Pineapple Teacosy Pattern

Thank you for the idea... I'll have to do a search for a pattern later.. I have to head out to the city in a couple of minutes.

Gem

Hi Gem,

I agree with Matthew, animals aren't color blind or at least the squirrels in my yard aren't. They love the color red, red tulips, red roses anything red. I've had to plant garlic around them to keep them away so I can see the flowers. I've had red tulilps right next to yellow and white ones and we have seen them snip off only the red ones. Silly critters.

Hugs,

Nora

hehehe Okay, I've never seen squirrels with a preferance to a particular color, but that is cute. But yes, I've always said that dogs can definitely see colors, and Casper definitely proves that point every Christmas. And he *loves* to smell flowers, by the way. When I hold down a branch of lilacs he comes over and sticks his nose into them wagging his tail happily. :o)

Gem

Hi Gem

I thought it was now proven that animals were NOT colour blind, as they once had believed them to be..oh well who are we.....only the owners....lol

\Your fur baby sounds great fun, lol

Hi JaneB Well I hope you'll put up a pic somewhere if you do happen to make any, they are great fun to do, and will be a welcome gift in any lady of the house's christmas stocking or birthday box..

Cheers....Cher

> phaNzDDBhBnI1kvG> >> > it should work ok, but I've not got a pattern for these cosies, I just > > cast> > on enough stitches for one side of the pot, stitches divideable by five,> > plus one extra at each end, then change the colours over with the first > > and> > last stitch and of course every five stitches this gives a rippled rib> > effect if you keep the yarn taught but not too tight...swapping colours > > will> > give you a chequered effect too. Do as long as you need then dec at the > > top> > every alt row, keeping your orig patt correct thus, K2tog K1> > K2tog...keeping

Exactly... just the owners/mamas... who knows them better than us? ;o) That's cool, by the way... I didn't realize that it was decided that animals are NOT colour blind.

And yes, he's a sweetie... and he *talks* to us all the time.... in syllables and different tones of his bark. When Matthew teases him by taking a toy he's been playing with, Casper will bark two syllables in his tone that implies "Bad Boy!", then three more meaning "Go lay down!". When he was tiny and we were trying to train him not to do naughty things that's what we'd say to him... then he started saying them back. LOL He also does "Go out-side!" (also three syllables of course, but a different tone, so we know the difference). We've also spelled O-U-T in front of him so now the little bum knows how to spell it too. Very smart dog... he'll sit and watch intently at whatever we're doing... almost like he's trying to learn. ;o)

I have a picture of both of them, if you're interested in seeing them... I'll send the pictures to your email address if you'd like.

Gem

Not 100% sure on the colour blind bit, but seem to remember some tv prog on it and me thinking, that I didn't think they were colour blind anyway, they did experiments with monkeys or something, to get particular colours and look at an eye and decided that there was no reason for the brain to see things differently, my late hubby was colour blind, just could distinguish greens from browns and would sometimes make them out as grey, well some greens to have a brown hue and others a grey hue to them, so by colour blindness it just usually means one colour is odd to them, and not that they see things in mono, as we used to believe anyway.

LOL

Gem, I'd love to see them too, please

Funny... when I was in my teens our family doctor had me read the eye chart one day, which I could do all the way down to the "Made in Canada" bit at the very bottom. LOL However, when it came to the color part... there were two blocks... one was green and the other was red, well I saw them as blue and orange. My doctor looked at me then chuckled and said "I hope you aren't going for your driver's license anytime soon... those are green and red, the color of traffic lights. Seems to me that you have a slight bit of colour-blindness, at least between those colours." By the way... I

*still* have problems with some shades of those colours, but I do know the traffic lights, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief now. LOL

Gem

I'll email them this afternoon, Norma (they're in my yahoo email)... just on the way out the door for a doctor's appointment this morning. Nothing serious, just a quick checkup and to have a stupid looking skin-tag removed.

Gem