Hither and Yarn

About

In no particular order, I’m a knitter, dancer, doctor, mom and wife. I love yarn, books, music, the outdoors, and learning new things. Some may know me as Cathy-Cate — my nom d’internet. (My husband always calls me Cate, I think because he dislikes the name Cathy, though he has never admitted it. Then he introduces me to his friends that way. So I answer to either or both. Just don’t spell it with a K…)  Find me on Ravelry as CathyCate.

I live in Wisconsin, in a 115-year-old construction zone (aka Victorian former college rental house) with my musician/producer/multitalented husband and our two lovely and similarly talented daughters, The Preteen and the tiny Goth one, Gothlet. Did I mention they knit? (The daughters, that is.) Also, currently to be a pet in our household, one must be orange and capable of eating mice [we have an orange tiger cat, Citrus, who thinks he's a dog, and an amelanistic ('red albino') corn snake named Trinity (she's a girl -- we think)]. Fortunately, the orange/mouse thing is not a current requirement for the humans in the house.

I think– and write — parenthetically. Apologies to any linear readers.

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  • SB&C // October 22, 2007 at 2:07 am

    Hi again Cate !
    I would like to point out another similarity (other than the Lord of the Rings thing) but I have Orange cats both on my Website ( BIG ones) and 2 at home with my mother who are enormously spoilt. Must be an common denominator.. orange mogs and yarn :)

    Manda

  • kmkat // October 23, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    Somehow I didn’t know you were a fellow Wisconsonite. Sorry you can’t make it to CAP.

  • dale-harriet in WI // January 23, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    How HAVE I missed you? I’ve seen some of your comments elsewhere, but I recognize a fellow cheesehead/hivernant/knitterhead sort when I see one. I guess I’d missed meeting you at CAP too (although met, loved and am indebted to kmkat forever more). I’m in Madison, am a process knitter (of no great skill but whomping enthusiasm) and have the seemingly-requisite feline companion(s), Evangeline & Lilliane, who generously let us live in their house as long as we follow the rules (FEED us, clean the litterboxes, FEED us, snorgling when we want it. Oh…and FEED us.) So…just wavin’ from down here in Madison!! (Uhm…hmmm - could be “wavin’ from UP here in Madison, if you’re like, in Janesville.) ‘ALLO!!

  • girlatdesk // February 15, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Nice to meet you. Enjoying your site. I have two mice eaters - one gray and the other brown and black stripes. They’re fabulous! :)

  • bibomedia.com // March 5, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    :)

  • helen (of troy) // March 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Hello (again) you are the same cathycate i know from Tsarina of Tsocks, right? i got directed to you blog re your post on shells.. (from the ravelry group of Unexpected Knitting… ;)

    Nice to “meet you again”… (and now i am off to add you to my ravelry friends…

  • Krista M // June 18, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Hello! I am writing to see
    if you wanted to contribute to
    an afghan for Rachael at yarn-a-gogo
    in sympathy for losing her mom. I
    am trying to collect 8 inch knit
    squares.
    Please contact me at knitdelaware
    ATyahooDOTcom and let me know.
    Thanks! Krista M

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