Amazingly Ugly Cat Toy! « Adventures in Knitting, as Told by Mickey

mickeyness @ 2:26 pm

PATTERN

“Oh Balls” by Marcie Nishioka

YARN

Scrap Yarn that my sister’s cat decided to “play” with.

Red heart acrylic (in brown/blue multi colored)

NEEDLES

Size 7 double pointed needles

COST*

Scrap yarn = FREE!!

PROJECT DURATION

—–About 4 hours of knitting in during 1 day—–

NOTES

To make a bigger ball it would’ve been easier to use bigger needles, but I was too lazy to search for anything other than the set of size 7’s that were sitting in front of me on the coffee table. So I did more rounds of increases and decreases than the pattern was written for.
I did the *increase row; knit row* for 14 rows. Kind of hard to explain without writing out the pattern I did row by row (too much of a pain, I’m lazy, we’ve established this). Anyway, my last row of increases was knitted as *k6 kfb* and by the 14th row I had a total of 48 stitches on the needles. Then I knitted 3 rows normally and started with decreases that mirrored the increases made in the beginning.
At the end I wasn’t going to add a string to it, but she didn’t seem to be having TOO much fun with it. So I made a crocheted chain that was a few feet long and attached it to the top of the ball. If I had known that I was going to add a chain like this, I would’ve left the tail of the yarn on the last step EXTRA long and just went from pulling it tight to knitting it is i-cord. It probably would’ve been more sturdy than the chain that I ended up using.
There was no rhyme or reason to the way I attached the fringe. I cut millions of strands of yarn that were about 2″ long each (…maybe not millions…), folded them in half, and used a crochet hook to knot them around random stitches. The result is a haphazard, strange, uneven fuzziness, which seemed to go quite well with this project.

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