn't look right. I settled for just plain yarn stripes.

I think they look better when you color the cheeks and ears with chalk. It gives them a little depth.

I also had trouble with the bow. I made my own pattern on that. Didn't like the way the one in the instructions looked and I found the pattern a little lacking in detailed instruction. You better know how to knit and put things together before you start this one!

I got everything done but saved the skirt for last. Ribbed stitch is not my favorite stitch to do so the skirt was torture for me but I eventually got it done. I took a lot of breaks and made other stuff in-between the row making.

I will make the other cats maybe changing a color or two here and there. I have some pretty variegated cat colored yarn I want to use up and that black cat will probably turn out to be a tuxedo like the one I have, Mr. Baby. He's my real cat.