I'm making some progress on figuring out how to design my beastie bunny and simultaneously writing my first knitting pattern. I swatched enough last night to determine the stitch and row gauges should I decide to stick with my practice yarn. I've got the head designed and the instructions written out. I think the only catch so far will be determining the right vs. left slanting decreases and how those will look given that I'm thinking in 2-D and am having trouble visualizing the 3-D result. I'm stopping the brain fry and going for the trial and error method in the hope that my k2tog and ssk's are placed correctly. I'm also hoping that my idea of having three stitches down each edge surrounded by all the increases and decreases will produce the overall boxy shape and the flat front and back I'm hoping for. I found a great knitting site with video instructions for both continental and english knitters. It's got lots of useful information and the videos are quite helpful, check it out.

So here's to hoping I can stay awake long enough tonight to get past row 28 to see how the decreases work. I'm thinking there's no way I'll make it since Max kept me up from midnight to 3 a.m. and I got up to greet the day three hours later. I'm guessing last night's trouble was all about his molars which are starting to come in. He was running a slight fever and pointing to his ears. Poor little guy.