Leibowitz Cactus II

I have been knitting away on the Leibowitz cactus.  I plan on giving it to Mike on Friday night as a belated, but awesome birthday present.  It's almost done, all that's left is to finish off the knitting and then stuff it and place it more permanently into its pot. 

My favorite is it's small appendage that hangs off the side.  It's kind of like the cactus is waving. 

Cactus Project Part 1

I have a friend who has requested that I knit him a cactus, but not just any plain old green cactus. He wants a crazy, patchy multi-colored cactus for his huge front window in his house.

I've decided to knit said cactus using modular hexagons and no real pattern. In the next few weeks I will share my progress with you on the cactus project.

I have purchsed the yarn and according to my friend he does not want it to be any where close in color to a real cactus so you can see below what my main colors are going to be. These are just to skeins of Patons classic wool in two different variegated color ways.

I will also supplement some of the yarn with scraps from my stash, and other odds and ends that I have floating about my baskets of yarn. I plan on getting started today so I should have some picks of what the hexagons look like soon.