Pearl's Shawl

This is the project I've been working on the last month. It is the Leaf and Nupp shawl from Knitted Lace of Estonia. It is made with fiber from my rabbit Pearl who passed in July. It is my tribute to her, and I think I did pretty darn well if I may say so! I only had 14 yards left after I cast off, that was cutting it really close at the end, so I skipped a purl round on the edge and I only used one strand instead of two for the bind off. It has a gorgeous halo, it is so light, but it is very warm :)

Pearl

July 10, 2008 - July 13, 2009

We only had pearl for 10 months. It was love at first sight. I found her at OFFF last September. She let me hold her and did not fuss one bit. She was going to be my source of angora fur to spin, and it was such soft fur too. She was going to be our pet. She taught me that rabbits have personalities, just like dogs and cats. We had her spayed so that she could live longer. She annoyed me so much when she would get ahold of my knitting books and chew on them. She got sick so fast and there was nothing that we could have done different to save her. She was our bun-bun and we're going to miss her.

Playing with needles!

After 3 trips to Walgreens, I finally picked up all of my Gestational Diabetes testing supplies. I had my training on how to check my blood sugar levels and give myself insulin injections. The needles do not hurt as much as my brain thinks they should. And poking my finger doesn't hurt at all! Check it out, I even get one of those cool needle disposal containers!!

I decided that the world isn't going to end over this whole mess. Even though I thought it would on Friday. I guess it will just take some getting used to this new schedule of eating every 2-3 hours and planning out meals ahead of time. I have to test myself 5 times a day and give myself insulin 2 times a day. I also have to calculate out all the carbs I'm eating, and I have to keep a food journal which makes it a little less tempting to eat something sweet...


And just so this post doesn't scare young children, here is a cute picture of Pearl eating a yarn label. She seems to love Misti Alpaca as much as I do!

Hoppy Easter

Pearl wanted to say Hoppy Easter to everyone!!

Pearl's first yarn!

Yay, I finally finished up the yarn from my angora rabbit Pearl!

I carded her fiber with a Merino/Silk blend.
The content is approx 40% Angora and 60% Merino/Silk


Look at the bobbin! This is a new jumbo bobbin and I pretty much filled it up. It took me almost 4 hours to ply!


Finished yarn. I have not washed it yet, so I do not know the actual weight of the yarn, but right now it is between lace and fingering weight. It is 697 yards, 4.9 oz. I plan to leave it undyed and make something lacy for the baby that will be more of an heirloom piece rather than a functional piece.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Naked Bunny

Last weekend Pearl got a long overdue haircut!! Deb is in the PDX Knitbloggers group and she also has a small rabbitry, she and her husband were so nice to help us out and teach us how to give the bunny a trim! Needless to say the bun did not like the experience! In fact she was quite pissed off at us all day, until she got home to her Ernie and told him all about it, he gave her some lickin's and she was ok after that. We did give her a carrot and some timmy tots to make up for it. Gosh, I don't know how we are going to do it by ourselves next time.

This is the before:


Poor Mark covered in angora


Me consoling the bun


Ernie letting her know it was all going to be ok

Shearing help

Yay, Deb is going to help me shear my bunny Pearl next Sunday. Wahoo!! Poor girl needs to get her hot hot coat off of her and I have no clue where to start. I'm so glad that Deb was on the yarn crawl and we could exchange fun stories about our buns :)

Ernie and Pearl

Pearl (my angora rabbit) is madly in love with my cat Ernie! Can you believe it??

Here's some proof!

Bunny Love

I fell into bunny love this weekend. I didn't mean to, it just happened! I met a gorgeous German Angora rabbit and I didn't want to let her go. I contacted the owner and "Pearl" is still available to purchase, so guess what? I am going to be a bunny mom!