Dogs Steal Yarn: The Cat Who Wanted to Be a Flower

January 17, 2004

The Cat Who Wanted to Be a Flower

Last night I sat down at our lovely dining room card table with plans to finish up the Kittyville hat. The hat itself was done. All I needed to do was add the earflaps, i-cord and pompoms and the kitty ears. As I was finishing up the earflaps and trying to decide if I really did want to add that i-cord and pompoms, the hat spoke up. The conversation went something like this:

Kitty hat: Um, Cari?
Me: Yes, snuggly warm alpaca kitty hat?
Kitty hat: Are you sure about that icord? And the pompoms?
Me: Well, no, I don't have my heart set on them or anything. Why? Don't you want them? Look how cute they look in the pattern.
Kitty hat: If it's all the same to you, I'd rather just have the earflaps and none of that dangling cord and cat toy stuff at the ends.
Me: Fair enough. So let's just get some cat ears on you and call it a day, hmmm?
Kitty hat: Oh, ummm...now that you mention it... I mean, since you brought it up and all...
Me: Yes, Kitty hat?
Kitty hat: I was kind of thinking... maybe I don't need the kitty ears, after all?
Me: But you're a Kittyville hat. Kitties live in Kittyville, and they have ears.
Kitty hat: Yeah, I know... but, see deep down I don't FEEL like a kitty hat. I feel like a sleek, flirty flapper hat.
Me: A flapper hat?
Kitty hat: With flowers.
Me: Flowers? You've got to be kidding me. I'm not wearing flowers.
Kitty hat: PLEASE! (breaks into a verse of "I Gotta Be Me")
Me: Okay, okay...two roses. Only two simple knit roses. Would that work?
Kitty hat: Yes, thank you. Oh...and could you please call me Rosie?

And so Rosie was born. Whaddya think?

Posted by cari at January 17, 2004 10:32 AM

Comments

I Loooove this hat. I'm going to have Max over at whenusuallyitsnothing.typepad.com make one for me with gray and pale pink flowers. You should submit to Knitty....good work!

Posted by: avril

Ooooo... Adorable! Wear it on Tuesday to HC, will ya? I wanna see in person : )

Posted by: Andrea

Oh. My. Yes. It's perfect, I love it, you're fabulous, I want one.

Posted by: Em

Very cool. Good for you for listening to your hat. :)

Posted by: Jessica

OMG, the hat is fabulous!

Posted by: Theresa

oh cari. wow it's so lovely. and i'm not usually a fleur fan. but this - beautiful!

Posted by: carolyn

I love the hat. The roses are beautiful. Great idea.

Posted by: marlo

How flirty is that hat? Day-um. Makes me want to kick up my heels and do the Charleston. You're a good listener, too. Rosie thanks you.

Posted by: Rachael

A star is born! Rosie is one classy and beautiful hat.

Posted by: Bliss

Oh my goodness, the hat was right! Fantastic!!! Hello, Rosie! Fab! U! Lous!

Posted by: alison

the roses are a nice touch. too bad about that kitty, though.

Posted by: shobhana

Looks great! Are you sure it was the Kitty talking back? Maybe the puppies can throw their voices?

Posted by: Ande

ooooooooo, fabulous! I've been wanting to try knitted flowers after the recent Knitty, but (sigh) WAAAY too much on the plate, and now the Proust-along is distracting me...but this is PERFECT. As you always are.

Posted by: greta

I am ever so glad that others in the Knitting Universe are spoken to by their knitting. ;-)

Very cute hat, but you are *so* punting not modeling it yourself!

Posted by: claudia

Great hat, but how are the renovations and remodeling going? Can't wait to see the progress! Gives me hope I can knit, work AND fix up my house!

Posted by: pattie

I've never posted a comment before, but for the hat, I'm doing it. Totally styling. Bravo, girlfriend.
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Posted by: whitedog

The flowers look great, I think the hat was right ;)

Posted by: Amber

Looks lovely, but doesn't it concern you that the knitting is talking?

Does it concern the knitting that you're responding?

Posted by: David

The hat is wonderful. Although I'm a little concerned that toxic fumes from redoing the house are leading to such discussions with hats :-)

Posted by: Rebecca

Rosie really knew what she was talking about. Fabulous. Those are really knit flowers?? Not just embroidered, 3 dimensional flowers? Jeez, this knitting world just keeps expanding for me.

I love that 90% of the comments said "good for you to listen to your hat" and only 10% said "your hat was talking to you?!?"

Posted by: Bethany

we're nothing if not lovingly compliant to our yarnish offspring.

rosie is so fortunate.

Posted by: nakachi

Oh how beautiful. I love Rosie. I might have to make a simmilar one, some day. The hat was right.

I haven't been here in a bit, now I've got to catch up on what you've been doing. :-)

Posted by: stonering