When my friends moved into their new house we hatched a plan on what they would put in the giant picture window in the living room. The plan involved me knitting a cactus, not just a knit version of a smallish house cactus, this cactus needed to be well interesting, weird, I mean it was going to sit in the picture window facing the street, it had to be a bold statement piece.
After about 6 months of trying to figure out the best way to accomplish this, along with a few failed attemps on the way I give you the not quite finished Lebowitz Cactus.
I apologize for the poor quality of the photo, but this lovely pile of color will soon be a stuffed and potted cactus. My friend Mike who described the cactus to me only really said a few things. It should be knit, it should be "patchy" and that it shouldn't look like a cactus except in shape. So here we have it the outer shell of what I think is a pretty good interpretation of what he was asking for, and a good use of multi-colored eyelash yarn on my part.
All I need to do know is sew up the strips, stuff it, knit the base, stuff that and then gently hot glue it into its pot.
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