The knitted Tits were made according to this pattern, which I mention in the first paragraph of the homepage on the Missability website as it is one of the very projects that inspired Missability in the first place with its affirmative, DIY approach, and with the endless personalising possibilities opened up with the invention of the knitted prosthetic breast. Angora? Sure thing. Mohair? Not a problem. I kind of deviated from the pattern though, and now regret my mistake. Instead of making a second Tit to sew onto the first one, I simply decreased each row, creating a kind of triangular spiral effect and a Tipi style Tit. I am hoping that stuffing it massively with wool and blocking it will reduce the seriously triangular effect, but I’m happy with the colouring – although it looks quite pale next to the others!

I have to admit though that all the pinkness (and I *love* pink) does get quite nauseating at times and I still – having freely scattered it throughout this blog post – am slightly uncomfortable with the word ‘Tit’. But knitted breast just sounds not as neat or fun as knitted Tit and, well, the original pattern is called Tit bits…

By the end of the day, the neat balls of yarn were unravelling and the nice bundt cake I had made was being dissolved by strawberry juice. Someone commented that it looked like a monster had done ‘giant pink sick’ all over the table and I had to agree. The luscious excesses turning quickly into pink overkill reminded me of Anya Gallacio’s beautiful red on green artwork where 1,000 red roses were beheaded and left in a careful arrangement, to rot. Although I think our collection of breasts enthusiastically made and arranged and photographed and celebrated was made in a different spirit…

In other news, I am completely done in with Tatami. It is doing my head in a LOT; the weight of the yarn as I go round and round is putting massive strain on my wrists and the cheap bamboo circulars keep bending at the joins, making nasty, angular problems that then require loads of shoving great swathes of heavy knitting around. I am considering a pair of Addi Turbos in 3.5mm size. Does anyone have a pair I can borrow? Or should I switch to straights?

Here is where I have gotten to: I’m a few inches beyond the split and crawling along at a snail’s pace. I have considered belting out each individual side separately but cannot think of a fail safe way of them both ending up the same length. Also, I will still have the weight issue when flinging the work around to turn it! Advice to everyone: Don’t knit this pattern in chunky weight on 3.5mm needles unless you want to get really, really frustrated.