I am one inch away from getting past the long, slow rows of the forelegs.  What does this mean exactly?  142 stitches of 5 colors broken up into 9 strands of yarn. 

Funny, seems like more than 142, feels like around 200. Moving through the head will be faster, only 84 stitches.

Met with Joan Tapper today, the writer for the book "Craftitude" that will have a chapter on me.  She was wonderful.  Pepsi was very well behaved, especially when I used her as an model for demonstrating the different kind of marks I have to be aware of when translating a pelt into a textile.  Joan was amazed that Pep Pep doesn't mess with my knitting when I leave it lying around.  I wasn't so impressed to find that when I returned from walking Joan to the train my monkey cat had been playing on the carpet with my ball of glossy black ocelot yarn.  I think the interview went to her head.