Kitty blanket? Or giant dishcloth?

Well, the Lion Thick and Quick Chenille blanket in scarlet, cardinal and steel gray collected enough bowl-sized holes as to be impractical to sleep with - toes get stuck in the holes and sometimes arms do, too. So it became a liner for the kitty bed, which Panther enjoys and doesn't get stuck in. But now the red is getting covered in gray! Kitty fur.

William came up with the brilliant idea of a new blanket. For the four legged in the family. We went to the store and found mill ends of a thick chenille like stuff in sherbet colors - pink, orange and lavender. I think it's Velvetspun, not Chenille because it's much finer fiber, although the caliber/thickness of the yarn is about the same. We bought $18 worth of mill ends - three bags full. I started knitting up on a 29" US11 bamboo the diagonal baby blanket pattern - K4, K4, K2 YO K to end to desired width, then alternating the decrease row of K1 K2tog YO K2tog to the desired length and then just decrease rows to the last corner. So far we're more than halfway done and only just coming to the end of the first bag. The blanket will be about 3x4 ft like the Homespun ones.

Duly admired at karate class, but everyone thinks it's for a baby. Maybe one for Camp Sunshine's nursery?

Enjoying summer weather, sunny warm and DRY!